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16311635 No.16311635 [Reply] [Original]

What is your excuse for not reading the best literary and philosophical work that could be produced by an organism (human or alien)?

Pic related is that work.

>> No.16311638

>english

>> No.16311668

I read the preface and decided that I want to enjoy the embers of my adolescence.

>> No.16311681
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Philosophy is for niggers

How about you pick some non-fiction that has some utility aside from dopamine rushes from the illusion that you figured out something

>> No.16311683

I can't hear you over my Bacchanalian Revel

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>>16311683
Then you get the pass and don’t belong in this thread.

>> No.16311730

>>16311712
I can't get over how beautiful Hegel's metaphors are :')

>> No.16311738

I'm not really that interested in reading philosophy. It's almost always very dry reading with a very utilitarian use of language when not engaged in blatant obscurantism.

>> No.16311767

>>16311712
What in the sweet name of fuck does it mean?

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>>16311635
Because I'm still stuck at the greeks

>> No.16311800

it's hard to read uwu

>> No.16311888

>>16311638
>Hegel himself argued, in his Science of Logic, that German was particularly conducive to philosophical thought.
Fuck, guess I gotta learn a new language once again.

>> No.16311902

>>16311712

ty bro

>> No.16311976

>>16311767

It means that the development of truth for-itself, as a subject, is like a slightly drunken party, in which there are many little groups and each one does something, they mingle, and individual persons fall in and out of view, developing slowly the whole "story" or maybe mood of the party. This kind of metaphor is apt for Hegel's description of Worldhistory (Weltgeschichte also means literally "world events"), in which individual actors are contingent manifestations of the World Spirit. Unfortunately, today this kind of reasoning is more known via Marxian historical materialist dialectics, wherein things occur because the material conditions were present.

What Hegel means is usually hard to tell from just a quote out of context. Indeed, one of his constant urgings is to "suspend disbelief" until his whole system is developed.

Another point about Hegel is that his system is already laid out in full in his Enzyklopaedie. Today, we're more concerned about how he built his system, but a lot can be learned from looking at the Enzyklopaedie, of which the Ph. des Geistes is a "making of". Ultimately, rarely anyone agrees that the system succeeded, and one has to pluck a single feather out for the whole to collapse, so people focus on the process. But as the aim of the work, it is more than useful to not overlook.

My last point about Hegel is that usually the clearer his statements are, the more you should pay attention to subtleties. Many paragraphs seem to read more easily than the more mystical ones, and tend to therefore ve glossed over.

>> No.16311983

>>16311976
Thanks anon.