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[Anonymous No.17266542]

About to jump in. Any tips for understanding this? Should I keep notes? Should I read the foreword?

[Anonymous No.17266664]

reading this rn as well. the foreword is going to be way easier than the main text. read the commentary in the back along with the front matter. it is like a "answer key" to what he is saying

[Anonymous No.17266722]

>>17266542
You shouldn't be asking those questions by now, anon. Is this the first Philosophy book that you are going to read?

[Anonymous No.17266739]

>>17266722
Pretty much... aside from some Plato and Camus and I read Sophie’s world when I was 16 (lol)

[Anonymous No.17266763]

>>17266739
Ok, anon. You got meme'd into Hegel. Nothing wrong with it. You can always read it later, but you need to get into Kant first. Get a textbook, anon. A regular Philosophy textbook, skip Platos chapter (which is probably quite long) and read everything else until Hegel, then you get to this book.

[Anonymous No.17266776]

>>17266763
not op but is there any particular text you would recommend?

[Anonymous No.17266787]

>>17266776
i was about to ask that as well.

[Anonymous No.17266802]

>>17266776
Used this one Voyage of Discovery. There are plenty of those too. Anything with chronological order will be easy to 'get into Hegel.' It can be ordered by subjects too. Those are ok too.

[Anonymous No.17267401]

>>17266739
>sophie's world
kek

[Anonymous No.17267426]

>>17267401
It is a decent book, anon. A lot of people recommend it.

[Anonymous No.17267437]

Just learned Hegel married some prime 18 year old pussy as and 40 year old sickly skinny fat pale man. That's based.

[Anonymous No.17267439]

>>17267401
going to check that one out btw thanks for reminding me

>>17266776
you might not need another book, anon. Check the table of contents of any history of philosophy book and check out if there are any gaps. Sophie's world stops in what part of Philosophy? I think it is existentialism but I'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.17268325]

>>17266542
You need to find a good commentary.

[Anonymous No.17268361]

Read the intro section to his Encyclopedia Logic where he describes his entire system in about 20 pages.
If not, you will be completely lost and have zero fucking idea what he is talking about.

[Anonymous No.17268363]

Genuine question, is this book even useful? I mean even if I'm gonna conduct phenomenological research... what's this book gonna add?

[Anonymous No.17268366]

>>17268325
Does Sadler do a good job with this?

[Anonymous No.17268383]

>>17268366
>>17268325
Dunno, anons. The book seems to be a bit of how you uncover it.

[Anonymous No.17268392]

>>17266542
>Should I read the foreword?
Is this even a question when reading philosophy? Yes you should read the foreword.

[Anonymous No.17268399]

>>17268363
Unironically his least interesting book.
His Philosophy of Right, Lectures on World History and Lectures on Aesthetics are unbelievably fascinating and all have some application to modern society.

[Anonymous No.17268437]

>>17268392
But the foreword isn’t even written by Hegel?

[Anonymous No.17268442]

>>17268437
It's written by someone who's already struggled with understanding Hegel and managed so well they list his advice and notes as part of the release itself.

[Anonymous No.17268447]

>>17268437
So? It’s written by someone far more knowledgeable than you. Read it.

[Anonymous No.17269826]

>>17268366
I don't know much about Lord Sadler.

[Anonymous No.17270129]

>>17268366
no in my experience. maybe for the most difficult passages.

he is too wordy to make convenient use of. the point is lost in the volume of his content.

i really really like the commentary in the back of op translation

[Anonymous No.17271217]

Just read the preface

[Anonymous No.17271410]

>>17271217
im 250 paragraphs in and so far the preface has been the most opaque part by a lot

he does seem to say the same thing over and over again though