/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17557637]

What books do I need to have read before I start reading Hegel? I've heard that a familiarity with Kant and Aristotle is pretty much mandatory, but I'd like a definitive reading list. Charts welcome.

[Anonymous No.17557646]

>>17557637
The Complete Works of Plato

[Anonymous No.17557680]

Critique of Pure Reason

[Anonymous No.17557691]

>>17557646
>>17557680
i dont think either of these is sufficient to not get filtered by the Heg, mostly because I have read both of them but I still get filtered by the Heg. probably gonna look into some secondary lit. the guy just writes like a schizo, albeit a schizo who you can tell is also a genius.

[Anonymous No.17557715]

>>17557691
what's genius about it? i'm interested in the book but i am skeptical of its' real value.

[Anonymous No.17557719]

>>17557637
The Greeks, Christianity and early Christian thinkers, medieval Theologians and Scholastics, Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers (essentially everything from Descartes that led up to Kant, so Empiricists and Rationalists), and you'll be about good.

And any major historical time period as well, like the Romans, you should understand thoroughly, which includes their literature and thought. I.e. just be cultured.

[Anonymous No.17557727]

>>17557637
Vico and Boehme are essentials which you could miss.

[Anonymous No.17557737]

>>17557691
>mostly because I have read both of them but I still get filtered by the Heg
I think you should have read them closer

[Anonymous No.17557747]

>>17557715
I'm sure I'm not the best one to explain it since like I said I'm still getting filtered, but his preface to the PoS seems to sketch out a wonderfully holistic and high-context view of philosophy, and anticipate aspects of what today we might call the science of complex systems, wherein wholes cannot be understood through decomposition.

[Anonymous No.17557753]

>>17557737
Be careful trying to assert your ego, anon; someone might challenge you to explain your own understanding, and you are not starting from a position of humility, so it better be good.

[Anonymous No.17557760]

>>17557753
I have nothing to defend. I've read some Hegel and it's compelling but nothing beyond anyone's understanding.

[Anonymous No.17557769]

>>17557760
Haha, okay. I'll let you bow out gracefully.

[Anonymous No.17557781]

>>17557769
Thanks. I like you anon. It was just a shitpost on my behalf, I apologize.

[Anonymous No.17558086]

>>17557719
So I can essentially plan to understand Hegel by the time I'm 40

[Anonymous No.17558093]

>>17558086
filtered

[Anonymous No.17558221]

>>17558086
Yes, you shouldn't even be reading philosophy in your 20s

[Anonymous No.17558235]

>>17558221
Why not?

[Anonymous No.17558352]

>>17558221
Interesting, what makes you say that?

[Anonymous No.17558354]

>>17558221

> live out life
> read a bunch of shit
> realize how absolutely retarded you were
> die horrified, embarrassed, filled with regret

Sounds about right desu

[Anonymous No.17558373]

>>17557637
why the fuck would you read Hegel, he's retarded

literally the only philosophers worth reading are Catholics writing about the faith. everything else is hubris-driven human-centered pointless drivel.

[Anonymous No.17558396]

>>17558373
anons why do tradcaths insist on acting like this

[Anonymous No.17558406]

>>17558373
You need to be 18 to post here.

[Anonymous No.17558419]

>>17558396
>>17558406
I'm as old as both of you put together, and I'm correct.

Seriously the world does not need another obtuse retard misexplaining politics and power to even bigger retards, or mystics under demonic influence spinning yarns about the spirit.

[Anonymous No.17558432]

>>17558235
>>17558352
Probably just a reference to Plato. He says in the Republic no one should be taught philosophy until their thirties once they've studied geometry and rhetoric.

[Anonymous No.17558478]

>>17558354
It's the only honest life possible.