How do you figure, because he wrote it out of need for cash and a better job? Who cares, it’s a golden book. Blows me away how mediocre Hegel was as a man that he could philosophize as he did.

>>24783961
Implying that his pholosophy wasn't mediocre

>>24783961
LARGE fries, please

>>24783961
He thinks this is the Granddaddy of Marxism, and Marx was supposed to be a jobless bum. Imbeciles troll here.

My favorite chapter overall might be Religion just for the beautiful writing. The part about the luminous essence gives me goosebumps. I wish more people here read this book. To me Hegel is alongside Aristotle in that anyone who takes the trouble to understand him will respect him, and the people who attack him aggressively never seem to have read him at all.

>>24784015
The Aristotleanons can explain what Aristotle said, you guys just say he’s great but are incapable of describing what wonderful thing it is that he’s supposed to be saying.

>>24784026
If you expect a proposition (“God is the final cause”, “the will is evil”, “we only know phenomena”) there is none, any proposition is at best half true. So there is no way to sum him up in that way, sorry. My favorite attempt in this line would be from the preface: “The life of God and divine intelligence, then, can, if we like, be spoken of as a game love plays with itself; but this idea falls into edification, and even sinks into insipidity, if it lacks the seriousness, the suffering, the patience, and the labour of the negative.”

>>24784026
Whenever talking about Hegel, you may notice that people will criticize any attempt to summarize his philosophy, but this is a critical essence of his philosophy as a whole to begin with. His philosophy is of a spirit that is continuously engaged in growth and development. There is no fixed essence or absolute truth in the old sense of the term. The Absolute Spirit is always growing, developing, and being reshaped just as a lifeform reshapes itself in its process of growth. Criticism of everything at all stages and of all claims is necessary to complete the whole of the effort undertaken by him. It is only natural that a spirit of criticism of and among Hegelians would flow from such a philosophy.

>HEY GUYS HERES MY OPINION ABOUT A BOOK THAT I NEVER READ
>NO IM NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK AT ALL IM JUST GONNA SHIT OUT STALE BAIT INSTEAD LOLOLOL
People like you should never have been taught to read.

i am unemployed and just began readings sections of philosophy of spirit