"The Science of Logic is the exposition of God as he is in his eternal essence before the creation of nature and a finite mind."Very based book, anyone reading it or has read it?
>The Science of Logic is the exposition of God as he is in his eternal essence before the creation of nature and a finite mind.lol, lmao even.
>>24885552The simplest line from Hegel that caused him the most grief. He used erschaffung which is frequently translated as creation and used mostly for grand purposes. It can also be translated as make or develop though which is usually how Hegel wound up using it. Still a great book.
>>24885742He's also not entirely averse in general to using metaphorical and religious language when talking about God.
>>24885755You'll also notice schluff translated as syllogism, which is fair, but it primarily means sift which is the closest to what Hegel likely intended. He also used versöhnung which is most frequently translated as reconciliation and he most likely intended it this way with speculative good friday but it can also mean to appease or placate. That's one of the odd ones, he was mostly concerned with Shiva and Vishnu and it's likely he thought this was the epitome of the contradiction Hinduism offered, but he overlooked Ganesh, which was almost who he was.
I was getting filtered as I got into volume 2, realized my grasp on a few key notions wasn't solid enough, so started over from the start. It's starting to click though. Hegel is arguing that there is, as it were, a world of thought that grounds this world, the logic of everything; that this thinking has to be self-contained, self-moving, etc, which means it is negativity. But as thought it's pure negativity. In basic terms when thinking as such posits something it necessarily negates it, then negates this negation and becomes its result. Thesis/antithesis/synthesis is not at all a bad way to grasp what Hegel is doing even if that isn't his language. But he has understanding/dialectic/speculation, same idea. Starting from pure being and following this process of negation Hegel derives a metalogic of life, cognition, theology, mathematics, or really of everything.
>>24885552Im 19 and every time i pick up this book i get a headache. Am i too young to be reading Hegel or am i just retarted?
>>24885755characterising individuality as a sickness of the body affected the still early individuated spirit is also pretty stooped in his metaphorical language. the whole point about magnetism in the encyclopedia is also rich.
No but my roommate in college was reading the Phenomenology of Spirit while listening to Beethoven's 9th and had a grand mal seizure. He had epilepsy but it was still pretty kek.
