/lit/ - Literature

>>22521998

>>17219780
>Why historians dislike him?
historians, by the nature of their job, like specifics. they like to think that its all the little specific things that led to where we are today. hegel was all about looking at history in a general manner, reducing it down to a formula.
>Is he really a charlatan?
i like to think hes either autistic or intentionally made it harder to gain academic status. theres definitely some truth to his ideas imo (though really its very similar to most mystical traditions) and he could have made it much simpler.
>What is it about, anon?
the idea is, opposites want balance, and opposites are really the same thing. like the string of a guitar that oscilates back and forth and produces sound as it oscilates and then dies out when the opposites cancel each other out. the opposites are really the same string that move in different directions and then finds balance. when he says something like "the negation of something being made neccesary by that thing", you can visualize it by thinking of pulling the string in one direction and then releasing it and it will go the other direction. in time they will cancel each other out and reach a balance (but then there is an imbalance between balance and imbalance and so it has to be imbalanced again)

thats how he responds to: "why is there something instead of nothing?" its because either one makes the other neccesary and either one being more than the other, creates an imbalance. he calls that oscilation of going back and forth "alteration"
>>17219967
hegels "god" isnt benevloant
>being guided by the hand of God
god in this sense is that force that tends towards balance. its used in a way like "the way that things are"
>>17219861
its unstoppable under this god

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>>14726631
Yes, it's pretty crazy. The Preface alone made me worry that speculative philosophy was going to break my brain so that I couldn't think in ratiocinative thoughts anymore, and I'd have to relearn everything I've been taught in life before I could express myself normally to other humans again. I lay in bed that night and experienced involuted and illogical thought cycles, which I interpreted as my resistance to the Notion of Science, worrying about whether it was really possible to experience the Absolute via thought, and if so, what exactly would happen when I did it (maybe I'd die, wake up from the Matrix, etc.).