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I am by no means a reader of Hegel, but from what I've seen from people whom I assume have read Hegel, I get this impression. Hegel is extremely counterintuitive. Most people, especially after Kant don't really see necessity, contingency, universality, particularity, as "things" that can interact or negate themselves to give them individual identities. So people with presupposed nominalistic framework would find Hegel flying past them. But I don't think he qualifies as a traditional platonist either. He radicalized Kant's categories from just mere structural features of consciousness. But what about negation? Is it something "real" as well? To understand Hegel, I suppose you need a flexibility in thinking about ontology because of how counterintuitive it is. Usually when talking about categories, people think about them embedded in particulars, objects or state of affairs. Anyway, I conclude there's not many "Hegelians" out there. We are still doing philosophy in a broadly Kantian paradigm. Whoever "influenced by Hegel" were largely opposed to him. Hegel is the only Hegelian, the black sheep of Western philosophy.

>dude, there's a psychic war that like shapes human history

really? what a hack.