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IGNORE HEGELPOSTERS

Hegel is the ultimate pseudointellectual philosopher. Early in the Science of Logic, he mentions how the role of philosophy is only to elaborate and draw out out common sense prejudices to their logical conclusion using the dialectical method (pic related). It's worth noting that the phenomenology proceeds from a "common sense" worldview of sense-certainty and, proceeding with the pseudo-motor of negativity, ascends to "absolute knowing" whereupon the Science of Logic begins.

Hegel, while certainly better at it than most philosophers, remains trapped in a dogmatic image of thought. Having done away with all objective presuppositions (about concepts, the object at hand, etc.) and being in such a position ends up resoprting to subjective or pre-conceptual presuppositions from common sense. These take the form of "everybody knows" or "no one can deny" type statements that inevitably slip in from common sense. Everybody knows what is meant by pure being, and everyone knows what is meant by pure nothing, and no one can deny their absolute indeterminacy. Furthermore, everybody knows what is meant by thinking, thought, negation, etc. Such elaborations of what everybody knows, so called rules of thought, so called "logic" are supremely uninteresting. The most problematic thing about Hegel is not that he is necessarily wrong about the conclusions that he makes, but that he is simply boring. The error he makes is to make this boredom a totality, and reduce all thought and thinking to it, reducing everything new to what is already known. You can see this in the way Hegelian thinkers such as Zizek reduce every thinker they encounter to Hegel, attempting to force and twist everything to fit their preconcieved scheme of things.

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