/lit/ - Literature

Hegel is the homeless dude who swears he's on to something that will shake society but when held to the simplest scrutiny his idealism completely falls apart into "but wouldn't it be cool if it was true?"

>>14993661
Expect he isn't. Did you even read the book

it's easier than the critique of pure reason

>>14993683
>Except he isn't
Ok LARPer. Did you even read the book?

>>14993622
Hegel must be read aloud to understand just how powerful his ideas are.

>>14993697
don't do this is summons a demon

Its not as hard as people say. The only problem is its quite the commitment to read through and actually pay attention.

>>14993622
>difficult
Why do plebs love to use this word to describe the nebulous verbosity of pseuds? It's not algebraic topology, it's just meaningless twaddle.

Hegel must be read because his followers aren't honest about how empty it is.

>who swears he's on to something that will shake society
It did

>>14993705
Don't listen to this anon. He is delusional. Would >>14993697 really do anything to hurt you?

>>14993759
Ah shoot

>>14993759
Oh what fresh hell April Fools' mod shit is this

>>14993759
Please dont

>>14993622
No

>>14993786
I don't think it did anything, I wouldn't worry about it.

Damn. And here I was thinking /lit/ was safe.

>>14993759
anon you fucker I still haven't read hegel

To summarize it,

"Progress good. End of history coming soon when God will 'know' himself."

>>14993865
That was the will of God. History said that he was supposed to die

>If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most outrageous misuse of language, putting in its place the hollowest, most senseless, thoughtless, and, as is confirmed by its success, most stupefying verbiage, I should be quite right.

>Further, if I were to say that this summus philosophus [...] scribbled nonsense quite unlike any mortal before him, so that whoever could read his most eulogized work, the so-called Phenomenology of the Mind, without feeling as if he were in a madhouse, would qualify as an inmate for Bedlam, I should be no less right.

>>14993921
based

>>14993921
Eternally based Schopy.

>>14993759
Joke is on you
i'm already chinese

>>14993759
unironically one of the better posts in this thread

Jesus I hate phone cameras. I had to take some pictures of my docs to a job interview and all of them went bent since engineers and marketeers decided that focusing on selfies was more important.

>>14993921
I remember someone quoting these lines from Schopenhauer and then saying "meanwhile Hegel's lecture studios were packed with students eager to hear him speak, meanwhile Schopenhauer's lectures were empty"
Feelsbad

Ask Adolf

>>14993921
Schop inspired Nietzsche.
Hegel inspired Marx.
I think it's pretty clear who was in the right.

>>14995563
Not really.

There's apparently a THIRD new translation of this.
Anyone read this one?
Someone needs to do a comparison with this and Michael Inwood's and Terry Pinkard.

>>14994772
Eww

>>14993622
Reading Hegel should be mandatory for Philosophy, English and Sociology majors. Those pseuds must suffer.

>>14995563
>Marx is Hegel's successor

>>14993622
Absolutely not you just need to be familiar with Kant and history of philosophy in general because Hegel is making implicit references at near the speed of light (like most people writing in the 19th century) and the people obsessed with "getting it" are literally stuck at stage 1 of the dialectic

>>14993622
no

>>14995722
>>14993622
No, but the inscrutability isn't helped by translators unequal to the task -- the Miller translation is showing its age, and realistically anyone tackling a Hegel (or Heidegger) ought to be doing the entire corpus for consistency/a concordance.

>>14993921
Schope was just edgy af

>>14993697
true and BASED

I heard only Husserl scholars are safe from the virus

Emily

Younger readers. Probably middle school-high school since I write science fantasy.

>>14996814
Don't do my boy Diomedes like this