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Where does one begin with Hegel?

>> No.16881903
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16881903

serious reply.

>> No.16881923

>>16881903
explicate

>> No.16881938

>>16881880
this might help you
http://htmlgiant.com/random/the-beginners-guide-to-hegel/

>> No.16882813

>>16881938
I'm not op but I looked at this "article" and it's intensely cringe.

>> No.16882963

>>16882813
>it's cringe!
thanks for your valuable contribution to this thread, you sure look like the person who has read and understood Hegel

>> No.16883033

>>16882963
>its cringe to write elucidating the points of hardship in Hegel and telling the basics.
better get a chart made by a midwit

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>>16881880

>> No.16884002

>>16881880
First, Hegel has 4 major works

1. The Phenomenology of Spirit

2. Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (3 vols)

3. The Science of Logic

4. Elements of the Philosophy of Right

The PoS is supposed to be a book which guides the reader to a sort of ascended consciousness, at which point they are ready to understand his ‘system’ which is laid out in his other major books.

The EoPS is a student textbook summary of Hegel’s entire system. The first volume covers logic, the second is his philosophy of nature, and the third is his philosophy of spirit.

Whereas the Encyclopedias were lighter student textbooks, the Science of Logic is the real deal. It is the full 800 page detailed working out of what is just outline in only the first volume of the Encyclopedia. Hegel never lived to complete full treatments of what was outlined in volumes two and three of the EoPS.

Philosophy of Right is Hegel’s political treatise, and can be read somewhat separately from the rest of his work.

If you want one volume introductions to Hegel, the ones be Charles Taylor or Fredrick Beiser are both good, id lean towards the Beiser personally. I agree with the person in >>16881938 this article, in suggesting Houlgate. Pippin and Pinkard are both great Hegel scholars, even if they have interpretations that are contested by other Hegel scholars. HS Harris’s massive book on the Phenomology is definitely overkill but doesn’t hurt to check out.

>>16881923
That person is trying to meme you into reading the Hermetic Hegel, which is a good book but deeply unhelpful for the beginner.

>> No.16884216

>>16884002
Which book by Beiser? The Cambridge Companion to Hegel?

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>>16884216
This one, though everything he’s been involved in is pretty good.

>> No.16884569

>>16884251
Thanks. And did you mean to imply that Hegel’s works should be read in the order you put them in? My plan has been to read his lectures on the philosophy of history first, then read his early writings on Christianity and German Idealism. After that I would tackle PoS, Science of Logic, Philosophy of Right and the other lectures. I guess the Encyclopedia is really that crucial, huh? I should read that before the Science of Logic? I always figured that it was more of a secondary or companion work.