It is interesting that you understood my remark about taking pleasure in cruelty as a kind of gratitude. I see it more as a perverse joy in hurting th...
This is a really difficult subject. I see the automatic quality of the self denigration. I see myself taking pleasure in it while it hurts me. I feel ...
The methods for criticism are framed within the larger task of analysis: If the book being read adopts these criteria for it own purposes, then perhap...
I meant to echo what Fooloso4 said about not letting secondary writing cancel the experience of letting primary writing speak for itself. Perhaps my e...
From one point of view, I am an alien who fell to earth who spends most of her time nattering to myself about how crappy this planet is. From another ...
Adler's depiction of analysis suggests a map where different ideas can be found in relation to one another. The approach has merit as a way to start t...
A while back, fdrake made a helpful comment showing one way to understand the "infinite extension" component. As a matter of causality, Spinoza is not...
Thorny topic. Guaranteed to piss off everybody. I like it. It seems to me that how we talk about some one or thing being an agent is the fork in the r...
I was not contesting the notion that "nature" demonstrates universals through the expression of individual beings being whatever they are according to...
The emphasis upon not having others determine one's decisions constantly points to how we betray ourselves in that regard. The The Enchiridion by Epic...
It is easy enough to explain experiences by a narrative of circumstances that bring them about. Unless, of course, the explanation is troubling in its...
Philosophy has taught me that in the center of our discourse there are innumerable numbers of separations between us that require levels of patience, ...
Before confirming or denying that, the question of whether there is a human nature needs to be asked. If one posits that the language that has develop...
Hegel does not consider a lot of things. His "system" is built upon certain principles. The method makes some things more important than others. The s...
"Classical Theism" is only what you decide it will be. It is not a thing delivered to a person with an instruction sheet. If it were, then we would no...
One way I look at the limit of reason stuff in Hegel is that he was a horse who got out of his corral when a gate was left open. He galloped for a whi...
Noumena is a Greek word that is plural. Which is weird if one wanted to translate it as a place where other stuff happened or not. Maybe more than one...
I never thought about relying upon secondary choices as "cheating" or encouraging poor judgment. The tradition of reading I was instructed within reco...
The hermeneutic circle is a good idea to bring into this topic. It is an element in the experiences Hegel describes and also reflects how he is in the...
Your description is helpful. I would only throw a few curve balls into the mix. The emphasis in Lutheran thought that what is happening for each indiv...
Very well said. I consider your question of dinosaur versus current player the one that is most interesting to me and shapes the tenor of many reactio...
I said this: tim wood said this: I will try to answer in reverse order. The factor Kant is leaving out of his analysis is a motive to go forward. The ...
Well, the logic of both the stuff in time combined with the idea of a dialectic as producing results through a process suggests that "exclusion" is a ...
Good observation. I am not sure how to read that against the background of negation and exclusion being the default position and something other than ...
Then the difference between Kant and Hegel is about how this stuff is happening in time or not. Kant describes time as a component of individual exper...
With these paragraphs, Hegel draws in sharp relief the comparison of individual experience to what makes that possible. This "universal self" is centr...
Perhaps Kierkegaard and Nietzsche set off an epistemological firestorm but both of them are peculiarly similar in the way that they did not see that c...
Good point. In regard to Nietzsche, he didn't ask that the "objectivity" be demonstrated in various perspectives but did refer to the natural as being...
One of the themes that Kierkegaard approached from many different angles was the importance to understand behavior and conditions "psychologically" wh...
One element to consider is that Bushido calls for accepting one's death to the degree that one no longer makes decisions to avoid it for its own sake....
I meant no offense. The irony applies to my own efforts to criticize Hegel. I had a teacher who once asked me how I could separate using tools made by...
Your statement has been articulated in many ways. Hegel, himself, said many things that compared his "culture" in a better light than others. But, as ...
I agree with Stewart that Hegel and Kierkegaard collide in many places but that the differences are not a simple matter of thesis versus antithesis. I...
This observation strikes in many directions. I will throw out two. It recasts the argument between Hume and Kant regarding causality. If Hume's skepti...
I think the matter of scale you describe is important to what Hegel is presenting. The "unconditioned" is present in all the instances of determinatio...
I asked about the reversibility of terms because the logic that seems to be operating here does not seem to be focused on corresponding necessity to e...
As a contrasting parallel to Foolso4's remarks involving Spinoza, it is interesting how Spinoza complained how certain thinkers were sure what was pos...
I think Rockmore speaks too generally when he says: "The relation of inequality remains, although its terms reverse themselves". The master's dependen...
In the Pinkard translation, it can be found in Section B, Self Consciousness, starting with Chapter A, titled: Self-Sufficiency and Non-Self-Sufficien...
Some of the difference between Kant and Hegel is that the individual is not the only theater in town. Hegel relates the negation of person-hood as hap...
What is the alternative? The entire project of reading stuff and talking about it with other people is either working out what was actually said or di...
As projections go, putting stuff on the other is not a sure thing. It is always going to be tried, like sticking a fork into grilling meat, but one's ...
I don't feel obliged to explain the gap between debilitating self criticism and misplaced certainty in certain things being the case. I am too far up ...
I am not sure how this works out in the Preface but Hegel discusses the immediacy of knowing in the early chapters of the book itself. He takes away t...
You are right. The topic requires its own discussion. I am not sure how Hegel understood what happened in regards to the topic. I really like the obse...
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