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What I am saying is that how one answers the question depends on what assumptions one brings to the answer. Do logical limits point to the limits of w...

Much of the philosophy I read was not written in English and much of it is not by contemporary writers. As to clumsy sentence structure and other sins...

The question is based on the underlying assumption that reason should underlie of understanding of God. The Jewish God was conceived of in terms of hi...

I am reminded of Arthur Koestler's definition of philosophy: The systematic abuse of a terminology specially invented for that purpose.

Most who asked for an explanation did not see the irony.

In Plato's Phaedrus Socrates is critical of the technological breakthrough called writing, its corrosive effect on memory, and its indiscriminateness ...

I am often of the impression that it is a way of hiding one's ignorance from both one's self and others. The gaps and jumps get covered over by refere...

While I am in general agreement, one's level of education must be taken into consideration. What may seem to be clearly stated to someone with the req...

God is the terminus of explanation. For some this means explanation leads ultimately to God as the answer, but for others to God as the limit of human...

My original intention was to put the question of absolute otherness aside for the time being. It is often the case that what I cannot understand at on...

So, what are your thoughts on the preface to the Phenomenology as it has been discussed so far in this topic?

The question is not whether he leaves these things behind but whether the process of nature is the same as the process of the development of spirit, s...

It was taking too much time and energy. I was spending many hours working through a single paragraph in some cases.

Hegel is talking about the movement of thought or spirit. I don't think this extends to physics or evolution, but I could be wrong.

The explanation has to do with the development of thought in time through history, the dialectical movement from the objective to the subjective. I do...

I don't think it is a matter of Hegel being able to explain why Aristotle thought as he did but that since Hegel denies that there can be partial know...

Yes, I do. I think Hegel is important because he makes time and change essential to thinking.

Yes, he does claim to know the whole. He also claims that it is now possible for others to do so as well. Knowledge of the whole for Hegel does not me...

I am not saying what the mystic is. What I am saying is that there is no single definition of the mystic. I am not sure if the label is important or h...

Good and evil (bad) are one of the many dualities of Genesis. They are fundamental, not to be resolved. The truth lies neither with this or with that,...

When I first read Plato I thought he was a mystic. I no longer read him this way. I think he was a Socratic or zetetic skeptic, knowing that he does n...

Yes, I did. It shows that this is your contention. Nothing more. The questioner may intend for it to lead to a particular conclusion but a questioner ...

Why must a truly rhetorical question must lead to a single robust conclusion? Is this a rhetorical question? What is the apodictic connection between ...

Socrates said that he possessed human wisdom, knowing that he does not know. He contrasts this with divine wisdom, knowledge of the things Socrates de...

Perhaps men have themselves bereft Hegel of his wits, or maybe he too is a man of worth. In that case he would be like Plato in that both have a lot t...

By your description Hegel would not be a mystic, but those who, like Wallace, claim that Hegel was a mystic hold to some other idea of what mysticism ...

The hermeneutic circle originally referred to the problem of interpretation of texts. The whole cannot be understood without an understanding of the p...

The problem I have with Wallace's article is the lack of reference. How much of what he claims can be found in the texts? I am reminded of Nietzsche's...

Another thing might be that each thing must be other than all other things. Is the whole other than itself? In one sense since there is nothing other ...

If we were to draw the circles of wholes where would absolute otherness be? If it is complete otherness it would be a circle that is not encompassed i...

Aristotle's use of common words always maintain that usage even when he extends the meaning. The term 'eidos' means the look or kind or essence or spe...

You are right to point to the problems with what Aristotle says about matter. But I think he was smart enough to recognize that it is problematic. In ...

The distinction I was referring to is this one: Philosophical scholarship is interpretation and research that supports an interpretation. There is, ho...

There is no clear distinction between them. What so and so said and thought is an interpretation of what so and so said and thought, unless one simply...

The problem is, once again, that you are not talking about Aristotle, but the Scholastic interpretation of Aristotle. There is no consensus as to whet...

Why is it that the ancient commentators recognized Aristotle's concealment but many modern scholars are silent on this? They do not appreciate the art...

Aristotle says many different things about matter, not all of it in agreement with other things he says about matter and form. From one of the most in...

This is the problem: Feser's take on Aquinas' take on Plato and Aristotle.

I think you are right about the importance of others for self-consciousness, but what I am still struggling with the concept of absolute otherness. It...

Standard disclaimer: in trying to work out what Hegel says I am forced to frequently revise what I think he is saying. What follows is no exception. I...

26: All knowing takes place in unconditioned otherness, that is, in what is other than self. As its ground and soil, the otherness to self cannot be s...

I cannot say what more there is for Goethe but for Hegel it is the sublation of both the Greek logos and John's logos. Some read Hegel as anti-religio...

The picture of Trump, Sharpton, and Don King speaks volumes. All self-promoters desperate to have their face in front of the camera and willing to say...

I am not sure I follow. I am at a disadvantage not having read Goethe (and have been scolded by you for this omission). Isn't it the translation of lo...

I would caution against assuming Plato is wrong without first understanding him. The term translated as beautiful is kalos, which also means good or n...

The Greek word used by John in the New Testament is logos. It seems likely Hegel in using the term is mindful of both the Greek and Christian traditio...

25: What is the religion of modernity? Without venturing an answer it can be noted that “the most sublime concept” belongs to it, the expression of th...

24: There is no first principle of philosophy upon which everything else rests and is supported. Both the truth of a proposition and its negation are ...

I think for him the game is over, unity has been realized.

The information I provided is from scholarly sources. Even if the dates are accurate this does not resolve the issue in question. When the stories wer...