- Rule 1: Never (ever) actually read anything by Hegel. …
- Rule 2: If you do make a mistake of reading something by Hegel, use my personal technique of “carefully phrased selective emphasis” on certain aspects of Hegel. …
- Rule 3: Read only tertiary literature.
How do you pretend you read Hegel?
- Rule 1: Never (ever) actually read anything by Hegel. …
- Rule 2: If you do make a mistake of reading something by Hegel, use my personal technique of “carefully phrased selective emphasis” on certain aspects of Hegel. …
- Rule 3: Read only tertiary literature.
Is Hegel hard reading?
4 Answers. To get things out of the way, I wouldn't describe Hegel as an obscurantist (i.e., a philosopher or thinker committed to making his position obscure), but
I would say he's very difficult to read
. At the same time, I would say that Hegel is often obscure to 21st century readers.
Do I need to read Kant to understand Hegel?
A
basic understanding of Kant is absolutely necessary
since Hegel is directly in conversation with the methodology of Kant in the work, particularly in the first half. Also, don't read the introduction until you finish the rest of the book!
What does Hegel mean by being for self?
“Something is for itself in so far as it transcends otherness, its connexion and community with another, has repelled them and made abstraction from them.” (SL158).
Being-for-itself
has developed to the point of having a degree of independence from its opposite by incorporating that opposite within itself.
In what order should I read Hegel?
For a first introduction, we recommend that you read Hegel's own introductions to his lectures:
the introductions to his lectures on History of Philosophy
(start with that one), Philosophy of Religion, Aestetics, and Philosophy of History
Does anyone actually read Hegel?
No one reads Hegel
, but no one ever admits to not having read Hegel. It's a sacred law of (not) reading Hegel. In fact, you cannot ever say you are reading Hegel when you are reading Hegel for the first time (if you have committed this atrocious act, see Rule 2), you are always re-reading Hegel.
What should I read before Kant?
So to understand Kant at more than a superficial level you need some acquaintance with the two traditions : the traditions of
Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz
(Rationalists) and of Locke, Berkeley and Hume (Empiricists).
What should I read Kant?
- Critique of Pure Reason. by Immanuel Kant.
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. by Immanuel Kant.
- Critique of the Power of Judgement. by Immanuel Kant.
- Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. by Immanuel Kant.
- The Bounds of Sense. by Peter Strawson.
What is the universal for Hegel?
The universal constitutes the essence of a thing; when a thing is fully developed (actual), the universal is
concrete
. Hegel denies that thought can refer to unique individuals: it is exclusively concerned with universals.
What is Hegel's dialectic method?
Hegelian dialectic. / (hɪˈɡeɪlɪan, heɪˈɡiː-) / noun.
philosophy an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis)
What does Hegel say about freedom?
The concept of freedom is one which Hegel thought of very great importance; indeed, he believed that it is the central concept in human history.
‘Mind is free
‘, he wrote, ‘and to actualise this, its essence – to achieve this excellence – is the endeavour of the worldmind in world-history' (VG, p. 73).
What is Hegel's most important book?
Hegel's major works included
the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807; also called the Phenomenology of Mind);
the Science of Logic, in two parts (1812 and 1816); Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817); the Philosophy of Right (1821); and posthumously published lectures on aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, …
Who inspired Hegel?
Conservatives and revolutionaries, believers and atheists alike
have professed to draw inspiration from him. In one form or another his teaching dominated German universities for some years after his death and spread to France and to Italy.
What was Hegel's theory?
Hegelianism is the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel which can be summed up by the dictum that
“the rational alone is real”
, which means that all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. His goal was to reduce reality to a more synthetic unity within the system of absolute idealism.
