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Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel (hexbear.net)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/philosophy@hexbear.net
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And boy howdy does my head hurt.

I'm almost through the preface, and i have NO clue what he's talking about.

So far, the only thing I've gotten is something about how a result is determined by the path that lead to it, and that a negation is not a destruction of something but just a further step forward.

But I have no fucking clue about his other concepts like Notion, Subjective/Objective, what he means by Science or how to piece it all together.

It really feels like walking in, mid conversation, in a foreign language.

Is the rest of the book easier to read, or should I just call it quits here?

I just wanted to better understand dialectics lmao

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I just wanted to better understand dialectics lmao

You're better off reading Daoist works like the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi with the understanding that they were written in China during the Warring States period. That or reading the Vietnamese textbooks translated by Luna Oi.. In practice, Hegel is only understandable once you have a decent grasp of dialectical materialism through Marxism. You read Hegel after understanding Marx to deepen your understanding of Marx that you already have. Hegel is not good for pedagogy.

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