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Reading Hegel feels like talking to a friend where he’s sometimes he says things and it’s like Tim and Eric Awesome Show mind explosion. It really is amazing, actually. So dense, not in an unreadable way, more like a neutrino star — density is really high. Which creates a lot of gravity around short sequences of words. And other times you’re like… what are you talking about man. But later on the parts of it click, or they don’t. Either way, later on you’re still sort of thinking about it. It just depends. Depends on what? Not sure.

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the problem with hegel as a popular philosopher is that a lot of his work assumes nontrivial pre-existing knowledge of german idealism (especially Kant and the developments/responses his works inspired)

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I’ve tried to read phenomenology of spirit multiples times Jesus h Christ

For Hegel specifically it's certain terms and the way he uses them, it makes little sense without some fundamental understanding of german idealism. Still a worthwhile exercise imo, very few reading attempts that have stretched my brain as much as attempting to read the phenomenology of spirit

I agree in that goethe / Schiller and then eventually Hegel are reactions or building upon Kant and what came before - knowing the context situation before helps why and how he reacts the way that he does