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Other philosophy communities have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ x ]

"I thunk it so I dunk it." - Descartes

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Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel (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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[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

sometimes the writing (of anything) is just a product of its time and is hard to understand nowadays due to sentence structure and vocabulary

In the case of Hegel this is compounded by his deliberately obtuse writing style.

It's like how scientific names in biology got really hard to pronounce because a bunch of nerds that named the things engaged in Latin vocabulary brinkmanship (at least according to my professor when I was studying evolutionary biology).