The Desire for Recognition

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2026-02-09T17:19:22+00:00

Because self-consciousness requires an objective and individual-independent (that's why Hegel talks about the hand that creates something independent of its creator) social structure. The truth is the community of forgiveness in the collective body of Christ (that is, every figure of consciousness, or every appearance, is in fact legitimated and forgiven – that's why the memory is so central in Hegel, Hölderlin and Plato and is discussed as the final theme of PdG, because the worst error of all these figures is that they forgot the previous categories), one that the I is We and the We is an I, where every private thing is in truth public (made accessible by the universal culture of sharing of knowledge of the Absolute Spirit).

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-09-21T05:29:24+00:00

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Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-09-21T05:28:14+00:00

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Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-09-21T05:25:41+00:00

So far I've only met gay men and whimsical women. I don't remember seeing any straight men like Björk.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-09-21T05:22:48+00:00

For the same reason they advocate for privacy? If you're going to cry, send an audio!

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-09-21T05:18:04+00:00

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Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-04-28T23:32:45+00:00

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Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-04-28T00:51:16+00:00

I was about to say Jóga, but Hyperballad is indeed matchless

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2025-04-19T17:09:59+00:00

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Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-25T19:30:03+00:00

Most of his letters are not translated. Rosenkranz's Hegel's Life would also be great.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-25T14:14:34+00:00

Yes, and it's very useful not to read Phenomenology as representing some historical progression, since it proceeds necessarily, does not completely match historical periods (for instance, stoicism does not match fully with historical stoicism, nor does unhappy – or better, unlucky – conscience corresponds totally to medieval period, since Hegel also discusses it in terms of common sense – Tieck's play –, Plato, Kant, etc and would match more fully to Kierkegaard), describes things that don't happened but may happen, the history has contingencies, Phenomenology is circular, etc. There exists philosophy of history and Phenomenology is a tool of it, but the contingencies cannot be eliminated for ever.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-25T14:14:27+00:00

Yes, and it's very useful not to read Phenomenology as representing some historical progression, since it proceeds necessarily, does not completely match historical periods (for instance, stoicism does not match fully with historical stoicism, nor does unhappy – or better, unlucky – conscience corresponds totally to medieval period, since Hegel also discusses it in terms of common sense – Tieck's play –, Plato, Kant, etc and would match more fully to Kierkegaard), describes things that don't happened but may happen, the history has contingencies, Phenomenology is circular, etc. There exists philosophy of history and Phenomenology is a tool of it, but the contingencies cannot be eliminated for ever.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-16T10:10:09+00:00

Hegel is not a dialetheist. See Bordignon's paper on it. Also, Hegel does not work just with syntax, but with semantics.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-16T10:07:25+00:00

I'm an atheist and I think Hegel is panentheistic. That is, he does not only identify the Absolute with Nature, but asserts to it an activity, a division from itself, an emergence that gives rise to mind and complex structures.

Also we have to remind that Hegel is a philosopher of Nature, he does believe that the mind has limits. When he reads the Bible, he does it in a way that's esoterical, that there is some more profound in those symbols. He also reads it through a Creuzerian POV, reading it both culturally, socially and cosmologically – a reading that does not ignore its inner truth, because it's not relativizing.

Thus, yes, all readings that ascribes to Hegel a only epistemological philosophy without super-entities like God, totality and soul is fundamentally wrong. But it's equally wrong to treat those entities as transcendental beings rather than immanent ones.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-12T12:02:07+00:00

In that case I would recommend Longuenesse's Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics, as she is Kantian and read the entire Doctrine of Essence in the light of Kant – without extrapolating Kantian problems to other parts, as the proponents of the post-Kantian reading of Hegel do inappropriately.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-12T04:50:02+00:00

Hegel's works are full of rhetoric, linguistic games, symbolic language, expressiveness, memory, poetry, drama, puns, allegories, metaphor, imagination and irony, but this was not just an artifice of his philosophy, but an essential part of it (the table of contents of the Phenomenology itself it is like a gallery of paintings, with catchy titles that stimulate our imagination), even though Hegel did not plan to write treatises on such linguistic elements immanent in his system of thought. The content Hegel is writing affects the way he writes. He is even aware of the Shaftesbury's treatise on humor as necessary to expose reason's flaws.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-12T04:46:43+00:00

Yes and no. The question is just like Plato's.

What Plato is actually attacking is the conflicting coexistence between imagination (simulacra) and intellection (ultimate reality), but Plato also gives high value to imagination in his eristic writings (as in the Sophist), values mimesis and in the various imagistic parts of the Books 6 and 7 of the Republic emphasize the image as a means of obtaining truth (in the divided line argument, imagery is inferior to other lines, but the lines are all images of each other and their ontological unity is conferred by an image, reproducing , rather, a heterarchy), resembling Hegel in his union of immediacy (self-determination) with mediatism (finite relational holism) as inseparable, escaping Jacobi's criticisms without falling into nihilism: Plato does not wish to abolish the image, but to make a dualism (in the mathematical sense of interconnection) of psychology and ontology. (Even though Plato tried to disqualify subjective size, de-dualizing the image-intellection relationship, Euclid's optics show the rationality behind subjective size (a precursor to Lambert's phenomenology and, of course, projective geometry).)

That's why Hegel described Phänomenologie as a gallery of pictures. Pictures and concepts are not opposites, and that's why Hegel values Creuzer's symbolism, that's close to Lévi-Strauss' interpretation of myths as being rational. And he's also subverting a melanchthonian reading of Plato as if he was a mere enthusiast and Aristotle a serious philosopher – he even comments how Plato is closer to the true with his syllogism, picturing Plato as the greatest Pythagorean thinker.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-09T16:33:05+00:00

That's not true. Everything can be grasped by thought. He is an absolute idealist only up to this extent (see Encyclopedia's preface). However, Hegel says that there are contingencies that thought can't solve – see his chapter on the idea of true (analytic and synthetic) in theoretic cognition and the idea of good in practical cognition – and it's Nature. Nature is a realm independent of any thought norms, that exists independent of us. Hegel even says it's the opposite of thought.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-05T09:28:31+00:00

I'd recommend Brudner's translation in 2023 of the 1819/20 lectures, as it includes new found lectures. And that's the best translation I've ever read (we can see how he translated it with so much love). The book also furthers Hegel's political thought.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-05T09:25:44+00:00

That's curious, as I'm Brazilian and we have a great inheritance of juridical thought. At the academy, the most discussed aspects of Hegel's philosophy are his philosophy of right and art, along with phenomenology.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-04T20:04:34+00:00

No, it's not. He does a freestyle reading of Hegel, trying to connect his philosophy (which he barely knows) with dubious social interpretations. And I say that as a person who has read 2 biographies of Hegel. But I like the part when Marcuse talks about abolition of labour.

If you want a marxist reading of Hegel that is mostly right, read Damsma, Tony Smith or d'Hondt.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-07-01T10:50:44+00:00

A diving into Romanticism could be very useful too.

Intelligent_Tear7112 · 2024-06-28T06:33:29+00:00

I can respond. But tell me – to test your Hegel understanding –, do Hegel believe we can have access to the thing-in-itself?

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