Opinions and arguments are not welcome! — tim wood
Get lost with that. That's not philosophy. — Terrapin Station
This thread is not about philosophy; it is about reading and understanding a text - — tim wood
I think that's Phenomenology of Mind - different book. But that's not to say the two prefaces won't compliment each other! — tim wood
Could you tell me the first few words of the translation you are using? — Fooloso4
Is that remark purely about the link?
Or do you object to using Miller's translation? — Valentinus
I am going to start by using both Miller and Pinkard to see if there is much of a difference. — Fooloso4
Neat bud-flower-fruit metaphor. The numbering sequence escapes me. In Miller it is in paragraph 2. — Banno
To understand any book or text requires first that it be read - and understood. That's the task of this thread, and that is the only task of this thread — tim wood
With luck, 50-odd pages, maybe the thing can be done in under 50 - 100 posts! — tim wood
If, namely, the True exists only in what, or better as what, is sometimes called intuition, sometimes immediate knowledge of the Absolute, religion or being - not at the centre of divine love but the being of the divine love itself - then what is required in the exposition of philosophy is, from this viewpoint, rather the opposite of the form of the Notion. For the Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, it is to be felt and intuited; not the Notion of the Absolute, but the feeling and intuition of it, must govern what is said, and must be expressed by it.
Yeah, a philosophy text. — Terrapin Station
The Phenomenology of spirit (1807) is the first book Hegel published, and certainly one of his most famous and debated work.
This year we will read the Preface. Written by Hegel after the whole work was completed, the Preface represents one of the most beautiful and major text in the history of philosophy. Here Hegel defines his philosphical method and polemically debates with the main previous figures (Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte and Schelling beside others).
The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Preface
Week 1 (21 October) §§ 1-3
Week 2 (3 November) §§ 4-10
Week 3 (17 November) §§ 11-16
Week 4 (1 December) §§ 17-21
Week 5 (15 December) §§ 22-29
Week 6 (12 January) §§ 30-39
Week 7 (26 January) §§ 40-51
Week 8 (9 February) §§ 52-62
Week 8 (12 February) §§ 63-72
3. Those who demand both such explanations and their satisfactions may well look as if they are really in pursuit of what is essential. (Pinkard)
3. Demanding and Supplying these [superficial] explanations passes readily enough as a concern with what is essential. (Miller) — Fooloso4
… the way to present philosophical truth.
because philosophy essentially is in the element of universality, which encompasses the particular within itself … its perfect essence, would be expressed in the goal of the work and in its final results, and that the way the project is in fact carried out would be what is inessential.
… comprehend the diversity of philosophical systems as the progressive development of truth …
... only contradiction in that diversity.
… their fluid nature makes them into moments of an organic unity in which they are not only not in conflict with each other, but rather, one is equally as necessary as the other, and it is this equal necessity which alone constitutes the life of the whole.
… how to free the contradiction from its one-sidedness …
how to sustain it as free-standing.
… take cognizance of the moments as reciprocally necessary.
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