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  • Triads
    I'll take a stab at the paragraph about "love disporting with itself".

    The line is from parapgraph 19 of the Preface to the Phenomenology as it appears on Marxist Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phprefac.htm

    Hegel thinks philosophy should be "science". So a view of philosophy that sinks into "mere edification" is falling short of what philosophy should be.

    He might be rebutting a certain current of opinion.

    I'll try to interpret the idea of "love disporting with itself". Aristotle has a view that the highest experience was "theoria" which means "contemplation".

    To Aristotle, God is eternally contemplating Godself. This divine navel gazing played a role in his system and partly explained the motion of heavenly bodies.

    So "love disporting with itself" sounds to me like a reinterpretation of that Aristotelian idea.

    But I think what Hegel is saying is that in order to avoid sinking to the level of "mere edification" this has to incorporate the "negative".
  • Triads


    Thanks for your response Vera. I'm interested in what your interpretation of the passage would be. Maybe it's so unclear that you can't even imagine? Then take a wild guess! No wrong answers.



    I have a similar background. I started with Marx but now I've pivoted more into the religious side. I go to Quakers and their method of worship is silent prayer. So I guess I'm more directed towards the immediate nowadays.

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