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This is from the introduction of Hegel's, Phenomenology of Spirit.
"The more conventional opinion gets fixated
on the antithesis of truth and falsity, the more it tends to expect
a given philosophical system to be either accepted or contradicted; and hence it finds only acceptance or rejection. It
does not comprehend the diversity of philosophical systems as
the progressive unfolding of truth, but rather sees in it simple
disagreements. " (preface, p. 2)
Hegel is explaining what he thinks philosophy is about. He is contesting the idea that philosophy is about being right or wrong and pointing out mistakes.
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You have posted frequently about science, even though it is obvious you never passed freshman year physics or chemistry - but I don't pursue you around the board scolding you about it.
I am not interested in the reasons for your obsessive resentment, you are the one who has to live with it.
"Such minds, when
they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of (the
divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over self-consciousness and surrendering understanding they become the
beloved of God to whom He gives wisdom in sleep; and hence
what they in fact receive, and bring to birth in their sleep) is
nothing but dreams." (preface, sect 10)
The work of thinking and analysis cannot be substituted with revelation. Hegel is here saying that right belief cannot be the purpose of philosophy.
A little thread drift here on the difference between what we learn and what we retain. The more difficult the topic the more I have to reread it 2 or 3 times until I understand it. Only then can I decide if I agree or disagree. Carl Sagan is one of my favorite writers but I didn't retain a word he wrote because his writing style makes it too easy of a read. I can sit for a few hours, dig deep into my mind and recall every chapter of a German writer simply because it was such a difficult read. German writers taught me how to think.
"86. Inasmuch as the new true object issues from it, this dialectical
movement which consciousness exercises on itself and which
affects both its knowledge and its object, is precisely what is
called experience [Eifahrung]. "
This section seems available to understand. Hegel's project is explaining experience. By phenomenology he means the science of experience.
The passages I quoted do not seem to be too hard to comprehend.
This section of Hegel is a bit more complicated. But he is now explaining what the meaning and process of consciousness is.
"Consciousness
simultaneously distinguishes itself from something, and at the
same time relates itself to it, or, as it is said, this something exists
for consciousness; and the determinate aspect of this relating,
or of the being of something for a consciousness, is knowing. "
More difficult, but I think worth trying to figure out. Consciousness does not just directly apprehend the world but makes an object out of it and thinks about it as a new object.
You can read all the commentary you want, but this section is the essence of his philosophy.
Hegel is referring back to Plato and Socrates. We can reason about the world and find truth from that process. We don't need outside experts to tell us what the truth is.
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