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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel
Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.
Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to reinstate man with his high spiritual claims in a place of importance in the cosmic scheme.
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.
My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
