
Stephen Houlgate - Hegel On Being
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
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The Downside of Reading Hegel in Translation
I was thinking about a number of things, but one of the things that I was thinking about is the fact that perhaps Hegel is actually an ally in attacking common sense and good sense. He doesn't necessarily presume what it is to think or what it's to know beforehand. And similarly, with a lot of other categories that we employ, we can use them without fully understanding their complexity. But we're still going to be vulnerable to and subject to their intrinsic logic. So he wants us to understand the complexities inhabiting the concepts we employ as well as the world we inhabit. We shouldn't raise Bart as the sort of, we shouldn't make that into a categorical imperative, right?
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