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15 | What is Dialectics? Part II: We Need to Talk about Hegel

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Dialectical Moment in the Philosophy of Right?

The cantian language for this that we have is autonomy on the one hand, and heteronomy on the other. When something else is compain, constraining or compelling me in some way, iam subject to some one or something else. And now, like, the apparent opposition between these two is clear, right? The abstract understanding is like, well, i'm either autonomous or heterotomous - only one of those things. It's no longer just that there's this contradiction, but that we have like, a positive claim that comes about from the unity of these contradictory oppositions. Rit. Ray: I feel like i just got stuck at the dialectical moment where i

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