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Hegel's Self-Consciousness

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Hegel's Theorem, Isn't It?

Hegel's thought is always about, are you proving yourself in the deed? Like, I'm going to look at your philosophy and see what it gives us. What he hates about stoicism is precisely this retreat into the internal and finding freedom in this complete rejection of the external. And so then this is removed wholly from the object, right? Right. So there's a, there's an isolate. It's really interesting how Hegel goes about proving the idea that we can't just be thought by itself. He even says, doesn't he say something like, it's the philosophy of princes and slaves, right? Yeah.

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