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Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part One)

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Is Hegel an Anti Foundationalist?

Pragmatism is often criticized as not really being a philosophy, right? But hegel's trying to sort of solve the problem that would be recognized by pragmatist. In what he's saying is we simply have to observe. The foundationalism is kind of backwards for him. Once the whole development is completed and we get absolute spirit, there's your foundation - but it's very much like organic development into an oak tree or something like that. Yit is a funny kind of foundationalism. Don't take that too seriously. What we'll no know.

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