-“Self” means “relating itself to itself” : it’s a relation whose terms are not given. And the world of separation is that world in which terms of a relation of sense- terms such as “nature”, “gods”, or “community” are no longer given.
The term "gods" is no longer given in this world but it seems the term "God" still exists in this gray world of separation as well as " His Idea".
-“Spirit is not an
inert being, but on the contrary, absolutely restless being, pure activity.”
-The “subject” is what it does, it is its act, and its doing is the experience of the consciousness of the negativity of substance, as the concrete experience and consciousness of the modern history of the world...
-"Self cannot precede itself, because "self" is precisely the form and movement of a relation to self, of going to self and coming into self. This world not only has a consciousness of separation: it is separation that it has consciousness of itself and the experience of this consciousness.
The concept of point's being the passage. The important thing is the process, the movement, the intellectual struggle instead of one vision or another:
-Ordeal, misery, restlessness and task of thought: Hegel is the witness of the world's entry into a history in which it is no longer just a matter of changing form, or replacing one vision and one order by some other vision and some other order, but in which the one and only point- of view and of order- is that of transformation itself.
It is all about the experience itself, not about the beginning nor the end.
- In these two ways- absence of beginning and absence of end, absence of foundation and absence of completion- Hegel is the opposite of a "totalitarian" thinker. But he does think this: that the truth is total or it is nothing.
Truth is total and there is a system that hold together the whole of truth.
-" Philosophy is not essentially a theoretical knowledge or interpretative proposition: it is the praxis of sense.
This is very crucial. I think the praxis of sense is the only proper way to deal with the philosophy, today. The mental process, the never ending inquisitive attitude and forming better questions which does not have singular correct answers or any right answers at all. Philosophy is to be experienced rather than to be learned. Or, Philosophy has to be experienced in order to learn its dynamics.
- If thought was not separated from things, it would not be thought, nor would there be restlessness. Thought, to the contrary, is the separation of things and the ordeal of this separation. But thought is thus itself the separation of things from thought- judgments, concepts, significations.
There is an etymological side in Hegel's style :
-Dinge(things) and Denken( thinking) sound one like the other, one right up against the other: "Things and the thinking of them- our language too express their kinship- are explicitly in full agreement, thinking in its immanent determinations and the true nature of things forming one and the same content."
On thought and penetration:
- "Thought in thinking penetrates the object."
- The penetration of thought is not traversal, but the concrete hollowing out of concreteness itself
On dialectic:
- Hegel makes of it ( "dialectic") the very condition of truth: that it not be a given.
On the truth:
-I know the truth outside of myself, and I know that I am the truth outside of myself. Me, the truth, I know that I cannot confuse myself with any "self".
On desire:
-Once the other is only an object, it is only my object, and the self is only the subject of this object - in its turn, an object for the other just as for itself. This is why, in desire, "the action of the one has double significance of being its own action and the action of the other" and why "they recognize themselves as mutually recognizing one another."
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