Goethe's Problem With Hegel

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  @raphbiss1 · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  This is basically the same criticism, though in a milder form, that Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, etc. have of Hegel. Too much philosophy becomes a barrier to "faith", or "existence" or "being", or "interiority", or "the knowledge of nature", or "mystical truths", or "subjective experience", etc.

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  @azeemquraishi5669 · 2 years ago (edited)

  So Goethe basically told Hegel to touch grass

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  @alohm · 2 years ago

  "Goethe's Problem With Hegel" : Only 18.5 mins long?! Is this part 1/15? ;)

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  @ismireghal68 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXMbbLqHOi0&amp;t=840">14:00</a> <b>HELPLESS DIALECTICIAN GETS SCHOOLED BY FURIOUS GOETHE WITH SCIENCE AND FACTS</b>

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  @Eudaemoniac · 2 years ago

  Mephistopheles in Goethe’s &nbsp;Faust says “I am the Spirit who ever Negates”. I wonder if this was influenced by Hegel

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  @pw1340 · 1 year ago

  The poet only seeks to get his head into the heavens. The logician seeks to get the heavens into his head, and it is his head that splits.

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  @UntitledDoc · 2 years ago

  Jaw dropped when you said Hegel&apos;s daughter in law was Schopenhauer&apos;s sister, cant believe I never heard that. Awesome video, you&apos;ve earned a subscriber.

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  @NathanPrentice-k7d · 7 months ago

  &quot;ah, now I&apos;ve studied philosophy, jurisprudence, and medicine, and alas, theology as well, ardently and painstakingly, from beginning to end. And here I stand, poor fool that I am, as wise as before I started.&quot;

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  @nezar-6889 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXMbbLqHOi0&amp;t=527">8:47</a> &quot;What we agree with leaves us unmoved; dissent is what makes us productive.&quot;<br><br>I agree with this

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  @wellawoods1660 · 2 years ago

  u can launder any reality u like with a rage wojak it&apos;s great. just have the guy u like appear calm and beatific, and the one u don&apos;t like, who secretly confuses and scares u, be the one who&apos;s raging. it&apos;s honestly better than philosophy.

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  @RadBaron1811 · 10 months ago (edited)

  I mean, Hegel‘s ideas were kind of scary for the establishment, which Goethe was a part of. Actually they both were establishment figures who‘s ideas were extremely radical. <br><br>The Prussian state loved Hegel for writing things like „everything that is, is rational“ or hinting that their government might be the perfect rational state for the utopian future. They were less happy with his implication that everything historic was impermanent and that every order carried the seeds of its own destruction.

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  @MrSkypelessons · 2 years ago

  Great story, thanks mate. I&apos;ve always found it fascinating that Spinoza was also a lens grinder, and his lenses were used in the best telescopes of his day. He was not only a rationalist (in theory), but also an empiricist (in practice). A man gotta eat!

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