My Experience Reading Hegel
June 4, 2025•2,440 words
I don’t pretend to understand Hegel. I’ve read little of him and my understanding is tenuous. I haven’t even read any of the major canonical works of Hegel, like the Science of Logic and the Phenomenology of Spirit. I've read his early, unpublished works, the 1802 System der Sittlichkeit (System of Ethical Life) and the 1804–5 Jena System, alongside portions of some shorter works, such as “Who Thinks Abstractly?” and “The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate”. So what I am presenting here is a se...
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