FAQs*

  1. Why are Hegelian texts so difficult to read?
  2. Which other texts by Hegel are there, which are the best places to start – and how long will it take me to finish reading Hegel?
  3. For whom was Hegel relevant?
  4. Why is Hegel still relevant today?
  5. What does Hegel understand by truth?
  6. How can “the substance” also be thought of “as a subject”?
  7. How does Hegel justify his statements?
  8. Is Hegel’s philosophy a “philosophy of identity”?
  9. Is Hegel’s philosophy “philosophy of mind/spirit/Geist”?
  10. Is dialectics real or just a method of presentation?
  11. Are the moments of a dialectical movement – dualistically – opposed to each other?
  12. Is Hegel’s “speculative reason” a higher, even mystical faculty?
  13. Is Hegel’s “reason” that of the solitary thinker?
  14. Has Hegel become superfluous through hermeneutics?
  15. What role does “difference” play in Hegel?
  16. Is Hegel’s system hierarchical?
  17. How does Hegel feel about empiricism?
  18. Is the will really free, especially if it is supposed to be rational?
  19. What conceptual development precedes the philosophy of law?
  20. Is Hegel an apologist for the “total state”?
  21. Do we still think like that today?
  22. Didn’t Hegel simply misunderstand the meaning of the copula?
  23. Does Hegel underestimate the inherent dynamics/autonomy of the individual areas?
  24. Is Hegel’s history man-made – or deterministic?
  25. Isn’t everything in reality unconscious, unreasonable drive?
  26. Hasn’t Marx finally turned Hegel on his head?
  27. I am a pragmatist. Why do I need Hegel?
  28. I am a nihilist. Can I ignore Hegel?

*Not always with answers (yet), but looking for them…

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