>>24783785
The big flaw in the Phenomenology of Spirit is that Hegel pretends to begin with the immediate but it is in fact a mediated abstraction. Thought and will are reciprocally determined in a finite ratoinal being, so simple sensation apart from determination by the will is an abstraction. Hegel wants to bracket off the will and desire and have them emerge from thought because the will, desire, are 'in' thought, thought is 'first'. But thought is absolutely 'in' the will as well and neither is really first. The book is not presuppositionless, on the contrary it begs all the major questions. This is why he thinks history can be determined, because this thinking even transcends the individual for him. But this is absurd logically and empirically. Fichte fundamentally saw further than Hegel, even if Hegel is more 'colorful' and fun. And Aristotle saw rationality as our essence but he would never have treated thinking the way that Hegel did, his view is holistic like Fichte's.
>>24810833
You're beginning to frighten me.