RE: Birds that didn't learn how to fly
Today, I am feeling very negative. Tomorrow, my comment might be milder, or I might contribute some of my own abstract thoughts. Today, I am pessimistic:
Take Hegel for example, his texts, as we all know, are very dense.
I laugh sadly. I think few people here on Steem know Hegel. Even fewer have read anything by him. Hardly anyone here can judge whether his texts are dense or vague or even nonsensical. Your phrase ‘... as we all know’ is an attempt to ignore the fact that you may be surrounded by simple minds.
We've all probably seen that in others or perhaps in ourselves how we quickly dismiss obscurity, as if shunning it were absolutely necessary.
No. We avoid clarity. Like the plague! We can't stand it anymore. Everything has to be smoothed over and disguised somehow, otherwise the simple minds will end up collapsing...
If all of this is deleted tomorrow, I'll probably look back and think it was a bit uncool ;-))
Hehe. I love the pessimistic raven...
That's sad. He's one of the greats, though not in prose but ideas. Maybe...maybe I just like to gently elevate the general discourse on Steem.
True, but I don’t think it matters much, since most of my readers are Germans anyway…
I 50% agree, but the same goes for 'thinking' ;-)
Okay, you didn't hold it against me. Thank you. Hegel is controversial; some of his ideas were fresh and provocative, but in other areas I prefer to distance myself. Examples: his understanding of logic is impressive. His theories about the soul, on the other hand, I find... absurd. Would it upset you greatly to hear that very few Germans know Hegel?
It would very much so...
I find my mind not very receptive to his theories on spirit, reason, consciousness, etc. - most probably because I've already found my truth about them in other ways - not necessarily through systematic, elaborate reasoning or thinking, but through something personal, intangible yet lived, say... faith. But I greatly admire his logical approach when applied to other matters. I mean, we see how Marx utilised him. I'm only reading him because I'm trying to understand Marx better... Or so I hoped :-)
Good approach. Please don't neglect to read Engels as well as Marx; I find his ideas more appealing, for example, because they are more realistic and honest.
Oh. Thanks for bringing him up. I never would have thought to read his individual works beyond what he co-authored with Marx. Is he not particularly well-known among Germans as well? :-)