← Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit (via the translation of A.V. Miller), seeking sense, but also a way of extracting and explaining that sense into writing. In this entry I am planning an adjusted approach to this problem: I plan to extract the major concepts as I find them, and allow an explanation to develop organically around them, hopefully, as they are collected. What I want to avoid is...
Reading Hegel [part 2] on “Desire”
← As consciousness proceeds into self-consciousness, it is forced into contact with another ego. The mediation of this contact is apparently necessary. Something to do with infinity and dynamic unities and the law of inversion and life. I am not convinced. For the in-itself, or the universal result of the relation of the Understanding to the inwardness of things, is the distinguishing of what is...
Reading Hegel on “Sense-Certainty”
Editorial notes: In September 2014, Shai publishes his fifth blog entitled “M-III” (short for Meantime-III) and subtitled “The Traveller is the Journey” (not to be confused with a later blog entitled “The Traveller is the Journey”, published in 2015). In the ‘About’ page of the blog, Shai shares his observations on his place in the world: “So far most I can tell is that this...