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Jesus Christ is God who died and rose again; Orthodoxy + Catholicism are the church that proclaims this mystery; Hegel is the theologian who comprehends it.
Oct 22, 2023 64 tweets 23 min read
ULTIMATE HEGELIAN READING LIST 🧵

The unbroken development of Western philosophy from Parmenides to Hegel in 63 essential books – with commentary. Image 1. Parmenides - On Nature

Philosophy begins with Parmenides. He raises the question of thinking and being, and formulates the principle of identity: "this shall never be proved, that the things that are not are.” Image
May 11, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The history of philosophy from Hegel to Žižek is a gradual decline of absolute science and a simultaneous triumph of liberalism, which is nihilism. Absolute is reduced to relative, autarchic to liberal, idea to being, duty to right, and spirit to psyche. 🧵[1/4] Image In the first stage (1832-1885), Hegel’s legacy divides into Right and Left Hegelians. The Left snuffs out the Right following the 1848 revolutions. In the next stage (1886-1914) Left Hegelianism is sublated in abstract liberalism (Russell, Nietzsche). [2/4]