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Hegel is a hack and doesn’t deserve to be cited here. Consider that he’s really only famous because his class motivated a bunch of other philosophers (the young Hegelian's, Marx, Stirner, Bruno Bauer et al) to meet in wine bars after class to complain about how terrible/impossible to understand his philosophy is.

Anyone whose even tried to read stuff of his I.e the phenomenology of spirit will tell you that he’s a charlatan and hack, and the people who constantly cite him (I.e Zizek, Lacan, Foucault) are also hacks.



Hey, can't a blind pig find an acorn? Is it less of an acorn because it was found by a pig?

Myself, I appreciate Schopenhauer a lot more, and we know what he thought of Hegel, but I'm not fanatical about it. If a hack hits on a good line, I'll nab it.




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