Having some free time this evening, I took the opportunity to begin reading Charles Taylor’s Hegel. I found his set up of Hegel’s context immensely interesting—especially as a coherent jumping-off point for further thought. Taylor asserts that Hegel’s whole philosophy is—put most economically—a vast attempt to solve a problem of “the nature of human subjectivity [...]
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