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View submission: What drives the dialectic: Hegel's transition from being to nothing
I think the claim that Hegel's philosophy is "presuppositionless" is dead wrong. I'll be publishing this portion of my dissertation in article form at some point, but that's the main one (currently teaching courses and about to have a child, so we will see if any research happens this summer, but presuming it does, the critique should be published sometime next year).
Houlgate also takes up Maker's claim that Hegel doesn't have a dialectical method (originally floated by Kaufman in the 1960's). I also think this is pretty easily contradicted by the text.
Besides those two claims, I don't think I really have any other problems with Houlgate--otherwise, he's generally the best commentator on Hegel that I've read.
Comment by bubibubibu at 05/02/2024 at 19:06 UTC
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Afaik Houlgate is defending that Hegel's dialectics cannot be universally applied; will look into Maker's claim.
Presuppositionless is something that drew me to Hegel at first (intro to phenomenology), so I still like to think that this is the "right" Hegel. In any case, the problem of the beginning is something that I will explore in either case.
Any good pointers on someone like me (phd in analytic philosophy) regarding approachhing Hegel?
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