No.733
Can anyone explain to me this specific part of Hegel´s The Phenomenology of Spirit:
“we find that neither the one nor the other is only immediately present in sense-certainty, but each is at the same time mediated” (Hegel 1977, 59)
Im stuck on a article and coudn´t figure this part out. Hegel is to much a obscure motherfucker.
Thank you.
No.737
>With Hegel, the immediacy of the subject-object relation itself is shown to be illusory. As he states in The Phenomenology of Spirit, “we find that neither the one nor the other is only immediately present in sense-certainty, but each is at the same time mediated” , because subject and object are both instances of a “this” and a “now,” neither of which are immediately sensed. So-called immediate perception therefore lacks the certainty of immediacy itself, a certainty that must be deferred to the working out of a complete system of experience.
Took me a minute to find a result. I have an actual commentary on Hegel, but it was taking me more than 5 minutes to find what paragraph your quote is from so i gave up.
This isn't even the densest of Hegel, it's not obscurantist in the slightest. You're just ignorant of the entire text before it.
No.738
>>737I´velooked through SEP too, if i didn´t i wouldn´t have asked.
And yes, im quite ignorant, but i coudn´t get this specific part.
Thanks for your input, but youa re not helpful.
No.739
>>738How are you not getting the clarification given? It's reffering to the problem of empiricism assuming a priori the existence of subjects and objects as distinct ontological entities. Empiricism cannot account for this assumption within its own epistemology.