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The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)
Hegel … proceeds abstractly from the pre-existence of the intellect. … He does not appeal to the intellect within us.
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)
Demonstrating is therefore only the means through which I strip my thought of the form of “mine-ness” so that the other person may recognize it as his own.
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)
All presentation, all demonstration—and the presentation of thought is demonstration—has, according to its original determination—and this is all that matters to us—the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)
Every presentation of philosophy, whether oral or written, is to be taken and can only be taken in the sense of a means. Every system is only an expression or image of reason, and hence only an object of reason, an object which reason—a living power that procreates itself in new thinking beings—distinguishes from itself and posits as an object of criticism. Every system that is not recognized and appropriated as just a means, limits and warps the mind for it sets up the indirect and formal thought in the place of the direct, original and material thought.
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)
Hegel determines and presents only the most striking differences of various religions, philosophies, time and peoples, and in a progressive series of stages, but he ignores all that is common and identical in all of them. … His system knows only subordination and succession; coordination and coexistence are unknown to it.
Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)