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Thank you for the rec I'll check them out. It's true Schopenhauer didn't have as many students at his lectures because Hegel was a celebrity at the time. That doesn't take away from his criticisms I still think they stand.

I don't believe in bombastic word vomit, especially when that person deliberately chose to make his prose more incomprehensible.

Can anyone recommend a book that makes Hegel actually legible and not completely bonkers to extract what he's saying? I think it's possible he needs to be read in German. Reading and breaking down The Phenomenology of Spirit should be used as a torture method.

Here is just one random passage of The Phenomenology of Spirit, it's all like this:

The distinction which was made between actual Spirit and Spirit that knows itself as Spirit, or between itself, qua conscionsness, and qua self-consciousness, is superseded in the Spirit that knows itself in its truth; its consciousness and its self"con~sdousnessare on the same level. But, as religion here is, to begin with, immediate, this distinction has not yet returned into Spirit. What is posited is only the Notion of religion; in this the essence is self .. consciousness, which is conscious of being all truth and contains all reality within that truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer criticized Phenomenology of Spirit as being characteristic of the vacuous verbiage he attributed to Hegel: "I do not think that it is difficult to see that whoever puts forward anything like this is a shameless charlatan who wants to fool simpletons and observes that he has found his people in the Germans of the nineteenth century.