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The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.

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Frederick C. Beiser

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

Fundamental, Fundamentals, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Plain, Thinking
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The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i. e. , that we know nothing more than our own representations.

Attempt, Idealism, Nihilism, Nothing, Struggle, Subjectivism

The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.

German, Mendelssohn, Philosophy, Problem, Way, Years

Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i. e. , god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the universe as a whole, i. e, god. You cannot get more metaphysical than that. I think that Hegel scholars have to admit this basic fact rather than burying their heads in the sand and trying to pretend that Hegel is concerned with conceptual analysis, category theory, normativity or some such contemporary fad.

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All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

Giving, Historical, Lost, Meaning, Terms

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

Absolute, British, Conviction, Germans, People, Religious
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