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Aug 2021
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PREMIUM-Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Pa...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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Focusing on The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 2 "Perception."

Hegel's critique of the adequacy of perceptual knowledge has metaphysical aspects: The relation of substance to properties, properties to each other, and things to other things and to the perceiver all create difficulties that call for more active participation by the mind.

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