In this episode, I explain Hegel's criticisms of Kant philosophical efforts and their shortcoming in accounting for the actual operation of the faculties of understanding and reason in the world, in The Phenomenology of Spirit.
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PREMIUM-Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part Two)
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78: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic
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