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- The romantic ideal of excellence, of unity with oneself, consists of three basic components:
- totality: that a person should develop all his or her characteristic human powers.
- unity: that these powers be formed into a whole or unity.
- individuality: that this whole or unity should be individual or unique, characteristic of this person alone.
- The world as the organic unity. “I desire fullness.”
- “the shape of consciousness” shifts across the history.
- “immediate knowledge is privileged against mediated knowledge”
- “perception is the gathering of sense certainties into a coherent whole.”
- “the particular comes first in existence and the universal comes first in explanation.”
- “the substance of the universe intrudes and pushes on the edges of our ideas → dialectical movement
- The negative is that which is different from, opposed to, other than.
- Hegel’s thought characteristically observes the dialectical sequence: affirmation → negation → negation of negation (affirmation of something new)
- “desire is the negative force by which the self seeks to cancel the otherness of the external world in order to affirm itself as absolute.”