Alexander Krebs

Weniger als nichts?

Spencer-Brown: "distinction is perfect containance" – adding to this that subjectivity is perfect containance as well.

That is If reason is a resonance, a spirit of recognition, which requires two sides. Reason lacking world lacks itself, a world without reason equally so, as it is without order or life, for the spirit invigorates it and has the concept, that is development.

Conversely: If the gaze of reason is only on itself, then the world equally lacks reason. And such reason that remains in total tautology equally lacks itself.

self-consciousness is not the problem, rather the lack of it but understood as objective self, the self of substance. Problematic is vanity, to enclose into ones particularity when facing an unruly world. There is as much reason in the world, as reason sees the world.

: das Feuer, welches, indem es brennt und tut, was Feuer so tut, ebenso die Bedingung dieses Tuns, sein Materiel, verzehrt. Alles besteht und vergeht in demselben Puls.

In einem Zusatz zur Enzyklopädie findet sich die deutlichste Erklärung des Widerspruchs am Beispiel des Feuers: ein Ding, das durch das Tun, welches sein Sein konstituiert, die Grundlage dieses Seins ebenso zunichte macht.

Hegel beweist an unerwarteten Stellen höchste poetische Begabung (kann man leider nicht von seinen frühen Gedichten an Hölderlin sagen)!

To hang in a room?