Reviews for Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of A New Philosophy of Life (1912)

The average rating for Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of A New Philosophy of Life (1912) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-11 00:00:00 Shawn Brandstetter I first read The Phenomenology of Mind at seminary in a class taught by a visiting French-Swiss scholar, Henri Mottu. Much of the German philosophy of the period derived from Kant, representing various takes on the man's work, and Hegel's was, I thought, the most ambitious. While Kant's model was essentially static, Hegel's was dynamic, the dynamic being human history. While for Kant the Idea was approached, by never attained, primarily by epistemological considerations, for Hegel the approach was, as he represented it in this book, described by a constructive appropriation of the history of ideas. It was alluring indeed, my excitement being perhaps one of the last times I entertained the notion of progress so central to our culture. Of course, I was suspicious, suspicious that Hegel, like my younger self, simply bought into the assumption of progress and cherry picked his historical facts and trends to confirm it. That's why I bought and read Stace, the first real (I don't count Kojeve) commentator on Hegel that I was to study. Was I missing something? Could I be convinced? Well, I wasn't apparently and I couldn't. Still, Stace was excellently clear and concise. On reflection, I see a clear "progress" from Kant through Hegel to Marx. What Marx added was a socio-economic engine to drive history, replacing Hegel's idealistic teleology with a material etiology. Here the argument, based as it is on empirical facts, can be divorced from any a priori wishful thinking. One can be a Marxist in the sense of buying into Marx' hope in socialist revolution. One can also be a Marxist by simply buying into his method. I started reading Stace at a bowling alley in or near Stevensville, Michigan, accompanied by the equally studious Michael Miley. It was about a five mile walk along the lakefront and through the dunes and woods to that place from the cabin we were staying at--a good, thirsty walk. We'd drink beer silently, books before us in the virtually deserted bar area. By the second pitcher we'd start talking. By the third pitcher the books were forgotten, though what they were about might be the topic of our conversation. --Good memories, these.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-18 00:00:00 James Robertson این کتاب که فلسفه هگل رو با نظر به 'منطق' و 'دایره المعارف' شرح میده، شرح خیلی خوبی در میان شرح های فلسفه هگل نیست، ولی برای کسی که بالذات هگلیه واقعیت ذاتش رو آشکار می کنه: به بیان ساده، آدم با خوندنش می فهمه که هگلیه یا نه! همین که فهمید هگلیه باید این کتاب رو بذاره یه گوشه و بره سراغ شرح های بهتر یا اگه خیلی ذهن خفنی داشت بره سراغ خود هگل.