great conversation. i look forward to listening to more. i read hegel's philosophy of history a year or so ago. it is worth noting that hegel's criticisms of his various targetsーChinese civilization/thought/politics, roman Catholicism, eastern orthodox Christianity, etc.ーare all basically the same points, viz., a lack of inwardness, lack of subjectivity, insufficient development of rational subjective freedom first birthed by the sophists/seven sages, etc. In short, he uses his targets as a kind of straw-man punching-bag to articulate his own Luther-inspired philosophy.
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Interesting point! We'll keep it in the back of our minds as we progress. With regards to China, you're right, but with India it looks as if his concern is that there is too much subjectivity, that an overflowing of subjectivity renders objectivity null. It will be interesting to see how similar Hegel's arguments against Roman Catholicism, to take one of your examples, are to his criticisms of ancient China.
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