Hegel camp claims its first victim: a week on a farm yielded a claimed breakthrough on the Doctrine of Essence
gleech · x · 2026-11-12
The rationalist community's group-reading "Hegel camp" claims another reader: Peter McLaughlin recounts spending a week reading Hegel's Science of Logic with friends on a remote farm, taught by Pete Wolfendale and Nicky Brignell and organized by Gavin Leech. After repeatedly stalling at the same spot in the Doctrine of Essence, a single line highlighted by fellow reader mesityl triggered what he describes as a breakthrough understanding of "Essence as Reflection Within." He also offers a useful framing: by the start of the Doctrine of Essence, Hegel's argument has roughly reached Kant — and this section is where Hegel genuinely overtakes him.
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