Dear Master,
I would love to introduce what is Hegelian Understanding to you via this mail.
By doing this, I'm holding the expectation that I could gain more Understanding of myself and the relationship between you and me.
Yes, I confess, I'm trying to free myself from you, though I have already known it's almost impossible.
The process of getting Hegelian Understanding is,
I should say this after I reread his Phemenomeology of Mind in the coming winter break, a dialectic process.
We start from Sense-Certainty (thesis),
then we find the deceiveness of our sense-certainty,
and this is called Perception (antithesis).
Through this process,
we know the existence of the various properties of the object that we are observing,
and we recognize the limitation of our observation and the temporary conclusion we made from our observation, then we got an Understanding of this object (synthesis). This, is transcendence.
We transcend ourselves by getting more knowledge than before.
This process can be applied to the formation of Self Consciousness, too.
The master (thesis) thought he as the I is absolute, is the wholeness;
however, when encountering with the slave,
he finds that his identity needs the recognition from the slave (antithesis).
Thus he becomes unhappy, because he is not so free and indenpent as he has imagined
(Hegel called this "Unhappy Consciousness").
There were two approaches to resolve this Unhappy Consciousness in philosophical history---
1. Skepticism, means deny the world;
2. Stoicism, means withdrawal from reality and try to retain freedoms in mind
(there's a quote: Thought frees man, on the throne and in fetters.)
The Unhappy Consciousness, though unhappy, is the synthesis.
I would say it's transcendence as well for the master has known more about himself in the process.
I do not think I am playing the role of master
(well, for Hegel, individual is both master and slave, depends on the relationship).
But the relationship between us does force me to reflect myself.
I am not happy most of the time, as you can see.
You might probably not, either, because of me.
I knew I want a future.
I don't have a blueprint in mind as I said, but I want to set an "ought to be".
I want the future which could ensure my peacefulness.
And I wish I could always have the courage and confidence to pursue happiness.
It is probably a mission impossible for the kind of people who always think too much and deceive herself with lots of unsound theories.
You...I have never been so uncertain about my own decision,
but you ... I am afraid ... of being hurt.
My tolerance toward myself today could bring great disaster to me in the future.
But you may call it 'transcendence' of course.
Sometimes people have to grow up from disaster they cause to themselves, if they don't die in the end, and then they gain sublimation.
May Be.
Humbly Yours,
A
by 娵訾
(各位親愛的觀眾，我知道，大家應該多半會自動跳過這一篇。我會盡量找時間翻譯它，不好意思，也謝謝你們有把視窗拉到最下面。)
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