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On beginning and end

• one absolute end: death
• the others: finite
• Each finite ends = finite beginnings
• but there are infinite finite ends
• And likewise, beginnings
• the end itself can be finite
• but not of its continuity, reproductivity.
• a beginning precedes an end
• An end follows a beginning
• and so on
• each end ‘ends’ on its partiality or polarity
• it reproduces via necessitation
• to exist, it must reproduce
• the necessitation of a single whole
• Each synthesis then ends on a higher level
• ie Hegel’s dialectics.
• So, if i take each end as not only a corresponding end within myself, but also a constitutive end, then I also hold within myself all the endless beginnings
• In this way, Hegel is very optimistic
• I am too

On Kant’s dualism

• Two worlds: the phenomenal and the noumenal
• But based on Hegel, I can abandon Kant’s noumenal world all together
• Yet, I can still respect Kant’s caution about direct knowledge of the noumenal world
• By establishing a real world (noumenal) and a world where things just exist in the way that they appear to us (phenomenal), I’ll just say that the phenomenal world itself is progressive, that it negates the inaccessible realm between the phenomenal and the noumenal, and that the phenomenal world itself improves. Namely, it always elevates towards a higher level, working towards an absolute state that unifies the subjective and objective realities. The phenomenal world then becomes a single whole, rather than established by two unbridgeable entities. Human knowledge does not revolve around a void. It is no longer self-defeating.