Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel

submitted by Big to philosophy 33 points | 8 comments And boy howdy does my head hurt. I’m almost through the preface, and i have NO clue what he’s talking about. So far, the only thing I’ve gotten is something about how a result is determined by the path that lead to it, and that a negation is not a destruction of something but just a further step forward. But I have no fucking clue about his other concepts like Notion, Subjective/Objective, what he means by Science or how to piece it all together. It really feels like walking in, mid conversation, in a foreign language. Is the rest of the book easier to read, or should I just call it quits here? I just wanted to better understand dialectics lmao