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Be well, and I hope you love the show today.
So in the off chance,
the last few episodes of the show have seemed sort of like a departure from what we typically do on the show.
Well, you're probably right.
It has been a departure.
And whether this was a welcome departure or an unwelcome departure really comes down to what you want out of this show in the first place.
You know, for the longest time, we've been talking about a single section of a single philosopher's work.
All of a sudden, out of the blue, we're talking about things like veganism, insecurity, moodiness, what gives.
And although there's no doubt relevance between that stuff and what we're going to be talking about today,
I just want you to know,
gotta be honest with you, if it seems like I've been stalling, it's because I have been stalling.
Look, I feel an obligation to these thinkers to do their work justice.
I don't want to just give some biased cursory overview of a cause that these people committed their entire lives to,
I respect them.
Point is, I respect Hegel.
And as I said at the beginning of our Hegel episodes, he's notoriously considered one of the most,
if not the most, let's be honest, he's the most difficult read in all of philosophy.
That difficulty extends to yours truly, as I'm doing the research for this show.