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    It is not the case that Philosophy must be a striving toward the Absolute rather than a completed system

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    • 1.Hegel's Phenomenology demonstrates that the Absolute realizes itself fully through determinate stages of Spirit's self-knowledge.
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    • 2.A philosophy that cannot achieve systematic completion fails to distinguish genuine knowledge from mere opinion or feeling.
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    • 3.The Romantic 'striving' collapses into Schlegel's irony, which Hegel diagnosed as subjective arbitrariness masquerading as profundity.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Spinoza's Ethics demonstrates that a completed geometric system can adequately express the One Substance without remainder.
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    • 2.If 'All is One,' then the Absolute's self-identity entails complete determinacy, making perpetual striving a contradiction of the first theorem itself.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Philosophy's first theorem is 'All is One and One is All'
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    • 2.Philosophy cannot systematically deduce all knowledge from the Absolute
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