我的奮鬥

Unfortunately, again, this poem is not mine.

Somebody asked me: Why history of philosophy? Having rattled on without a definite answer, now I am able to reply:

Maybe the only way for our trivial and pathetic selves to reach greatness is to describe those great things. From a Hegelian point of view, great things are nothing more than The Great Spirit. And the greatness of the Spirit as such consists simply in that it always anticipates your ways of seeing it and turns to gaze upon you. It obliges you to see, to respond, and to confront that gaze by imagining how you yourself are seen, and thus makes you identical with it. That is how we become great. And that is why we should realize ourselves into great mind such as Rembrandt’s, as described by poets for us to understand.