person
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel
also: Гегель
The German idealist philosopher, invoked by Ananyev as shorthand for the difficult philosophical reading that a genuine old-age pessimist -- unlike a young "virtuoso" of borrowed gloom -- has actually worked through before arriving at despair.
Reading notes
- The Duel §750 Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, paired with Kant by von Koren as an example of philosophical fog to be avoided rather than embraced.
- Lights §175 all sorts of Hegels and Kants
Ananyev names Hegel alongside Kant (see also loc 40) as shorthand for the difficult systematic philosophy that a genuine old-age pessimist has actually studied and worked through, in his argument that age alone does not earn the right to despair -- only the "whole ladder" of hard-won philosophical and personal experience does.