Personal Thoughts

The sentence “Harrison is a student” uses “Harrison” as a proper noun referring to a specific person, while “student” is a general term categorizing individuals engaged in academic pursuits. According to Aristotle, proper nouns denote first substances, while general terms refer to second substances.

In Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Hegel paints a vision of love in two distinct phases, each unfolding with a deep shift in how we relate to another. The first phase awakens when one comes to realize that the desire to be self-sufficient is no longer enough.