our object cannot be anything else but immediate
knowledge itself, a knowledge of the immediate or of what simply
is. Our approach to the object must also be immediate or receptive;
we must alter nothing in the object as it presents itself. In apprehending
it, we must refrain from trying to comprehend it.”
‘The knowledge’, what does it mean?
It is a memory of the past created with the help of your perception. Your perception is nothing but a tip of an accumulated knowledge. Hegel starts to differentiate the knowledge and the knowing. Knowing means alive. Knowing means it’s a process. Knowledge means the past or dead end. Knowing goes on altering your experience of the truth of the world.
Now Hegel’s
“The knowledge or knowing which at the start”
Hegel is trying to say is the beginning of the beginning of your knowledge. The moment you see a thing, the first impression or vision of the object to you where your mind never played any role to bring its perception to define or interpret the object. The first catching of the object without your mind without falling into your memory via perception.
“Our object cannot be anything else but immediate
knowledge itself,”
The moment you see a thing. the moment your eye falls on the thing, it gives birth to a subject and object which he calls it ‘I’ and ‘this’.
the moment you see the thing become your object and the object immediately falls into a memory as knowledge. This knowledge is very pure because it did not carry any perception to it. .
“a knowledge of the immediate or of what simply
is.”
The unknowable thing has now become knowable and you are never going to show surprise when you see it the next time because that ‘thing’ image already in your mind as knowledge without any specification. In simple,the first recording of the event in the mind about the object without any description of the mind
“Our approach to the object must also be immediate or receptive;
we must alter nothing in the object as it presents itself.”
The process should be immediate, it has been sent to your memory without any details of adding or reducing. It has to be immediate without any perception of your mind or
Receptive is more like accepting totally without any conditioning of your past knowledge.
“In apprehending
it, we must refrain from trying to comprehend it.”
While you see the object, you just take it as it is. And not to understand it. Just take it to your knowledge without interpreting it. Don’t add or subtract and don’t do anything.