Hegel Animals

This is a little bit of a step back but going back to around page 67. Hegel has a brief talk about animals  in relation to perception. "Even the animals are not shut out from this wisdom but,on the contrary show themselves to be most profoundly initiated into it; for they do not just stand idly in front of sensuous things as if these possessed intrinsic being, but despairing f their reality, and completely assured of their nothingness, they fall to without ceremony and eat them up. And all Nature, like the animals, celebrates these open mysteries which teach the truth about sensuous things"(65). I find this interesting that nearly every other philosopher we had read did not look at animals through this lens. He adopts a more studious approach to animals than them being the source of your decision for food or hunt. Humanizing this creature to create this bond of experience and perception.