Hegel, like Plato who he imitates, uses mystery pseudoscience as a carrier for what he teaches. While there is value in what he teaches, the criticism levied is on form and the subsequent use of that form for the great intellectual crimes of history before him in abrahamic cults and after him in the reformation into marxist cults.
Empiricism teaches testimony over analogy. It brings the court out of the courtroom. But at the high psychological cost of truth before face – and the disruption of our self-image and our status, the self-image and status of others, and the status and competence hierarchy. Thus creating a demand for trust and producing trust, only those people of martial and meritocratic loyalty can tolerate. So only the strong and trustworthy can testify, and the weak and untrustworthy resist.
Every culture has revolted against empiricism and its falsification over justification, reason over narrative, and systemizing over empathizing. Those revolts radiated from Britain just as agrarianism out of the Levant, and bronze out of Mesopotamia – causing disruption as they spread.
And within our Western culture, the revolt against empiricism continues. Because the desire for denial and evasion of reality is greater than the desire to produce trustworthiness and trust to defeat it by mastery of it, by mastery of its laws. We can sedate the weak, enslave the weak, enserf the weak, or end weakness. It’s just a matter of where we put the effort.
So the competition is between those who need not lie because they are in fact competent, and those who need lies because they are weak and incompetent , and those who would use lies to rally those who need lies, against those who are competent and capable of truth, reason, systemization, trustworthiness and trust.