Sans the extra comment about being “secured by a relation to law,” I’ve come to a similar conclusion, but by way of Kierkegaard, his “leap of faith,” and what he has to say about Socrates and skepticism.

My more general thought is that freedom of the sort Hegel gets us to think about is the free determination of thought and being, and the problem of skepticism has been trying to ground truth in terms of this dualism, when in fact, I think, it’s to be found in its absence. That is to say, the absence of a theoretical pre-supposition like that is action itself. Similarly, Hegel’s problem is, as I put it in my new post today, that he doesn’t take himself seriously enough when he tries to ground the truth of his system in logical, historical necessity rather than the creative coherence of the text itself.