Abstract
In my paper, I elaborate on an autopoietic image of Hegel's philosophy, according to which we or the Spirit as a legendary uroboros self-feed on the tail of our own failures in the more argumentative terms of epistemological fallibilism. Hegel, as I will claim, not only fits into the standard fallibilist picture, as is represented particularly by C.
S. Peirce and Ludwig Wittgenstein, but enriches it with what might be called a dramatic twist.
This twist is famously known from the dialectics of the master and slave parable, but the pattern pervades his whole philosophy, endowing it with a significant "dramatic" quality. Its main benefit is that it avoids the "positivist" reading of Hegel's negative epistemology, as adopted famously by Marx and Engels, in the direction of the difference between its allegorical and symbolic reading provided in the recent works of Roger Scruton.