Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ex Wiki
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770
– 1831) was a
German
philosopher, one of the creators of
German Idealism. His
historicist and idealist account of the total reality as a whole
revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to
continental philosophy and
Marxism.............
Twentieth-century interpretations of Hegel were mostly shaped by British Idealism, logical positivism, Marxism, and Fascism. The Italian Fascist Giovanni Gentile, according to Benedetto Croce, "...holds the honour of having been the most rigorous neo-Hegelian in the entire history of Western philosophy and the dishonour of having been the official philosopher of Fascism in Italy." However, since the fall of the USSR, a new wave of Hegel scholarship arose in the West, without the preconceptions of the prior schools of thought.
In previous modern accounts of Hegelianism (to
undergraduate classes, for example), especially those formed prior to the Hegel
renaissance, Hegel's dialectic was most often characterized as a three-step
process, "thesis,
antithesis, synthesis"; namely, that a "thesis" (e.g. the
French Revolution) would cause the creation of its "antithesis"
(e.g. the Reign of Terror that followed), and would eventually result in a
"synthesis" (e.g. the Constitutional state of free citizens). However, Hegel
used this classification only once, and he attributed the terminology to
Immanuel Kant. The terminology was largely developed earlier by
Johann Fichte. It was spread by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus in a popular
account of Hegelian philosophy, and since then the misfit terms have stuck[citation
needed]. What is wrong with the "thesis-antithesis-synthesis"
approach is that it gives the sense that things or ideas are contradicted or
opposed by things that come from outside them. To the contrary, the fundamental
notion of Hegel's dialectic is that things or ideas have internal
contradictions. From Hegel's point of view, analysis or comprehension of a thing
or idea reveals that underneath its apparently simple identity or unity is an
underlying inner contradiction. This contradiction leads to the dissolution of
the thing or idea in the simple form in which it presented itself and to a
higher-level, more complex thing or idea that more adequately incorporates the
contradiction. The triadic form that appears in many places in Hegel (e.g.
being-nothingness-becoming, immediate-mediate-concrete,
abstract-negative-concrete) is about this movement from inner contradiction to
higher-level integration or unification..
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He is a dismal rogue. Fathering Marxism &
Nazism is a rather special double, not one to be proud of. But
then the man was a Hun. The Wiki is being evasive about his views
Master - Slave Dialectic ex Wiki
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The
Master-Slave
Dialectic (Herrschaft und Knechtschaft in
German; also translated Lordship and Bondage) is a famous passage of
Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit. It is widely considered a key element in Hegel's
philosophical system, and has heavily influenced many subsequent
philosophers [ such as
Marx ]. It describes, in narrative form, the encounter between two
self-conscious beings, who engage in a "struggle to the death" before one
enslaves the other, only to find that this does not give him the control over
the world he had sought.
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This is obscurantist drivel. It is more
or less what the Nazis were talking about with Übermenschen
[ supermen and Untermenschen
and [ subhumans ]. Of course it is also what
Zionist Thugs practice in Israel.
