Plato Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 Does anyone know anything about Hegelian Dialectics? I was discussing the idea of reason, and it came up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowzer Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 Does anyone know anything about Hegelian Dialectics? I was discussing the idea of reason, and it came up... Yes, it's a form of intellectual schizophrenia that has nothing to do with reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoyd Loki Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 If I remember correctly the Hegalian dialectic goes in triads of thesis, antithesis, synthysis. Hegel starts his philosophy like this in this fashion: Being(thesis), Non-Being (antithesis), Becoming (synthesis). By this means he acheives in dumber, more tortured form, the conclusion that Heraclitus did over two thousand years before him. It is purely a rationalistic construct that ends with him saying that the purpose of the universe is to discover his philosophy, and that what you want (even though you don't know it) is to be a slave to the almighty state. He applied this all across the board and applied it to history, the form of which was taken up by Karl Marx. And if you want to reach existentialism by the Hegalian route just get rid of the thesis in that triad up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoyd Loki Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 I'll add that even if I answered with twenty pages of description on this, Bowzer's answer is much more concise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Areactor Posted December 6, 2004 Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 (edited) I still don't understand Hegel's reasoning even though I've spent two months trying too. No f*ckin kiddin!! Edited December 8, 2004 by Capitalism Forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AisA Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Somewhere Ayn Rand wrote that thousands and thousands of people have looked at every word on every page written by Hegel, but no one has ever read him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSabbath Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Hegelian Dialectics is an excuse to talk contradictory rubbish and reverse the meaning of words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyAttis Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 I don't see the reason for Hegel's dialetics. I mean there are more leaner ways to form argumentations. o_O -- Bridget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capitalism Forever Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 I still don't understand Hegel's reasoning even though I've spent two months trying too. The explanation is simple: He didn't reason! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 I don't see the reason for Hegel's dialetics. I mean there are more leaner ways to form argumentations. o_O -- Bridget You're giving him too much credit by assuming that his goal was to create an argument and not a load of gibberish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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