Quotes About Hegel

For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other

As Hegel defines it: Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us. ... Reason is the negation of the negative. ... Reason, and Reason alone, contains its own corrective.

Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For

La tradición angloamericana se vio a sí misma como un paladín del proyecto de la Ilustración. Se alió con la ciencia, con el rigor, con la razón y con la objetividad, y rechazó con desprecio los extravíos especulativos de Hegel y los enredos de Kierkegaard. Estaba profundamente impregnada por la ciencia y la veía como la alternativa a la ahora desacreditada filosofía religiosa y especulativa.

Afortunadamente, como aprendimos de Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard y Nietzsche, esta contradicción y este conflicto son una señal más de que la lógica y la razón son impotentes.

In the Logic, Hegel states that this 'unity' of thought and being constitutes the 'element' or 'principle' of logic.7 Logic thus starts from the idea that being is known by pure thought to be intelligible to pure thought.

In Hegel's view, Kant is the father of the critical era in philosophy to which we all now belong. He contends, however, that Kant himself did not carry out a sufficiently profound critique of the categories. What Kant did, in Hegel's view, was – mistakenly – restrict their range of validity: he argued that they should be employed to understand only possible objects of experience, but not things 'in themselves'.

In Hegel's view, an uncritical, or inadequately critical, approach to the categories takes a certain understanding of them on authority – be it the authority of past philosophers, tradition, common sense or formal logic.

For Hegel, therefore, all truly critical philosophy in the wake of Kant is governed by the following imperative: all 'presuppositions or assumptions must equally be given up when we enter into science'. Science – that is to say, philosophy – should thus be 'preceded by universal doubt, i.e.,

Whereas Spinoza begins with contestable definitions of substance, attribute and mode, Hegel begins with the utterly indeterminate thought of pure 'being'.

Truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

The prophetic element in Marx's creed was dominant in the minds of his followers. It swept everything else aside, banishing the power of cool and critical judgement and destroying the belief that by the use of reason we may change the world. All that remained of Marx's teaching was the oracular philosophy of Hegel, which in its Marxist trappings threatens to paralyse the struggle for the open society.

If sharing meant receiving, well and good, but if it was a question of giving, then to hell with it, the Clochemerlins would cry out in chorus. Sad to relate, these bumpkins knew nothing about Hegel or Marx. They each had their little patch of ground inherited from previous generations, their trade secrets handed down from father to son, and they could see no farther.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

It is hard to resist discussion of artificial history without a comment on the father of all pseudothinkers, Hegel. Hegel writes a jargon that is meaningless outside of a chic Left Bank Parisian café or the humanities department of some university extremely well insulated from the real world.

Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

According to Hegel, the slave fully acknowledges the self-consciousness of the master and she dissolves herself or upholds herself as their relationship dictates and evolves to the struggle unto death. Although this struggle is a failure, according to Hegel, if someone actually dies.

Hegel said that history was the story of freedom becoming conscious of itself.

es cierto que, como decía Hegel, la lectura de los periódicos es la oración de la mañana del hombre moderno.

Hegel, marele mag din Suabia, a implinit minunea pe care nici un Merlin n-o încercase vreodata,a f?cut s? devin? real? marea aspiratie a romanticilor. Novalis visa o poezie care s? nu spun? nimic;- Hegel a construit o întreag? filozofie care nu semnific? nimic.

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

If in keeping with Hegel's insight all feeling related to an aesthetic object has an accidental aspect, usually that of psychological projection, then what the work demands from its beholder is knowledge, and indeed, knowledge that does justice to it: The work wants its truth and untruth to be grasped.

In the summer of 1913, Kafka bangs endlessly on about 'necessity,' that favorite concept of every German since Hegel who ever planned to do something morally dubious.