Maybe. One problem with this is that there is some percentage of voters who voted for Obama who voted for Trump because they wanted change. Until they...
14: This paragraph ends with a rather surprising statement given what was said above in paragraph 11 about: Here he speaks of: How are these to be rec...
I agree with the first part of this but not the second. I do not know what the best strategy is to defeat Trump, but I don't think ignoring what he sa...
It is not a question of a new science of teleology, but of the movement of spirit from consciousness to self-consciousness, which is the movement of t...
Hegel has not given us any examples. The rise of modern science was revolutionary and among other things established the authority of the individual b...
From the Greeks to Hegel. It is not always clear what one means when they use the term. For Darwin the process is not predetermined, but for Hegel it ...
But the extent to which you allow this to happen is determined by you. Right, some form or shape or of yourself as you are and as are are to be. But o...
In #11 he says that the process is interrupted. And in #12 that the beginning of a new spirit is the outcome of a widespread revolution. Hegel died be...
Okay, thanks. I think it may be more accurate to say that completeness is not implied in the German term begreiflich, but completeness is certainly ce...
It is not clear if they thought such a thing unnecessary given the belief that the kingdom of God/Heaven is at hand. Apparently some took this to mean...
This assumes that there will be anyone around to remember. And this is not too far off topic since Trump's indifference to the environment may be an e...
Somewhere Nietzsche uses the analogy of the art of the sculpturer who unlike the painter who adds to a blank canvas, removes all that is extraneous, s...
And yet we really do not know what Jesus had to say. All we have is what others had to say about what Jesus had to say. Much of Christianity is not ab...
12: As the oak is in the acorn, the man is in the child, but it its immediacy, that is, at this moment it has not actualized itself. Just as each stag...
You need to read this in context. God does not need humans to make sacrifice. It has nothing to do with veganism. Prior to the Flood the eating of mea...
I'd like to make two points on this. First with regard to Article V of the Constitution which allows for both an amendment process and perhaps more im...
The question is, what is the core system? If he or others had their way and dismantled the administrative state what would be left? Could the governme...
Precisely where is his success? What has he done? In a growing economy there is a growing need for employees (or at least that is still the case for n...
The two are related. Those who think that minimal government is optimal then if much of the government as it stands today no longer endured, so much t...
And what specifically has Trump done to improve the unemployment rate for minorities? The fact is that those rates have been falling long before Trump...
Whether these things are seen as underlying flaws or opportunities to be exploited depends on where you stand on the role of government. Trump has mad...
Trump inherited a growing economy. And yet, in typical fashion, he took credit even before he was sworn in. The unemployment numbers do not tell the w...
The problem with this question is a world without mind or consciousness would be a world in which you did not have mind or consciousness, in which cas...
Yes. But one point I was trying to make is that from a historical perspective, and this means the working out of self-consciousness, we should not jus...
10: Hegel is not entirely unsympathetic to the impulse of those he is criticizing. The impulse is to seek the infinite and divine and stems from spiri...
I think the offspring is philosophy. It is of you but other than you. Plato's "child" has gained a sort of immortality. Philosophy is both the desire ...
I think that in one sense this is right, knowledge of ignorance is a between. Socrates claims that he possesses "human wisdom", by which he means he s...
With regard to philosophy as the love of wisdom, Plato's Symposium is most instructive. The topic of discussion is Eros, the god of desire. Socrates s...
What is, what was, and what will be are not determined by what we can comprehend about what is, was, and will be. This is a simple truth that is too o...
That is, for ecstasy, elevation, "insight as edification". As if people : Their eyes must be directed to the stars, to what is higher, to the divine. ...
Thanks. That clearly states what has been at issue a a couple of recent discussions here. As well, of course, within the philosophical community at la...
To edify is to instruct, to lift up or improve in a moral or spiritual sense. Etymologically, to build up. From #8: More on #8 to follow but note the ...
Clearly the only sensible answer is, as @"Tzeentch", would have it, to lock your doors and pretend that it is still 1919. But of course we can no long...
A good example in that with both we know that they work but not how the work. Actually, I think the contemporary fashion, at least in some quarters, f...
I would say that we do know first hand what consciousness is, although we cannot explain how it came to be, or, as some would argue, that it came to b...
I was just reading a bit about this. Sounds interesting. From the little I read about the book, and not the book itself, would it be correct to say th...
And do you regard your countrymen like family? By this I mean not simply as a matter of drawing lines between "us and them" but as you treat members o...
Given that the movement of history is central to Hegel's system, Plato is not to be understood as a static moment in the past of that history but as p...
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