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I've sketched out my likely unlikeable ideas about politics and religion. The infinite is the negation of the finit. It is nothing positive or hidden,...

I don't side with Popper against Hegel. But I'm stressing that Hegel may not have the same relevance or plausibility with respect to the entirety of h...

That is certainly one and perhaps the dominant version of the Christian message. But I don't find it plausible or desirable. Here is an example of Heg...

Well, yeah, that's what JC is or was or rather am alluding to blasphemously. On the other issue: The world is going to Hell. The world is perfect. Thi...

I've decided to embrace the term theology for what I'm interested in. Yes, it is religion. I am some kind of unorthodox Christian. One of the reasons ...

You forget perhaps that I'm creatively misreading Hegel with my eyes wide open. I can't drag all of his glorious system into the 21st century. What I ...

As I understand it, all the petty or "finite" aspects of the self have to be burned away to reveal the I in its purity. The self has to raise itself u...

I still like the software metaphor. Our personalities evolve and (if we're lucky) we attain a state of equilibrium or general satisfaction. We have ar...

Some may find this interesting.

This is roughly how I see things. Of course we assimilate messages from various authorities in order to construct our selves in the first place, so I ...

Hi, John. I was trying to characterize what I see as an obstacle to freedom, which I might call an idolatry of Authority. On my own journey toward an ...

Here's a crucial passage: Does Hegel successfully transcend or obliterate this view?

Bingo. Exactly. Well said. He can be an obnoxious thumb in the eye, but he's thought provoking. With Nietzsche we wade in deeper, hopefully to come ou...

Here's a little creative misreading of Games People Play. The three ego positions are adult, parent, and child. The adult seeks to communicate or tran...

Of course I already know that we disagree here. Still, the contempt you show for the idea does itself seem like an expression of egoism. We identify w...

One more quote, the kind that some will find offensive. My theory is just about everyone who might show up here feels that they are "on a height." Wha...

Here's a passage that's aged well for me. I relate to his desire to not be sentimental He chose the word that hurt the most. We can mock his excesses,...

Of course. They are what some hypotheses are about. Jung's, for instance, which I do indeed find plausible. His passages on Christ in the Antichrist a...

A few more quote from this fascinating text: https://circulosemiotico.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/themasksofgodprimitivemythologycampbell.pdf This "su...

I would sharpen "purely material" into political concerns. My tendency to emphasize the subjective pole of spiritual thought is related to a giving up...

Did you read the quotes closely? Fichte the theorist of the act was opposed to Fichte the metaphysician. Just to be clear, I'm not saying "Fichte is r...

Wayfarer, what I have in mind is a post-metaphysical appropriation of Fichte. I don't "believe" in the possibility of metaphysics in some absolute of ...

I found a nice summary of his views in one of his lectures.

Here are some quote from The Vocation of Man, in which a different side of Fichte appears. It might be accused of naked irrationalism. His desire for ...

Those are good questions. For context, I view Fichte as an absolute poet who insists that he's doing absolute science. He is the diamond of "I theory"...