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Musings on Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History

posted by [personal profile] caramida at 08:59pm on 03/09/2008 under , , , , ,
First, I need to make some space, so that the bullets don't get eaten by my icon.

I think it's a failing of this particular theme.

Mayhaps I shall have to change the theme sometime. Here goes....

Hegel says these three things in order (paraphrased):

  • In order to study world history philosophically, we must first ensure that we avoid any a priori assumptions about the nature of the world, or the nature of history, as historians are wont to do.

  • There is a singular spirit that guides and shapes the history of the world that can be rationally understood through studious applications.

  • This singular spirit is guided by divine providence, because the Bible tells us so.

Wait Georg, you had me with the first one, but then I lost you when you drove off the rails.
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posted by [identity profile] bodelian.livejournal.com at 04:20am on 04/09/2008
We Episcopalians (and worldwide Anglican Communion) call this "divine reason" (in reference to that last one). It basically says that God gives us the ability to reason with the added bonus of additional leaps of insight and understanding provided by that divine spark within all of us. We no longer believe in Predestination, thank goodness.

It is like God tapping you on the shoulder and saying, "Hey, what about that over there?" and then lets you work out how it all fits together.

Of course, this whole idea starts with a belief in a Creator of the Universe of some sort, which I know not everyone shares.
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posted by [identity profile] caramida.livejournal.com at 05:31am on 04/09/2008
I was just amused by Hegel's dismissal of the a priori before he goes on to decide that well, of course we have to start with a belief in God.
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posted by [identity profile] tone-milazzo.livejournal.com at 05:22am on 04/09/2008
>First, I need to make some space, so that the bullets don't get eaten by my icon.

I have that problem too, what I do is put a single cell table around my list.

If you don't know what that is I can elaborate.
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posted by [identity profile] caramida.livejournal.com at 12:33pm on 04/09/2008
please do.
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posted by [identity profile] tone-milazzo.livejournal.com at 02:31pm on 04/09/2008

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posted by [identity profile] darkforge.livejournal.com at 03:53pm on 04/09/2008
It gets even better. Hegel's big idea is historical relativism. As you know, Bob, historical relativism is objectively correct because God says so!
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Ah, found it

posted by [identity profile] darkforge.livejournal.com at 03:58pm on 04/09/2008
"If Hegel had written the whole of his logic and then said, in the preface or some other place, that it was merely a thought experiment in which he had even begged the question in many places, then he would certainly have been the greatest thinker who had ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic." -- Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals, 1844)
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