What do you know about Hegel?

[Divine Power]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. His work shaped major intellectual traditions in Europe and laid the foundation for many later philosophical movements, including phenomenology, and postmodernism.

Dialectic Process​

Hegel is most famous for his idea of the dialectic, a method of understanding progress in thought and history through contradiction and resolution. This is often (simplified, but not exactly how Hegel framed it described as:

Thesis > an idea or starting point
Antithesis > a contradiction or opposition to the thesis
Synthesis > a higher-level resolution that overcomes and includes both

This process repeats, driving development forward.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

I remember listening to some bald dude in a skirt babble about him in Fallout: New Vegas.

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

Thesis > an idea or starting point

so he is responsible for neon genesis evangelion?

 

[Divine Power]

I remember listening to some bald dude in a skirt babble about him in Fallout: New Vegas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeACgwDjlhQ LMAO

 

[analrapist]

Aristotlean dialectic >> Hegelian dialectic

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

his name rhymes with bagel

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Hegel was a fart huffing academic who believed the was the first human being to discover the concept of compromise, and gave it a fancy name to try to claim as his own invention.

 

[Waifu Denier]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIgR4OyOt31isknkVH2Kweq2

Scroll down

 

[User names must be unique]

I thought those were the exercises incontinent people had to do to stop themselves wetting their pants.

 

[Harvey Danger]

I know he's a lightweight compared to David Hume.

Other than that, the dialectic is just the scientific method generalized to fit into philosophy.

1. Form hypothesis
2. test it with experimentation
3. revise hypothesis with new understanding from observations
4. repeat experiment
5. Repeat endlessly.

Notably, Popperian falsification claims the aim of #2-3 should be to disprove the hypothesis. It's presumed that you'll find something which disproves the hard form of your hypothesis, causing a redo of the hypothesis, more experimentation, etc. But even if you don't, you can't claim your hypothesis is true, only that you failed to falsify it.

Hegel's antithesis presupposes there's a direct opposite to your hypothesis to consider, or at least a strong enough opposition to be considered a rejection. Or at least, a strong enough objection to advance things and form synthesis. But I always thought this was a weak point, supposing that there is both a clarifying antithesis and a viable synthesis to reach. What about the category of hypothesis that either need no refinement, or have no sufficiently clarifying antithesis? I admit I haven't read enough to see what Hegel things of that situation. He's smart enough that it surely occurred to him, I just don't know his response.

 

[woc_krava]

The only thing I remember from him in school and a lot of older people told me about the theory that "Quantative gains lead to qualitative changes".

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Hegel had hope for humanity and instead his writing was the basis for all the horrors of the 20th century. His lectures are great and he was passionate about his work. Schopenhauer was an interesting foil to Hegel.

 

[Marc]

And Schopenhauer's mother was a more entertaining foil to Schopenhauer.

 

[Rustle]

He was an early pioneer of understanding history and the implications that being able to know what history is has on us all.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

He was a character in Nier Automata.

 

[The Cheese Aisle]

I've tried really hard to forget anything related to postmodernism and I'm gonna keep it that way

 

[FiveStarAce]

Every single philosopher that ever lived was a complete waste of human potential and so is every single person studying these fucking retards just to find a way to rephrase "it is what it is".

 

[I'm Retarded?]

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

German schizo who inspired German Jewish ivory tower pen pushing schizo and his sugar daddy to develop the dialectical materialism and marxism in general.

 

[VisaMallgoth]

so he is responsible for neon genesis evangelion?

They both were inspired by Kabbalah in some way. Hegel through Bohme/German mysticism, while Anno? Who knows, maybe Hegel himself.

Spoiler: Sources

Which would explain this

German schizo who inspired German Jewish ivory tower pen pushing schizo and his sugar daddy to develop the dialectical materialism and marxism in general.