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John Creighto
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In a lot of conspiracy video's mention Hegel as introducing the following idea:
"If you want to speed up social change you create a crisis"
although I'm pretty sure that this is a misleading statement as I think Hegel was referring to a conflict of ideas (aka a contradiction) rather then any deliberately created social crisis. This idea seems similar to the current popular idea of cognitive dissonance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Were people when faced with two contradictory ideas in the mind must either rationalize away this contradiction or reevaluate their ideas. When people are no longer able to rationalize they must change their position.
Some authors suggest that the Hegelian Dialectic is not simply a fictional narrative but rather played out in the social narative in current events. That is we are presented with two conflicting ideas though the media, the thesis and the anti-thesis from which we are supose to re-evaluate the thesis (this is known as the systheis) and come to a position which is in the middle but closer to the thesis then the anti-thesis.
So in the unlikely scenero proposed in the following paper:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11679099/What-is-the-Hegelian-Dialect
capitalism is the thesis, communism is the anti thesis and communitarianism is the synthesis as it is closer to capitalism then communism but lies in the middle between and individualistic centered philosophy and a collectivist philosophy. It of course seems highly unlikely that such a narrative could be deliberately played out on the world stage as a way of steering "social progression".
Unfortunately Heglian logic isn't even mentioned in the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy because it was considered only as historicaly revlevent by current thinkers such as Berchant Russell.
"If you want to speed up social change you create a crisis"
although I'm pretty sure that this is a misleading statement as I think Hegel was referring to a conflict of ideas (aka a contradiction) rather then any deliberately created social crisis. This idea seems similar to the current popular idea of cognitive dissonance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Were people when faced with two contradictory ideas in the mind must either rationalize away this contradiction or reevaluate their ideas. When people are no longer able to rationalize they must change their position.
Some authors suggest that the Hegelian Dialectic is not simply a fictional narrative but rather played out in the social narative in current events. That is we are presented with two conflicting ideas though the media, the thesis and the anti-thesis from which we are supose to re-evaluate the thesis (this is known as the systheis) and come to a position which is in the middle but closer to the thesis then the anti-thesis.
http://s243a.amplify.com/2010/07/28/hegels-dialectic/“Hegel’s Dialectic as Interpreted by Gavin Schmitt: “To Hegel, understanding what something is not helps to better understand what something is (and conversely, the more we know what something is, the more we know what it is not). The concept or object (which we call a “realization of the concept”) is “affirmed” by its opposite….Often times Hegel’s method is explained as “thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.” This was, in fact, the way it was explained to me in my introductory classes and the way it appears in many philosophic dictionaries. If we start with a certain idea or object, this idea or object is the thesis. Any idea or object we compare contrary to the thesis is the antithesis. The outcome is the synthesis, a better understanding of the thesis and occasionally a “higher” step in the world of ideas ”
So in the unlikely scenero proposed in the following paper:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11679099/What-is-the-Hegelian-Dialect
capitalism is the thesis, communism is the anti thesis and communitarianism is the synthesis as it is closer to capitalism then communism but lies in the middle between and individualistic centered philosophy and a collectivist philosophy. It of course seems highly unlikely that such a narrative could be deliberately played out on the world stage as a way of steering "social progression".
Unfortunately Heglian logic isn't even mentioned in the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy because it was considered only as historicaly revlevent by current thinkers such as Berchant Russell.
http://johns243acreighton.amplify.com/2010/07/28/russell-on-the-hegelian-dielectic/"The dialectical method of reasoning is based on the premise of constant conflicts of opposites, or ongoing tension between two or more commonly acknowledged truths. Good versus evil is the most commonly understood dialectic.
In Hegel’s version it is through our understanding of what is evil that we are able to understand what is even better than good. Hegel’s dialectic was an inward discovery of being versus nothing. This method changed the format for deductive reasoning into one in which truth is obtained by pitting truth against a falsehood which leads to a false truth. Frederick Engels and Karl Marx expanded on the Hegelian dialectic to suit their own purposes. See: Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy in General by Karl Marx (1844) andM arx’ s Grundrisse and Hegel’s Logic by Hiroshi Ouchida (1988).”
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/In academic philosophy, Hegelian idealism underwent a revival in both Great Britain and the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In Britain, where philosophers such as T. H Green and F. H. Bradley had developed metaphysical ideas which they related back to Hegel's thought, Hegel came to be one of the main targets of attack by the founders of the emerging “analytic” movement, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore. For Russell, the revolutionary innovations in logic starting in the last decades of the nineteenth century had destroyed Hegel's metaphysics by overturning the Aristotelian logic on which, so Russell claimed, it was based, and in line with this dismissal, Hegel came to be seen within the analytic movement as an historical figure of little genuine philosophical interest. To some degree, analogous things could be said of Hegel's reception from within the twentieth century phenomenological tradition which developed in continental Europe, but although marginalized within such core areas of mainstream academic philosophy, Hegel nevertheless continued to be a figure of interest within other philosophical movements such as existentialism and Marxism.
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