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Thank you, Greta. A thoughtful and sympathetic response. The poetic version of what we are saying was well put by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Book II: "And you yourselves should create what you have hitherto called the world: the world should be formed in your image by your reason, you...

For a more detailed version of this argument see https://www.academia.edu/21246511/The_Concept_of_Death_in_Philosophy_and_Experience What do we make of death? Is it something that we don’t think about until we are older? Or is it something that dominates our lives because we know we are finite and w...

"Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till ...

I think Hegel's main lesson's just each philosopher and each philosophy are relevant. For they are a necessary step to the development of human thought, a not casual process but needful for Reason. You have not mentioned Reason, at all; which is the most relevant argument in hegelianism. He thought...

As to your title question. Hegel is a man that first and foremost today offers you a perspective. I've engaged with a lot of Hegel lately in the last few months through an intensely detailed YouTube series by an American professor following him paragraph by paragraph in The Phenomenology of Spirit....

I really hate it when people can't answer a simple question but instead refer you to a book, an article or a body of text. If you are certain of your claim, plz just give me the abstract of it since you surely must know it! My claim is substantiated in the text, lower down: "Let’s take Popper ...

and Popper blamed him for the rise of totalitarianism. Do you happen to know how on Earth Popper came to that belief? I mean, does Hegel directly empower a totalitarian ideal in any way? There are loads of refs to this which you'll find if you Google "Hegel Popper". Singer, at http://www....

The Ten Main Issues in Wittgenstein Language is what separates us from other animals, and is why we are able to solve complex logical problems, and, as far as we can tell, experience consciousness. Wittgenstein is the philosopher of language par excellence. He asks: what is the role of language in ...

Is Hegel Still Relevant? Of all the great philosophers, Hegel is one of the most difficult to understand, and, at least by some philosophers, one of the most despised. Russell and Schopenhauer thought that his philosophy was devoid of any useful meaning, and Popper blamed him for the rise of totali...

Limericks Concerning Philosophers A Scottish agnostic called Hume Pondered cause and effect in his room He could see, on reflection No causal connection And he carried that view to his tomb An enlightenment thinker called Kant Said, “It’s not good to rave or to rant For it’s quite clear that reason...

Re comments by GreatandWiseTrixie: I'm inclined to think that Sartre sees choice as a hierarchical and somewhat random shuffling of factical experience. Hence my reference in the text to facticity (much the same as your "natural causes"). Whether you call such an arbitrary process "ch...

Sartre: How Do We Get from Nothingness to Freedom? See also:mikesutton161.wordpress.com Introduction: There seems to me to be a problem with the interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s use of the words “being” and “nothingness” in his philosophy. Is his idea of being the same as that of Heidegger? Whil...