[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm

[Reddy]

good article.

[wheresmyusa]

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[Kenny Bunk]

In the Hegelian model, there is actually scant room for "synthesis," or "compromise." Rather, one point of view will overcome an opposing POV by logical force.

Therefore your post brilliantly explains, IMHO, why the GOP is a useless political apparatus in the present time. They seek compromise, while the Left does not. One cannot play by Aristotle's rules when the other team is using Hegel's!

A political application of Hegelian principles might be for a politician to declare, or even actually cause, a crisis or a problem that only he can solve by offering the only apparent solution!

The Hegelian Dialectic is the philosophical precursor of the Marxist Dialectic. Hegel is the strategist behind Alinsky's tactics.

[screaminsunshine]

The RINOS are fighting to be in charge of the mess and get more of the Loot. Not to change it.

[jonrick46]

I believe that socialism will undo the human progress that Capitalism has brought to mankind. Your examination of the Hegelian Dialectic is like a scientist looking at a killer virus through his microscope. The Hegelian Dialectic is that killer virus that will so disrupt man’s necessary progress for survival, that man’s future is in great danger. For only through the wealth of Capitalism will come those innovations that ensure man’s survival.
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[microgood]

To understand Hegel, you have to read The Phenomenology of Mind. The writers of this article obviously did not. Hegel was a true philosopher, and was trying to understand how the human mind worked and how humans interacted socially. He had no agenda beyond the acquisition of knowledge and trying to describe how humans thought and interacted with each other. Some of his disciples (Neitzsche, Freud, and Marx) had an agenda. He did not, except human understanding.

I studied 19th Century German philosophers and have a degree in Philosophy. Hegel was brilliant in advancing philosophy around the human mind.

At the societal level, he believed, that there was a social consciousness (which he called Absolute Spirit) that was kind of an aggregation of individual consciousnesses in a given society, and the way it solved problems was the same as the way individual consciousnesses did, using the dialectic method. That is where Freud got the notion of the id, ego, and superego.

This guy, although an idealist, posed many questions and provided answers that have still not been addressed in any other way (my favorite was the notion of how we became aware of our own existence in a societal setting).

I remember our professor (who was brilliant) spent an entire week on two sentences of the Phenomenology of Mind to allow us to understand where this guy was coming from. And noone to this day has provided better theories on many of these issues. He was almost Einstein brilliant in his approaches to understanding and modeling human consciousness and behaviour at the societal level, but because of his idealism, was unable to convert it into anything that could change the world, except to describe it.

In his defense, noone has thus far been able to change basic human nature through understanding for any significant period of time. And that was never his intention anyway.

In Phenomenology, he analyzed art and culture throughout history to describe mans evolution of his own consciousness based on how he perceived his place in nature and how the dialectic process advanced man's understanding of the world around him, as well as how man interacted socially. His analysis of the Sphinx (half man, half animal), was just one of many fascinating insights he had in the evolution of human consciousness.

[phockthis]

sfl

[strongbow]

Each compromise with the left moves us further to the left of center. The republican party is the party of compromise and the democratic socialist never compromise. The dialectic has worked to perfection for America’s demise. Having just experienced the murkowski debacle close hand it is impossible to deny that Hegel is alive and well in Alaska.

[Cacique]

A variant on the Hegelian dialectic is Lenin’s dictum. Two steps forward, one step back. Thus even in retreat they have won because it is only a half step back, they then move forward another two steps. The result is they are always several steps ahead in their plans. Only a revolution can reverse course after that.