Were you aware of this?
Bkmrk
Hegel, Kant, Sneezchie, Marx. These men were moochers who lived on the nickels of others. Their “philosophies” lead to the most brutally and senselessly murderous era in human history. And it’s not over yet as pedo-Joe tosses China’s oppressed minorities under the bus.
The Hegelian philosophy of thesis-antithesis-synthesis is the foundation for postmodern relativism. It essentially denies the existence of objective reality.
I blame this on Snooki and her new TV show.
I hope no one is looking for philosophical consistency in the slave-holding South in the 19th century. Those fellows had huge swaths of conscience cauterized. Hard to make all the philosophical pieces fit together in that condition.
“ We’re led to believe by Civil War buffs and professional historians alike that the Confederacy was this pinnacle of conservative thought or at least deeply conservative in its outlook.”
Philosophy isn’t my thing, but this sounds like BS to me.
Both Marx and Hegel had interesting analysis and terrible prescriptions.
What a waste of digital bytes in writing this.
That war was very similar to today. That is, two sides could not get along. There were many reasons for that war but, of course, slavery gets the wrap for the whole thing — which is, of course, fake news.
The book Albion’s Seed (http://bit.ly/2Ir3J3M) explains the social and “lifeway” divide that existed in this country which traced its roots back to the mother country. They did not get along in the mother country and, for the most part, they brought it here when they arrived on these shores 400 years ago.
That divide was with us and building up to 1861. And, it did not end in 1865, either.
Who wrote this garbage?
Accusing southerners of being closet commies is a stretch. It seems more like they used Hegel to aid in their rationalization of slavery.
“Just how deep did the rejection of the Founding Fathers go with those in the south in the 1800s?”
Rejection? Plenty of the Founding Fathers were Southerners. And Southerners in the 1800s took the Founders at their word, especially the Declaration of Independence.
I think the correct thinker to look at here is the formidable Calhoun. It is certainly correct to note that in many respects he was Hegelian; perhaps in his analysis of class and economics in history, even a bit Marxist - though he probably wouldn’t have thought in those terms.
Calhoun was utterly brilliant. But I think in time we will conclude that his deep thinking was outside the boundaries of what America can accommodate philosophically speaking. And politically speaking.....
We’re led to believe by Civil War buffs and professional historians alike that the Confederacy was this pinnacle of conservative thought or at least deeply conservative in its outlook.”
Ummmmmmmm.......no.
no and no
Not if human liberty and flourishing and civilization is a “goal” of conservatism.
Now all that said....the South had an aristocratic culture, and a healthy culture, should always have aristocratic elements in it. Because of our collective irrational hatred of the South (they are Americans too, so many forget), we tend to not see the beauty in aristocracy. That’s a big topic, and of course, aristocracy (like democracy) has its own inherent defects. But aristocracy is important...it does promote human flourishing when it is part of the mix.
The South is not an enemy. But it’s not the pinnacle of conservatism.
Sorry but the Federalist did not gloss over it and is seems you are making false assumptions. It was Hegel and Marx who were influenced by the implications of the American Republic and not vice versa. Southerners were not advocating for Hegel or Marx but were advocating for the principles of the founding fathers regarding states rights and the importance of a decentralized federal government.
Marx was interested in what was happening in America. He wrote many articles against slavery and supported Lincoln and the Yankees.
The South most definitely did not reject the founding fathers. They embraced them. The vast majority of the Founding Fathers were in fact, Southerners themselves. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Patrick Henry, James Mason, John Jay, etc etc.
Marx and his disciples were in fact more sympathetic to the North because they were interested in centralizing power. They detested the idea of decentralized power. Decentralized power which the South supported was the antithesis of their whole ideology.
Interestingly, Martin Luther King cited Hegel's idea of freedom expanding through conflict as an important influence on his own thought.