Catholic Word of the Day: HEGELIANISM, 06-20-11

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HEGELIANISM

The doctrine and method of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). Its main feature is the dialectic process, which postulates the universal existence of opposites, which are absorbed in a higher unity, from which in turn new oppositions generate. Hegelianism rejects identity and contradiction as grounds of thought. All thinking and all development of being follow the scheme of the "triad," thesis, antithesis, and its resulting synthesis, i.e., opposites in conflict producing a higher unity, which then becomes the source of further conflict and another unity, going on ad infinitum. In Hegelianism everything can be explained dialectically. Christianity is represented as the absolute religion of truth and freedom, as the highest so far achieved in human history. But it is neither supernatural nor final, but only a phase in the process of God's self-evaluation as the Absolute Spirit. Marxism is built on Hegelianism.

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We don't want this at all!

**Marxism is built on Hegelianism.**

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[oldbill]

See (rent or buy) the movie “The Dark CrystaL” and the Hegelian dialect will be made clear.

[the invisib1e hand]

A very useful post. People who want to sound enlightened run around yapping about “dialectic” ( I remember sir edmund Hillary Clinton doing So a few years ago). But the denial of contradiction is just plain insanity. Yeah, I’d say this idea has taken root.

[Mad Dawg]

Don't be dissing Hegel too much. He was formative in the development of phenomenology which contributed greatly to the thought of Blessed John Paul. It's not his fault that Marx perverted him any more than sexual perversion is the fault of the chaste.

I think anyone who pretends to be a philosopher (as I do NOT, being an ADHD, dyslexic amateur) MUST study, not just read, the fifth chapter of "The Phenomenology of Mind." I'd venture it is one of the ten most important philosophical works of the past couple of centuries.

Guys like Hegel are wrong, but they are wrong in VERY helpful ways.

[GourmetDan]

"Don't be dissing Hegel too much. He was formative in the development of phenomenology which contributed greatly to the thought of Blessed John Paul. It's not his fault that Marx perverted him any more than sexual perversion is the fault of the chaste."

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who ya are.

[Mad Dawg]

Oh, my. Not all of us who occasionally refer to 'dialectic' are ONLY putting on airs, though that maybe part of it.

Dialectic, which at bottom means something very like "conversation", is a potent -- useful but dangerous -- metaphor for, well, a lot of things.

One example of the flow of a serious conversation is that two people examine and try their thinking. Sooner or later they find a seemingly unresolvable contradiction. So they trot back to their premises to see if there's a way they can be re-formulated. Once (or IF) they find a satisfactory re-formulation, they then trot right through the argument, maybe even right past the former apparent contradiction, and ahead until some new contradiction appears. And so it goes.

Even so for theologians. It was a while before an adequate expression could be given to the view of the operation of grace that made possible the Immaculate conception. Thinking about not only embryology but also the relationship of Christ's saving work to time had to be looked at. It seemed impossible or indecent that the Lord be gestated in the womb of a sinner, yet it seemed just as impossible that someone born before Calvary could be without sin, or that someone who could call the Lord her "savior" would not need saving. But, well, they kept talking about it. And finally an answer appeared.

Dialectic. not always such a bad thing.

[Mad Dawg]

Wait. What?

I was reading the thread about the bank-teller with a hickie. Just for the sociological implications, you know.

Speaking of chastity ‘n stuff ‘n things.