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My Comment on ‘Nicholas of Cusa and the Instruction of Ignorance’
From ABC Radio National 12.04.14 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/encounter/nicholas-of-cusa/5341208 Your treatment of Cusanus from the perspective of bourgeois ideology – interspersed with...
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Hegel the Poet, on the Poetry of the World: Quantity and Quality
‘At first, then, quantity as such appears in opposition to quality; but quantity is itself a quality, a purely self-related determinateness distinct from the determinateness of its other, from quality...
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Aristotle and Nicholas of Cusa: to be and/or not to be, that is the question
‘Now it is also the case that there can be nothing intermediate to an assertion and a denial. We must either assert or deny any single predicate of any single subject. The quickest way to show this is...
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Hegel the consummate Neoplatonist 13t
13.6.6 The cognition of absolute truth – God is a Proclean ‘syllogism’ (continued) Plotinus asked ‘What art is there, what method, what discipline to bring us there where we must go?’1 and answered...
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All things come to pass through conflict
‘The counter-thrust brings together, and from tones at variance comes perfect attunement, and all things come to pass through conflict.’ Heraclitus Image
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…the negative as determined in the sphere of essence (is) the principle of all self-movement…External, sensuous motion itself is contradiction’s immediate existence. Something moves, not because at...
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…the negative relation to self (is) the innermost source of all activity, of all animate and spiritual self-movement, the dialectical soul that everything true possesses and through which alone it is...
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…internal self-movement proper, instinctive urge in general, (the appetite or nisus of the monad, the entelechy of absolutely simple essence), is nothing else but the fact that something is, in one...
View ArticleHegel on contradiction (on the engine and poetry of the world): in conclusion
If the contradiction in motion, instinctive urge, and the like, is masked for ordinary thinking, in the simplicity of these determinations, contradiction is, on the other hand, immediately represented...
View ArticleSome troubling words for those who crave stasis
‘But it is one of the fundamental prejudices of logic as hitherto understood and of ordinary thinking, that contradiction is not so characteristically essential and immanent a determination as...
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