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Hegel on Contradiction: Part Four

…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 and...

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Hegel 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...

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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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Nicholas of Cusa on the Engine of the World

*   *   * We are admitting, therefore, the coincidence of contradictories, above which is the infinite. But this coincidence is a contradiction without contradiction, and it is an end without end. You,...

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A Materialist Critique of Skepticism: Part Five

Empiricus wrote ‘Scepticism is an ability to set out oppositions among things which appear and are thought of in any way at all, an ability by which, because of the equipollence in the opposed objects...

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A Materialist Critique of Skepticism: Part Six

Frede wrote that the skeptic ‘thinks of himself as following Socrates…What I want to suggest is that Arcesilaus and his followers thought of themselves as just following Socratic practice’54 They may...

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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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Some Troubling Words For Those Who Crave Stasis: From the Quill of a...

‘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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Engels on Hegel: part 3 The end of philosophy?

With all philosophers it is precisely the “system” which is perishable; and for the simple reason that it springs from an imperishable desire of the human mind — the desire to overcome all...

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Breaking News! Nicholas of Cusa failed Aristotle in First Philosophy!

NICHOLAS: I laud your remarks. And I add that also in another manner Aristotle closed off to himself a way for viewing the truth. For, as we mentioned earlier, he denied that there is a Substance of...

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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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Hegel on contradiction: part two

  …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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Hegel on contradiction: part three

  …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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Hegel on contradiction: part four

  …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...

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Hegel 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...

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Some 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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