Hegel’s argument was that consciousness is innately incapable of staying put. It is always in possession of a wealth of excellent insights, but it can never be content with them. It wants something more. It has a wandering eye, and a reach that exceeds its grasp: an exorbitant yearning for certitude condemns it to a restless state of mistrust. Beguiled by a mirage of perfect epistemological bliss, it denies the knowledge it has, deserts it and sets off optimistically on what will prove to be a ‘journey of despair’
In the world of the Phenomenology, a truth is nothing but a corrected error, and the edifice of knowledge is built not of sublime transcendent facts but of ordinary mistakes, duly exposed and chastised, named and shamed. Consciousness wins through to absolute truth entirely by its own deluded efforts.
Reading this kind of stuff makes one think of one's former and indeed current dogmatism
but if you are a penitent dogmatist that helps.
There are affinities between realism and rationality as we arrive at 'truth'.
our righteous convictions had to be looked at from every possible point of view and judged in terms of all the circumstances of which they form a part.
Because truth that 'thing' you have been so dogmatically claiming to know
is in Hegel's words that ‘Bacchanalian revel in which no member is not drunk.
Bertrand Russell, said that Hegel defined freedom as ‘the right to obey the police’
There were others, of course, who showed more respect. Revolutionary socialists, embarrassed by the fact that Hegel was Marx’s favourite philosopher,
Consciousness you could surmise as not being substantial entity but as a historically specific aspect of social existence, rooted not so much in ‘mind’ as in ‘normativity’
Hegel advocated the fostering of t the habit of nachdenken: of thinking things over, or stopping to have a think. And thinking, for Hegel, was the specific antidote to the follies of self-certainty
However, I am not really certain about that.
Source: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n23/jonathan-ree/baffled-traveller
In the world of the Phenomenology, a truth is nothing but a corrected error, and the edifice of knowledge is built not of sublime transcendent facts but of ordinary mistakes, duly exposed and chastised, named and shamed. Consciousness wins through to absolute truth entirely by its own deluded efforts.
Reading this kind of stuff makes one think of one's former and indeed current dogmatism
but if you are a penitent dogmatist that helps.
There are affinities between realism and rationality as we arrive at 'truth'.
our righteous convictions had to be looked at from every possible point of view and judged in terms of all the circumstances of which they form a part.
Because truth that 'thing' you have been so dogmatically claiming to know
is in Hegel's words that ‘Bacchanalian revel in which no member is not drunk.
Bertrand Russell, said that Hegel defined freedom as ‘the right to obey the police’
There were others, of course, who showed more respect. Revolutionary socialists, embarrassed by the fact that Hegel was Marx’s favourite philosopher,
Consciousness you could surmise as not being substantial entity but as a historically specific aspect of social existence, rooted not so much in ‘mind’ as in ‘normativity’
Hegel advocated the fostering of t the habit of nachdenken: of thinking things over, or stopping to have a think. And thinking, for Hegel, was the specific antidote to the follies of self-certainty
However, I am not really certain about that.
Source: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n23/jonathan-ree/baffled-traveller
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