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“To a father who asked how he might best bring up his son, a Pythagorean (it is also attributed to others) answered: "By making him the citizen of a state with good laws."
— Jul 23, 2023 01:18PM
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I understand the need to edit passages for this compilation but some are exceedingly annoying. I am very interested in what Hegel, a guy so obsessed with spirit and ‘Oneness’ has to say about ‘Mohammedanism,’ not an editorial line which states and exempts “[Here follows an extended discussion of Mohammedanism]”
— Jul 19, 2023 07:57AM
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That's the Right Hegel talking, Patrick. The Hegel of the dialectic would provide a different answer: ride the wave of history.
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Julio wrote: "That's the Right Hegel talking, Patrick. The Hegel of the dialectic would provide a different answer: ride the wave of history." I see the interpretation of that quote as Right, though in the broader context I interpreted it as pro-social justice. The full quote I pulled, from "Philosophy of Right and Law," continues with the following Supplement: "The pedagogical attempt to keep pupils away from the common (i.e., communal) life of the present, and to bring them up in the country (Rousseau in Emile) has been a vain experiment, for to estrange men from the laws of the world cannot prove a success. Even if youth is educated in solitude, it is certainly unwarranted to think that no fragrant breeze from the spirit world should ever invade this solitude, and that the power of the world spirit s too weak to take possession of this little separated territory. When he is the citizen of a good state, the individual first gains his just rights."
Patrick wrote: "Julio wrote: "That's the Right Hegel talking, Patrick. The Hegel of the dialectic would provide a different answer: ride the wave of history." I see the interpretation of that quote as Right, thoug..."I also may have just misinterpreted your meaning of Right Hegel in the political context rather than "Hegel regarding Rights."
Quite so, Patrick, and a terrific citation. But, notice how Hegel believes "The World-Spirit" pervades everything, and if you are reading his politics you know that Spirit is embodied in the Prussian state.
