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How should we understand Hegel's “Absolute Idea”?
I've read about Hegel's ideas on philosophical progress:
Hegel's main philosophical project was to take these contradictions and tensions and interpret them as part of a comprehensive, evolving, ...
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In psychoanlaysis should the id-ego-superego 'configuration' be understood in terms of a historical dialectic?
I've edited this question after Dr Sisters comments on my mis-use of Freudian terminology.
My initial understanding of the mature Id-Ego-SuperEgo configuration is to see them as static. But according ...
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Does it make sense to read Hegel in translation?
I've read about a half of Hegel's Logic and a bit of Phaenomenologie, but it's hard to get whether it is the translation or the intent ambiguous.
I know some Hochdeutsch and can read ...
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Spirit vs. big Other in Zizek's philosophy
What is the relationship between the Hegelian Spirit and Lacan's big Other in the view of Slavoj Zizek?
Are there passages where both are present? or where Spirit is used in a more explicitly ...
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Concepts of state and transition as used by Kierkegaard
While reading Søren Kierkegaard's "The Concept of Anxiety", I asked myself how much of the temporal interpretation of dialectic and the interaction between state and transition (leap) are original to ...
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Introduction to Hegel for a Marxist
What subset of Hegel should a person know to understand Marxist philosophy?
In political alignment i'm a Marxist, and mostly subscribe to social and political positions of the kinds like Slavoj Žižek ...
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Why is Hegel more important than Schelling?
I am curious why Hegel became more important than Schelling.
First of all, how would Schelling's ideas differ from Hegel's? I read that there are some supernatural elements in Schelling's, but do not ...
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What would be the difference between Fichte and Hegel?
I am quite confused how Fichte's ideas (and Schelling's ideas) and Hegel's ideas differ. There seem to be some common elements, but I am unsure how to pinpoint the difference between Hegel's and ...
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Is the opponent process theory of emotion an example of Hegelian synthesis?
http://gettingstronger.org/2010/05/opponent-process-theory/
One basic tenet of the opponent process theory is that there is a gradual unbalancing of the relation between an emotion and its own ...
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Slavoj Zizek and jouissance [closed]
Can anyone explain to me what jouissance mean in Slavoj Zizek's philosophy? I understand Lacan's term, but I am having a hard time understanding Slavoj Zizek's jouissance.
More specifically, how does ...
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Hegelian “essence” and Kantian “concept”
I think I've found a paralelism between these two notions, at least to some extent. For Kant defines (in Logic, I, I, §1, also translated) concept as "an universal representation"
Every knowledge, ...
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How does Søren Kierkegaard use the word “dialectic” and how does his use of it differ from G.W.F. Hegel's?
According, to my understanding, the meaning of dialectic is...
In Plato: a back-and-forth conversational style of reasoning from his later dialogues
In the Middle Ages: the scholastic style of ...
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What does Hegel mean by “Quality”?
In the Science of Logic, Hegel initially presents quality as existent determinateness. He further distinguishes two modes of determining quality in accordance with the moments of existence:
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