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My more educated friends go a step further and start calling things 'Hegelian' and such when I'm just trying to get directly at matters.
by 1000units 8y ago
My more educated friends go a step further and start calling things 'Hegelian' and such when I'm just trying to get directly at matters.
- dbasedweeb 8y agoA fun drinking game is to ask them to rigorously define what “Hegelian” is, and every time the explanation becomes pointlessly vague or self-referential, drink. I take no responsibility for the inevitable stomach pumping though.
- 1000units 8y agoI like to ask them to explain how I can build a rocket ship with it.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoHegelian just means that ideas are situated in series: Thesis Antithesis Synthesis/new Thesis Antithesis Synthesis/new Thesis etc... And that while there is truth, there is no true idea. That what we experience as truth is a segment of dialectic that gives us emotional satisfaction enough to stop. But that this is personal and another person might need a longer chain which includes the antithesis of your ultimate (i.e. chain ending) idea.