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> Because sufficient amounts of quantity always beats quality Hegel (as echoed by Marx): "merely quantitative differences beyond a certain point pass into qual
by ableal 3y ago
> Because sufficient amounts of quantity always beats quality
Hegel (as echoed by Marx): "merely quantitative differences beyond a certain point pass into qualitative changes" ( https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.240462397 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.240462397 )
I always found that an interesting observation, whatever you think of the rest of their works.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoHegel is a hack and doesn’t deserve to be cited here. Consider that he’s really only famous because his class motivated a bunch of other philosophers (the young Hegelian's, Marx, Stirner, Bruno Bauer et al) to meet in wine bars after class to complain about how terrible/impossible to understand his philosophy is. Anyone whose even tried to read stuff of his I.e the phenomenology of spirit will tell you that he’s a charlatan and hack, and the people who constantly cite him (I.e Zizek, Lacan, Foucault) are also hacks.
- ableal 3y agoHey, can't a blind pig find an acorn? Is it less of an acorn because it was found by a pig? Myself, I appreciate Schopenhauer a lot more, and we know what he thought of Hegel, but I'm not fanatical about it. If a hack hits on a good line, I'll nab it.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoIt's an absolutely valid observation and I cite it often. We need to learn as a society how to separate things and think less wholesale. The best people have silly beliefs, the worst people have great insights, and the vast majority of us are in-between. If we discard everything "tainted" by imperfection, we'll be left with nothing good.