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Hegel once joked, ‘We learn from history that we do not learn from history.’
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The Phenomenology of Spirit.
T.Z. Lavine • From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest
The totalizing nature of Hegel’s project, coupled with the preeminent value he accorded to reason, made him an easy target.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
this totality constitutes absolute mind or absolute spirit or God. The real, says Hegel, is the rational, and the rational is the real.
T.Z. Lavine • From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest
And yet most of the time, for Heidegger, we fail dismally at this task. We merely surrender to a socialised, superficial mode of being what he called ‘they-self’ (as opposed to ‘our-selves’). We follow das Gerede (The Chatter), which we hear about in the newspapers, on TV and in the large cities Heidegger hated to spend time in.
The School of Life Press • Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today (The School of Life Library)
Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard (Modern European Philosophy)
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As Nietzsche would later say: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
