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Stegiel's avatar

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/magee.htm

Hegel is not a philosopher. He is no lover or seeker of wisdom — he believes he has found it. Hegel writes in the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, “To help bring philosophy closer to the form of Science, to the goal where it can lay aside the title of ‘love of knowing’ and be actual knowledge — that is what I have set before me” (Miller, 3; PC, 3). By the end of the Phenomenology, Hegel claims to have arrived at Absolute Knowledge, which he identifies with wisdom.

Hegel’s claim to have attained wisdom is completely contrary to the original Greek conception of philosophy as the love of wisdom, that is, the ongoing pursuit rather than the final possession of wisdom. His claim is, however, fully consistent with the ambitions of the Hermetic tradition, a current of thought that derives its name from the so-called Hermetica (or Corpus Hermeticum), a collection of Greek and Latin treatises and dialogues written in the first or second centuries A.D. and probably containing ideas that are far older. The legendary author of these works is Hermes Trismegistus (“Thrice-Greatest Hermes”). “Hermeticism” denotes a broad tradition of thought that grew out of the “writings of Hermes” and was expanded and developed through the infusion of various other traditions. Thus, alchemy, Kabbalism, Lullism, and the mysticism of Eckhart and Cusa — to name just a few examples — became intertwined with the Hermetic doctrines. (Indeed, Hermeticism is used by some authors simply to mean alchemy.) Hermeticism is also sometimes called theosophy, or esotericism; less precisely, it is often characterized as mysticism, or occultism.

JDebattista's avatar

Hegel was a Kabalistic gnostic and as such not ultimately compatible with Christian revelation. A foremost influence on most modern thinkers who have tried to immanentise the Eschaton and thus distort the Gospel message. Kierkegaard was right in his blistering criticism of Hegel's system as being profoundly anti Christian.

Emil's avatar

I think for the past decades people have destroyed the world destroying culture to pretend to be experts. Now people are destroying society to promote their culture above all else and after that they will destroy humanity promoting objective truth and human relationships.

Giorgio Taverniti's avatar

I don’t speak on a platform, like Mr Dugin. I don’t have a platform and, am not looking for one. From such “mobile” position I waft to Mr Dugin the need humans have for some basic knowledge of anthropology. His “Fourth Political Theory” is expression of a nebulous sophisms. The “Great Mother” is one and, cannot be split in Nature et Matter. Objective Dialectic of Nature does have no start or beginning, it is, and always( I like to say) will be in movement from nothingness to something. In Nothingness there is Something.