{"id":1221,"date":"2020-08-27T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/hsl\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2020-09-04T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T17:15:39","slug":"250-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liebetanz.com\/hsl\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"250 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">an  interesting philosopher was born today, 250 years ago, in Stuttgart, Germany. He is considered nowadays as the founder of modern dialectics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel\">Georg W.F. Hegel<\/a> developed a new method to look at reality in general. Instead of seeing science in a linear way, he takes into consideration that conflicting aspects of a question or phenomenon  can be seen as complementing factors to a general, whole &#8220;one&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/ce\/Hegel_by_Schlesinger.jpg\/800px-Hegel_by_Schlesinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"343\"\/><figcaption>Georg FW Hegel, \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hegel_by_Schlesinger.jpg\">pubic domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The applied steps in his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dialectic\">dialectical model<\/a> are named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis\">Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Several new researches came out of this new way to look at reality, as i.e. Karl Marx with his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dialectical_materialism\">dialectical materialism<\/a> taking Hegel&#8217;s method by  putting if &#8220;back to the feet&#8221; in order to understand conflicting societal forces between  the working-class and the capitalists, as being part of an unbridgeable societal contradiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Might be interesting to see how Hegelians today would analyze the current situation in countries as the US, western democracies or Russia by this principle, where one might think everything is totally out of control, the orientation between right and wrong lost, as if the moral compass of society, politics and individuals wouldn&#8217;t work no more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy birthday, Georg Hegel &#8211; continue to help us better understand this world seemingly out of whack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an interesting philosopher was born today, 250 years ago, in Stuttgart, Germany. 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