/lit/ - Literature

I know what a negation is, and I know some basic Hegel, but I only understand what a "negation of a negation" means in an impressionistic way at best. And I've never seen anybody explain it any better. If it is what it sounds like, negating everything until there is nothing left to negate, then what is left remaining? Maybe nothing survives negation.

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I meant to also emphasize that Plato's solution of mixing number with the apeiron was also a mere "expression", symbolism, e.g. Indeterminate Dyad. It is symbolism whose full meaning appears to have been lost on Aristotle. The symbolism is explained in more detail here:
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last chance to try to get him to respond

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heh

What are the consequences of "writing off" (no pun intended) oral tradition from the process of world history, as Hegel does in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History?

Hegel essentially argues that, prior to writing, history is not possible, because it is only writing that enables reflection and therefore the self-consciousness that propels the weltgeist. Is that really so? It seems like an arbitrary privileging of certain mediums of communication over others without delving into the fundamental roots. After all, the weltgeist needed to be birthed into existence, and what better a midwife than a proto-weltgeist buoyed by bards and shamans? And I suppose the irony is not lost on Hegel that he uses an "oral tradition", the works of Homer, to guide the development of Greek civilization, too. Besides, doesn't writing carry its own pros and cons that may undermine self-consciousness, meaning, etc., as Socrates warns in Phaedrus (the decline of memory)?

Discuss.

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firstness --> sensing, earth
secondness --> feeling, water
thirdness --> thinking, air
>problem of continuity, infinity
fourthness --> intuition/will, fire
>beyond mere nature and naturalism
fifthness --> spirit, aether

read nick land, he´s the georg hegel of the 21st century

Discuss. Did Kant rediscover triads as Hegel claimed? Was Peirce right when he said that all phenomenological "fourthness" is simply a composition of "thirdness" relations (and thereby doesn't exist)? Did Hegel ever try to insinuate at the possibility of fourthness?

>>19621507
idk man, I think Hegel is a pretty important philosopher too

No, but he was an obscurantist retard.

>Sound is the change in the specific condition of segregation of the material parts, and in the negation of this condition; merely an abstract or an ideal ideality, as it were, of that specification. But this change, accordingly, is itself immediately the negation of the material specific subsistence; which is, therefore, real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion, i.e.--heat. The heating up of the sounding bodies, just as of beaten and or rubbed ones, is the appearance of heat, originating conceptually together with sound.

>Sound is the change in the specific condition of segregation of the material parts, and in the negation of this condition; merely an abstract or an ideal ideality, as it were, of that specification. But this change, accordingly, is itself immediately the negation of the material specific subsistence; which is, therefore, real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion, i.e.--heat. The heating up of the sounding bodies, just as of beaten and or rubbed ones, is the appearance of heat, originating conceptually together with sound.

he didn't shape the world like hegel

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i smell a pleb tattoo in the works

tell me i'm right no wait i already know i am

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>I believe the fartists who become aware of the sacrifices they make and why they make them will flourish most

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>implying the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost aren't the divine equivalent of dialectics

I'm new to the writing scene. I've never written creatively before. In high school, the only things I write are those damn five paragraph persuasive essays (TN fag here). I want to learn, though. I can't write yet, but I'm willing to watch my works be ripped asunder and to study the works of others to improve.
Care to lend me a hand, /lit/?
Here's a really short story I wrote just now to gauge my ability.
Feel free to post anything you've been working on that wish wish to be critiqued in this thread too.

Is there anything intelligible to be drawn from the writings or Hegel, or was he just a rambling madman? or perhaps it's just 2deep4me?
I just picked up Philosophy of Right, and, honestly, I'm at a complete loss.