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>>4640069
cont.

The greatest intellectual of the modern age is Hegel, if by greatest we mean most influential and most emblematic of modernism.

Hegel did for Truth what Darwin did for Biology: he made it "evolve". Hegel believed in a pantheistic god where god was embodied by World History, that is, the history of humanity as it "progresses" through time, and that as this history unfolds itself God evolves; truth becomes more true, civilization becomes more civilized, humanity becomes more humane, etc.
This idea of "progress" is the defining superstition of the modern age. Most modern men fail to realize that their belief in "human progress" is, spiritually speaking, a form of pantheism.

In practice, however, what Hegelianism amounts to is pure, amoral Machievellian politicking. Hegel would take one side of the debate and call it the thesis; he would take the other side of the debate and call it the antithesis; he would then unite both sides into a "synthesis". Therefore, there is no absolute truth, because when contradictions meet they are to compromise one and other and form a more complete truth. Thus, the shrewd Machiavellian is able to fund both sides of the debate (Capitalism vs. Communism; Liberal vs. Conservative; Pro-choice vs. Pro-life, etc.), recruiting political puppets to play on both sides, while the masses do not realize that there is somebody controlling both sides of the debate, defining what counts as legitimate dialogue and what does not.
Things like family, marriage, religion can be swept aside as "reactionary and a hindrance to human progress", while feminism and homosexualism can be promoted as "progressive"; while most fail to realize that they are by no means in control of what is called "progressive" and what "reactionary", what the Hegelian thesis and antithesis are.

>>4640061
>Anyway, however much you'd like to go to some imaginary past 'golden age' when everything was exactly like you want it, history doesn't move backward.

This is an example of somebody indoctrinated in the superstition of progressivism. They believe that humanity is evolving; presumably they believe that one day man will conquer the stars in space ships. Because they do not believe in any fixed truth or human nature they fail to realize why institutions like family, marriage and religion are staples of civilization, as they satisfy an unchanging human nature.

cont.

Did Hegel find the truth? Is Hegel the culmination of history and philosophy?

I want all books, you will send me your books now.

Even Schopenhauer was jelly