Sunday, March 18, 2007

Hegel: what do you mean?

Hegel describes "The Law of Contradiction" -

"Everything is inherently contradictory. . . . contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality; it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity. (page 439, Hegel's Science of Logic).
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So the law of contradiction is also a contradiction.
Then, I ask Hegel where is this law moving? ...could it move at all?

I think Hegel did not have enough coffee that day.

So would say that he meant real things, that he is not talking about a logical law...But didn't he believed that the real is rational, and the rational is real. So all logical laws must be real, and they move...

I am confussed...I'd better have more coffee.

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