Word: hegel
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...Moby Dick is written on three levels.” (English)“The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” (History)“Locke is a transitional figure.” (Philosophy)“Marx turned Hegel upside down.” (General Education)“Any theory of underconsumption and purchasing power must be grounded in the psychology of the people.” (Economics)“Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration.” (Music)“Shaw’s heroes...
Such opinions don’t stray too far from historical debates over the purpose of art. It wasn’t too long ago that some philosophers, such as Georg Hegel, deemed the sole function of art as a way to convey the Spirit of God in visual terms. Its ultimate purpose, in his opinion, was to disappear entirely once mortals were enlightened with the Spirit. Plato himself believed in the eternal existence within the subjects of a work as an imitation of a phenomenal world...
Admit it: you feel guilty about the lightweight stuff you read in summer. But there's a compromise between Harlequin romances and Hegel's Phenomenology: brief but thoughtful volumes of history and biography. Weighing in at fewer than 200 pages, these books are slim but not slight...
...Marx turned Hegel upside down.” (General Education...
...best for me bring together the various disciplines. You would hear what the scientist has to argue with the philosopher and the poet about the place of modern science against philosophy, against religion. These would be the places where the physicists have to think about Kant and Hegel, not just Einstein; where the social scientists consider what is a good society as well as polls and survey results; where a political scientist asks whether he can justify giving advice to tyrants as well as democrats...