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...says of the great figures of whom she writes (Rousseau Hegel). Judith Shklar "defies classification." Her surprising humility and the bitterness that sometimes tinged her conversation stem, one of her students thinks, from her own philosophical and humanitarian goals. While appreciating herself what the contradictions of man's existence are, she is constantly distressed at what a botch people have made and make in trying to resolve them. More than anyone she is aware of the possibly irreducible contradictions in human life, but she also feels that it is one's obligation to life and reason to make...
Heavily influenced by Hegel and Marx, Freire sees social reality as a dialectical process. All people can be divided into two groups, the oppressors and the oppressed, each group essential for the other's existence. An ability to see all people and actions as being with one or against one, as wearing white or black hats with no shades of grey allowed, is a useful political tool in clearly defining the enemy that must be attacked. But it also denies the basic humanity that even the oppressors can process. Freire rejects liberal or progressive reforms initiated by seemingly well-meaning...
...study of social problems on a more intimate level may be more useful. The arena of human motivation and interplay of an average poker game is studded with more insights into the large human questions at stake than can be drawn from Hegel...
...sickening, mechanical, little-boy-at-heart generation." Goring, the son of a waitress, is rendered among his looted art and phony coat of arms as a preposterous sham. In fact, Reck saw the whole Third Reich as ludicrous kitsch compounded of dueling-club romanticism, gymnastics and "a touch of Hegel...
...inexorable march of history, wrote Hegel, there occur moments when the sheer weight of accumulating events finally produces a decisive change. August 1970 may well go down as one of those moments, the beginning of the elusive "era of negotiation" that has been forecast by Richard Nixon...