Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth. If one dwells upon the capriciousness of fortune and of the human Will, one finds that paradox of life, which was at the centre of Schopenhauer's pessimistic argument. And one must frankly admit the impossibility, from the finite point of view, of any rational insight into the concrete meaning of the world of this blind caprice. Only here it is that the postulate of Idealism triumphs...
...essence of Hegel's doctrine-Hegel's secret, as Dr. Sterling has called it-was the appreciation of the fundamental paradox of consciousn ss. This was the actual idea which Hegel chose to bury in a mass of barbaric words. Each one of us, Hegel said, is what some other moment of his life finds him reflectively to be. All consciousness is merely an appeal to other consciousness, to a past self. The more we commune with others, the richer this past consciousness becomes. An attempt to attain holiness through separation from the world is therefore useless. True, spiritual life...
...Further Illustrations of the Paradox...
...Hegel's Philosophical Use of this Paradox...
...General significance of the Paradox as set forth in the "Phenomenology of Spirit...