Mu: Hegel is disgusting.
Tal: Why?
Mu: He tastes wrong.
Tal: Explain.
Mu: There are dualities. True? Sure. So subject and object are dualities that come together –they arise simultaneously. True? If so, they cannot be separated and none of them is the cause of the other. True? If so, idealism is wrong and realism is wrong because mind does not cause reality nor reality causes mind. Hegel as idealist confused the whole thing and created a world of madness. He confused causality with correlation. A very shameful thing for a smart person.
Tal: I see. Why should I care?
Mu: My problem? Even though the man was wrong, Engel and Marx created a monster out of Hegel’s ideology. Hegel’s views of progress and alienation compels to action and that action is devastating.
Tal: A monster?
Mu: Sure. They inverted him. They took the dialectic method –by the way, another crazy idea to be discussed another day- and discarded the crazy system. The point? Madness can kill us. If you doubt it, consider the millions of people murdered under communist regimes.
Tal: Drunk?
Mu: A little and still angry about history determined by crazy people –another example of Hegel’s madness.
Tal: Time to sleep. Tell me about Hegel’s dialectic another day.
Mu: Sure, but first, let us move into Schopenhauer. Let us get depressed!
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