Re: True Hegelian Truth Eonic Effect, + adios (almost)

2001-06-05 Thread Nemonemini
Thanks a lot for the gesture, and to Michael also. I will be on my way soon, hounded off the list--nope, I am never hounded, I am done for the nonce. Doesn't matter. This kind of hostility wears off. I must remember just how hard it is to really deal with issues of ideology and evolution. I

Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-03 Thread Nemonemini
If truth is whole, Hegelian truth would do well to be studied in the context of the whole of German philosophy, if not world philosophy. The sudden re-start, in medias res, in the wake of Kant and the mysterious decade of the 1790's as Kant's system is a) transcended b) plundered of the mummy

Re: Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Joanna Sheldon
Hi Ian, Ken and Andrew, What is the whole? How could we possibly test/verify/falsify Hegel's assertion? It was Protagoras who said man is the measure... Ian True enough, Protagoras said it. Aristotle just wrote it down. Kinda like Socrates and Plato, I would've thought. Ken, I take no

Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: LARGE CLIP] What is the whole? How could we possibly test/verify/falsify Hegel's assertion? It was Protagoras who said man is the measure... There are multiple answers to this. One is that you can't not believe it. You see the line you are now reading as

Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Jim Devine
What is the whole? How could we possibly test/verify/falsify Hegel's assertion [that the truth -- or the true -- is the whole]? I liked Carrol's answer, but I have my own. Hegel's assertion is more a way of testing/verifying/falsifying theories than it is an assertion of truth. If

Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: What is the whole? How could we possibly test/verify/falsify Hegel's assertion [that the truth -- or the true -- is the whole]? I liked Carrol's answer, but I have my own. Hegel's assertion is more a way of testing/verifying/falsifying theories than it is an

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Andrew Hagen
Hegel is definitely a believer in conflict. He dared to undertake a consummation of Philosophy, Western and Eastern. He embraced the resulting conflict despite finding it disturbing. Maybe his search for the Absolute was a process of reconciliation, a bereavement over the ideals lost by the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Nemonemini
In a message dated 6/2/2001 1:57:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hegel is definitely a believer in conflict. He dared to undertake a consummation of Philosophy, Western and Eastern. He embraced the resulting conflict despite finding it disturbing. Maybe his search for the

Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Ken Hanly
As I recall, Thrasymachus says that justiice is the interest of the stronger not the right of the stronger. Why would you read it as a statement about the right of the peasantry and artisans to participate in politics. Surely Thrasymachus did not take them as the stronger. Thrasymachus and

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-02 Thread Nemonemini
In a message dated 6/2/2001 1:57:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hegel is definitely a believer in conflict. He dared to undertake a consummation of Philosophy, Western and Eastern. He embraced the resulting conflict despite finding it disturbing. Maybe his search for the

Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-01 Thread Joanna Sheldon
(Coming in on this thread late, here, sorry, just got back on the list this morning) Die Wahrheit ist die Ganze will translate as The truth is the whole. I am pretty sure that is how Miller does it. --jks Actually, Hegel's phrase is Das Wahre ist das Ganze, meaning the true is the whole.

Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-01 Thread Ian Murray
(Coming in on this thread late, here, sorry, just got back on the list this morning) Die Wahrheit ist die Ganze will translate as The truth is the whole. I am pretty sure that is how Miller does it. --jks Actually, Hegel's phrase is Das Wahre ist das Ganze, meaning the true is the

Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-01 Thread Ken Hanly
As I recall, it is Protagoras who claims that man is the measure of all things rather than Aristotle. What is neo-eleusinian?Concepts of change and progress are crucial to Hegel's views as far as I can make any sense of them whereas Parmenides denies the reality of change. Although a rationalist

Re: Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-06-01 Thread Andrew Hagen
Actually, Hegel's phrase is Das Wahre ist das Ganze, meaning the true is the whole. There is no beginning in Hegel's philosophy. To grasp one part is to grasp, by necessity, all of it. My German is too patchy to make sense of the article without Babelfish. I'd have to agree, though, on the

Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-31 Thread Clara Ryan
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do you interpret this distinction? A guess: Diesing's translation emphasizes that the truth as a static entity does not exist but is rather a constantly changing process, with which it is possible (more or less) to align the

True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Keaney Michael
Jim Devine writes: As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole. = According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the whole. Michael K.

Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Carrol Cox
How do you interpret this distinction? A guess: Diesing's translation emphasizes that the truth as a static entity does not exist but is rather a constantly changing process, with which it is possible (more or less) to align the mind, but that alignment will be more or less untrued just as it

True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Keaney Michael
Carrol asks: How do you interpret this distinction? A guess: Diesing's translation emphasizes that the truth as a static entity does not exist but is rather a constantly changing process, with which it is possible (more or less) to align the mind, but that alignment will be more or less untrued

Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Jim Devine
At 11:19 AM 05/30/2001 +0300, you wrote: Jim Devine writes: As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole. = According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the whole. Michael K. does it truly matter? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Justin Schwartz
Die Wahrheit ist die Ganze will translate as The truth is the whole. I am pretty sure that is how Miller does it. --jks At 11:19 AM 05/30/2001 +0300, you wrote: Jim Devine writes: As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole. = According to Paul Diesing, this should

Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Tom Walker
Well, according to Tim Horton's the hole is the Timbit. Jim Devine writes: As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole. = According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the whole. Michael K. Tom Walker Bowen Island, BC 604 947 2213

Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Doug Henwood
Keaney Michael wrote: Jim Devine writes: As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole. = According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the whole. And of course Adorno said the whole is the false. Doug

Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Jim Devine
At 12:46 PM 5/30/01 -0400, you wrote: Keaney Michael wrote: Jim Devine writes: As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole. = According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the whole. And of course Adorno said the whole is the false. I thought he said

Re: Re: True Hegelian Truth

2001-05-30 Thread Rob Schaap
Jim Devine wrote: At 11:19 AM 05/30/2001 +0300, you wrote: Jim Devine writes: As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole. = According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the whole. Michael K. does it truly matter? And if the whole (the