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[lossrockhart.livejournal.com]

Cartoon by Mike Keefe, The Denver Post


Cartoon by R.J. Matson, NY, The New York Observer and Roll Call


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Re: Insert clever Hegel reference

[lossrockhart.livejournal.com]

"World history is a court of judgment." - Hegel

"Education is the art of making man ethical." -Hegel

Re: Insert clever Hegel reference

[thegodmatt.livejournal.com]

Isn't Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis called "Hegel's Dialectic?"

Re: Insert clever Hegel reference

[lossrockhart.livejournal.com]

It is, however, acording to the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel) on Hegel:

In contemporary accounts of Hegelianism — to undergraduate classes, for example — Hegel's dialectic often appears broken up for convenience into three moments called "thesis" (in the French historical example, the revolution), "antithesis" (the terror which followed), and "synthesis" (the constitutional state of free citizens). Hegel did not use this classification at all himself, though: it was developed earlier by Fichte in his loosely analogous account of the relation between the individual subject and the world. Serious Hegel scholarship does not recognize the usefulness of this triadic classification for shedding light on Hegel's thought. Although Hegel refers to "the two elemental considerations: first, the idea of freedom as the absolute and final aim; secondly, the means for realising it, i.e. the subjective side of knowledge and will, with its life, movement, and activity" (thesis and antithesis) he doesn't use "synthesis" but instead speaks of the "Whole": "We then recognised the State as the moral Whole and the Reality of Freedom, and consequently as the objective unity of these two elements."

Re: Insert clever Hegel reference

[beretta.livejournal.com]

Those are only true about half the time, but there's only a 20% chance of that.

Re: Insert clever Hegel reference

[megiloth.livejournal.com]

hehe...yeah, either that or they'll transfer the debt to a Citi Platinum Select Card at a low APR for 12 months :)

[megiloth.livejournal.com]

hmmm, I haven't checked my daily news yet. So China is buying Unocal?? With their ever increasing need for oil, it shouldn't come as a surprise. But I didn't think rickshaws ran on gas :)

[chrisfrap.livejournal.com]

rickshaws would make america less obese

and put the rickshaw operators who carry fat people in the hospital with back problems

[megiloth.livejournal.com]

But then again, when was the last time you saw a fat Chinaman?

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

actually, they're finding that with the one-child policy, children are becoming spoiled and there's a juvenile obesity problem in china.

[dickies.livejournal.com]

HAHA!

[megiloth.livejournal.com]

children are becoming spoiled...

They should put them back in the refrigerator. That's the best way of child preservation.

[lima-pcp.livejournal.com]

*Brought to you by outmoded protectionism.

[goumindong.livejournal.com]

Trade doesnt always benefit both partners...