No doubt about this being the greatest opera! Profound is too weak a word to describe it. Of course words often fail. Yet, at the same time, there is something of the impertinent involved here. The middle class, the educated class thinking that their cleverness can supplant the noble class. Some would find that opinion tragic.
Hegel was bloody awful, he proved the solar system could only have 7 bodies, just before the 8th was discovered, he proved mass could be changed by magnetism by putting a magnet under one side of a metal balance, complete idiot, like Marx, Marx's economics is even worse than Hegel's physics, complete idiots. What Marx copied from Hegel was the trick of making complete crap sound clever.
Except it can also be found in Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18, as well as in works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, G. Machaud, Gesualdo, and many other composers. No Wagner didn't invent this chord at all, and never claimed he did.
Hume’s no-self theory can easily be equated to Buddha’s central doctrine of non-self. On the other hand, Hume’s denial of of the law of causality is diametrically opposed to Buddha’s pivotal notion of Karma. I find this phenomenon very intriguing in that two outstanding thinkers could agree on one significant issue, and yet differ on another,
It's absolutely fascinating that in the early middle ages we had that European 'union' going on, at least academically. Awesome also that we still use terms like 'syllabus' and 'disputation'. The tradition is strong and beautiful ❤️
Interesting. It might be said that Spinoza's holistic view and Leibniz's atomistic view were similar to the two sides of the quantum mechanical theory: waves and particles. Maybe Spinoza saw the universe as one giant vibrating field of waves that were all intertwined, while Leibniz saw the world as so many quanta combining to form the universe. Or at least how they might have described their theories after the discovery of quantum mechanics.
The medieval philosophers did genuine philosophy says Brian Magee. Does he say this because not in spite of the problem in defining what philosophy is? In what sense is Schopenhauer a philosopher but only doubtfully Sartre. Why does Magee quote the remark that Henry James the novelist was really the philosopher but his brother William, received as a pragmatic philosopher, really the novelist?
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic Paperback-June 18, 2019 by Benjamin Carter Hett (Author) A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany’s leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler’s hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder. Read less Report incorrect product information.
It is exactly this issue of personal freedom that has completely shaped post-Hegel political debate and to which neither socialism nor liberalism has the right answer. The "answer" is that it is a constant battle of giving and taking. The source of that answer lies in the concept of personalism.
