Sometimes it’s the encounter with a brief statement of truth that lingers longer than a lengthy narrative. Such are these three thoughts that have been part of my week.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
“The present is what the past is doing now.” Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
“What if we treated our Bible like our cell phone?” Leonard Sweet (Guess who forgot her Bible this week, but had her cell phone?)
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"History teaches us that man learns nothing from history." HEGEL
Not that anyone is interested, but
I have provided a very brief synopsis of Hegel's philosophy
Hegel's philosophical system was perhaps the most ambitious since Aristotle, comprising logic, psychology, religion, aesthetics, history, law. As well as his published works, many volumes were compiled from the notes of his long-suffering students. Though they laboriously took down almost every word, one wonders how much theyunderstood. Hegel's language is abstruse and sometimes tortuous, and makes great demands on the reader.
Pantheism is the motivating force and the core of Hegel's system. It is a grandiose idealistic pantheism, in which all existence and all history are part of God's cosmic self-development. God is absolute spirit. But he also desires to manifest himself and to know himself. So it is part of his essence to become real, in particular material things, in individual persons and in the process of change and history. God is present and active in the real world. He acts through humans, and is conscious of himself through humans. God embodies and develops himself first in nature, then in the rising stages of human consciousness and civilization. Human history and culture are God's working out of his self-realization in the world. Individual humans - especially the great heroes of world history - are the principal means of change, while peoples and states are the embodiment of each phase.
Not that anyone is interested, but
I have provided a very brief synopsis of Hegel's philosophy
Hegel's philosophical system was perhaps the most ambitious since Aristotle, comprising logic, psychology, religion, aesthetics, history, law. As well as his published works, many volumes were compiled from the notes of his long-suffering students. Though they laboriously took down almost every word, one wonders how much theyunderstood. Hegel's language is abstruse and sometimes tortuous, and makes great demands on the reader.
Pantheism is the motivating force and the core of Hegel's system. It is a grandiose idealistic pantheism, in which all existence and all history are part of God's cosmic self-development. God is absolute spirit. But he also desires to manifest himself and to know himself. So it is part of his essence to become real, in particular material things, in individual persons and in the process of change and history. God is present and active in the real world. He acts through humans, and is conscious of himself through humans. God embodies and develops himself first in nature, then in the rising stages of human consciousness and civilization. Human history and culture are God's working out of his self-realization in the world. Individual humans - especially the great heroes of world history - are the principal means of change, while peoples and states are the embodiment of each phase.
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