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== Hegel who ==


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich [[Hegel]] (1770-1831) is one of the systematic thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. In addition to epitomizing German idealist philosophy, Hegel boldly, if not arrogantly, claimed that his own system of philosophy represented an historical culmination of '''all''' previous philosophical thought.

"Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone." G. W. F. [[Hegel]] 

People will not learn from Hegel if they do not temper his ideas, for which there are many, with a more thorough understanding of all who have gone before. Without that seeking to understand all of history we become guilty of want ourselves.

Hegel is said to proceed according to a "dialectical method". But he sees his philosophy as "speculative" (spekulativ), rather than dialectical, and uses the term "dialectical" only "quite rarely".<Ref>Stern, Robert (2008). "Hegel's Idealism". In Frederick C. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.</Ref> 
Hegel abhorred orthodoxy from his first examination of the religious of the day. Their orthodoxy often stemmed from their [[worship]] of the unmoored metaphor rather than the means and method of Christ which included love and forgiveness which consisted of [[charity]] and granting of [[liberty]] which orthodoxy often turns a blind eye to while it excuses [[covetous practices]] and accepts the benefits of those who [[exercise authority]].

By contrast, "Hegel describes correct thinking as the methodical interplay of three moments[:]

One of those moments is the "abstract and intellectual" which must be tested with his theories on the "dialectical or negatively rational observations. But none of this can provide a solution without his  (spekulativ) ''speculative'' or ''positive rational'' which borders on spiritual inspiration.

Such revelation will contain the [[Logos]] the Greeks sought and Jesus and the prophets professed just as the common man contains DNA. But neither must be observed in order to effect reality with a natural or divine orthodoxy not subject to man. That natural or divine orthodoxy is the [[Law of Nature]] and [[Divine will]] and is unmoved or ''mercilessly indifferent'' to Hagel's, your, or my opinion.

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