I didnt get it on that site but obviously there is a common source. I think I might have got it from a site that looks a bit like dissident moonies if there is such a thing - I didnt really read the rest of the site, scaned it, it becomes garbage very quickly.

WHere its from doesnt matter (dont lets get distracted), I used it only cos its got pictures that post in this format and is a brief overview that allows us to scan down the page and see triadic after triadic relationship - thats the point. Nor is it very inaccurate, its a perfectly reasonable summary/

I'll be sorry I didnt do my own summary

The point that was raised is that everyone looks down on the thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis idea as not really representative of Hegel. the response is to say ok Hegel did not say that everything can be categorised as thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis....but he did categorise everything in triadic relationships like thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis and you can have a perfectly interesting discussion on why they are alike or the sense in which those triadic relationships are alike.

I think this better describes Hegel's system:

Triadic Development

I never doubted the quality of the page. In fact I found the graph most informative. I just found it interesting that the Moonies took interest in Hegel's logic.

What exactly is Hegel's definition of "notion"?

Thesis : Unemployed
ANtithesis: Pop Star
Synthesis: Unemployed former Pop Star.

The notion in Hegel is the adequate or truthfull conceptualisation of something.

It is, I think, important to have some idea such as the 'notion' in order to have a realist theory of truth, in order to be able to say that what we think is ultimately adequate to or not adequate to, more and/or less adequate to what it refers to. However, Hegel's reliance on the notion as a simply unproblematic idea of correspondence-in-essentials has to be rearticulated in a materialist way to be of any use.

And, the a priori dogmatics society re-convenes its annual general meeting.

I forgot to mention that if you want to understand the importance of thesis/antithesis/synthesis you need to work forward from Leibniz's 1693 essay On Wisdom to trace these ideas through the rationalist origins of German Idealism...

You need to go back much further than that, right back into Neoplatonist and Hermetic mysticism to see where this 'ruling idea' came from. [Leibniz was a Hermetic thinker.]

Or, wait until I publish an essay on this in 2009 or 2010.

Not really, something quite distinctive happened in Leibniz's critique of Descartes and it is that which provided some of the key distinctive features inherited by German Idealism

Yes, he resurrected ancient Hermetic and NeoPlatonic ideas.

Leibniz was a syncretist par excellence.

http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/GM...s/renplat.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=0jL...xgsTjUk_dsXPAs

http://books.google.com/books?id=NFI...9gbtweK-OmfvPs

It is also worth recalling the comments made by Hegel on Kant at the end of the relevant chapter of Vol 3 of his History of Philosophy. There he gently chides Kant for expressing everything in thesis, antithesis and synthesis, but concludes somewhat condescendingly "it is a good introduction to Philosophy."

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