[Xmca-l] Re: Hegel's imagination

[Peter Feigenbaum [Staff]]

Andy,

No, it's merely an hypothesis--although I must admit I never bothered to
check whether Piaget ever made any direct references to Hegel. The basis
for my hypothesis are several of Piaget's earliest essays in The Essential
Piaget (Howard Gruber & Jacques Vonèche, Eds.), which are all about *The
Idea*. Those essays are what led me (years ago) to infer that he was
fascinated with Hegel. Piaget's later writings, which weave dialectical
logic into his theory of development, only added further weight to that
hypothesis.

Apparently, I'm not the only one to see an affinity between Piaget and
Hegel: Piaget's dialectical approach to development has been examined
by several philosophers, such as James Lawler and Marx Wartofsky. The
general critique of Piaget's application of dialectical logic by these
authors is that it doesn't stick closely enough to Hegel's formulation,
leading Piaget into inconsistencies.

Peter




On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Do you have any evidence that Piaget studied Hegel?
> andy
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> *Andy Blunden*
> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> On 9/12/2015 1:30 AM, Peter Feigenbaum [Staff] wrote:
>
>> Andy,
>>
>> What an amazing excerpt!  From this one passage alone I can see the
>> strong influence that Hegel had upon Piaget.
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this section of The Subjective Spirit to attention.
>> It's chock-full of interesting thoughts.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:
>> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sp/suspirit.htm#SU455
>>     Andy
>>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>>     *Andy Blunden*
>>     http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>     <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>     On 8/12/2015 3:47 PM, Annalisa Aguilar wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Andy,
>>
>>
>>         Would you post a link reference to texts where
>>         Hegel discusses imagination?
>>
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>
>>
>>         Annalisa
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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