Hi Andy
Thanks for the direction pointer, it sounds like a useful frame of mind to
wear if I ever get around to REALLY reading Hegel. (I make admiring dips
into your website now and then, that's all).
I find something of a generality in this, that when I read writers of the
older generations I need to make a mental turn to find the point from where
they make perfect sense, and then it is a good thing to have a clew from
someone who is familiar with the territory. And yet, I am very impatient
with secondhand or thirdhand renderings, vastly prefer to sample or
navigate the actual texts with an ariadne thread like yours.
I do have a question (well, the question is if I can formulate my wondering
AS a question) -- as I did not understand whether your conclusion is that a
reading of Hegel would show that dialectical modes of reasoning and system
dynamical modes of reasoning are incompatible, or on the contrary, that
they might be compatible.
Eva
At 11.20 +1000 0-06-13, Andy Blunden scrobe:
>My reading of Hegel's Logic has led me to the conclusion that the entire
>Logic, and all its little syllogisms, judgments and moments, make perfect
>sense if you understand him as talking about how rational social relations
>develop, and that he expresses this description of the "laws of motion of
>social rationality" in the form of a critique of the types of thinking that
>rationalise each stage of the process.
>
>See http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/iup.htm
>
>Andy
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