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The Absolute, for Hegel, is thus the whole of the objective world understood as a system perpetually giving rise to the conditions necessary for it to confront itself as object, and thus achieve closure.
The substantive Absolute
“Sometimes it seems to me the modern world can only be viewed as conspiracy. The Right tends to credit communism with planning race riots and campus disorders”
― Again, Dangerous Visions
― Again, Dangerous Visions
“Climb a mountain of bodies under heavy fire to a dead end. Why would we do that, sir? Because the Emperor tells you to.”
― The Lost
― The Lost
“The levelling glories of field artillery,’ he said, ‘beneath which all things are rendered equal.”
― The Saint
― The Saint
“On the other hand, if the forest is dark, impassable, and very polluted; it may mean that either Leshyy in that forest has crossed over to the side of Darkness, or that Leshyy of that forest has been killed.”
― Creatures of Slavic Myth
― Creatures of Slavic Myth
“What is essential is negativity, which is the engine of the dialectic. The categories of philosophy are generated through negation, and though it is convenient to group them into threes, they could also be grouped in twos, fours, etc.”
― The Hegel Dictionary
― The Hegel Dictionary
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