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Re:The Zizians and the Rationalist Death Cult by Der_Einzige on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:58AM (#42909849)
All of Hegel, and most of his descendants, are fashionable nonsense. All types of "Dialectics" are fake and don't exist. It's telling that the most common version of the term "Dialectics" that everyone thinks Hegel coined was actually coined by one of his (many butthurt) students, Fitche.

Philosophy will continue to be bankrupt for as long as Hegel's stranglehold on Philosophy remains. Kill his thought, Kill "dialectics", Kill the "world spirit" or "Geist". Otherwise philosophy continues down the "post modern neo marxism" loony world that has led so many to turn to turn reactionary.

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Re:The Zizians and the Rationalist Death Cult by bowsamic on Sunday February 02, 2025 @12:56PM (#42910312)
Hegel really isn’t as difficult as you’re making out. Your inheritance of the popular idea that he is nonsense is the only thing stopping you
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Re:The Zizians and the Rationalist Death Cult by hackandthink on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:00PM (#42910349)
We can discuss nonsense.

But Hegel is definitely not fashionable.

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Re:The Zizians and the Rationalist Death Cult by bowsamic on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:18PM (#42910489)
> This is the same for most of the rest of the "postmodern" canon.

I genuinely can’t think of anyone less postmodern than Hegel. He’s a pure rational traditionalist who believed completely in objective truth and morality and grand narratives lol

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Re:The Zizians and the Rationalist Death Cult by Phenomenit on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:37PM (#42910637)
So you’ve discarded a lot of modern , post modern and contemporary thinkers without offering some alternative or do you mean that there isn’t much to philosophy in general? I’m curious because I have also come to a similar conclusion but I have to admit that I have not read everyone that you’ve mentioned but I have read summaries and analysis.
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Re:The Zizians and the Rationalist Death Cult by pizzalife on Sunday February 02, 2025 @03:01PM (#42911280)
At least Zizek can be funny sometimes.
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