I’m always skeptical when people talk about “Hegel” for the large reason they have no clue what they are saying. He isn’t an easy philosopher and his system has been sidetracked by facile interpretations.
Frame does a good job, though.
Anti-Kant
Hegel asks “if we cannot know anything about the noumenal, then on what ground should we affirm its existence” (Frame 270)?
Frame is further correct in noting, contra to conservative bloggers, that Hegel never said “Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis.” What he means is that whenever you posit or examine something, it will always be somehow contradicted by another facet of reality, thus making way for a new positing.
The key terms here are aufheben (passive participle) and aufgehoben, which can mean something like “canceling” or “sublimating.”
Self-Alienation
The dialectic means God’s own coming to consciousness. God himself is being, but whenever we think of being we also think of non-being. To know being we have to distinguish it from nonbeing. So to posit being (God) is also to posit nonbeing (God’s shadow).
Thus, God’s thought leads inevitably to a self-alienation (Frame 275). When God announces “I Am” he divides his subjectivity from his objectivity. Thus, God always has a negative side. (Frame doesn’t mention it, but this is why Hegel is an occultic thinker).
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