Posted on 11/01/2008 9:22:11 AM PDT by The Conservative Yogini
The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash ,illuminates the features of the new world. - Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Liberalism is decidedly Hegelian. Okay, so maybe a few curious readers of this blog will then go over to Amazon and buy Hegel's masterpiece, The Phenomenology of Spirit, just to check it out for themselves. Unfortunately, the work is as arduous and as contradictory as the liberal mind itself. The reading of it is no easy task. At the same time, you know the American saying: good things come to those who work. I think that if more conservatives help each other understand who Hegel is and how his ideas have shaped liberal fascism yesterday, today and tomorrow, the more we will be able to fight off the monster that threatens the very existence of freedom in the world today.
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On its website The Times reported that the Senator is a possible candidate for the cabinet position of United States Secretary of Defense in a Barack Obama administration, if the Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Obama, is elected president:
Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet such as Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska and an opponent of the Iraq war […] Senior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain’s closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defense secretary.[23]
Senator Obama was quoted in the same article, when asked about Hagel as a potential cabinet member: "Chuck Hagel is a great friend of mine and I respect him very much."[23]
Thanks for posting; :)
Philosophy BUMP!
An their leaders are Gramscian, which should scare the hell out any rational person.
Don’t believe me?
A convincing read here.
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=47050&sid=d3dbd1ea204bd88559bc13d5cac2bddc
Had to post this quote:
The height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had been only previously known in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most barefaced, general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, as a monument to German stupidity.
– Arthur Schopenhauer, Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy
Great quote. Thanks.
Thanks for the link. Outstanding (dated) article by ACE...comments afterwards by FReepers at freedominion.
BTTT for like-minded Freedom-lovers, lurkers.
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