Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:04:19 +0100 From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk> Subject: BHA: GWF and Roy; Great Individuals Hi all, Phil I've been looking again - partly to do battle with Phil on World Historical Individuals, and partly out of sheer mesmerised interest - at Hegel's 'Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Introduction', and have been struck by the direct parallels with EW re the essential Self and indeed the (in effect) 'Buddha-nature' of everything (etc), which OK shouldn't surprise us, but you might be interested: - 'God's wisdom is... active in everything' p38 (in 'plants and insects' etc) - 'man is free...' 52 - 'the divine being [is] the essence of man...' 53 - 'the spirit or man as such are free in themselves' [sic] 54 - 'all men as such are free', 'man is by nature free' 54 - 'World history travels from east to west' 197 !! (admittedly in a different sense and epoch from EW, Roy's is the next feedback loop: from east to west and back; from east to west...). And, Phil, I think I've found the clincher re Heroes: 'If we wish to treat history philosophically, we must avoid such expressions as 'this state would not have collapsed if there had been someone who...' etc. Individuals fade into insignificance beside the universal substance, and *it creates for itself the individuals it requires to carry out its ends*' (52) - my emphasis; ie if not Napoleon, then someone else; if not Hegel, etc. There are other passages to similar effect. -- Mervyn Hartwig 13 Spenser Road Herne Hill London SE24 ONS United Kingdom Tel: 020 7 737 2892 Email: mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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