File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9811, message 106


Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:54:57 -0500
From: Cyprus <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com>
Subject: Re: be a fan or else


>thinkers ,
>
>i know this is kinda OLD , but erm could you all offer me some
>criticisms AGAINST the hegelian dialectic ? just some itsty bity
>pointers will do -)
>

The classic criticism of the Hegelian dialectic, one that Nietszche never
tires of making, is that it sets out to show that the impossible is not
only possible but actual in the course of history, namely that the lofty
emerges from the base or, put in another way, the positive emerges from the
negative.  N. regards this as simply the slavish revolt dressed up as
metaphysical mumbo jumbo.  Remember, too, in Hegel the master-slave
dichotomy disappears (or is 'aufgehoben') into the worker.  For N. there is
no Aufhebung of this dichotomy.  The master either wins or the slave, there
is no middle ground.
  Now, many commentators (e.g. Kaufmann) have tried to argue that N.'s
sublimation is basically the same thing as Hegel's Aufhebung.  This is a
poor argument, but I will defer to Lambda C's venom to demonstrate the full
extent of this poverty.

Paul S. Rhodes

p.s.  If any of what I wrote above is wrong, I am sure that the venerable
Lambda C will swoop in with a list of errata.


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de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.




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