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“As Uncle Hegel used to enjoy pointing out, the trouble with perspectives is that they are, by definition, PARTIAL points of view; the Real problems are appreciated only when, in the course of the development of the World Spirit, the limits of perspective come to be transcended. Or, to put it less technically, it helps to be able to see the whole elephant.”

Book:Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind

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“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.”

Revolution Epistemology Hegel Lenin Hegelian Dialectic

Author:Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“The interpenetration of chance and determination bears on the problem of how there can be a scientific approach to society when individual human behavior and consciousness seem unpredictable. Those who despair to point out that people are not machines, that there are subjective processes in the making of decisions, that it is not 'classes' but individuals who make choices. Terms such as "the human factor" or "subjective factors" with their implication of chance and unpredictability are invoked as the negation of regularity and lawfulness. And indeed it is true that individual behavior and consciousness are the consequences of intersection of a large number of weakly determining factors. But it does not follow that where there is choice, subjectivity, and individuality there cannon also be predictability. The error to take the individual as causally prior to the whole and not to appreciate that the social has causal properties within which individual consciousness and action are formed. While the consciousness of an individual is not determined by his/her class position but is influenced by idiosyncratic factors that appear as random, those random factors operate within a domain and with probabilities that are constrained and directed by social forces.”

Science Marxism Determinism Dialectical Materialism Hegelian Dialectic Chance And Necessity Historical Materialismter

Book:Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, agriculture, and health

Source: Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, agriculture, and health

“For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true. Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt It will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish I could be monarch of a desert land I could devote and dedicate forever To the truths we keep coming back and back to. So desert it would have to be, so walled By mountain ranges half in summer snow, No one would covet it or think it worth The pains of conquering to force change on. Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk Blown over and over themselves in idleness.”

Truth Nature History Fashion Conviction Hegelian Dialectic

Book:North of Boston

Source: North of Boston

“Perhaps, then, observes Hegel, there is an open vista for thought such that human intelligence can, in principle, override all of its self-imposed limits. If so, the argument goes, then there is hope that it may be able to conceptually assimilate all of reality.”

Philosophy Hegel Philosophy Of Mind Philosophy Of Fragmentism Hegelian Dialectic

Author:Micheal Allen Fox

“Spitzfindgikeiten des bloßen Begriffs waren die Gestehungkosten für die Entdeckung der Dialektik, Aristotelisch-Hegelsche Teleologie ging der Tendenz, Augustinisches Sabbatreich dem Reich der Freiheit vorauf. Und nicht zuletzt, ganz zuletzt geht die Aristotelische Deckung des δυνάμει ὄν, des In-Möglichkeit-Seins mit der Materie als tragender Materie jeder utopischen Substraterweiterung der Materie vorher; ob auch der Aristotelische Materie-Begriff in großer Philosophie rückwärts wie großen Teils auf vorwärts oft vereinsamt blieb.”

Philosophy Materialism Idealism Dialectics Potency Aristotle Tendency Hegelian Dialectic New Materialism

Book:Gesamtausgabe der Werke.: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz: Band 7: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz

Source: Gesamtausgabe der Werke.: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz: Band 7: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz

“Perhaps I can best explain by presenting these three somewhat arcane principles of depth psychology and then go on to unpack them and give you examples. I. It's not about what it's about. II. What you see is a compensation for what you don't see. III. All is metaphor.”

Jungian Psychology Analytical Psychology Depth Psychology Archetypal Psychology

Book:Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

Source: Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

“The Schizophrenia Complex: Archetypal Roots and the Role of Eros”

Biography Jungian Psychology Analytical Psychology Archetypal Psychology Clinical Psychology Complex Psychology Forensic Psychology

Book:The Schizophrenia Complex

Source: The Schizophrenia Complex

“It is no secret we live in troubled times. People in most areas—and most geographic and spiritual locations—have also thought themselves living in troubled times, and for sure, most individuals come to troubles sooner or later in the course of their own lifetime.”

Analytical Psychology Depth Psychology Archetypal Psychology Jungian Analysis

Book:Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

Source: Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times