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Single Idea 19635
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought
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Full Idea
Hegel is chiefly responsible for modern optimism. How could he have failed to see that consciousness changes only its forms and modalities, but never progresses.
Gist of Idea
Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by E.M. Cioran - A Short History of Decay 5
Book Ref
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.150
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[landmarks of general European thought, 1601 - 1878]:
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7822
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A neo-Stoic movement began in the late sixteenth century
[Lipsius, by Grayling]
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7504
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Modern science comes from Descartes' view that knowledge doesn't need moral purity
[Descartes, by Foucault]
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19635
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Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses
[Hegel, by Cioran]
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7662
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Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West
[Berlin]
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8060
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In the 17th-18th centuries morality offered a cure for egoism, through altruism
[MacIntyre]
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8021
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The Levellers and the Diggers mark a turning point in the history of morality
[MacIntyre]
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8092
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Logic was merely a branch of rhetoric until the scientific 17th century
[Devlin]
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9307
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Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s
[Svendsen]
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19648
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Since Kant we think we can only access 'correlations' between thinking and being
[Meillassoux]
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19674
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The Copernican Revolution decentres the Earth, but also decentres thinking from reality
[Meillassoux]
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21855
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Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza
[Lord]
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20678
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The Scientific Revolution was the discovery of our own ignorance
[Harari]
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20686
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For millenia people didn't know how to convert one type of energy into another
[Harari]
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