There were places and periods of history
When only a moral optimist
He can have no hope for the future of our human race.
Thinking of the end of the Golden Age in Athens,
The fall of the Roman Empire,
Fading in the Renaissance,
End of Enlightenment,
Rise of fascism.
When things really look bleak,
It pays to recall the 19th-century German philosopher,
Hegel.
In his lectures on the philosophy of world history,
Published in 1830,
Hegel gave us a way to look
In darker periods in history,
That does not shine on their pain
It does not refuse to give up hope
But helps us understand intellegently
Why human progress can not be linear,
While encouraging us to trust
It does not happen, however.
For Hegel, history moves forward
In what he called “dialectic method”.
A dialectic is a philosophical term
The argument consists of three parts.
Dissertation, an antithesis and synthesis.
Both the thesis and the opposite
The truth
But also exaggerations and distortions
Of all.
Thus, you need to clash and even interract
The best items find a decision
In the synthesis.
One can not, in short, get there in a single jump.
Hegel thought this pattern could be observed constantly
in history.
The world makes progress
By reeling from one extreme to another,
As part of its quest to make up for the previous mistake.
It generally requires three steps
Before the right balance in any issue can be found.
So, for example, the ancient Athenians discovered
The idea of individual freedom.
But their system was blind to need
Collective discipline and organization.
The ancient Persians know all about it
And thus were able to conquer the Athenians
On the battlefield.
However, they were also enemies of authoritarian free thought
Which over time, has become his own responsibility.
It took centuries to install correctly
Between freedom and discipline, and work to solve them
In the form of the Roman Empire.
In the Hegel era itself, strangled, unfair,
The 18th century system of inheritance,
Royal traditional, canceled
Before the French Revolution.
But, what should have been the peaceful birth
Representative government
Ended up in chaos and the chaos of terrorism.
This, in turn, led to the emergence of Napoleon,
Who restored the order, but became a military brute,
Trampling on freedom he declared to love.
Only 40 years later, a lot of bloodshed,
No modern balance, constitution, appearance.
This arrangement is more balanced than reasonable up
Popular representation, with minority rights.
Or to take another example, the era of European Enlightenment
He stressed the importance of reason,
But in many parts it was sterile and reduced.
The movement known as ‘romance’
And then swept in emphasizing the importance of emotion.
But this has done transgressions on its own.
Only it was ultimately to the correct reconciliation
Reached between legitimate,
Competing needs mind
And passion.
Hegel’s argument has a very reassuring feeling
In moments when it seems
This kind of progress has been completely lost.
It’s on hand to reassure us that we’re just seeing
Pendulum swings for a while.
But also wisely the Council that this is needed,
Because the first step forward was blind
For a set of critical ideas.
And all parties on an issue containing important facts,
Provided amid exaggerations and words embellished.
However, these facts will ultimately be entrenched from
Through the wisdom of time.
Hegel reminds us that the big overreaction is
Compatible with prominent moving events on a large scale
Forward, in the right direction.
Dark moments are not the end.
They are difficult, but even in some respects
Spare parts for gearboxes,
This will, in the end,
Find a more witty point of synthesis.
When only a moral optimist
He can have no hope for the future of our human race.
Thinking of the end of the Golden Age in Athens,
The fall of the Roman Empire,
Fading in the Renaissance,
End of Enlightenment,
Rise of fascism.
When things really look bleak,
It pays to recall the 19th-century German philosopher,
Hegel.
In his lectures on the philosophy of world history,
Published in 1830,
Hegel gave us a way to look
In darker periods in history,
That does not shine on their pain
It does not refuse to give up hope
But helps us understand intellegently
Why human progress can not be linear,
While encouraging us to trust
It does not happen, however.
For Hegel, history moves forward
In what he called “dialectic method”.
A dialectic is a philosophical term
The argument consists of three parts.
Dissertation, an antithesis and synthesis.
Both the thesis and the opposite
The truth
But also exaggerations and distortions
Of all.
Thus, you need to clash and even interract
The best items find a decision
In the synthesis.
One can not, in short, get there in a single jump.
Hegel thought this pattern could be observed constantly
in history.
The world makes progress
By reeling from one extreme to another,
As part of its quest to make up for the previous mistake.
It generally requires three steps
Before the right balance in any issue can be found.
So, for example, the ancient Athenians discovered
The idea of individual freedom.
But their system was blind to need
Collective discipline and organization.
The ancient Persians know all about it
And thus were able to conquer the Athenians
On the battlefield.
However, they were also enemies of authoritarian free thought
Which over time, has become his own responsibility.
It took centuries to install correctly
Between freedom and discipline, and work to solve them
In the form of the Roman Empire.
In the Hegel era itself, strangled, unfair,
The 18th century system of inheritance,
Royal traditional, canceled
Before the French Revolution.
But, what should have been the peaceful birth
Representative government
Ended up in chaos and the chaos of terrorism.
This, in turn, led to the emergence of Napoleon,
Who restored the order, but became a military brute,
Trampling on freedom he declared to love.
Only 40 years later, a lot of bloodshed,
No modern balance, constitution, appearance.
This arrangement is more balanced than reasonable up
Popular representation, with minority rights.
Or to take another example, the era of European Enlightenment
He stressed the importance of reason,
But in many parts it was sterile and reduced.
The movement known as ‘romance’
And then swept in emphasizing the importance of emotion.
But this has done transgressions on its own.
Only it was ultimately to the correct reconciliation
Reached between legitimate,
Competing needs mind
And passion.
Hegel’s argument has a very reassuring feeling
In moments when it seems
This kind of progress has been completely lost.
It’s on hand to reassure us that we’re just seeing
Pendulum swings for a while.
But also wisely the Council that this is needed,
Because the first step forward was blind
For a set of critical ideas.
And all parties on an issue containing important facts,
Provided amid exaggerations and words embellished.
However, these facts will ultimately be entrenched from
Through the wisdom of time.
Hegel reminds us that the big overreaction is
Compatible with prominent moving events on a large scale
Forward, in the right direction.
Dark moments are not the end.
They are difficult, but even in some respects
Spare parts for gearboxes,
This will, in the end,
Find a more witty point of synthesis.
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