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Quote from : Wikipedia : Hegelian Dialectic
Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a three-fold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.
Although this model is often named after Hegel, he himself never used that specific formulation.
Hegel ascribed that terminology to Kant.
Carrying on Kant's work, Fichte greatly elaborated on the synthesis model, and popularized it.
On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that is very similar to the antithesis model, but Hegel's most usual terms were: Abstract-Negative-Concrete.
Sometimes Hegel would use the terms, Immediate-Mediated-Concrete.
Hegel used these terms hundreds of times throughout his works.
The formula, Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis, does not explain why the Thesis requires an Antithesis.
However, the formula, Abstract-Negative-Concrete, suggests a flaw in any initial thesis—it is too abstract and lacks the negative of trial, error and experience.
The same applies to the formula, Immediate-Mediated-Concrete.
For Hegel, the Concrete, the Synthesis, the Absolute, must always pass through the phase of the Negative, that is, Mediation.
This is the actual essence of what is popularly called Hegelian Dialectics.
To describe the activity of overcoming the negative, Hegel also often used the term Aufhebung, variously translated into English as "sublation" or "overcoming," to conceive of the working of the dialectic.
Roughly, the term indicates preserving the useful portion of an idea, thing, society, etc., while moving beyond its limitations.
(Jacques Derrida's preferred French translation of the term was relever).
In the Logic, for instance, Hegel describes a dialectic of existence: first, existence must be posited as pure Being (Sein); but pure Being, upon examination, is found to be indistinguishable from Nothing (Nichts).
When it is realized that what is coming into being is, at the same time, also returning to nothing (in life, for example, one's living is also a dying), both Being and Nothing are united as Becoming.
As in the Socratic dialectic, Hegel claimed to proceed by making implicit contradictions explicit: each stage of the process is the product of contradictions inherent or implicit in the preceding stage.
For Hegel, the whole of history is one tremendous dialectic, major stages of which chart a progression from self-alienation as slavery to self-unification and realization as the rational, constitutional state of free and equal citizens.
The Hegelian dialectic cannot be mechanically applied for any chosen thesis.
Critics argue that the selection of any antithesis, other than the logical negation of the thesis, is subjective.
Then, if the logical negation is used as the antithesis, there is no rigorous way to derive a synthesis.
In practice, when an antithesis is selected to suit the user's subjective purpose, the resulting "contradictions" are rhetorical, not logical, and the resulting synthesis is not rigorously defensible against a multitude of other possible syntheses.
The problem with the Fichtean "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis" model is that it implies that contradictions or negations come from outside of things.
Hegel's point is that they are inherent in and internal to things.
This conception of dialectics derives ultimately from Heraclitus.
Hegel has outlined that the purpose of dialectics is "to study things in their own being and movement and thus to demonstrate the finitude of the partial categories of understanding"
One important dialectical principle for Hegel is the transition from quantity to quality, which he terms the Measure.
The measure is the qualitative quantum, the quantum is the existence of quantity.
"The identity between quantity and quality, which is found in Measure, is at first only implicit, and not yet explicitly realized.
In other words, these two categories, which unite in Measure, each claim an independent authority.
On the one hand, the quantitative features of existence may be altered, without affecting its quality.
On the other hand, this increase and diminution, immaterial though it be, has its limit, by exceeding which the quality suffers change. [...] But if the quantity present in measure exceeds a certain limit, the quality corresponding to it is also put in abeyance.
This however is not a negation of quality altogether, but only of this definite quality, the place of which is at once occupied by another.
This process of measure, which appears alternately as a mere change in quantity, and then as a sudden revulsion of quantity into quality, may be envisaged under the figure of a nodal (knotted) line".
As an example, Hegel mentions the states of aggregation of water:
"Thus the temperature of water is, in the first place, a point of no consequence in respect of its liquidity: still with the increase or diminution of the temperature of the liquid water, there comes a point where this state of cohesion suffers a qualitative change, and the water is converted into steam or ice".
As other examples Hegel mentions the reaching of a point where a single additional grain makes a heap of wheat; or where the bald-tail is produced, if we continue plucking out single hairs.
Another important principle for Hegel is the negation of the negation, which he also terms Aufhebung (sublation): Something is only what it is in its relation to another, but by the negation of the negation this something incorporates the other into itself.
The dialectical movement involves two moments that negate each other, a somewhat and an another.
As a result of the negation of the negation, "something becomes an other; this other is itself somewhat; therefore it likewise becomes an other, and so on ad infinitum".
Something in its passage into other only joins with itself, it is self-related.
In becoming there are two moments: coming-to-be and ceasing-to-be: by sublation, i.e. negation of the negation, being passes over into nothing, it ceases to be, but something new shows up, is coming to be.
What is sublated (aufgehoben) on the one hand ceases to be and is put to an end, but on the other hand it is preserved and maintained.
In dialectics, a totality transform itself, it is self-related.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Id, Ego, Super-Ego
Id, ego, and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described.
According to this model, the uncoordinated instinctual trends are the "id"; the organised realistic part of the psyche is the "ego," and the critical and moralising function the "super-ego."
Even though the model is "structural" and makes reference to an "apparatus", the id, ego, and super-ego are functions of the mind rather than parts of the brain and do not necessarily correspond one-to-one with actual somatic structures of the kind dealt with by neuroscience.
The concepts themselves arose at a late stage in the development of Freud's thought: the structural model was first discussed in his 1920 essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and was formalised and elaborated upon three years later in his "The Ego and the Id."
Freud's proposal was influenced by the ambiguity of the term "unconscious" and its many conflicting uses.
The terms "id," "ego," and "super-ego" are not Freud's own.
They are latinisations by his translator James Strachey.
Freud himself wrote of "das Es," "das Ich," and "das Über-Ich"—respectively, "the It," "the I," and the "Over-I" (or "Upper-I"); thus to the German reader, Freud's original terms are more or less self-explanatory.
Freud borrowed the term "das Es" from Georg Groddeck, a German physician to whose unconventional ideas Freud was much attracted (Groddeck's translators render the term in English as "the It").
Amazon Review :
This is the third and final volume of a trilogy describing the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite or the Eastern Liberal Establishment, in three significant twentieth-century historical events: the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
Each of these events introduced some variant of socialism into a major country — i.e., Bolshevik socialism in Russia, New Deal socialism in the United States, and National socialism in Germany.
Contemporary academic histories, with perhaps the sole exception of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy And Hope, ignore this evidence.
On the other hand, it is understandable that universities and research organizations, dependent on financial aid from foundations that are controlled by this same New York financial elite, would hardly want to support and to publish research on these aspects of international politics.
The bravest of trustees is unlikely to bite the hand that feeds his organization.
It is also eminently clear from the evidence in this trilogy that "public-spirited businessmen" do not journey to Washington as lobbyists and administrators in order to serve the United States.
They are in Washington to serve their own profit-maximizing interests.
Their purpose is not to further a competitive, free-market economy, but to manipulate a politicized regime, call it what you will, to their own advantage.
It is business manipulation of Hitler's accession to power in March 1933 that is the topic of Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Anthoy Sutton
Antony Cyril Sutton (February 14, 1925 - June 17, 2002) was a British-born economist, historian, and writer.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell Trust Association, named for General William Huntington Russell, who co-founded Skull and Bones with classmate Alphonso Taft.
The Russell Trust was founded by Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman, member of Skull and Bones and later a university president.
The society is known informally as "Bones", and members are known as "Bonesmen".
During the senior year each Skull and Bones class meets every Thursday and Sunday night.
The emblem of Skull and Bones is a skull with crossed bones, over the number "322".
President George H. W. Bush, his son President George W. Bush, and the latter's 2004 Presidential opponent Senator John Kerry are members of Skull and Bones.
Originally posted by whiteboynolan
BILDERBERG GROUP IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
THEY WILL NEVER COME OUT AND SAY" WE ARE THE NEW WORLD ORDER"
THEY ARE A SECRET ORDER.. A SECRET GOVERNMENT.
A GOVERNMENT THAT CONSISTS OF 125 OF THE MAJOR LEADERS FROM ALL MAJOR PLAYING NATIONS.
THEY ARE BEHIND IT ALL!!!
IF YOU BELIEVE THIS THEN I WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
U2U
Quote from : Wikipedia : Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American nonprofit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
Founded in 1921 and headquartered at 58 East 68th Street (Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C., CFR is considered to be 'the most influential foreign-policy think tank.'
It publishes a bi-monthly journal Foreign Affairs.
It has an extensive website, www.cfr.org, featuring links to its history, fellows’ biographical information, think tank, the David Rockefeller Studies Program, Independent Task Force reports and other reports, CFR books, expert interviews, meeting transcripts, audio, and videos, Emmy award-winning multimedia Crisis Guides and timelines, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications, biographies of notable directors and other board members, corporate members, and press releases.
Quote from : Wikipedia : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is a United Nations agency that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna.
It was renamed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2002.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the practice of people being tricked, lured, coerced or otherwise removed from their home or country, and then forced to work with no or low payment or on terms which are highly exploitative.
The practice is considered to be the trade or commerce of people, which has many features of slavery, and which is illegal in most countries.
The victims of human trafficking are used in a variety of situations, including prostitution, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage) and other forms of involuntary servitude.
The sale of babies and children for adoption or other purposes is also considered to be trafficking in those children.
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also referred to as the Palermo Protocol) is a protocol to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and defines human trafficking as the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation."
As of September 2008, the Protocol has been signed by 117 countries, and there are 124 parties.
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world, with the total annual revenue for trafficking in persons estimated to be between USD$5 billion and $9 billion.
The Council of Europe states, "People trafficking has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade, with a global annual market of about $42.5 billion."
The United Nations estimates nearly 2.5 million people from 127 different countries are being trafficked around the world.
Trafficking victims typically are recruited using coercion, deception, fraud, the abuse of power, or outright abduction.
Human trafficking across international borders requires cooperation and collaboration between states if it is to be tackled effectively.
The OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), an ad hoc intergovernmental organization under the United Nations Charter, is one of the leading agencies fighting the problem of human trafficking, with an area of operation that includes North America, Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.
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Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Ok SKL. You want a reply from me bad enough to go to my profile and announce your thread, then fine, I'll give you one. But it won't be all good.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
First, nice thread, good work, and you bring about important points. And one in particular- that basically the NWO is a state of mind that we should avoid, and it is how we are controlled. To a degree I agree. I mean sure, I could just say right now "Screw all this," throw away my computer, and go fishing on the lake. Or go play my drums. Or whatever.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
But in the same way you caution us with this thread to essentially disconnect yourself from perceptions, I will likewise caution you to NOT disconnect yourself too far from REALITY.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
And that reality is, SKL, not just perceptions of the forces of evil that drive so much of our top leadership not only in this country but in most others as well. It is REALITY. And as such, whether you perceive yourself to be a puppet or puppet master, it really matters not to me. What matters the most to me is the injustice being served up in staggering amounts to innocent people all over this planet. And not just the people, either- animals too.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
It is real. War is made real every day, and is brought upon us- not because your average person wants it, but because politicians and greedy ass bastards- call them what you will- sacrifice human life for profit and power on a DAILY basis. This is the world we live in, SKL. It is REAL, and not just a perception.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
You suggest to vote in new people of wiser and better ways, but yet you make no mention of the fact that 80 % of the voting systems have been compromised and are corrupt- effectively rendering your desirable notion- impossible. You can't vote in new people when the system itself is compromised.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Even in the case of a person like Ron Paul getting elected, somehow, to President, I can only imagine what would happen in the following closed door sessions when he was informed by the puppet masters of just how things were going to be. He would stand powerless against them, as so many other Presidents have stood before them. All that work to get there, only to be smitten down like a mouse in a rat trap.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
You may choose to indulge in lofty ideals, which is up to you- and I'm not saying your ideas are bad by any means, mind you- but I guess I am more of a realist. I see what goes on. I hate it. And I can't fix it. I want to, but the task is too great. So maybe the only solution is for me to go play my drums or go fishing- and throw away this keyboard.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
It is often said that the pen is mightier than the sword, but no one can ever seem to explain to me why the puppet masters keep using swords. Maybe it's time we all grabbed one too, until the day that we can put those away and use pens for a while again.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by Sinter Klaas
Love the video.
We have the right to define that which we perceive.
Therefore instead of allowing them to win, we can defeat them.
Which Is It, "Conspiracy Theory", or "Conspiracy Fact"?
Our perception is what determines which it is and is not.
[edit on 6-4-2010 by SpartanKingLeonidas]