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This may be of interest to some here. It's an extract from a longer work, so some prior understanding is assumed. Unfortunately, it may not be understandable without having read what went before, unless one is familiar with the philosophical context of what he is talking about. In this short excerpt, Alexander Dugin provides an summary of view of Hegel's project and how it fits into subsequent history and remains significant today, from his own point of view, of course, although in my view he gets the thrust of Hegel right. Dugin warns that Hegel's thought is complex, so any brief summary will necessarily be wanting. Nevertheless, Dugin offers an interesting way to view Hegel's project as Absolute Idealism. So what? Hegel was enormously influence in his day but he is now largely
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: G. W. F. Hegel, Political Philosophy
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This may be of interest to some here. It's an extract from a longer work, so some prior understanding is assumed. Unfortunately, it may not be understandable without having read what went before, unless one is familiar with the philosophical context of what he is talking about. In this short excerpt, Alexander Dugin provides an summary of view of Hegel's project and how it fits into subsequent history and remains significant today, from his own point of view, of course, although in my view he gets the thrust of Hegel right. Dugin warns that Hegel's thought is complex, so any brief summary will necessarily be wanting. Nevertheless, Dugin offers an interesting way to view Hegel's project as Absolute Idealism. So what? Hegel was enormously influence in his day but he is now largely
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: G. W. F. Hegel, Political Philosophy
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This may be of interest to some here. It's an extract from a longer work, so some prior understanding is assumed. Unfortunately, it may not be understandable without having read what went before, unless one is familiar with the philosophical context of what he is talking about.
In this short excerpt, Alexander Dugin provides an summary of view of Hegel's project and how it fits into subsequent history and remains significant today, from his own point of view, of course, although in my view he gets the thrust of Hegel right. Dugin warns that Hegel's thought is complex, so any brief summary will necessarily be wanting. Nevertheless, Dugin offers an interesting way to view Hegel's project as Absolute Idealism.
So what? Hegel was enormously influence in his day but he is now largely forgotten. However, his influence persists in the influence he exerted on some major figures in subsequent history, both as Hegelians and also as anti-Hegelians. Much of Dugin's philosophical work is exploring this dialectic between traditionalists and conservatives that hold worldviews characterized by the Great Chain of Being and those holding liberal, materialist and positivist world views characterized by the scientific-humanistic worldview.
The contemporary world is still struggle to reconcile these apparently opposing worldviews as globalization rolls on. These worldviews are not only opposing but also in conflict, and this conflict will apparently continue until there is a victor or a synthesis is achieved. Dugin gets this, and this synthesis is what his The Fourth Political Theory (summary) is about. (An English translation of The Fourth Political Theory is available for download at Archive.org.)
One way to summarize the issue as its is in the opposition of liberalism and conservatism. Liberalism is about individual freedom. Conservatism is about personal responsibility. The synthesis of these opposing forces is freedom and responsibility. Conservatives condemn liberals for thinking that freedom implies license. Liberals criticize conservatives for conflating responsibility with following authority blindly.
However, the issue of traditionalism and modernism and its extension to postmodernism is much more oppositional since more foundational issues are involved, being grounded in world views that seem impossible to reconcile — the Great Chain of Being and scientism. How this will be dealt with historically is still in the process of unfolding, and there is no end of history.
Incidentally, Alexander Dugin is a controversial character, and yes, he is a character. Be warned that most of what appears in the West as supposedly objective criticism of him, his work and the part he plays in Russia is ill-informed and highly biased.
I am not saying that one needs to agree with him, but his point of view is worth taking into account. He is likely to be remembered as a major thinker of his time. While one may not agree, Dugin does illumine the issues and inform the debate from a well-worked out stance.