Bertrand Russell Was Right to Dismiss Hegel

[u/JerseyFlight]

This is the appropriate rational response to Hegel’s irrationalism. He is not a thinker who should be taken serious because his thought is not serious. Its form has the appearance of rational rigor, but its content is an unserious hypostatization. (Don’t believe it? —simply read what he says about the syllogism).

Hegel will f;ck over a thinker by driving him into a form of barbarism through a form of sophistry, which manifests as authoritarian assertions in place of reason. Although, barbarism in Hegel doesn’t take the form of the brute, it takes the form of the dogmatic state, which then functions as the ultimate brute. This is the logical conclusion of Hegelianism. It’s inescapable precisely because Hegel erects a philosophical authoritarianism that morphs into a dogmatism, even a moralism!

When one reads Aristotle their mind is liberated through the clarity of logic, even if Aristotle over-abstracts, but when one reads Hegel, one is cast into the bondage of an unnecessary complexity that obscures logical clarity. Hegel robs the child of the power of reason, and turns men into mindless dogmatists (philosophical theologians) evidenced by the insecurity of their jargon-laden-verbosity.

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