moominek at aol.com wrote:
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> Carrol cited:
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> >The Truth is the Whole
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> But what's "the Whole"? Hegel, translated source code:
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> "The truth is the whole. But the whole is only the, trough its developement selfcompleting essence."
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> - that shows, there is not only one big "Whole" in Hegels philosophy. There are many different ones - like there are many different issues, questions, persons, essences.
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> Sebastian
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And as I intended to indicate, the "smaller" whole that I was interested in was capitalism. I have no idea whether that big whole is a whole or not. (Neither did Engels: he left it open whether or not physics could eventually be reduced to mechanics.) Ted and Whitehead would, I guess, disagree with me on this, but I think it is at least possible that the ONLY 'whole' to which dialectics applies is capitalism.
Carrol