[lbo-talk] Query on Hegel

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Tue Feb 7 08:17:49 PST 2012


On Feb 7, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> What did Hegel mean by his metaphor, "The Owl o Athena flies at
> twilight"?
> (From memory, probably inaccurately quoted.)

History is not ergodic (historical events can be "predicted" on the basis of prior historical events only *after* they have occurred).

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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