CU Course on Hegel, Part 6a
Ontology Diagram
From Ontology to Dialectics
From
Being, through Essence, to Notion. We have been
through this sequence once with Andy Blunden. Now he takes us through it again
in the attached document. Or, click on the link below to download these two of
Andy’s lectures, compiled together.
Did
you ever wonder quite what makes Quantity turn into Quality? Hegel gives a much
fuller explanation of this than Engels did in “Anti-Dühring”. Not that Engels
was to blame. How was he to know that his own brief works would be more
familiar to posterity than those of his master in philosophy, Hegel?
Ontology
is a philosophical word for the way things follow one from another. The
illustration above is a computer person’s visualisation of “ontology”, for the
purposes of designing computers and software.
Hegel
undermined the idea of ontology. Andy Blunden explains how, and why, it can’t
just be “one damned thing after another”.
In
the second of Andy’s two lectures, Andy moves into the “Essence” part, where we
are dealing with dialectics in the Hegel way.
Andy
Blunden’s lectures need little introduction, because they contain enough that
is clear and could be understood and discussed by any study circle.
We
must move through the material. The next time we pass along this road we will
recognise many landmarks that we have noted this time, and next time we will also
notice some more that we did not see this time.
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The above is to
introduce the original reading-text: From Ontology to Dialectics,
Andy Blunden, 2007.
