#Dialectic

[thirdity]

Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

[philosophybits]

Doing philosophy is a conversation with oneself [...] an actual revelation of the self — arousal of the real self through the ideal self. Doing philosophy is the foundation of all other revelations. The decision to do philosophy is a challenge to the real self to reflect, to awaken and to be spirit.

Novalis, Logological Fragments I

[soracities]

A discussion is not an exchange or a confrontation of ideas, as if each formed his own, showed them to the others, looked at theirs, and returned to correct them with his own […] Whether he speaks up or hardly whispers, each one speaks with all that he is, with his ‘ideas’, but also with his obsessions, his secret history.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, quoted in Sarah Bakewell's The existentialist Café

[weirdchristmas]

"Being-for-itself does not have negation in it as a determinateness or limit, and consequently also not as reference to an existence other than it." - Hegel

[celtos]

To know one’s limit is to know how to sacrifice oneself.

G.W.F. Hegel

[yorgunherakles]

engels bir metninde hegelci diyalektiği şöyle yorumlar, “…bu felsefe her şeyin geçici karakterini ve her şeydeki geçici karakteri ortaya çıkarır.”

frederick beiser - hegel

[i-fucked-your-milkshake]

This is literally dialectic reasoning.

Thesis: Shampoo is better because it goes on first and cleans the hair.

Antithesis: Conditioner is better because it makes the hair silky and smooth.

Synthesis: Billy never makes the next leap but we can. The reality is that shampoo and conditioner work together to ensure proper hair care and should therefore be used in tandem as part of your hygiene routine.

Congrats, you understand Hegel.

[manwalksintobar]

The Weighing  // Jane Hirshfield

The heart's reasons seen clearly, even the hardest will carry its whip-marks and sadness and must be forgiven.

As the drought-starved eland forgives the drought-starved lion who finally takes her, enters willingly then the life she cannot refuse, and is lion, is fed, and does not remember the other.

So few grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

The world asks of us only the strength we have and we give it. Then it asks more, and we give it.

[fieriframes]

[First I shall recapitulate the diverse stages of this dialectic.]

[mysteriouscircumstanceslut]

I am in SUCH a strange period of life and I am learning so much! I am learning how to live when I have tremendous sadness and loneliness inside me AND ALSO so much joy and love! There are so many feelings inside of me and I am learning to allow them all to coexist in a way I never have before. I am learning so much about what makes me feel bad and what makes me feel good.

Here's what I've been telling myself lately:

- it makes sense that I feel the way that I do

- I'm not special - everyone has difficult times. To be alive is to suffer sometimes

- what would happen if I decided to wait and see?

- this is my very first time being alive! No wonder I don't know what I'm doing!

[thirdity]

Fashion is the collective imitation of regular novelty; even when it has the alibi of individual expression, or, as we say today, of a 'personality', it is essentially a mass phenomenon in which sociologists are very happy to be interested so long as they find in it the privileged example of a completely pure dialectic between the individual and society.

Roland Barthes, The Language of Fashion

[femmeofarc]

you learned about dialectics through political and philosophical theory, while i studied the blade (dialectical behavioral therapy worksheet)

[sabakos]

If AI art is art, then I am an artist, and therefore I need to care about AI art ethics. If AI art is not art, then I am not an artist, and therefore I do not need to care about AI art ethics. So it has been demonstrated that the correctness of my arguments is entirely contingent on their relevance and their relevance is entirely contingent on their correctness. Either I am right or it does not matter that I am wrong.

[day-of-slugdgement]

so the first verse of Murmaider begins:

There are no fingerprints deep under water Nothing to tie one to a crime

but then in the second verse it goes on to say:

But beware! For when you quench your blood thirst Others will seek their vengeance on you And they won't rest until you're dead

which seems like a contradiction, because how would they know who to target? except the fourth verse finally explains:

You've been tracked, you've been seen Murdering the next of kin Ate their hearts, drank their blood Washed your fins in blackened mud

so it doesn't matter whether you left fingerprints, if you were caught in the act. this is what is called a "dialectic".

[chuuurls]