Hegel has had a curious history. Hegelian Idealism was totally gone by 1850. Marx and Kierkegaard also disagreed with Hegel about most major points but still adopted his methods. Now these two philosophies of Marx and Kierkegaard encompass a large part of the globe. And a great deal of twentieth century philosophy is a kind of struggle to escape Metaphysics. Is not it time to give Leonard Nelson and the Kant/Fries approach due consideration?
Opposed to the Idealism of Kant and Hegel is most of 20th century philosophy.
A great deal of twentieth century philosophy is really quite horrible. As Dr John Searle put it "It is obviously false"--that is referring to the linguistic (British-American) and analytical (continental).
But never the less getting it right is still important.
[In high school I was very interested in philosophy but thankfully I did not go into it as a profession or even a hobby. I guess I did not see much going on there of any value.
Allen Sokal and Allen Bloom already made these points. But you can see this for yourself when present day philosophers say anything that even vaguely is related to science. That is one area you can see they went off the path of sanity.]
Opposed to the Idealism of Kant and Hegel is most of 20th century philosophy.
A great deal of twentieth century philosophy is really quite horrible. As Dr John Searle put it "It is obviously false"--that is referring to the linguistic (British-American) and analytical (continental).
But never the less getting it right is still important.
[In high school I was very interested in philosophy but thankfully I did not go into it as a profession or even a hobby. I guess I did not see much going on there of any value.
Allen Sokal and Allen Bloom already made these points. But you can see this for yourself when present day philosophers say anything that even vaguely is related to science. That is one area you can see they went off the path of sanity.]
