To some degree I can see the process that Hegel calls dialectics in how Relativity was discovered. The basic idea of Hegel was if you take some concept and just go with it taking it as far as you can, you will eventually end up with some kind of contradiction. That is more or less what Einstein did. He simply took Maxwell's equations and asked what would happen if you took them for a moving body? That in fact led to a problem in the equations themselves, unless you took the speed of light in a vacuum be constant in all frames of reference. And in fact at that point in time there was the result of the Michelson/Morley experiment indicating just that. [Though I got the impression that that experiment was not very important for Einstein's results which him came to even without it.] And after that Einstein just took the next logical step in asking what would happen in an accelerating frame of reference? And then came up with his idea that a person in free fall would not know he is in an accelerating frame of reference. But to get the equation for that, Einstein needed to do some more work. But still the basic process of reasoning was more or less straightforward.
[As pointed out by McTaggart, the dialectics of Hegel is not meant to be separate from observation. That. in fact, had been a critique on Hegel that was answered by McTaggart, and also I think that it is more or less clear in Hegel himself. --In his treatment of immediate knowledge.]
I have to say that I see a lot of parallels between Plato and the Kant.Fries system and also a strong connection between Hegel and Plotinus [Neo Platonic]. [Dr Kelley Ross wrote that the Rambam is pretty much a straightforward Neo Platonist, so that puts him somewhat closer to Hegel in that regard. [In Kelley Ross's web site there is an essay which presents a case that the Rambam was in fact close to the Kant Fries approach --which does seem to be right in the areas he points out there.]
[Popper puts to much blame on Hegel. When Marx and Lenin openly rejected the major points of Hegel I can not see how Hegel is to blame. Besides that Hegel was supporting a system like that of the USA. The Estates wanted to go back to feudal laws against the constitution proposed by the Prussian Monarch which was saying equal rights under the law! So Hegel supporting that constitution was actual supporting something close to the USA constitution].
[As pointed out by McTaggart, the dialectics of Hegel is not meant to be separate from observation. That. in fact, had been a critique on Hegel that was answered by McTaggart, and also I think that it is more or less clear in Hegel himself. --In his treatment of immediate knowledge.]
I have to say that I see a lot of parallels between Plato and the Kant.Fries system and also a strong connection between Hegel and Plotinus [Neo Platonic]. [Dr Kelley Ross wrote that the Rambam is pretty much a straightforward Neo Platonist, so that puts him somewhat closer to Hegel in that regard. [In Kelley Ross's web site there is an essay which presents a case that the Rambam was in fact close to the Kant Fries approach --which does seem to be right in the areas he points out there.]
[Popper puts to much blame on Hegel. When Marx and Lenin openly rejected the major points of Hegel I can not see how Hegel is to blame. Besides that Hegel was supporting a system like that of the USA. The Estates wanted to go back to feudal laws against the constitution proposed by the Prussian Monarch which was saying equal rights under the law! So Hegel supporting that constitution was actual supporting something close to the USA constitution].
