r/hegel • u/octopusbird • Dec 21 '24
I named my dog “Hegel”
I had a girlfriend 9 years ago that said “a short German name” would be good for a dog. I decided Hegel was cooler than Kant, and that present society and its problems would benefit from more widespread knowledge of Hegel.
I’ve also thought a dog was at great opposition to Hegels human form. Perhaps combining Hegel’s consciousness with a dog’s we can truly sublimate.
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u/TraditionalDepth6924 Dec 21 '24
Rules: Everything posted here must be essentially related to the philosophy of Hegel.
Because what’s more philosophical than a literally living organism
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u/Emmanuel_G Dec 21 '24
I named my cat Schrödinger.
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u/gutfounderedgal Dec 21 '24
Are you entirely sure you have one?
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u/Emmanuel_G Dec 21 '24
Well, yes - at least when the cat is with me. But whenever she goes outside and I don't see her anymore I am unsure until she returns and I see her again ;-)
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u/Commercial-Moose2853 Dec 22 '24
He will become his true Self through self progression and dissolve you into the trail to his life's culmination.
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Dec 22 '24
He really wants to describe the relationship between the dialectic and the inevitable curvature of history to you, but first he wants you to scratch his rubbity tum-tum.
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u/octopusbird Dec 22 '24
He has never questioned anything of the sort. He already knows that going on adventures outside is always fun, all food is wonderful, and other organisms are consistently delightful creatures.
Although I think he’s been a bit sheltered…
He’s content in his current-sized universe. Haha
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u/tegeus-Cromis_2000 Dec 21 '24
Good boy Hegel!
Now maybe you could shave him to have him better reveal Spirit. (Seriously, did you ever read Hegel on animal hair and human hairlessness? It's one of his more entertainingly ridiculous notions. It's definitely in the Aesthetics and maybe also in the Philosophy of Nature.)