Contradiction

"History progresses through contradiction and conflict. Through the process of opposing values colliding, breaking, and merging, humanity moves toward higher reason."

— Friedrich Hegel

Today's Question

Among the failures or conflicts you've been through, was there one that, looking back, matured your perspective? If so, what was it?

The sage who sang of the development of spirit amidst Napoleon's gunfire

Hegel was a philosopher who believed that truth is not fixed, but develops through contradictions and conflicts colliding and merging.

While writing 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' in 1806, French troops occupied the city of Jena. Watching Napoleon ride through the streets, Hegel wrote that he saw the 'world-soul on horseback,' viewing war as part of historical progress.

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