CU Course on Hegel,
Part 6a
From Ontology to
Dialectics
From Being, through Essence, to Notion. We have been
through this sequence once with Andy Blunden. Now he takes us through it again.
Click on the link below to download two of Andy’s lectures, compiled together.
Did you ever wonder
quite what makes Quantity turn into Quality? Hegel gives a much fuller
explanation of this than Engels did in “Anti-Dühring”. Not that Engels was to
blame. How was he to know that his own brief works would be more familiar to
posterity than those of his master in philosophy, Hegel?
Ontology is a
philosophical word for the way things follow one from another. The illustration
above is a computer person’s visualisation of “ontology”, for the purposes of
designing computers and software.
Hegel undermined the
idea of ontology. Andy Blunden explains how, and why, it can’t just be “one
damned thing after another”.
In the second of
Andy’s two lectures, Andy moves into the “Essence” part, where we are dealing
with dialectics in the Hegel way.
Andy Blunden’s
lectures need little introduction, because they contain enough that is clear
and could be understood and discussed by any study circle.
We must move through
the material. The next time we pass along this road we will recognise many
landmarks that we have noted this time, and next time we will also notice some
more that we did not see this time.
- The above is to introduce the original reading-text: From Ontology to Dialectics, Andy Blunden, 2007.
- To download any of the CU courses in PDF files please click here.
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