Hegel – a real German Genius (2009)

Prussia was in 1793 an agricultural country and, therefore, in a position to give rise to a genuine genius by virtue of long classical training. Such a genius was Georg WF Hegel, a sympathiser with the French Revolution and author of Logic (1793), the Philosophy of Right (1821) and the Epistomology of Right. Hegel’s views changed under the influence of Napoleon’s domination and he became an advocate of Divine Right, dialectics which left a place for God.

Hegel’s logic marked his sympathy with the French Revolution. It was published in 1793 when was a professor of Jurisprudence in Berlin. In it he examines the nature of thought. Thought or voices are the mental reflection of sensory images, reflections, memories, feelings and so on. When modern day psychiatrists ask ‘are you meaning voices’ to someone they intend to label as a schizophrenic, they were pre-empted by Hegel in Logic who described such phenomena as natural. Hegel therefore pre-empted the cult of psychiatry.

Also, in Logic, we get a full mapping out of the laws if relativity one hundred and twenty years before Einstein. (Einstein’s only unique discovery was that uranium was the softest metal and could be split to create a nuclear reaction).

In Logic, we also get a pre-sentiment of Marxist practice in the Judgement.
During his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence, Hegel adopted the belief in legitimate royal and moral authority as being vested in a King by God. The dialectics which began in Aristotle were taken further and fleshed out in the Philosophy of Right. Recht in German means moral justice, the law, legal procedure, moral right and pertaining to the administration of justice.

Marx took thesis, antithesis and synthesis and claimed in Capital volume 1 (introduction) to have turned it right side up. This is nonsense which accommodates Marx’s world-changing and revolutionary ambitions. Hegel’s dialectics was much more sound. Marx’s dialectics were based on civil code procedures on the continent where the defence – rather from the prosecution – presents its evidence first In legal proceedings. Then in the Napoleonic or Continental system prevalent in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Japan, etc, the prosecution presents its case there is no argumentation on facts or cross-examination on suspects, witnesses experts or police, this is followed by the verdict. In sum, the Napoleonic system is known as the administrative or consensus approach, there is no equity or justice.

Hegel died in 1831. His Logic was published in 1793 and his Philosophy of Right in 1821.