Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

Five Lessons from Hegel

  1. Important parts of ourselves can be found in History - rescue from the past the best ideas
  2. Learn from ideas you dislike - missing truths and important ideas may be hidden in that with which at first glance you vehemently disagree
  3. Progress is messy - a synthesis of the good ideas within the errors at either end of the swinging pendulum will emerge when the balance is struck (the dialektic)
  4. Art has a purpose - cements the important and good ideas imaginatively in our minds
  5. We need new institutions - institutions resource the good ideas and insights