How New Ideas Arise via The MIT Press Reader

[Shared]While discussing the problem of how ideas arise in his “Science of Logic,” Hegel stated that “the beginning must be an absolute, or what is synonymous here, an abstract beginning.” Therefore, a new beginning “may not suppose anything, must not be mediated by anything,” but “must be purely and simply an immediacy, or rather merely immediacy itself.” In other words, Hegel declares the utter necessity of intuition, renouncing the control of the rational mind in favor of unconscious foresight. This is perhaps motivated by the fact that self-censoring doesn’t exist in the unconscious or in ideas, which are free to combine in improbable and ever-mixing associations.

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Una #idea:

Dejar de llamarlo #LibertadDeExpresión y llamarlo libertad de comunicación constructiva.

No es lo mismo una conversación eficiente en la que personas con diferentes perspectivas logren comprenderse unas a otras, o incluso denunciar eficazmente una injusticia y necesitar ayuda, que extender un discurso de odio e influenciar a colectivos enteros a querer matarse entre sí.

La educación y desintoxicación de tanto odio tardará mínimo décadas si es que alguna vez se mantiene.

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