"Heat is the self-restoration of matter in its formlessness, its liquidity the triumph of its abstract homogeneity over specific definiteness, its abstract, purely self-existing continuity, as negation of negation, is here set as activity."
Well, /his/?
>>2463457
Fuck off Popper, Hegel is coherent.
Heat burn stuff, but doesn't burn the object that it comes from, so it fits into negation of negation.
There has got to be some Boehme stuff going on in here.
Yup. Hegel confirmed for absolute rubbish. And people trust this man's opinion on philosophy , history, politics, law... Think that it's somehow less rubbish.
Got a citation for this OP? Because I googled it and got a bunch of results for a text on philosophical writing which don't give a source either.
>>2466503
Speaking of that text, let me try an experiment found there. Subtract the word "heat" from the alleged quote:
>[topic] is the self-restoration of matter in its formlessness, its liquidity the triumph of its abstract homogeneity over specific definiteness, its abstract, purely self-existing continuity, as negation of negation, is here set as activity.
Having read this, what would /his/ guess he is talking about?
I thought, in order, Aristotelian prime matter, or energy. The former is textual but tortured, the latter is in the ballpark, heat being energy at all.
>>2463457
>we will never go back to caloric liquid theory
feels cold man
>>2466559
I'm screencaping this. It's perfect. It perfectly shows the level of delusion and self deceit that modern philosophy has allowed itself to sink to. Because when you put the word heat, we know, thinks to the scientific method, that what he's saying is complete nonsense, rubbish, unintelligible lines on a screen or hot air coming out of one's lungs, making ones's vocal chords vibrate in a completely random matter. That's precisely the level lf discourse that one of the greatest so-called philosophers of the modern era is engaged in. But if you substitute the word "heat" with, say, ideal, mind, dialectic, right, history, society... Or any word related to the study of humanities, then all of a sudden - to an honest, but unprepared and impressionable audience of average intelligence - it sounds like he is saying something meaningful and profound!