[lit-ideas] Help with Hegel Quote (Was: "SM" -- and Aristotle on slavery
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:37:47 EDT
Geary:
>so maybe the reason we haven't killed them isn't because we're too >decent,
but because we're just as greedy and selfish and self->aggrandizing as they
are.
Depends on your point of view. A Hegelian would testify here to the
_universality_ of the Platonic dialectic of the Slave-Master cycle.
No slave without a master.
No master without a slave.
Hegel hoped to show that the dialectic of _thesis_ and _antithesis_ would
eventually materialize in a _synthesis_, which I don't think is what
Southeners
are thinking of when they say, "The South Will Rise Again".
Etcetera, etcetera.
But I don't understand what Geary means by 'servant's job', so there. Is
that like the old indenture thing brought back from the Mother Land?
I never read -- in German -- that passage where Hegel speaks of the master
and the slave. I suppose he is also quoting from Aristotle who thought that
'barbarians' were a necessity in Athens (therefore justifying slavery in ...
"Ethica Nichomachea"?
Cheers,
JL
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