/lit/ - Literature

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I’d say it’s more like, the union of what seemed like two things was always meant to be one thing. Same goes the other way. Played in sequence it looks like cause and effect, played in rewind it looks like destiny. You have to get rid of the idea of synthesis, Hegel may has seen it as a stepping stone and therefore useful, but there’s an inherent void of manifest destiny, which is really what Hegel is in about, hence the Phoenix reference. It’s not that x is not-x, but that they belong to each other, they define each other. The other is what it is by direct reference to the other. Epicurus says learning how to live means learning how to die. Birth and death seem contradictory but this is meant, a Hegelian would say destined, to be overcome. Because they are reference to one and the same thing to each other