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For some general English information on Hegel, have a look at the pages of the Hegel Society of America (HSA) at http://www.hegel.org. They also have a Hegel Mailing list which you can subscribe over there and they also maintain some Hegel-links. (For my own Hegel Links see: Links and Hegelianism in Germany)

>> You indicate a wish to update Hegel for the 21st century. Does that mean removing all traces of his (presumably) un-scientific objective idealism?<<

An "updating "Hegel for the 21st century" means to include the knowledge and theories which evolved since Hegel into his system (and yes, I know that this can only be achieved in team work).

To sublate the philosophies which emerged since Hegel, and which also include some basic critics of Hegel, will also include some basic changing of Hegel.

Also, Hegel conceptually tried to reach a *higher* scientific standard then usual/common, i.e. he asked for (and tried to provide) proves / arguments for *everything*, beginning from the order of a scientific system, its logic etc. (see also: Hegels Teachings).

When one accept this aim (which doesn't necessarily imply that we've reached it), it is very clear that any error/fault/missing etc. one may find in Hegel's teachings are to be corrected.

Hegel had the idea, that for a theory for being called better then other theories, it should include all the reasonable stuff in the other theories (In the same sense that we say that Einstein's theory includes the reasonable stuff in Newton's Theory).

Hegel aimed to integrate and sublate all the knowledge and theories of his time. If Hegelians accept that goal, why should we stop at Hegel's time? This also includes all the new scientific knowledge and the philosophical theories (at least the most important/fundamental ones).

So much new theories and knowledge has been gained till then.

For an idea, there is a very good book called "Hegel's System" from Vittorio Hösle (Professor in Essen, Germany), which tries to inspect Hegel under this perspective (both, book and author are quite famous and well respected in the international Hegel community).

It critics several place in Hegel's System and some of Hegel's decisions in its architecture but in the same place it also shows the misconception / misunderstandings in the usual/common place Hegel critique.

For example ideas that

  • Hegel is not for resolving contradictions (he finds a contradiction to be something subject to a critique not to be praised)
  • Hegel does deny a world outside of and independent from the mind
  • Hegel denies that we get the facts of our theories from the outside world
  • and the like

.. are all very grave misunderstandings of Hegel

So I am not sure what you mean by:

>> unscientific objective idealism<<

Keep in mind that Hegel used his terminology not in the same way we use them today (or, take the Marxists for example, which use very similar terminology than Hegel, but nearly every term has a *very* different meaning in their terminology).

Btw, while the terminology may be Okay in the sense that it tries to remember that Hegel accepts a world outside/independent from the individual mind and accepts the goal that a theory has to be measured in that it really covers and explains its topic, Hegel himself used to call his theory "absolute Idealism".

(absolute in the sense that you can not consistently argue against his arguments for it without falling into contradictions. As I mentioned Hegel sees contradictions as something a sign of falsehood/failure which has to be overcome)

 


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