Hegel and Marx

Marx is not a philosopher is an ideologist the Ideea is for Hegel the demiurge of real only insofar reality is the revelation of Ideea; Marx position is not anti-hegelian is antiphilosophical he abolishes Hegel problem of reality Marx criticize Hegels concepts of idea and reality not by showing that are uncritically formed or inconsistent, but by comparing them against his own conception and showing they do not fit. Marx- the empirical matrix of social relations, the whole of social relations is the Ideea It would have been a refutation if he had given a critical foundation of his own conception of reality and would have shown that Hegel conception is untenable in Marxist critical standards. He never bothered to do that Editors: he tacitly argues froma position that is unphilosophical on principle Simply using the term of reality, philosophical problem of nature of reality is cut off. All philosophy has made the predicate itself the subject Engels a particular science of the total context (Gesammtzusammenhang) becomes superfluous Inner fear recognition of critical conceptual analysis would lead to the recognition of total context, an order of being the total context must not exist as an autonomous subject of which Engels and Marx are insignificant predicates; if it exists it must exists only as predicate of the aut subjects Engels and Marx 322-327 idophobia, rejection of critical analysis, cw 26 Both are intellectual swindlers (SPG) they both falsify the experience of reality and the experiences of consciousness in order to construct Second Realities Through imaginative constructions of history that permits the imaginator to anticipate the future course of history Certain requirements the unknown future becomes known and the falsified construction of the ages endowed with the certainty of science (Wissenschaftslehre, philosophy positive, wissentschaftlicher Sozialismus) Purpose of these operations: to shift the meaning of existence from life in the presence of God with our every-day duties and servitudes into a functionary of history The motives: the swindlers existential insecurity, anxiety and libido dominandi hes not satisfied with a reality in which he is thrown without being asked, with the idea that hes existence is by grace of someone elses and not of his making / so he constructs a pocket-reality, Second-reality

Hegel -the two selfs of Hegel

Libido dominandi Philosophy transformed in religion / (Hegels philosophy) becomes the ultimate revelation of the Ideea - Hegel is conscious that philosophers even of the first rank are not historical figures: era of Christ not Plato Philosophy from love of wisdom transformed in possession of wisdom endowed with the symbol of science counting on the prestige it has acquired since Newton Every man is but a blind link in the chain of necessity by which the world builds itself forth but the single man can elevate himself to dominance (Herrschaft) over an appreciable length of the chain if he knows the direction, and if he learns from this knowledge to pronounce the magic words (die Zauberworte) that will evoke this shape (Forsetzung des Systems der Sittlichkeit)

The role of philosophy: - this knowledge which means including the whole suffering and conflict which for several thousand years has ruled the world in onself and at the same time elevating onself above it this knowledge only philosophy can give (ibidem) Philosophy is knowledge, scientific Knowledge and knowledge is power philosophy is not contemplation, love of wisdom, the joy to participate into a reality which surpasses our powers of understanding and the humble attempt to penetrate it as far as possible. Philosophy is not a goal in itself but reduced to the status of a tool, power is the ultimate end. Philosophy the grimoire of a magician Fenomenology a book of magic - Hegel explicitly states not love of wisdom but real knowledge liebe zum Wissen to wirkliches Wissen for Voegelin an enormity philosophy cannot advance beyond its status of love of wisdom to imagine the search for truth not to be the essence of humanity but an historical imperfection to be overcome in history by perfect knowledge is attack against the most criticism to confrontation with reality avoided by the demand that the theory has to justify itself through nothing but the presentation of the system itself Phenomenology everything depends on comprehending and expressing the true as subject no less than as substance

Hegel translates philosophia and gnosis in German to disguise his Gnostic project Hegel retains just the symbol of philosophy for his Gnostic project; philosophy love of the order of being; gnosis domination 1) Consciousness - construction of a false image of consciousness -the device through which the swindle is achieved since he cannot grind the real God and the real man he denies reality to both he admits reality only to consciousness- sensation, self-

consciousness, reason, spirit, religion, absolute knowledge since c must be somebodys c of something but neither God or man are admitted as somebody or something, c is c of itself / some sort of autonomous immanent entity Fen disguise of the falsification process what kind of c is that, that is the c of nobody? Falsification the dialectical process of a Immanent cons. which goes toward its ultimate selffulfilment-history transformed into a dialectical process of a consciousness that will come to self-fulfillement - replacement of concrete consciousness of concrete man by the imaginary consciousness that runs its dialectical course in time to the absolute consciousness of the Self close network of relations between symbols of Geist, history, time, space, consciousness -unfolding of the Geist from the Ancient Empires of the East to the end of History; from the hidden conceptual shape as substance to the revealed conceptual shape in the self-reflective consciousness which achieves the ultimate degree of awareness Time the internal dimension of the Geist, until it reaches the level of concept, an imperfection of the Geist, that cannot be abolished until the Geist had run his course as the world spirit Hegel applies to the time of the Geist in history the argument of Plato and St Augustine to the time of the world Absolute knowledge possible only in the absolute consciousness, without the determinateness of an individual, independent life Consciousness becomes an absolute reality, its process is a theogony and when it is accomplished God is fully present 2) Substitution of the experiences of myth, philosophy with the symbolism of Geist, gedanke, Ideea, Vorstellung -232 -Journey of the Geist to concept, to the ultimate revealing of the Self of the Geist which is hidden -the reconciliation of dirempted reality through the power of the Ideea now achieving fulfillment in the self-reflective consciousness - transfer of diremption (zerissenheit) from the soul to the Geist, becomes a property of the Geist motivation resides in libido dominandi Hegels Gestalt must be the ultimate Gestalt -symbols of philosophy cut off from the reality which has engendered them avoiding any question concerning the origin and meaning of the symbols used self-contained realm

Geist by unfolding it come to know itself, is science; science is the realm Geist builds for itself in its own element Pure self cognition is the soil where science grows; ultimate, scientific philosophy does not begin from anywhere but from itself. So the full unfolding of the Geist is mirrored in the full self awareness of the reflective consciousness who has reached the level of absolute knowledge, i.e scientific philosophy, i.e philosophy of Hegel; and science is Geist in its immediacy, in the in-the-beginning of divine absolutness appearing to consciousness -the immediacy of the Geist (its very substance) transfigured in pure reflection, immediacy as such for itself 3) Falsification 1) Existential tension, metaxy experienced from within becomes objectual, so the sorcerer can operate on it Bewustsein and Geist 2) His own state of alienation and lostness transformed in absolute positions; neoplatonic symbols of restlessness, becoming, self-assertion which express remoteness form reality are transformed in the very essence of reality. Selbst, Ich un Subjekt in the First Reality symbolize the carrier force of alienating movement, to Hegel hypostases meant to replace the reality of God 3) Operational hypostases of Ich, Selbst, Subjekt transferred to Geist, gets the property of Werden Marx - has also the idea of an almighty consciousness which engulfs reality in the ontological proof not God is the source of the idea of God but the very selfconsciousness; he adopts Feurebachs ideas concerning religion but he rejects the idea of a religious essence of man as a part of his human essence there is no such thing as a human essence. -sovereignty of consciousness and antitheistic revolt German Ideology a being is independent only when it stands on its own feet, and it stands on its own feet only when it owes its existence to nobody but itself- a man who lives by grace of somebody is dependent,I live most completely by the grace of somebody else when he has created my life - Handgreiflichkeiten Reality Voegelin -Hegels criticism of Platos myths Platos use of myths proves not his failure as a thinker but his critical understanding of philosophical analysis and its limits Philosopher - clarifies the structure and process of cons., he can draw more accurate the connection between consciousness and reality but consciousness cannot be expanded into reality, nr reality contracted into a process of consciousness

Plato is fully aware that his myths symbolize experiences of the Geist, but mans Geist is not divine reality; man has a common ground with divine reality but its not identical in substance.