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HEGEL There are 3 dialectical movements in Hegel. a) of knowledge, b) of history and c) a vertical or hierarchical dialectic of power and control or authority; politically Hegel is a constitutional monarchist.

The dialectic of knowledge is of some interest. It's often believed Hegel is talking about true knowledge or absolute knowledge. On the contrary, Hegel is talking about the existence of knowledge and in the context of the particular properties we ascribe or attribute to that existence. Existence is not a property. It is the unity, but not the identity, because they are never equivalent, of the subject(universals) or what exists and the objective particular properties(particulars) that provides true or absolute knowledge. This does not provide some big answer or solution to everyone's problems. It just confirms and explains the existence of knowledge or reason...largely as a rejection of Kant's unknowable thing in itself. It is existential. You can't half know or part know what exists. It either does or it does not exist. Likewise, the particulars, like variables, may or may not be attributable to what exists and, therefore, have no claim on existence, as such. They represent the NATURE of knowledge, on the outside of it's existence. Facts exist but the natural properties, qualities and quantities we attribute to these facts can't because they fragment in a way that existential knowledge does not. The existence of an apple is not the collection of properties it may or may not have or possess at one time or not at an other. It can't be the other of what it is and does because to be and to exist denote an is and doing words.

This existential approach has interesting and valuable consequences as regards our conception and treatment of man or human beings. Human existence cannot be the other of what it is. Hence, if we were to attribute particular properties, characteristics, attitudes and the likes to Person A, and claimed that was true because it was confirmed by observation, say, that would be false because these particulars are never equivalent to and have no claim on the human existence of Person A....their mental, immaterial or spiritual existence....not their material embodiment or biological existence. Human existence is what you are, your being. We are not particular possessions or items of property that you may or may not have or dispose of from time to time.Jamesgraham521 (talk) 09:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC) Jamesgraham521 9:49 2/1/2018