4.3 The Rational the Real
Last modified 05/17/2008
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The strange symmetry of Schopenhauer and Hegel is one of the notable
characteristics of the Kantian aftermath. While the prospect for evading the
confusions of Hegelianism might drive us to be wary of his post-Kantian
exploration of the non-dual, so reminiscent of Indian religious metaphysics,
there is a transparency to Hegel's overall system of thought, although we should
claim a more cogent version visible in the implication of the eonic effect and
its philosophy of history.
Whatever the case, a famous debate, and confusion, surrounds Hegel's pronouncements on reason in history, and his statements of the equation of the rational and the real. Unfortunately, Hegel's treatment of this issue resulted in an ideological implication that his insight did not deserve, and which caused that basic insight to be frittered away in false debate, thence to be rejected out of hand by the Darwinization of philosophic discourse. We can fairly easily restate the issue (avoiding Hegel's treacherous terminology) by observing how we have uncovered a 'logic of history', and that this mimics a form of rationality visible in the eonic sequence itself. And this insight is not subject to the ambiguity of Hegel's version, since our eonic model clearly distinguishes a macro-action of historical dynamics, and its realization as micro-action. There is a rational aspect to history, suddenly uncovered, but it is an evolutionary history crucially dependent on the actions of men, whose decisions might not fulfill the logic of that greater action, to wit, by conservatizing reactions to the inherent logic at hand in the greater field of development. |
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