From: | Giorgio Menon <giorgio.menon(at)pd.infn.it> |
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Date: | Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:48:17 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: Le Zero et l'Infini |
=========================================================>In his "Le Zero et l'Infini" (Zero and Infinity) Arthur
Koestler gives one of the best if not the best literary
description of Hegelian Dialectic commanding Gulag and
more generally any inquisition based regime.
Let's recall Hegelian "reasoning" at its roots:
"Whatever we assert about the Absolute, our assertion will
not be adequate and will call for negation. When we say
that Absolute is a Pure Being we do not attribute anything
to it, our statement is equivalent with saying that
Absolute is Nothingness. Thesis "Absolute is Being" leads
to antithesis "Absolute is Nothingness" and to synthesis
that Absolute is some synthesis of the two."
Koestler considers it (Hegel's Thesis "Absolute is Being" leads
to antithesis "Absolute is Nothingness" and to synthesis
that Absolute is some synthesis of the two) as
"... a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet
its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the
reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the
Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka."
Symbolizing with Koestler the Absolute Pure Being with
Infinity (I) and the Absolute Nothingness with Zero (0),
we may epress "some synthesis" as S = I * 0.