Filler: What exactly is "Aufhebung"…? It's a philosophical concept related to dialectics Marx picked up from Hegel. Its meaning is complex, ambiguous and even seemingly contradictory — it alludes to both elevation and abolition.There is no real English equivalent and it's often translated as "sublation", a fancy word if I ever heard one.
… But that's all I managed to grasp about the whole thing.
WHICH PHILOSOPHY INSPIRES YOU THE MOST, user!?
Ethan Rodriguez
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Jeremiah Perry
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Caleb Sanders
I flit around from philosophy to philosophy on fanciful whims but that was only after I realized nihilism meant I didn't need to stick to one and allowed me the freedom to do so. So I guess nihilism is the most influential for me.
Nathan Lewis
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Tyler Gray
Sounds pretty gay, my dude.
Robert Williams
John Zerzan will bring the dawn, and spread primitivism around the world! Effectively destroying America; bring world peace for generations to come!
Austin Sanders
bringing*
Carter Allen
Not if I'm preparing mentally for communism.
Ryder Morris
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Jaxon Wood
Although I might not be 100% correct or accurate when it comes to what Hegel meant. I do think that the most useful interpretation of Aufhebung, is that societies and how they are structured always carry imperfections which pose challenges for the people within society. These challenges have to be overcome which in turn elevates society to a different form. Like how the change from feudalism to capitalism wasn't a single step process, however, a long row of changes to fix problems for the people within society. These fixes and changes did of course carry a whole load of new problems. We can even see this in our current form of capitalism, which has changed significantly since its inception, yet still carries the core of what capitalism was during the industrial revolution. All while new problems keep popping up and new fixes are developed. Ultimately it is also up to the people living under capitalism, experiencing the strain which the system puts unto us, to try and change it, to cause the next Aufhebung. Whether it is the bourgeoisie who find a new fix to save capitalism, or if it is an abused proletariat which revolts and forms socialism. Either path could be considered a form of Aufhebung caused by the strain of society upon humans.