I like your argument about unity/synthesis - to which I would add, from the Encyclopedia: a speculative content can also not be expressed in a one-sided sentence. If we say, for instance, 'the absolute is the unity of the subjective and the objective', this is, to be sure, correct but one-sided inso...

I'm not pretending to understand what this paper is about - actually "Dialectical Aspects of Statistical Thermodynamics" is a section of a paper. The whole paper is called "On the Foundations of Statistical Thermodynamics" and, like everything else I've posted recently, it's from...

A couple of good lines from the Selected Papers of Leon Rosenfeld : If the development of the theory of atomic phenomena initiated by the discovery of the quantum of action and the elementary constituents of atoms does not represent one of the major dialectical processes in the whole dialectical gro...

Thank you 老子 for posting about Rosenfeld and Hideki, neither of whom I had heard of before. (I asked a Japanese friend who said Hideki is quite famous in Japan.) Thanks also for referencing the essay on Bohr's epistemology. I appreciated Rosenfeld's comments on Bohr's conception of complementarity—w...

[NOTE: This post was moved from the HEGEL FORUM to QUANTUM MECHANICS—Administrator] I am posting a link (below) to an article by Roland Williamson called "Hegel among the Quantum Physicists". WARNING : It's heavy on the Žižek . . . https://forum.dialecticinstitute.org/Williamson_Hegel-amon...

I know this isn't strictly dialectical, but it offers an interesting personal perspective on Hegel: After a visit from Hegel, Goethe wrote to [Karl Ludwig von] Knebel that the conversation had aroused in him the desire to be together with Hegel at more length, "For what in the printed communica...

This is an amazing post - not only because it links Heisenberg, Bohr and Hegel, but I'm also interested in the line below where Heisenberg mentions some guy named Weizenhacker or whatever (I can't see and reply to the original post at the same time, so I'm going on memory!) who he says is developing...