More on Hegel, July 14, 2007

In my 6/29/07 blog titled ‘Plato’s Proof of God,’ I discuss the important work of Plato in his Parmenides. Parmenides tell us that man can know a monotheistic God with his mind through science. Thus, God can be known without using any God-inspired scripture. In Parmenides, Plato shows that One alone (i.e., only God) does not exist. However, when Plato uses science and constructs the thesis "One is," he finds that ‘other things must also exist and that if One does not exist, nothing exists at all.’ So, when Plato made the thesis ‘One exists,’ he found the antithesis "other things exist." With Plato’s way of thinking, a higher idea (or synthesis) follows. The synthesis reveals a true whole, which consists of two parts. The first part is the One (or God). Th second part is the other things (or the Universe). These two parts are a united pair of living eternal opposites, an infinite God and all other finite things.

In his Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface, Paragraph 71, Hegel holds that Science exists solely on the self-movement of the Notion, just as Plato self-moved the Notion, One, into Hegel’s dialectic, living triad known as "thesis, antithesis, and synthesis." He also says, "Plato’s Parmenides " surely the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic) was regarded as the disclosure and positive expression of the divine life, and times when, despite the obscurity generated by ecstacy, this misunderstood ecstacy was in fact supposed to be nothing else than the pure Notion. Essentially, Hegel recognized that Plato’s self-movement of the Notion ‘One’ in Parmenides is the real method of doing science.

As seen, Science must reform itself. And atheists must rethink about their irrational and immoral ways of living. However, religions must also begin to teach scientific knowledge.