![]() The present author utilizes the translation of Master-Slave instead of the more accurate translation of Lord and Bondsman both because of its wider recognition and because of its more obvious historical and social applications. The discussion of the Master-Slave relationship continues below. One that he did produce, the nature of the Master-Slave relationship, is couched in such an obscure terminology that it is difficult to discern the phenomenological or empirically applicable nature of the relationship that signifies the concrete quality of its truth value. ![]() The problem is that Hegel produced too few of these individual insights. The last change in language came on Flag Day 1954, when Congress passed a law which added the words under God after one nation. If this be so, it also implies that everything we know both of outward and inward nature, in one word, the objective world, is in its own self the same as it is in thought and that to think is to bring out the truth of our object, be it what may.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, translated by William Wallace (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873). This despite the Hegelian claim in §22 of the Introduction to his Encyclopedia that, “We said above that, according to the old belief, it was the characteristic right of the mind to know the truth. ![]() This chapter points to the need to climb the giants’ shoulders once again to return to essential problems with which Kant and others wrestled and, with insights from Plato, Husserl, and many more, posit solutions and directions for philosophy that will both collaborate with the past and create renewed progress in philosophical thinking. ![]() ![]() Do not duplicate in any form without permission.Is today’s global philosophy impoverished because philosophers do not regard themselves as joining hands with philosophers of the past, but rather attempt to pose and encounter problems as if they had not been posed and encountered by those who preceded them? This chapter offers a preliminary answer by briefly surveying the origins and growth of the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Husserl, some of the Great Philosophers who stood “on the shoulders of giants.” Their own knowledge of their predecessors informed and contributed to their philosophical development and enabled a historical community of inquiry to come into being. ![]()
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