Hegel & Tragedy
If you’ve ever wondered what Hegelian Tragedy is, look no further:
“The tragedy in the realm of the ethical is to fall between the spell of two equal moral imperatives; thus the subject is constrained by the inextricable fate of failure no matter which he might choose.”
So I paraphrase this–discuss in comments, please.
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And is his resolution a transcendent synthesis?
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“The tragedy in the realm of the ethical is to fall between the spell of two equal moral imperatives; thus the subject is constrained by the inextricable fate of failure no matter which he might choose.”
Unless a creative synthesis can be arrived at that circumvents the prospective tragedy on either or both ends of the apparent paradox/ impasse.
david gordon bain, author of dgb philosophy