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Monday, April 25, 2011

Heglato vs. Kantotle on Freedom

While I elaborate on the Heglatonic (vs. Kantotelian), as per these references from wiki below

----- free-will ---------------- enslaved-will

-------------------synthesis:
-----------------Oenomaus's "half-enslaved will"
------------------------------ cfr. "half-free will"

('dialectic of the master and the slave -- cfr. Oenomaus on the 'half-enslaved will' (hemidoulia)),

I come across this by Blair,

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app

Newspeak

"This was done ... chiefly by ... stripping such words
as remained [e.g. the adjective 'free'] of unorthodox
meanings, and so far as possible of all
secondary meanings whatever. To give a single
example. The word "free" still existed in Newspeak, but
it could only be used in such statements" as i and ii below:

i. This dog is free from lice, -- or

ii. This field is free from weeds.

"It could not be used in its old sense of
‘politically free’ or ‘intellectually free’ since
political and intellectual freedom no longer existed
even as concepts, and were therefore
of necessity nameless."
---

G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by A.V. Miller with analysis of the text and foreword by J. N. Findlay (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977)Paragraph 179 Pg. 111.
Chris Arthur, "Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic." New Left Review I/142, November–December 1983

Cheers,

JLS

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