There are at least 5 different potential directions of evolutionary movement that are 'figurally important to me' as I choose which 'floor' and 'room' of 'Hegel's Hotel' I want to work on next. Right now, these are the five most likely areas of immediate or soon-to-come evolutionary deveopment in Hegel's Hotel: DGB Philosophy:
1. More essays on American Capitalism, Politics, and Economics;
2. Essays on The History of Western (and Some Eastern) Philosophy, and in particular on the history of 'Dialectical Splits' in The History and Evolution of Man starting at the beginning of known Western and Eastern phiilosophy;
3. Essays on the History and Evolution of Psychoanalysis;
4. Essays on Gods, Myths, Philosophers, Psychologists -- and DGB Personality Theory;
5. Essays on DGB 'Central Ego Functioning', Language, Meaning, Epistemology, and 'General Semantic-Cogntive Therapy'.
I will probably work mainly as a 'flip-flop artist' as I flip back and forth from floor to floor and room to room in Hegel's Hotel, focusing primarily on the five different areas of Hegel's Hotel, DGB Philosophy cited above...
-- dgb, Saturday December 13th, 2008.
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Introduction (November 8th, 2008)
My son, Michael, was talking to me Thursday night (November 6th, 2008), and said he was a little confused and didn't know how to navigate himself around 'Hegel's Hotel'. (The fact that he was even trying was a shockingly pleasant surprise to me.)
I told him that I try to update the 'Table of Contents' or 'Table of DGB Blogsites' of 'Hegel's Hotel' every month or two -- which I hadn't done for awhile -- and it probably needed re-doing. Even that is not totally sufficient, as everything that I have written in Hegel's Hotel then needs to be 'brought into line with the new Table Contents' which doesn't exactly happen overnight. In effect, everything has to be re-organized.
So I apologize for 'Hegel's Hotel' being in a bit of organizational disarray right now, especially after completely re-doing the Table of Contents this morning. Hopefully, in the next week or so, everything will be a little more organized.
Bearing with me in this regard -- below is the brand new 'architectural scheme' for the building of Hegel's Hotel...
(I have been spending a lot of time during the last few months of the American election -- on the DGB Philosophy: 'Debates in American Politics and Economics' blogsite. I will probably add a few more essays on this site -- and then leave it for a while to do more building on some of the 'lower floors' of Hegel's Hotel. Metaphorically speaking, I want the American Politics blogsite -- which I have arbitrarily labelled as 'Floor 50' right now -- to have a strong, foundational support beneath it, meaning a good 30 to 40 'floors' of Hegel's Hotel philosophy holding it up.
With this in mind, here is what the new Table of Contents will basically look like with a few more minor modifications to come...-- dgb, Nov. 8th, 2008.
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Floor(Blog)1: The DGB Philosophy Network of Blogsites: The Architechture of Hegel's Hotel (The First 35 Floors)
Floor(Blog)2: Opening Introductions To DGB (Dialectic-Gap-Bridging) Philosophy
Floor(Blog)3: Power-Dialectics vs Democratic-Dialectics (The First Paradoxical Foundation of Western Philosophy, Anaxamander vs. Heraclitus)
Floor(Blog)4: Most Recent Essays
FLoor(Blog)5: Aphorisms, Mini-Essays, Self-Awarenesses...
Floor(Blog)6: Language, Meaning, Knowledge, Truth...
Floor(Blog)7: Permanence vs. Change, Heraclitus vs. Parmenides and Plato (The 2nd Paradoxical Foundation of Synthesized DGB Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics...)
Floor(Blog)8: Masculinism vs. Feminism, 'Yin' vs. 'Yang': The 3rd Paradoxical Foundation of Synthesized DGB Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psycholog-Politics
Floor(Blog)9: Narcissism and Sophism vs. Truth and Integrity (The 4th Paradoxical Foundation of Dialectic Philosophy, The Sophists vs. Socrates)
Floor(Blog)10: Idealism vs. Realism (The 5th Paradoxical Foundation of Western Philosophy, Plato vs. Aristotle
Floor(Blog)11: Imperialism, Narcissism, Roman Philosophy -- and The Fall of Rome
Floor(Blog)12: Narcissism vs. Altruism (The 6th Paradoxical Foundation of Western Philosophy: The Rise of Early Religious (Scholastic) Philosophy
Floor(Blog)14: Religion vs. Science (The 7th Paradoxical Foundation of Western Philosophy
Floor(Blog)15: Early Empiricism vs. Early Rationalism (The 8th Paradoxical Foundation of Synthesized DGB Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psycholgy-Politics...)
Floor(Blog)16: Enlightenment Philosophy: The Integration of Science, Reason, and Ethics; The Birth of Capitalism, Industrialism; and Two Revolutions
Floor(Blog)17: Enlightenment Philosophy vs. Romantic Philosophy (The 9th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psyhology-Politics..., The Rise of 18th and 19th Century Romanticism)
Floor(Blog)18: Dualistic-Dialectic Philosophies vs. Monistic Philosophies (The 10h Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics, The Rise of German Idealism)
Floor(Blog)19: Liberal Tolerance, Compassion and Flexibility vs. Conservative Righteousness and Accountability (The 11th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics..., 18th and 19th Century English Political Philosophy, Locke, Hume...vs. Burke)
Floor(Blog)20: Capitalism vs. Socialism and Communism (The 12th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics..., Adam Smith vs. Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung)
Floor(Blog)21: Abstractionism and Grand Narrative Philosophy vs. Concretism, Deconstructionism, Post-Modernism, and Existentialism (The 13th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Syntesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics, Hegel vs. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche...)
Floor(Blog)22: Rationalism and Ethics vs. Irrationalism and Narcissism (The 14th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Western-Eastern Synthesized Philosophy-Psychology-Politics..., Hegel vs. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, Apollonian-Dionysian Philosophy, Freud, The Ego, The Superego, and The Id)
Floor(Blog)23: Rationalism vs. Irrationalism, Part 2, Consciousness vs. Unconsciousness (The 15th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics..., Enlightenment Philosophy vs. Narcissistic-Romantic Philosophy, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud...)
Floor(Blog)24: Rationalism vs. Irrationalism, Part 3, Living and Life vs. Dying and Death (The 16th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psycholog-Politics..., Nietzsche, Existentialism, Freud, and Cannon)
Floor(Blog)25: Rationalism vs. Irrationalism, Part 4, Rational Thinking vs. Symbolic, Mythological, and Dream Thinking (The 17th Paradoxical Foundation of Synthesized, DGB Western-Eastern Philosophy, Freud and Jung)
Floor(Blog)26: Rationalism vs. Irrationalism, Part 5, Love vs. Hate, Humanism and Equality vs. Domination-Submission and Sado-Masochism (The 18th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics..)
Floor(Blog)27: Rationalism vs. Irrationalism, Part 6, Jung, Overt and Covert Ego Operations, The Light and The Dark Side of Human Nature, The Personna vs. The Shadow...(The 19th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics...)
Floor(Blog)28: Introversion vs. Extroversion, Carl Jung (The 20th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics)
Floor(Blog)29: Gods, Myths, Archetypes, and Self-Energy Centres(Ego-States), Projection and Introjection, DGB Extensions and Extrapolations on Jung's and Freud's Depth Psychology (The 21st Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics)
Floor(Blog)30: Topdog vs. Underdog, Perls and Gestalt Therapy (The 22nd Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics...)
Floor(Blog)31: The Nurturing, Maternal Topdg vs. The Righteous, Paternal Topdog, A DGB Synthesis of Berne and Transactional Analysis with Perls and Gestalt Therapy (The 23rd Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics...)
Floor(Blog)32: The Righteous Topdog vs. The Rebellious-Narcissistic Underdog, DGB Psychology integrating Berne and Transactional Analysis with Perls and Gestalt Therapy (The 24th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics...)
Floor(Blog)33: The Cooperative-Approval-Seeking Underdog vs. The Righteous-Rebellious-Narcissistic Underdog, DGB Psychology integrating Berne and Transactional Analysis with Perls and Gestalt Therapy, (The 23rd Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized, Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics...)
Floor(Blog)34: The Constructive-Creative-Grand Narrative Ego vs. The Deconstructive, Post-Modern Ego, (The 24th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics...)em>Floor(Blog)35: The Balanced, Post-Hegelian, Democratic Ego vs. The Unbalanced, Post-Hegelian, Unilateral-Extremist Ego (The 25th Paradoxical Foundation of DGB Synthesized Western-Eastern Philosophy-Psychology-Politics)
-- dgb, November 8th, 2008.
