More and more the inherent, multi-dialectic and/or pluralistic goal and mission statement of 'Hegel's Hotel: DGBN Philosophy' is becoming apparent.
DGBN Philosophy believes that the ultimate conflictual and multi-dialectic challenge of life for man is this: the conflict and challenge between 1. a personal and/or group 'will-to-power-control-and-dominance' (in the extreme -- 'pathological righteous-personal and/or group narcissism and/or sadism'); vs. 2. a personal and/or group 'will to self-submission and self-negation' (in the extreme, 'pathological self-and/or-group submission, negation, altruism, and/or masochism'); vs. 3. a personal and/or group 'will to creative-integrative-egalitarian-democratic-dialectic solutions' that aims to turn 'win-lose conflicts and conflict-resolutions' into 'win-win conflicts and conflict resolutions'. This latter goal is the goal of DGBN Philosophy -- of DGBN Dialectic-Democratic, Humanistic-Existential Centralism.
This three-fold dialectical-evolutionary recipe and formula for health in human conduct, human encounters, and human relationships basically follows the three stage classic Hegelian dialectic-evolutionary formula of: 1. thesis; 2. anti-thesis; and 3. synthesis. This formula assumes a general absence of underlying malice, manipulation, collusion, and 'puppet-string pulling'...(This last comment is largely intended for the web and blog site: 'Living Outside The Dialectic' who I have had a few heated dialectic-democratic debates with.)
A 'Centralist Post-Hegelian Humanistic-Existentialist like myself believes that usually the best answers, the best solutions and resolutions, in human dialectic conflicts and challenges lie not in the 'right wing' or 'left wing', 'Capitalist' or 'Socialist', 'Conservative' or 'Liberal', 'Democrat' or 'Republican', 'Apollonian' or 'Dionsyian', 'Superego' or 'Id', 'Persona' or 'Shadow' one-sided perspectives on life, philosophy, psychology, politics, business and economics, religion, medicine of different people and groups of people -- but rather in the creative, democratically negotiated and integrated, egalitarian win-win solutions and resolutions that can come out of the 'polar extreme philosophical perspectives and positions in life' that through free speech and dialectic engagement can result in 'working both polar extremes and ends towards the dialectic-democratic middle...'
This, ultimately, is the mission statement of Hegel's Hotel: DGBN Philosophy -- to show how in case after case example, in any subject matter of human endeavor and culture, the principle of free speech and democratic-dialectic engagement can help us 'find each other', find individual and group peace and harmony if only for a given amount of time, through the task of locating 'some place in space and time' where we can intra-psychically and/or inter-socially 'meet in the middle' and both enjoy a maximum integration of 'individual self-assertion and self-interest (individuation)' in conjunction with a maximum of 'union'.
Unless we plan to live on a different planet, in the middle of the far outreaches of nowhere, or in the middle of a large urban environment but still totally by ourselves as a social recluse and hermit, this would seem to me to be the best self and social agenda for reaching self and social 'balance and compromise'.
Now, there will always be some of us all of the time, and/or all of us some of the time, who will continue to 'reach and strive for the narcissistic, altruistic, and/or righteous extremes in life...'
But generally speaking, if and when this happens, the extremists amongst us usually have to, at some point in time, heal their, or our, wounds, realize that they/we are heading in the wrong direction of one form of pathological self-destruction or another -- and sooner or later, pull back on the reins of their/our behavior and look back towards the more homeostatically and dialectically balanced middle where health awaits them/us.
For some of us, the cost of waiting too long to turn our direction around -- from the more pathological extremes to the more balanced, healthy middle -- can be brutally painful. For others, their 'turn-around' -- if it ever happens -- might be too late.
Hegel's Hotel: DGBN Philosophy -- 'although at least partly exalting the extremes of excellence' and the work and perserverance it takes to get there -- in general, in essay after essay looks for that 'creative integrative balance between two or more philosophical perspectives'.
This is what I call: 'DGBN Democratic-Dialectic, Humanistic-Existentialism'.
'DGBN' once more is a 'triple acronym' standing for:
-- David Gordon Bain
-- Democracy Goes Beyond Narcissism
-- Dialectic Gap-Bridging Negotiations...
-- Are Still In Process...
Sept 13th, 2009.
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