Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Pt. 1

It is amazing how so many philosophers have such strange ideas. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was one of these philosophers. He defied Aristotle's law of non-contradiction (something cannot be "A" and "not A" at the same time). He whole philosophy revolved around the idea of infinity, and the numerous contradictions in it (infinity meaning "everything" to Hegel). Because infinity includes everything, it IS everything, reasoned Hegel (for example, infinity includes both even and odd numbers, male and female, right and wrong, etc.). Another one of his beliefs was that because infinity has contradictions, infinity could be applied to the everyday. For example, when two political parties are opposed to each other, and one is obliterated, the remaining party (because it still contains contradictions) will separate into two parties. This will go on into... infinity! Therefore, everything was constantly improving (after all, half of the remaining contradictions in politics would be removed every time a political party vanished), but it would take forever to come to a perfect state, because the number of contradictions are infinite. One of the strangest things he believed in was the Weltgeist. Translated, the Weltgeist means "the universal mind at work in the world". Hegel believed that the universal mind was the thing that created history by "bodying forth... the entire content of itself in order to "become conscious of what itself was". Hegel himself believed that HE knew what the universal mind was, and said that the universal mind had just come to a knowledge of what itself was. He therefore believed that he was the embodyment of the universal mind. Strange. If only all these philosophers took a second (or even a first) look at the Bible for their answers...