Hegel’s Failed Prediction

SCHOPENHAUER'S WORKS:

Schopenhauer’s work is notoriously for constantly and repeatedly dunking on Hegel.

He said Hegel’s philosophy stupefied an entire generation, maintained that posterity would look down on Hegel as a “monument to German stupidity”, providing later generations with endless laughter. His “school of dulness”, “center of ignorance” was the greatest example of the corruption of academic philosophy.

Where does this hatred come from? Generally, it’s agreed that Schopenhauer hates Hegel for personal reasons, but also for philosophical reasons.

The two men had a bit of an altercation when Schopenhauer had to pass an exam in order to teach at the University of Berlin. Hegel asked him a question on “animal functions” but used the term wrongly. Schopenhauer corrected him, and the professor of medicine and biology concurred. This little incident proved to Schopenhauer that Hegel was a charlatan, unable to use a philosophical term in the correct manner.

Another possible source of hatred was Schopenhauer’s envy: we know he deeply desired fame but was largely ignored up until the very end of his life. Contrast this with Hegel, who was a philosophical superstar and world-famous almost immediately.

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[thall]

From my understanding, Hegel's proposed numerical series was not meant to show that there were only 7 planets, but rather that a "law" of planetary displacement could be structured more rationally and account for the then missing planet. As good philosophers do, he later claimed this attempt insufficient after the empirical discovery of a planet was cemented. This is because Hegel thought it was very important that philosophy and empirical science agree. Although, his distrust in the arbitrarily structured Titius-Bode law was vindicated with the discoveries of Neptune, Pluto, and numerous asteroids.

[iv-ro]

Lieber Weltgeist rather then talking about the weird theories and secret enemies Hegel had. You could shine some light on hegels dialectics - very important discovery for the philosophical world.

[davidzubiria]

I would like to see the "reasoning" behind that...

[AKrn]

I'll never know because I don't watch vertical videos

[UCKsbkiBovncjfH]

The story about the apriori proof of the number of planets is not true, it is a misconception fabricated later - there is a good pdf about this story online.

[todoido]

Well... but that is just a Dwarf Planet... an asteroid, maybe Hegel meant something different with his prediction, I would like to see the reasoning for his conclusions

[JudoMateo]

Hegel was wrong about practically everything with his neo alchemical nonsense, conveyed via garbled language.

[danmiller]

Nothing strange about speculating about things yet undiscovered. Hegel was an Idealist believing the source is metaphysical not materialism. Marx turned Hegels dialectics upside down and the source was then material. Marx gave us dialectical materialism and the "God Particle" of particle physics.

[Sidionian]

Hegel probably had the "sacred" planets in mind. According to esoterics, there are indeed only 7 sacred planets in a given solar system. Esoterics also acknowledges, however, that more than 7 planets can exist, that are not "sacred." Planet Earth, for example, is not a sacred planet, but Venus is. So is Mars...