RE: The Hegelian Dialectic: An Explaination
In my view Hegel either was wrong with the dualistic thinking of mind and matter or people misunderstood him. Because right now we live in disastrous times, wherein the ideology of "mind over matter" became a perverted thinking, stating, that the matter "the male and/or white human" is arranged above "the female and/or black human".
In my personal view this kind of thinking is one of the major reasons for many global issues such as exploitation of nature and exploitation of people (i.e. human trafficking).
I once believed everything I learned about Hegel until I started reading about the critics of patriarchy.
Both, Hegels philosophy about the absolute respectively his philosophy of science and the critics of patriarchy, have the same foundation: mind and matter. Both terms are very important for my thinking and I researched a lot about the critics of patriarchy after I finished my degree in Germany. I concluded that something is wrong about the dualism between mind and matter. Maybe people missunderstood it in a way some "Neo-Darwinists" missunderstood Darwin. Darwin might have said "survival of the fittest", but what he meant was "survival of the one best adapted". There is a difference in that. Maybe people did the same with Hegel.
If they did (I'm still not sure), than Hegel is a bit responsible aswell, speaking of god referring to a male entity in his readers view. Both, putting mind over matter (in my view they're egalitarian or at least NOT directly connected with a certain sex) and refering to the male god must have laid the ground work for what manifested in a clearly dualistic thinking we face all around the world.