Hegel and "The Absolute"

Hegel establishes an underlying all-embracing unity, the Absolute. Only this rational whole is real and true. When we make statements or otherwise draw attention to a particular, we separate off this one aspect from the whole of reality, and this can therefore only be partially true. The evolutionary quest for greater unity in truth is achieved by the famous dialectic, positing something (thesis), denying it (antithesis), and combining the two half-truths (synthesis) which will contain necessarily a greater portion of truth in its complexity. Only the absolute is non-self-contradictory.
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