07-23-2003, 11:29 PM
a dialectic, perhaps. Magnanimity, or even generousity, can pay enormous dividends down stream. Marshall Plan, anyone? :)
In Hegel's model, as I recall, the thesis and antithesis tended to "run into each other" (I call that conflict) and when that conflict gets resolved, a third thing, the synthesis, is the new condition. I'd be misquoting Hegel by asserting that the meeting of thesis and antithesis MUST be conflict, however, change is rarely without price, and the development of the synthesis always come with a price. There is no free lunch.
Does the price always need to be blood?
No, but it often is.
In Hegel's model, as I recall, the thesis and antithesis tended to "run into each other" (I call that conflict) and when that conflict gets resolved, a third thing, the synthesis, is the new condition. I'd be misquoting Hegel by asserting that the meeting of thesis and antithesis MUST be conflict, however, change is rarely without price, and the development of the synthesis always come with a price. There is no free lunch.
Does the price always need to be blood?
No, but it often is.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete