On My Idols

I have many idols -- too many to list at one sitting but here's a good cross-section of them: Hegel, Nietzsche, Dylan, Perls, Freud, Spinoza, Anaxamander, Heraclitus, the Han Philosophers, Korzybski, S.I. Hayakawa, Fromm, Marx, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Diderot, Tom Paine, Jefferson, Voltaire, Locke, Hume, Kierkegaard, Foucault, Derrida, Sartre, Bertrand Russell, Schelling, Kant, Aristotle...

And in a separate category, my dad for his visionary idealism and passion for what he believes in, his political and business commentary, as well as his ability to get things done -- his 'existentialism' if you will; and my mom for her compassion, generosity, openness, and kindness towards people -- her 'humanism' if you will.

These are over-simplified generalizations to be sure, but together my dad and my mom create the kind of 'post-Hegelian synthesis' that I am trying to blend together here in DGB Philosophy. All of the other intellects, philosophers, song-writers, poets, writers, passionate egotists, constructionists, deconstructionists, and integrationists...provide 'food' for the philosophical content of what I just now see as the main integrative philosophical structure of Hegel's Hotel as laid down to me by my dad and mom.

Any philosophy entails a multi-integrative-dialectical network of individual, family, psychological, political, economic, and social forces. -- dgb, Aug. 3rd, 2008.