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Hegel's Empedocles and the Greek Dualism

Hegel thinks drive is the genus, arrows is one of the species of drive. But again, that goes so against his own self conception. And he even goes crazy on this, doesn't he? With this whole empedocles and the Greek dual,. He spends a good two or three pages on Greek dualism between like filia and strife. I think somewhere he knows it's not the same idea, it's something else. It's also mine and he doesn't want to give up the prestige of originality for the sake of such a confirmation. If there was ever a point in the entirety of the standard edition post 1920 when he could have used the word Thanatos

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