Hegelian Dialectic for Dummies. AKA The Idiot’s Guide to Hegelian… | by Myk Eff | Higher Neurons | Medium

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. (From Herbert Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial (Third Edition, 1996, p.111–167) During my undergraduate years, I encountered some academic challenges that left their mark on my transcript. My three lowest grades were in Basic Russian II, Hegelian Dialectic — a course centered on Hegel’s monumental work, Phenomenology of Spirit — and a class intriguingly titled The Enjoyment of Music. Reflecting on these experiences, I realize that each low grade had its own unique backstory. Starting with Basic Russian II, my struggle stemmed largely from a bout of laziness. The first semester was manageable; I discovered that much of Russian vocabulary mirrored Polish, a language I was somewhat familiar with, albeit written in Cyrillic script. This initial success gave me a false sense of security. However, as the second semester rolled around, my lack of effort caught up with me. I recogniz

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. (From Herbert Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial (Third Edition, 1996, p.111–167) During my undergraduate years, I encountered some academic challenges that left their mark on my transcript. My three lowest grades were in Basic Russian II, Hegelian Dialectic — a course centered on Hegel’s monumental work, Phenomenology of Spirit — and a class intriguingly titled The Enjoyment of Music. Reflecting on these experiences, I realize that each low grade had its own unique backstory. Starting