The St. Louis Hegelians
Kerry Howley reports on "what turned out to be one of the oddest episodes in the history of American thought, [when] a group of men known as the St. Louis Hegelians declared that the direction of history led to eastern Missouri" — Hegel hits the frontier.
(Perhaps not as odd, and perhaps more rational, are the Boston Confucians.)
(Perhaps not as odd, and perhaps more rational, are the Boston Confucians.)
Labels: America the Beautiful, American History, Confucianism, Philosophy
2 Comments:
If St. Louis is the End of History, why is it in a state called Misery?
A poem, by Pints in NY
Cheers!
One of the better poems I've read in recent years!
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