what is your opinion about opinions?

[APeacefulWarrior]

I won't pretend I've read\studied Hegel in great depth, but from what I know of his philosophies, I think he was on the right track by recognizing a fundamentally complex 3+ sided analysis is needed, and recognizing that perceived truths can emerge from each other in nested fashion through a dialectical process.

But I also think he got off-track as he went on. I disagree with him that Absolute\Universal Knowledge is truly knowable in any sort of verifiable or "scientific" way, and I completely disagree with him on the matter of freedom being derived from participation in social control systems. I basically agree with those who claim his philosophies ended up being turned towards supporting the Prussian state and then-burgeoning German nationalism.

I suppose the main difference is that I don't claim my particular way of describing things can lead to any sort of ethical or objective judgments about those things, but rather centers on cultivating a better-but-always-imperfect subjective view. It's a process for attempting to understand, and recognizing the complexity of any such evaluation.