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Trump Will Complete the System of German Idealism!

Jef Costello

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A few months ago, a delightful eccentric was interviewed on the streets of New York, claiming that Donald Trump, if elected, would “raise Thule,” as well as Atlantis. This chubby-cheeked, curly-haired, manic moppet (who calls himself “Kantbot”) went on to predict that Trump would “complete the system of German Idealism.” The video went viral – at least in our circles.

It is a measure of how out of touch I am that my first reaction to this was, “But Hegel already completed the system of German Idealism! This guy is crazy!” The claims of Kantbot concerning Trump’s destiny as a philosopher seemed far more outlandish to me than his assertion that Trump would raise Thule and Atlantis. But I have now changed my mind! Trump will complete the system of German Idealism, and I can prove it. (In addition, he will also raise Thule and Atlantis.)

But first, in order to provide a context, I am going to take you on Cook’s tour of German Idealism.

G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is an early German Idealist, but for some peculiar reason never gets called that (perhaps because he wore giant wigs). He said that what is real are minds (“monads”) and that reality is the coordinated perceptions of minds, with God doing the coordinating. Though Leibniz said that our knowledge is restricted to perceptions that we have from inside our windowless monads, simultaneously he claimed we could know things outside our monads, such as God. Hmmm. Bit of a contradiction there.

Enter Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), who made just this point. But why? Who the hell cared what Leibniz had said, anyway? Well, lots of people, actually, since a fellow named Christian Wolff (1679-1754) had “systematized” Leibniz’s fragmentary thought and made it the dominant school of philosophy in Germany. Plus, it was the climax of a hugely influential modern philosophical trend we call “rationalism” (Descartes had started it). So, Kant blew up Leibniz – and, by extension, all of rationalism – by arguing that yes, we are confined to our minds and don’t know anything outside them. Or, as he put it, we only know appearances; we never know how the world is apart from how it appears to us.

This freaked the hell out of a lot of people because effectively it meant that we cannot know reality; i.e., we cannot know what really is, only how things appear. But the entire history of Western philosophy from Thales onwards was a quest to know what really is. Kant set out to answer Leibniz and his ilk, but it struck many that he had thrown the baby out with the bathwater, and declared the baby unknowable. And it didn’t help that this Kant fellow was an insufferable pipsqueak and prig who never left his hometown and almost certainly died a virgin. He talked a Prussian blue streak about human dignity, but what kind of dignity is left to us if our minds are declared impotent to know reality?

What is generally referred to as “German Idealism” is the revolt against Kant, carried out chiefly by three thinkers: J. G. Fichte (1762-1814), F. W. J. Schelling (1775-1854), and G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831).

An implication of Kant’s position was that the world as we perceive it is partially a construction of the human mind: we only know things as they appear to us, and how they appear to us is structured by characteristics innate to human awareness. But suppose it could be argued that the world is entirely a construction of the mind? This was Fichte’s move. If the world is entirely “my” creation (clearly not little-old-me, but a Transcendental Me), then human dignity is restored. Not only do I know this world as myself, there is nothing beyond this world of mine. And that means there is nothing outside it, or me, to restrain my freedom. I am gloriously, absolutely free! The world is mine!  (Mad, am I? I’ll show you! I’ll show you all!)

So why does this world of my creation seem so often to resist my desires? Why am I not able to instantly bend it to my will? Is it the Russians? No! The Transcendental/Absolute Me has projected this world before Little-Old-Me as a field on which my will shall strive! My task is to take the raw material of what is and transform it into what ought to be, in terms of ideals I have posited. (Fichte loved the word “posited.”) What a grand, heroic vision! What a pure and unapologetic expression of Western Faustianism!

The trouble was that Mrs. Fichte would have none of it.

My joke is an old one: when Fichte’s philosophy was once glossed to some academic wag as “The world is my idea,” he responded, “Yes, but what does Mrs. Fichte have to say about this?” Folks, we just don’t know. She left behind no writings and J. G. doesn’t even mention her (doubtless some feminist will eventually pounce on this fact and squeeze a whole book out of it). But Mother Nature, another female, had a lot to say. You see, Fichte’s system essentially treats nature as mere “stuff” to be conquered and transformed.

Enter Schelling, the boy genius of German philosophy. For Schelling, nature had value as a means to human self-discovery. All of nature, Schelling argued, is intelligible if humanity is understood as its telos or goal. Our quest to understand nature is thus a search for self-knowledge. Schelling affirmed Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism up to a point, saying that we could indeed construct a perfectly coherent account of how the subject “generates” the object (the natural world). But we could also start from the other end and tell the story of how the natural world generates the subject (in which case we would be doing “Philosophy of Nature”). Either way, whether we go from subject to object or from object to subject, we are aiming at an “indifference point” where subject and object meet and are left behind. Schelling called this “the Absolute.”

Besides, Schelling said, Fichte was really a closet Kantian and couldn’t see it: since we don’t directly know the Transcendental/Absolute Me that is supposed to be generating this world, Fichte just reintroduces a Kantian “unknowable reality.” It was at this point that Schelling’s old college roommate Hegel spoke up and shocked everyone. Schelling, he said, was guilty of just the same thing: his “Absolute,” as an “indifference point” beyond duality, was just another unknowable “thing in itself.” It was, he said in his Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), “the night in which all cows are black.”

Now, this was shocking on two counts. First, it was very obviously true. Schelling had flubbed in a big way. But it was also shocking because Hegel the man was dull as dishwater. Five years older than Schelling, he was the Idealist nobody thought was ever going to make anything of himself. His friends called him “the old man” because of his tortoise-paced development and stodgy manner. After toiling unhappily for several years as a private tutor, he had to come around begging Schelling for a job and a place to crash. And Hegel’s first publication was just an ass-kissing defense of Schelling’s philosophy (published, ahem, by Schelling). It was not without reason that the younger man took umbrage at that “cows” bit, and the two didn’t speak for years.

Hegel did not dispense with Schelling’s Absolute, however. The Absolute, what truly is, has been the object of the philosophical quest since Thales. Hegel simply reached into the dark, unknowable maw of Schelling’s Absolute and turned it inside-out, like a sock. Instead of a Brahman-like transcendent Absolute beyond everything, Hegel’s Absolute becomes the sum total of everything: the universe, considered as a whole. (Or, even more briefly: the Absolute is a whole, not a hole.) There’s a big debt to Spinoza here, an apostate Jewish philosopher these guys were all reading, but didn’t dare cite. In Hegel’s account, however, the universe is a process: it is seeking self-awareness. It achieves this through humanity, and the different forms of human “Spirit” (art, religion, philosophy, and science) are all ways in which, either obviously or not so obviously, we are seeking self-knowledge.

As our self-knowledge increases, so does our freedom. The more we understand and master, the fewer ways there are in which we can be mastered. This process is not just moved along by artists, scientists, and philosophers, but also by significant figures (statesmen, generals, religious leaders, etc.) who come onto the world stage and take decisive actions that directly or indirectly advance us in becoming who we are. Hegel called these figures “world-historical individuals.”He saw Napoleon as one such. And he literally did see Napoleon, riding out of the city of Jena just after he had conquered it (and just after Hegel had completed his Phenomenology of Spirit). Hegel wrote to a friend, “I saw the Emperor – this World Spirit – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it . . . this extraordinary man, whom it is impossible not to admire.” Hegel held that, in his own time, human history had reached the point where we (really, he meant We Europeans) were ready to see ourselves as free and radically self-determining beings.

And Hegel was right, for this is exactly what transpired, and is continuing to play itself out in our own time – though he would have been shocked at the result. If we look at all the things we object to in today’s modern Western world – the gender and transgender lunacy, the multiculturalist lunacy, the racial egalitarian lunacy, the relativism lunacy, really all the lunacies  – we will find squatting behind them the same metaphysics. The metaphysics of “no limits”: no inherent limitations on the “self-determination” of human beings. Hegel thought that history had ended with the discovery of human freedom, and that the ending promised a degree of stability, security, order, and, above all else, reason. Instead, we find ourselves living in a vast, open-air madhouse.

This suggests that history has not ended, that there is more to come – and that there is something about German Idealism that needs completing. In my very first essay for Counter-Currents, I said the following:

Perhaps it is time to develop a new theory of history, one which sees our present stage of belief in “radical self-determination” as a necessary stage we must go through. And it promises only to get worse. What stage will succeed it? No one can say with certainty, but what it might be is a stage where, standing in the midst of a civilization ruined by liberalism, we recognize that we must consciously accept and affirm our determination by nature and by history. This means that we would affirm all those things taken for granted by our ancestors: the biological determination of masculinity and femininity, the necessity of the traditional family, the superiority of ethnically homogeneous societies, the inescapable realities of racial differences, and more. The world of our ancestors was destroyed because they took all of this for granted and could not intellectually defend their world against the onslaught of moralizing Christian egalitarians and pseudo-scientific Left-wing sophists. But we are in a position to possibly – just possibly – recover what was lost and to place it on firmer ground. Having seen the consequences of denying reality, we will affirm and defend reality with a wisdom, realism, and ferocity our ancestors were incapable of.

Enter Donald Trump. Trump is not going to complete the system of German Idealism by writing a long treatise with an elaborate architectonic. No, Trump is the New Napoleon. He is the World Spirit astride Twitter. He is a World-Historical Individual helping to usher in this next (and final?) phase of history. (There are other such individuals today – such as Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen.) Like most of Hegel’s World-Historical Individuals, Trump doesn’t really seem to know that he is doing this, but he is. He is part of the Happening. And although I didn’t say this in my essay “The Happening,” the Happening is a manifestation of precisely what Hegel called “the cunning of reason.”

Ironically, Hegel himself gave us the formula for understanding exactly what must occur in the next stage of history. In his Philosophy of Right, Hegel spoke of freedom as “willing our determination.” That means affirming the social conditions that make the array of options we have to choose from in life possible. We don’t choose that array, indeed we are determined by those social conditions. But within those conditions we are free to choose among certain options. Really, it can’t be any other way. Hegel, however, only spoke of willing our determination by social conditions. Let us enlarge this to include biological conditions, and other sorts of factors. As Collin Cleary has written:

Thus, for example, the cure for the West’s radical feminism is for the feminist to recognize that the biological conditions that make her a woman – with a woman’s mind, emotions, and drives – cannot be denied and are not an oppressive “other.” They are the parameters within which she can realize who she is and seek satisfaction in life. No one can be free of some set of parameters or other; life is about realizing ourselves and our potentials within those parameters.

As Hegel correctly saw, we are the only beings in the universe who seek self-awareness, and our history is the history of our self-realization through increased self-understanding. The next phase of history will be one in which we reject liberalism’s chimerical notion of freedom as infinite, unlimited self-determination, and seek self-realization through embracing our finitude. Like it or not, this next phase in human history is now being shepherded by Donald Trump – as unlikely a World-Historical Individual as there ever was. But there you have it. Yes! Donald Trump will complete the system of German Idealism.

And he will raise Thule! And Atlantis! But I will save that for another time.

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  1. nerf gun nationalist says:
    March 10, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    > not linking to the greatest video on youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk6HB609po

    Another direction to go with this, less insane than the radical individualist approach of enlightenment philosophy, is to mix a bit of Darwin in with some Aristotle and reason that memetic units better able to sense the environment they are in well will, over time, come to dominate the landscape and we can, therefore, assume that our sensory data corresponds reasonably well to the medium-sized dry goods scale it was born out of.

    Seems like a less insane place to start to me, as much as I enjoy (watching, mainly) german autism.

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    1. Anon says:
      March 10, 2017 at 10:04 pm

      Good idea. There’s just one thing that troubles me, though. How did we evolve out of dry goods when even The Philosopher’s quadripartite theory of causation there’s no satisfactory account of how one thing necessarily follows another according to natural law. I mean are we just generalising from experience, or…?

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      1. nerf gun nationalist says:
        March 13, 2017 at 12:42 pm

        Well, I think here we have to do a bit of meta-thinking and consider that reason itself requires necessary-enough causation to be. Generally, when philosophy dips down into foundational stuff (e.g. free will) I think that the negative hypothesis has as much or more burden of proof than the positive one.

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  2. Fred R. says:
    March 10, 2017 at 6:38 pm

    Why the virgin shaming, Jef?

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  3. Dieter says:
    March 10, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    Here’s what I want to know: is it true that the System of German Idealism was a l m o s t completed from 1933 – 1945?

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  4. Frederik Jürgen says:
    March 10, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    If Hitler was a “man against time”, then Trump is the “man with time”…

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  5. opposition_X says:
    March 11, 2017 at 2:10 am

    (edited with correction)

    What complete and utter rubbish…

    Rather than go point-by-point as to why this is so, I will merely state with complete confidence that Trump as president will usher in no profound social/cultural/political paradigmatic shift whatsoever. Things will go on as they have been going…as a matter of fact, they will probably intensify in their paths. If any deeper shift does occur, it will be in spite of Trump, not because of him. Costello states:

    The next phase of history will be one in which we reject liberalism’s chimerical notion of freedom as infinite, unlimited self-determination, and seek self-realization through embracing our finitude.

    Just exactly how Trump will accomplish this feat – or even where this idea comes from – Costello doesn’t say. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for specifics either.

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    1. christian says:
      December 15, 2020 at 7:03 pm

      thanks, opposition_antichrist.

      make your soul ready.

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  6. James J. O'Meara says:
    March 11, 2017 at 5:50 am

    If I recall correctly from a 5day a week summer class (not, indeed, called German Idealism but Early Modern Philosophy) monads, in addition to being windowless, were “naked.” I remember nothing else.

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    1. Jef Costello says:
      March 11, 2017 at 2:01 pm

      I don’t recall that Leibniz says they are naked. But if they are and if they are windowless then they must be blissfully ignorant of their nakedness, like Adam and Eve. Who is the serpent in this tale?

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      1. James J. O'Meara says:
        March 11, 2017 at 2:43 pm

        24. Thus it appears that if there were no distinction—no relief, so to speak—no enhanced flavor in our perceptions, we should continue forever in a state of stupor; and this is the condition of the naked Monad.
        Monadology (1867)
        by Gottfried Leibniz, translated by Frederic Henry Hedge

        Naked and stuporous!

        I suppose Leibniz is the snake.

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        1. Gutenberg says:
          March 13, 2017 at 12:33 pm

          Perhaps he meant it in the sense of the German “bloß” which can mean “naked” or “mere(ly)”.

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  7. rhondda says:
    March 11, 2017 at 6:05 am

    Having pondered this post overnight, I now think you are right Mr. Costello. Trump has interrupted the globalist’s belief system that both the repugnants and the demonuts were trying to impose on the world. One sign of their fear and dismay is the banning of revisionist history books from Amazon. This goes against any corporation’s interest, especially a book seller’s. Why do they care? The cracks are widening and thus creative opportunities will spring up. More and more people are curious about the Alt Right and in this day and age when you cannot get what you want, you get pissed off. Is this another kind of taboo breaking? Trump has become the lightning rod for nationalists. Even if he does not embody the perfect leader,(and even if he does things we don’t like), he has cracked the vault of prevailing belief system. For this he deserves our love and respect.

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    1. Jef Costello says:
      March 11, 2017 at 1:56 pm

      I couldn’t agree more, Rhondda.

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  8. Reinout Vander Hulst says:
    March 11, 2017 at 6:21 am

    Kant did not teach that we cannot know the world at all. For his initial question was: how is it possible that scientific knowledge is universal and effective if we only have fragmented empirical observations? His answer was that this is possible because these observations are categorized in time and space, and that these are categories, NOT of the world as such, but of the human mind. It is the universal nature of the structure of the human mind that guarantees the universality of scientific knowledge. As this knowledge is also effective, we can conclude that we are making an informed guess about the world.

    Neo-Kantians like Fichte, Schelling and Hegel however, could not be satisfied with the informed guess. In their system building they ignored the vital Kantian distinction between our representation of the world and the world in itself. The “System of German Idealism” is built on quicksand.

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  9. DerWanderer says:
    March 11, 2017 at 6:47 am

    So the next step in the development of Hegelian philosophy is going back to the status quo ante and forget the whole thing ever happened? Nice way to save face.

    You know, instead of saying that the colossal blunder that is Hegelianism is a necessary, negative phase in the dialectical development of world history, and that the next step is the denial of said negative phase, you could just quit playing the dialectical game altogether and straighforward admit that the whole thing was a mistake. It’s the more honest and respectable approach in my opinion.

    (Inb4 you just didn’t get the dialectical subtlety of the argument. Please.)

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  10. Oleron says:
    March 11, 2017 at 6:49 am

    “This suggests that history has not ended,”

    One major proponent of history ending, was Roderick Seidenberg. In his books “Post Historic Man,” and “Anatomy Of The Future” he states that history has ended, there will not be any more great men, organization breeds more organization, and people can be conditioned for specified roles. He suggested the use of drugs, propaganda, collective activities, and in extreme cases surgery to reduce the masses to reflective insect-like activity. This is one evil jew, in one of his books he suggest that WWI, and WWII were conducted to make way for a greater (((organization.))) Read H. G. Wells’ “The First Men In The Moon” to get an idea of what he idealizes as the perfect society.

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  11. Valföðr says:
    March 11, 2017 at 9:05 am

    Good article. When you said, “Hegel, however, only spoke of willing our determination by social conditions. Let us enlarge this to include biological conditions, and other sorts of factors,” I was reminded of the idea of ethics put forth by the German idealist Friedrich Scleiermacher. This passage is from The Philosophy of Schleiermacher by Richard Brandt:

    “It is only of secondary importance to him (Schleiermacher) to develop the concept of ethics as a normative science. Schleiermacher objected strongly to the idea that the natural sciences deal with the “is,” while ethics and the normative sciences in general (theory of education, theory of politics, etc.) deal only with the “ought to be”. To his mind the science of ethics is strictly parallel with the other sciences. Ethics is a systematic understanding of the organizing activity of the intellectual (or ideal) principle in nature, just as biology is a science of the activity of the vital principle. This vital principle, or reason, is just as real as are the vital principle and the chemical principles. (…) So there is not a great gulf between ethical behavior and biological development; Schleiermacher had little sympathy with Kant’s categorical imperative as an ideal itself psychologically powerless to operate. “Reason” is a “force” of which there can be speculative and empirical science just as there can be sciences of inorganic and organic nature. Morality is unique in not having to do merely with powerless ideals or “oughts,” but in that it has to do with a principle organizing reality on a higher level.”

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  12. Benjamin says:
    March 11, 2017 at 11:27 am

    In short, we must necessarily ourselves create the world we want and need, in accordance with the immutable laws of nature.

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  13. WillWindsor says:
    March 11, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    radical self-affirmation will complete the system of German Idealism. In other words, Becoming Who We Are.

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  14. Sandy says:
    March 11, 2017 at 4:10 pm

    There goes Trump’s knighthood!

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