DEMOCRITUS
Democritus is behandelt
[42]
by Hegel in
a very stiefmütterlich
[43]
fashion, in all
pp. 378-380! The spirit of materialism is
intolerable to the idealist!! The words of
Democritus are quoted (p. 379):
“Warmth exists according to opin-
ion (νόμφ) and so do cold and colour,
sweet and bitter; only the indivisible
and the void are in accordance with
truth (έτεή)” (Sextus Empiricus,
Ad-
versus Mathematicos
, VII, § 135).
[44]
And the conclusion is drawn:
...“We see this much, that Demo-
critus expressed the difference between
the moments of Being-in-itself and
Being-for-other more distinctly....”
(380)
By this “the way is at once opened up”
to “the bad idealism,” that ... “
meine
Emp-
findung,
mein
....”
[45]
“bad ideal-
ism” (
my
feeling) cf.
Mach
[46]
...“A sensuously notionless manifold of
feeling is established, in which there is
no reason, and with which this idealism
has no further concern.”
Hegel
versus
E. Mach...