Reason, Hegel argued, advances by negation, each thought becoming more focused as it wrestles with its opposite. This ‘labour of the negative’ is the true discipline of the mind, and the way in which we make and amend realities. Not everyone accepts the Hegelian philosophy; but it offers a beautiful image of Parliament, in which policy becomes hardened in the flame of its negation.
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