“Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel If you’ve ever sworn off sugar entirely—then found yourself staring at an empty box of donuts—you’ve lived a little Hegel. Human beings have a curious rhythm: we seem to swing like the pendulum on a clock. From strict diets to indulgent binges, from overwork to burnout, from naive optimism to bitter disillusionment. We lurch from one
