THIS IS AN AMBIGUOUS QUESTION BUT ILL TRY TO DO MY BEST BY SAYING THAT NEGATIVE THINKING INITIATES A DOWNWARD SPIRAL AND IS THA BACKBONE OF A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY. THE SAME AS POSITIVE THINKING. BOTH CAN BE CONTAGIOUS WITHIN ONESELF.
Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Matthew 6:33
GOD BLESS
2006-12-26 11:50:41
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answer #1
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answered by thewindowman 6
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Negation is the name for the process, but the diversity of itself as a kind, is discovered containing more than one kind. In the Judgment as described in Hegel, the Judgment may have a positive and a negative kind:
'(b) The Negative Judgment
§ 1370
1. We have already referred above to the prevalent idea that it depends merely on the content of the judgment whether it be true or not, since logical truth concerns only the form and demands only that the said content shall not contradict itself. The form of the judgment is taken to be nothing more than the relation of two notions. But we have seen that these two notions do not have merely the relationless character of a sum, but are related to one another as individual and universal. These determinations constitute the truly logical content, and, be it noted, constitute in this abstraction the content of the positive judgment; all other content that appears in a judgment (the sun is round, Cicero was a great orator in Rome, it is day now, etc.) does not concern the judgment as such; the judgment merely enunciates that the subject is predicate, or, more definitely, since these are only names, that the individual is universal and vice versa. By virtue of this purely logical content, the positive judgment is not true, but has its truth in the negative judgment. All that is demanded of the content is that it shall not contradict itself in the judgment; but as has been shown it does contradict itself in the above judgment. It is, however, a matter of complete indifference if the above logical content is also called form, and by content is understood merely the remaining empirical filling; in that case, the form does not imply merely an empty identity, the determinate content lying outside it. The positive judgment has, then, through its form as positive judgment no truth; whoever gives the name of truth to the correctness of an intuition or perception, or to the agreement of the picture-thought with the object, at any rate has no expression left for that which is the subject matter and aim of philosophy. We should at least have to call the latter the truth of reason; and it will surely be granted that judgments such as: Cicero was a great orator, and: it is day now, and so on, are not truths of reason. But they are not such not because they have, as it were contingently, an empirical content, but because they are merely positive judgments that can have and are supposed to have no other content than an immediate individual and an abstract determination.'
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hl631.htm#HL3_636
Embodied in your Self, what quality of judgment would you have without it. If you believed there is a God, what quality of judgment would this God have without the notion or function named negation.
A Negation for a Negation: Perfecting
"To think necessity, on the contrary, rather tends to melt that hardness. For thinking means that, in the other, one meets with one’s self. It means a liberation, which is not the flight of abstraction, but consists in that which is actual having itself not as something else, but as its own being and creation, in the other actuality with which it is bound up by the force of necessity. As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called I: as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness. The great vision of substance in Spinoza is only a potential liberation from finite exclusiveness and egotism: but the notion itself realises for its own both the power of necessity and actual freedom."
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slactual.htm#SL159n
This "I" or 'Ego' has as its negative reflection, anti ego. That which stores the certainty as spiritual content and facts as its product or goods is ego, has as its counter balance the anti ego, its spiritual content is doubt and its product is question.
2006-12-26 19:48:03
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answer #3
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answered by Psyengine 7
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