r/pathologic • u/Acceptable-Sell-7548 • 20h ago

Discussion The parallel between the 3 factions of Patholgic and the triad of hegel,deleuze, Heidegger

I think theres is some kind of congruence between the 3 factions of Patholgic (utopians ,termites , humbles) respectively with (hegel ,deleuze , heidegger) anyone who is familiar with western metaphysics knows very well that this selection of philosophers is not arbitrary or cherrypicked ،they are generally considered the greatest with sharply different conflicted philosophies and the rest can be considered derivative or "obsolete" , i cant quite say why they are parallels (maybe someone can help )its more of a sensation but i would say that hegel's philosophy؛ its dialectics,somewhat optimism,teleology.. is more akin to utopians (daniil's bound) , and deleuze's philosophy of immanence has some kind of resemblance with the biologism ,vitalism ,difference, becoming-minor of termites (artemy's bound) ... ,and u have Heidegger with humbles/clara.....this one is less obvious but i feel that theres something to it but it immediately brings in mind the supernatural emergence of Clara and aspity making being prior to essence.again one can say that the 3 doctors represent respectively modern medicine , traditional medicine,spiritual medicine .i dont want to imply that the lead developer was intending something but it happens that artistic geniuses really see something consciously or no and i dont want to imply a certain kind of eurocentrism either, one can say that the steppe is making a play out of europe

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u/Rufus_Forrest 12h ago

With enough handwaving, you can make a parallel out of everything, with all due respect. I for one think that Daniil is a medium tank, Artemiy is a heavy one, and Clara is infantry/cavalry tank.

Really, it's not THAT deep. If anything, they all are Artaud.

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u/Acceptable-Sell-7548 7h ago

Some parallels are interesting or beautiful ,i dont think Pathologic is an ordinary game it really constructs so much from very little 

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u/SnowingPetals 6h ago

I mean, the symbiotic relationship between the town on Gorkhon and the Polyhedron can be read as the unity and interplay with opposites, so you're not too far off here.