Stephen Hicks of Non-Contradiction

 Stephen Hicks is a realist, rationalist, and Objectivist. He follows the Aristotelian law of contradiction scrupulously. He does not approve of Hegels' rejection of that law. Let me quote from Hick's book, Explaining Postmodernism, Pages 49 and 50: "Hegel thus explicitly rejected Aristotle's law of non-contradiction: Absolutely everything depends on 'the identity of identity and non-identity' . . .  2. Contradictions are built into reason and reality."

My metaphysical claim, that the ontological substratum of reality is something like the principle of moderation coursing through the veins of the universe, may be somewhat similar to Hegel's view that everything depends on the identity of identity (personal or objective essence) and non-identity, the denial of essence in the core of each being or thing.

To restate it, moderation is reality constituted by a balance of principles, the law of consistency and the law of contradiction, and more the former than the latter--that is the ultimate one or Fate.