Jose Mourinho urges reporters questioning his Man Utd record to read German philosopher Hegel

Jose Mourinho has reverted to citing German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in his latest press conference, urging reporters to consider his all-round managerial record rather than focusing on Manchester United‘s slow start to the season.

Mourinh0 has cut an increasingly desperate figure this past week as he attempts to justify his self-image as one of the greatest managers in football.

The United boss demanded “respect” multiple times in his press conference after United went down 3-0 at home against Tottenham on Monday, and has seen his Red Devils lose to Brighton already this term too.

“Did you read any philosopher or in your formation you never spent time reading, for example, Hegel?,” Mourinho asked one reporter, via Goal.

“Just as an example, Hegel says the truth is in the whole, it’s always in the whole that you find the truth.”

Who was Hegel?

Hegel was a German philosopher born in the 18th century, and is regarded as one of the leading intellectuals within the German idealism movement.

A crucial tenet of Hegel’s means of thinking was that only the whole is true, meaning each stage or phase of a process was just that, and therefore partially untrue. Hegelian thought dictates that you can’t see the essence of truth on first glance, but that you must wait for it to develop.

He believed that totality preserves within it the ideas generated, even if they have been dismissed or subsumed. Overcoming or subsuming is a process made up of moments, and totality preserves these moments.

Mourinho is therefore arguing that everyone should reflect on the totality of his career rather than individual moments.

Hegel’s ideas would later influence Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche among others, though both these and many other famous German philosophers would disagree with most or all of his dialectic.

United take on Burnley away in the league on Sunday.

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