Hegel: dialectical philosophy
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- In this video, philosophy professor Ellie Anderson introduces G.W.F. Hegel's dialectical method. Professor Anderson also touches on the themes of passion, spirit, freedom, reason, alienation, and self-estrangement in his work, as well as how the dialectical method is used in Hegel's philosophy of history.
This video was created for Professor Anderson's Spring 2021 "Continental Thought" course at Pomona College. The text discussed is G.W.F. Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History.
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Very illuminating. You did something virtually unfound on UA-cam: explaining Hegel without oversimplifying or taking a decade to explain a paragraph. Well done!
she is fricking proffesor of philosophy. who are you to judge her? i guess you thought she was some teenager talking randomly on hegel, lol.
@@kocahmet1 I think you're being a bit defensive. Certain professors are better than others.
@@kocahmet1 I would be hard pressed to find a philosophy professor in my university’s faculty who can distill a topic as complex as Hegelian dialectic as lucidly and comprehensively as this. Meaning, it’s valid to commend her on it, because her skill is literally exceptional
Lex Fridman had on his podcast the foremost philosophy professor in the Western world (an Australian gentleman, I forget his name), and he became visibly angry that people apply "thesis, antithesis, synthesis" to Hegel's ideas. The professor said Hegel never used this terminology. Instead he rambled on about the "unity" of events, and that there were no temporal constraints on "spirit" (ie, he said you have "a tree, a wooden table, and a pile of ashes" -- together). This is why people generally dislike philosophy-- the specialists in it try to make it as obtuse and illogical as possible. Except for this channel-- where she makes ideas more concrete, and quite smartly cites the page numbers.
@@Borat_Kazakh Spot on!
I wholeheartedly appreciate your work. Your presence on UA-cam is much needed. Keep it up.
Hegel seems not just Eurocentric but also Christo-centric. The whole diaclectic and thesis-antithesis-synthesis is just Christian hegemony repackaged with some Greek philosophical overlay and turned into supposedly universal notions. The urge to always be in conflict and of course thinking that 'god'/"right" is always on the side of the good folks (Eurocentric/Germancentric/Christocentric) is great for trying to wish away the blot on humanity that Christian hegemony had been even by the time of Hegel and certainly only moreso since then.
Hegel just understood the positive sum logic of the "AND" function! It's our job to implement this logic in our own lives! We don't need "God" or "the west"! 🤩
Of course, capitalism didn't invent colonialism. Conquest and subjugation are historical norms, and the culture that brought forth the conquistador was decidedly more feudal than capitalist, such that the Iberian Peninsula remained an economic backwater for centuries. Colonialism came from technological innovation, the ability to cross oceans with stocks of gunpowder. On the other hand, capitalism, does have a lot to do with standardisation and alienation, to state the obvious.
This is by far the best explanation of hegels dialectics. Congratulations!
Although, in the same line as Frederick Beiser, I'm not that fond of the representation of the triadic form as a schemata of "thesis-antithesis-synthesis", even though this form of thinking dialectics is much more approachable.
No it's not... Learn why Hegel was vehemently opposed to Fichtes dialectic
I have been attempting to tie together Hegel from many secondary sources and this video succeeded in doing what many others could not. Thanks
You actually grasp these concepts of philosophy which is impressive given the state of UA-cam.
I once saw a video about Kant by a philosophy UA-camr and it only contributed to my misanthropy.
Haha thank you! Dr. Anderson has a PhD in Philosophy from Emory, which has an excellent continental philosophy program, and teaches these concepts regularly to college students.
Jokes on us for not realizing that by naming the podcast"Overthink" y'all actually skip over the thinking that true philosophy demands@@OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy
@@OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy Lmao! Are you kidding? Idk if this is a satirical indictment of Emorys philosophy program...either way, this is the least creative form of anti-Hegelianism.
Nails it on self-estrangement! Few do. Well referenced.
Thank you for the fantastic and illuminating discussion! You asked for comments regarding the teleology apparent in World Spirit Actualization. In idealist biology and in cosmology in general there is a principle of principles: all order is an emergent structure supervening on random fluctuations in a field of chaos. Contemporary idealist biology will take this cosmological meta-principle and with a four-dimensional perspective understand the development of a structure through time not in any one instance at a time but as the whole spacetime world line/trajectory and read the emergent properties, since supervening on initializing conditions, as not only a consequence but also as cause for the development of the four-dimensional structure through time and space. This feat is accomplished typically via the idealist self-assertion that all relationships in a four-dimensional spacetime are intrinsic relationships [basically just ignoring Russell et al. at the turn of the 20th century.] Thus all parts of the whole contain the whole in some sense. In Buddhist thought, the doctrine of Dependent Origination might accomplish the same conceptual feat. I do not know if this perspective counts as teleological in the strict Aristotlean sense but it appears to have a parallel structure. The idea missing from this perspective is the Universal Particular. Is that a pun? Irony? just nonsense? Time will tell. Much love!
I just discovered you and David. This video was the first I watched of Dr. Ellie. It’s a great presentation. I checked your other productions and Overthink. I still like this one best 😊. (Just a little fan feedback 👍. Keep being good!
6:00 makes me think of mixing watercolors. Considering the combination of one or more pigments resulting in not only a cancellation of the former two, but a preservation of each in the resultant hue.
Not sure if that works but it’s the thought this inspires, perhaps if someone sees something lacking in that observation they might help me see what that is.
Problem is no color can be seen as a pure color. She fails to get at the non-linearity of Hegels dialectics. Not A B C, but A B B A
It’s good, and while not a reader of Hegel, the one thing that popped in my head was that that metaphor only allows adding of colors, not taking away of colors. If you look at markets in capitalism, the only way the market tends to solve problems naturally is by adding things, never taking away.
Hegel was absolutely original in his thinking. This is my beset reference on Hegel in UA-cam
9:01 I see this appropriation less in a colonialist sense and more in the theological Christian sense which Hegel was extremely prone to.
I just graduated from a great books program at Dharma Realm Buddhist University, a small university in Ukiah, CA. We study texts from a wide range of traditions - Western, Chinese, Indian, Buddhist etc. This channel would have been very helpful when reading some of the more difficult texts I studied like Hegel or Husserl! You explain things very clearly. It would be great if you could come visit our university some day and give a lecture.
PS One suggestion would be to include more direct quotes from the text to exemplify your point, and including them in the video so viewers can read along.
Minute 1: 17 "Like the way that an oak tree starts off as a seed and it has everything that it needs in order to develop, right? Under the right conditions. But we can't say that the seed itself is already the oak tree, right? It is the oak tree implicitly. "
Let's replace the words "oak tree" with "baby" and "seed" with "fetus" to see how this concept applies to when does a human life begin.
" Like the way that a baby starts off as a fetus and it has everything that it needs in order to develop, right? Under the right conditions. But we can't say that the fetus itself is already the baby, right? It is the baby implicitly. "
Implicit is defined as: understood though not directly stated or expressed: IMPLIED; also : POTENTIAL
So the fetus is understood to be a baby even if it is not directly stated that it is a baby. A fetus is implied to be a baby. A fetus, if it is allowed under the right conditions to grow, has the potential to be a baby. A fetus does not have the potential to be an oak tree.
I find myself agreeing with much of Hegel's philosophy while at the same time frustrated by the my perception that he overcomplicates fairly straightforward concepts. To those directly familiar with Hegel's writings, do you find them unnecessarily complicated or necessarily complex to express his ideas clearly? Part of me is trying to decide if it's worth the time and effort to dissect his writings to gain a direct understanding of his ideas or whether I can gain just as clear an understanding of his philosophy through a Hegelian philosopher who is better able to express the same ideas more succinctly.
This is quite an impressive, succinct overview of Hegel. I have to say, given Hegel's legacy, I would never had thought to bring W E B Du Bois in conversation with Hegel. What a remarkable, and ironic, achievement - simultaneously bring to mind Hegel's Master/ "Servant" dialectic from another of your essays. I found myself chuckling from the implications of the marriage of these two thinkers.
Hegel's notion of Spirit being "estranged" from itself reveals much about the inner workings of Hegel. There seems something torturous about Hegel's thinking and the ramifications of his ideas. I believe that you embodied this in the delivery of this essay, as you often subverted your eye contact with the camera during key moments while discussing his ideas. This is something that does not happen as nearly as much with your delivery of the ideas of other philosophers. I think we all suspect that no matter how insightful Hegel can be, there is something behind it that doesn't feel quite right - and yet his ideas seem to serve as the foundation for much of how the West has come to view the world.
Thank you so much for this video, I studied a bit of Hegel and I found him very interesting, but I was so unsatisfied with the amount of understanding I got, so this was super helpful.
When I was in community college I was (without knowing it) very much a Hegelian. I saw history as unfolding in ever more progressive ways. Now I see that societies are by no means guaranteed to evolve their consciousness and that stagnation is a very real threat. Synthesis is not always attained. Then again, I suppose Hegel would say that stagnation would lead to the society's collapse and something new would spring up to replace it 🤔
Very nice.
Well presented.
Especially liked that spirit section.
I could connect with Hegel to some extent, with regard to the stages of the spirit..
I like that this channel doesn't try to say, welp, there you go, after this 5 minute youtube video you can add Hegel to your list of philosophers you get and please click on the next one to add Socrates to your collection, rather it just hosts some concisely illuminating discussion that makes no claims to being a replacement for reading the actual works.
Notes: thesis + antitheses = synthesis where it retains the old at a higher structural level. , sublation, preservation and negation. (It’s like mixing up core deconstructed structure and turning dials up and down with EQ) The imperfect state is to be grasped as having the perfect within it. Social systems have a place in history, but come and go, but play a role, the thing that brings about the decline of growth of people is habit or activity without opposition( essentially 1 dimensional man). The way Hegel says world sprit gets actualized through individual people, it makes sense that it happens that way but it happens through social processes and needs and also a sort of self rationalization of needs with social material political-natural-economy. I think if it in terms of systems of how they build things up and also how they function, which understanding that systems evolve to maintain themselves in a politica.legal-psycho social economic system. That the psychological and social is just as important as the legal political economy. The evolve together. And if they evolve together then those who can impact and amplify scale their influence the most regulates it. Power works through any skill activity or medium that scales. If those individuals never scale their skills and speak and develop it, and view on system etc. I then the self regulation of it dosent changes in a centralized way. There can be room for ideas to diffuse through in decentralized way though to really grow they need mechanism to become aware of themselves eventually. It’s why revolutions occur in budding viral waves throughout history instead of all at once. They gradually become aware of each other.
People become more beautiful and healthy. But this is just biology and lifestyle. The end of politics and the meta-capitalism dystopia shows us that we need also political conciousness and education for the "more perfect".
My first thought listening to this explanation of the dialectic, discussing the "collapse" of the antithesis, sublating into a new relationship, called to mind the big bang - if you think of the "spirit" as the mover/force of the universe (perhaps "God" to a believer in God), can the "collapse" of the thesis and anthesis of this Spirit account for the moment before the big bang, when the entire universe collapsed into a singularity, immediately to sublate into a new and higher structure?
Moishe Postone points out that Marx uses so much Hegelian language at the beginning of Capital because one of the more subtle parts of his own argument is that Hegel's conception of the spirit is valid, but only for capitalism, wherein the "Spirit" is actually capital. In other words, while Hegel believes all of human history to be teleological, Marx believes that only capitalism has a determinate, teleological history. Personally I think Marx's view (as described by Postone) is more tenable, and has more empirical backing. Postone uses the example of industrialized western countries since the 1970's. In virtually all of these countries, regardless of government, particular national histories, etc. we have seen an erosion of the welfare state (to varying degrees) and a weakening of trade unions. This points to a force operating on a super-national level, which is of course capital. The demands of capital at this particular point in time realized themselves as what we commonly know as "neo-liberalism," a term that refers not to an intellectual/political cause of these developments, but merely an a posteriori intellectual justification.
Very well elucidated. Please 🙏 also make a series of videos on Western Political Thought.
Well, I suggest there is Hegel, and there is what people think Hegel was, and the two are often quite distant from each other. It seems like he went out of his way to describe the idea that culture through history operates as a bit of a pendulum, with movements becoming in and out of fashion and that of course, they cause reactions in the process, in a way overblown and obtuse manner. It did take me a while to graps the concept at least in part because of that. And of course, the misrepresentation of his dialectic for 180 years, particularly by Marx and followers over the meaning and context of progressive.
Ultimately, the underlying concept in my mind is analgous to the tree made stronger when it is exposed to the wind. As to the direction of the synthesis being forward, I'm not sure I can agree with that. It is change, but change is not always progress. Whether it is growth depends on the interpretation of those invovled.
The other question is who and how progression - and whether it is forward, is defined.
I think all people have a role to play. Predicting which ones will reign Supreme for a while and which will facilitate that supremacy would be best guessed by a sociological analysis group, and I wouldn't bank on their results. Hegels idea of the future being "better" or more advanced, I can see from the basic arrow of time. The future is where we will become better than what we are, even if we get a bit worse on the way. Even if only one person, with knowledge of some philosophy and sociology, were to survive an apocalyptic event, and has some manner of influence on the survivors, the future would be something new and different, and "better" might be one way to define it. It is kind of hard to believe that humanity can go back to something. It would be probabilisticly impossible without a time machine. It sounds like Hegel is highly rational. From watching your two videos on Hegel, he seems quite unbias. Even thinking that Europe was the tool of the World Spirit probably wasn't wrong. Does he indicate a Moral Good that is the utopian goal of society and humanity? I remember you said something about Monarchy, but is this just Hegel's plausible explained end to becoming better? Or is it a unrationalized belief?
What did Jung think of Hegel? 🧚♂️🧚♀️🧚magical ✨️. Oligarchy opposes monarchy. Democracy opposes despotism.. There is a difference. There is no upwards and onwards.
I don't remember if you said what you were reading. What was the book that you were reading from? Because from the passages you quoted, I get a semi different interpretation from what you saw from the work.
BTW have you read this book by Leonard F. Wheat Hegel's Undiscovered Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Dialectics_ What Only Marx and Tillich Understood !!? He tried to demystifying the famous triad wether Hegel said it or not.
An outstanding elucidation of becoming and the self consciousness of Spirit.
When I examine the methods by which mathematics are taught and the methods by which philosophy is taught, it becomes clear to me that the way philosophy is taught has more in common with literature than mathematics. It seems more time is spent studying the history of failed philosophies that philosophy's successes. To the extent that any philosophy embraces the supernatural, it fails. The idea that "reason is revealed through religious truth" is unsupportable, and unsound, therefore Hegal's philosophy of history fails.
```Moreover, Hegel argues that evidence of reason is revealed through religious truth, which demonstrates that the world is governed not by chance but by a Providence. During profound moments of spiritual epiphany, we come to the realization that a divine order presides over the world. Providence is wisdom endowed with an infinite power, which realizes its own purpose, that is, the absolute, rational, final purpose of the world; reason is “thought determining itself in absolute freedom.”``` --Jakob Schlesinger on Hegel
A pleasure to listen to this eloquence of explanation of stuffs that so elude the mind.
His dialectic is a religious-spiritual ideology that is anchored in an amorphous concept of change to justify ineluctable revolutions. Supposedly, this will at some point lead us to the absolute ideal or God (he conveniently doesn't define it).
thanks a lot for the Hegel part. I found some of the ideas are not unfamiliar to Taoism students. the paradox view of the the world, habit (no opposition ) is the first sign of decline., always in flux and changes.. and so on.
>Now here's where it gets pretty colonialist.
Yes, and...?
But on a serious note: National socialist thought certainly didn't agree with the notion that history is progressively getting better, nor do fascists in general. An exception might be the Italian Futirists like Marinetti.
"The highest achievement of Spirit is ultimately to know itself." Hegel was the first to understand this, and it is therefore through Hegel that Spirit first became self-conscious. I.e., the final goal of human history... what it all has been leading up to... is... wait for it... Hegel!
2:14 - this just sounds like self actualization or self-awareness
Excellent. Please make a video on Karl Marx as young Hegelian.
Very well explained. But I'm still not convinced that Hegel had something interesting to say.
Hegelian development in solely personal development should be considered
Hi there! Hegel discusses this most fully in The Phenomenology of Spirit, as well as in a number of places. Since this video is background for Hegel's philosophy of history, it's a somewhat different project. For Hegel, personal development is never really separate from historical consciousness, but you're right to point out that that doesn't mean the two can't be considered in distinct projects (which is what Hegel does).
@@OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy Yeah Hegel goes pretty crazy in using the dialectics of progressive compromise for morals as well as historical progress. Weve seen dialectic materialism come into fruition but there is untapped potential of Hegelian dialectics in terms of fully grasping hermetics, alchemy, Jungian, Lacanian, and Freudian psychology as well as points of synthesis between various fields, such as historical development being immediately perceived by the personal subject and its mapping of personal self actualization to historical actualization in the persons lived experience, as the culmination of history as Spirits comprehension of itself is equivalent to an individual bringing about/ participating in its change
She is vocalizing my stoned thoughts
Please correct me, but I seem to remember that it was Fichte who first put forth the notion of thesis running into an antithesis until there is synthesis. I've always loved this as it applies to art - and I know Hegel had a lot to say about art, too! But you see the rigid structures of classicism give way to "anything goes" romanticism in music, painting, poetry, and so on.
Anyway, it's been a while since I was in a philosophy class, but... As I understand it, while Hegel all but intended this meaning, it was Fichte who first put it so baldly. If that does happen to be correct, was Hegel in agreement? How did he react? (Questions I should have asked back in college...)
It was Fichte, yes. Hegel never said it (and she admits he didn't), even if it is commonly misattributed to him (in fact, the one time he DID mention it, he actually complained about it in Kant).
Hegel's actual dialectic was more like Idea-Negation-Concrete.
Yes you're correct, I've taken a course on anti-liberalism where we went over the works of Fichte and Schiller. I find it interesting that classicism relies heavily on harmony considering its apparent juxtaposition with romanticism. The thesis-antithesis-synthesis concept is quite relevant when describing the harmonious appearance of romantic ideals.
Ни слова о Советской эпохе и Советской стране, гле дух Гегеля витает во всём русском!
Marx would repeat the Hegelian mistake with his Asiatic economies
Do you agree with Postone that Geist is just Capital for Marx?
Thank you for doing the impossible, sister.
In my view, Hegel's Spirit can also be called "The Universal Mind" or the FORCE ( as in movie Star War). According to Asian mysticism, this physical world, or the world of matter, is created by splitting the Universal Substance into two polarities -- yin and yang. The interaction of the two polarities is the process for the self-reflection of the Spirit. One of the example of yin/yang polarities is male/female. The yin/yang division was implemented into the bio-chemical processes in the physical bodies. But at the core, there is no division of gender. A harmony can be achieved in a family unit when male and female find a balance through periodic union. The same logic can be extended to a tribe or a country -- the balancing and union of polarized energies. However, it is not so simple in actual implementation in the "real world".
Sounds a lot like Leibniz's _entelechy_ as well
“Periodic union” from a terror managment theory and survival psychology lens, a lot of cultural practices even if imperfect Engadge us in that periodic union, I doubt it’s an accident that a lot of holidays occur around winter time when sad depression goes up. Oxytocin also decreases cortisol. And that’s like stress free bonding that is a binding hormone. I like the way you said using yang and periodic movement as I’ve often seen it through a sort of nihilistic cultural practices that always felt they don’t justify themselves. Though at same time I guess that just means I wasn’t feeling they gave me what I needed. But at same time trauma treatment has titration and pendulation tactics in its treatment too. There is that Alan what’s schtuck about life as music and the notes of music in the present, there is also another video she did where she talked I think about sort of hyper squirrel like jumping between things always occupied with something and how that leads to burnout, vs a sort of superior contemplative immersive attention that takes things as they come and sits with them and is able to immersivly contemplate them. This is sort of a polyvagal state where one can face the self and its opposition of it self. Instead of fight flight attatch cry for help freeze and shutdown states, but in more a self connected and potentially other connected state. It seems to merge ideas of sensory awarness that we see often in mindfulness, and sensory integration movement work, It seems in many ways that things like immersive contemplative flow-awaremindfulness and reflexivity guided thesis - an this is - synthesis of the self and others. Thus jumps around a bit but it seems that there need be a sort of spirituality based off of the type of attention and cognition we Engadge in
10:00 yes! DuBois had a point! Autistic and "queer" people have grown up in a world that was designed to be meaningless for us, so we created meaning out of this meaninglessness! And this made us realize that meaning is what's important! And we create our own meaning through seeking meaning in our daily activities! I think that gives us a role to play in this exciting/scary future we're barreling into! 😳
This progressive "law" of the universe is simply positive sum (2x2 matrix) logic! The logic of the truth table, the Punnett square, the prisoner's dilemma, and quantum entanglement! It's why the revolution is inevitable! 😅🤪
Hegel sounds bipolar, they make medication for that now. If we are progressing as a species why are cemeteries so consistent through history? Thanks for explaining Hegel, I never really understood the theory before watching this video.
Hegel didn't think that history improves in a linear fashion
If you believe Hegel was a philosopher rather than a lunatic try reading his essay On the Orbits of the Planets. The funniest part is where he says that if observations conflict with his theories then the observations should be rejected! Yeah, right.
In The End of day, Philosopher is A Radical Person With Radical Thinking. It's Almost Like A Religion. They Belief What They Think.
If You Think Hegel Is A Lunatic Person Than You Should Learn About Diogenes😂
Thank you ! Big ideas compressed into so little time . Not easy!
Recently l listened to a documentary where Russell trashes Hegel. Saying he was a Hegelian but now find it rubbish, the oneness of the universe ( Absolute) is ridiculous .( l think because it has theists mono suggestion he is all over it ) .
I will argue for Hegel here by given existential examples of spirit through individual(s) can move the universe and in fact create history!
The Beatles from his native homeland in fact did so along with Bob Dylan . They ( not by conscious intent as l feel Marx is guilty of ) moved a entire generation . Changing views , fashion, sexual openness , economy and responses to wars and politics)
Of course like history does it dissolved into other forms of music and art after the sixties but it’s spirit remains as fuel to the engine .
They were not academic philosophers but carried many philosophical concepts through the spirit of modern man .
Needless to say with tension of the opposites .
Problem reaction solution?
I really love you what can I do 💕👋😊❤
1:34 -we think a like
Hegel's arche seems to be strife from just looking at the dialectic.
It also seems like he was trying to explain the Logos and Divine Providence aka the Telos of Logos in Enlightenment terms, but the difference or error would be thinking that strife (thesis antithesis synthesis) is what moves/allows the Trinity to be Triune in multiplicity yet of the same essence when it is Love (the third person aka the holy spirit). This might have had alot to do with Martin Luther's doctrine of the enslaved will (Hegel was a Lutheran) which ultimately albeit unwittingly introduces evil into the trinity and negates the Logos.
What I think is we have moved past Hegel philosophically, but not culturally. Not yet.
Teleology? Maybe not, but possibility? Sure. Harder to talk about that when you don't all have a common goal or history, but maybe a common problem is enough to get us talking.
Does the Bible behind you mean anything to you? Are was it simply a research investment Dr. Allie? If so, your emphasis is continental, so I don’t expect analytical or medieval philosophy, but are you interested in covering them? Is that a possibility?
God rest
The problem is: Which history? Or, which end or teleology will transform the self-conscious into universality? History, by it's very nature, is exclusive and inclusive. The history of Colorado excludes most of the history of New York City but includes the history of Denver and Boulder. This seems like a huge problem for Hegelians.
It's a very vague notion but I see a similarity between Hegel's "habit" and Sartre's "bad faith". Both cases are an example of letting go of ambition, drive or will, and replacing it of some sort of "laziness", for a lack of better word. It's like the Geist having a moral opposition, a certain counter-force. I am a beginner in philosophy, so forgive me if I am far off the tracks. But the resemblance has struck me here.
Was Hegel a determinist?
And the imperfect having the perfect within itself sounds like the buddha-nature in all life forms.
(in my humble undestanding)
bits and pieces "get better" for subsequent experiencers. wish fulfillment may be gratified....all a hopefully delightful story. how real is time....? carry on.
What great fun! I shall look for other examples of this gal's work ... watched it after watching (part of) an execrable vid --'Hegel in 90 Minutes' -- a couple of days ago, & it gives me intellectual hope for the human race -- as the human race sublates itself thru art, religion, & philosophy into Absolute Spirit, of course!
How is Hegel's concept of Spirit different from the Vedic concept of Spirit called "parabrahma". The journey seems to be the same through lower conscious to the upper most by overcoming its own obstacle. But most probably Hegel's Spirit is a unified concept for a race as a whole and once the spirit achieves its highest level, it dies down whereas Vedic spirit is individualistic in nature where after attaining the highest level , it gets assimilated into the universal spirit...I may be horribly wrong in understsnding though...
Nature finds a way to balance itself and in that could be found some way to justify calling a group of people important. Even the methods by which a person could conceptualize a world in which a spirit runs through it as a method of self preservation is a part of that spirit and not separate from its running limitations. I think Hegel may have been influenced by the technological/philosophical curse and assuming too much about "spirits" the power by which people produce is much less an energy as much as a reaction to their proximity to surplus material. However important a group may be importance does not mean whole, only a larger piece of a greater understanding of the underlying ocean of knowledge we sip from once in awhile.
Good job. You explain things as simple as possible, but no simpler. (butchered Einstein quote)
A big part of me wants to believe in a progressivist view of history. If it's true, it doesn't occur in a straight line there are definitely setbacks.
My problem with it is the way it has been abused to justify ideologies. All ideologies are flawed and some are horrible.
It seems like humanity progresses in-spite of ideologies, not because of them.
as it is your area of expertise you must know he never and it is indeed nowhere in his works to find, used that terminology thesis/antithesis/synthesis not once and what baffles me is the movement of young boys in a group from 3 up to 6 people: they stop every 10 meters for no reason and never go in one direction...
Hegel writes, "Spirit, in so far as it is the spirit of God, is not a spirit beyond the stars, beyond the world. On the contrary, God is present, omnipresent, and exists as spirit in all spirits. God is a living God who is acting and working. Religion is a product of the divine spirit. It is not a discovery of man but a work of divine operation." But then he says that animals are objects and not persons. Similar to the Christians who say that animals do not have a soul. The embryo grows and at a point of complexity, the chemical interactions come alive. Biological life created by chemical reactions. Unfortunately, this is completely unscientific speculation. Chemicals cannot create life. Life is not born from chemicals. Consciousness, the living force, the I, is another higher energy, the immortal soul.
Hegel was right that in Europe the world spirit was driven in his age, now it is driven in the USA and soon it will be driven by south-west Asia. Or will you say that other continents copied a lot of Native American behavior? no because it is underdeveloped, the same now with the african cultures. This is not racist because world history allows every culture to develop as long it makes the right choices.
Its easier to see civilization and its technology evolve toward improvement /perfection than culture and politics. We have modern infrastructure that includes nuclear power plants, the internet and cutting edge gene therapy for example but at the same time we still have many examples of authoritarian/autocratic governments that brutally repress their people's freedoms and liberties. The latter has been true for centuries. I would say to Hegel that human nature and spirit are intertwined. Therefore, are there limits to how much can spirit can realize itself if human nature doesn't ever change?
How...does spirit reflect on itself? In order for that to occur...there must be something that is not spirit. Meaning...that spirit and 'nature' must be somehow differentiated. And somehow...out of this differentiation...something that is not spirit creates in spirit the capacity to 'reflect'. To see itself from a point of view that is not itself.
Schopenhauer hated Hegel.
isnt hegel main philosophy iminent critique? hegel writes teribbly im confused which is whic, isnt dialectic philosophy brought up by fitche?
It would be great to see a video on Murray Bookchin's evolution of Hegelian philosophy and Marxist thinking.
Is there a relationship between volksgeist and a kind of collective consciousness? And if so, what role does media play in the development? Massive influence no? 🤔
Are you godsent? I believe you are because you just made my day!!!! I’m in tears, thank you
The eyes of the world, the moving spirit of the world look upon every generations, the only question is will our example set about the worlds of tomorrow?
The intrinsic law of progress is called entropy. Humans build things that make their lives easier, governments use force to take these processes over and run them less effectively due to less customer input.
Quite agree. Heidegger as the spiritual progression of Kant. Positivism will lead to a teleological zeitgeist of the contemporary; moment, of Progressive relative positive state of Universal Happiness
Great explanation. Concise, works well. The first 2 minutes of the talk are so, so good that they do not lapse into the simple example "thesis-antithesis-synthesis": this is, as you mention, an example of alienation and substation in the concept. I really loved it.
EDIT: I meant sublation, not substation.
Firstly ,Thank you !
what jumped out at me was my earlier reading of a philosophical disagreement between Wittgenstein and Turing about a mathematical issue of contradiction . Turing took a platonic view insisting that contradiction can never be in a math equation or else the whole thing would collapse , . Wittgenstein argued contradictions can be a valuable part of the equation adding no bridge has not yet fallen because of a contradiction in the equation . The article though is quite long but i could not help but thing of Hegel upon reading of Wittgenstein argument against Turing .
Also i upon listening to this could see Kierkegaard see how his dislike for Hegel is reflected in his three stages of transformation ( final as Leap of faith ) opposed to Hegel three stages of Spirit . Thanks in advance for reading .
Derrida had the best way to think of Aufhebung. It could be translated by relever, to both excise and write over
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Spirit = Story.
There's no point in using the thesis, antihesis etc since it fails before it even begins. Watch Cadell Last. The best Hegelian on YT.
This has always reminded of virtue ethics, where the end result of dialectical logic is always a virtuous golden mean.
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You are a legend at explaining
I dont agree with the notion pressented in the abslute sense of what he ment
But he does serm to offer some good points about ideas in general
more perfect?
so fascism of the 1930's is present as having been superseded?
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thank you so much for this video..you make it easier for a 1st timer at philosophy.. bless you for it.
Is it possible to post a separate video on the optimism of Hegel.. a very short one, just like the one you posted on the pessimism of Schopenhauer??
Thank you - in advance - if you even fathom the idea..
Hegel seems like a person who would see a swarm of starlings and see the swarm which is merely an emergent phenomenon as a fundamental one.
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THANK YOU Madam. Your lectures are both simple and intelligent, deep but easily understandable. Can you expand the list to include more continental philosophers, esp. Husserl, Sartre and Camus.
Abstraction - Negation - Concretion (by sublation)
nice with references to the text. it would be nice if youtbe had a tool to refer to texts within videos