Thesis synthesis and antithesis was an idea developed by Johann Fichte, one of Hegels contemporaries. Hegel spent a lot of energy writing about how that idea is incomplete but its a very common mistake to attribute it to Hegel.
Well it's not totally wrong; you can find a similar structure in many of his works and thoughts. But the two main differences are that Hegel's dialectic doesn't stop with the synthesis and that it's not only a method of thinking, but also and most importantly an ontological structure
@@wlrlelno, it is totally wrong. Hegel was very familiar with the thesis, antithesis, synthesis model and very consciously never used the terms. The Hegelian dialectic must be understood without the use of these terms.
There’s the oft repeated quote that ‘those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it’ but another line I read more recently is that ‘those who know history are doomed to see it repeat’.
If learning how to complicate things but do nothing else useful is a reward. Then send away for a 6x6 rubicks cube. Completing it will do a lot more good than Hegel ever did.
The history of Hegelian scholarship and interpretation is both fascinating and hilarious. Todd McGowan points out in his book “Emancipation After Hegel” that he is probably the only philosopher to consistently be interpreted in not only distinct but literally opposite ways. The right Hegelians famously saw him as a conservative defender of constitutional monarchy, while the left Hegelians saw him as a defender of progressive development. Some modern Hegelians see him as a pantheistic idealist who thinks that all of reality exists within a single Mind/Spirit, while other modern Hegelians (the most famous of them being Slavoj Zizek) see Hegel as arguing that reality is incomplete, unable to be fully grasped by the mind, and ultimately materialist. It’s fascinating.
In that way he's almost reminiscent of Spinoza: a man who has at various points been described as both a heretic and an atheist and also as a "god-drunk" proto-pantheist/deist. You'll find as many videos about Spinoza on channels discussing the history of religion and esotericism as you will on channels discussing philosophy. Everyone wants to get to the bottom of this guy, and I think it's because everyone has near universally agreed that he's a great thinker and they want him to have agreed with them. Honestly I think, like Hegel, anyone who claims to truly understand Spinoza is lying. There has only been one true Spinozist and one true Hegelian, and they've both been dead for centuries.
The fact that Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher explains a lot why he makes no sense in his speeches. He's a communist, but values individual freedom and is against state control, but wants that state to give everyone a universal basic income.
These are amazing! I wish you would make full video versions of these. (Maybe like, cultural literacy: philosophers, and cover 4 or so over 20 minutes? Or monarchs, authors, musicians)
I think that simplification is the most logical explanation of hegelian dialectic I've ever heard. It actually makes sense instead of sounding like a contrived cultural calculus.
really appreciate the wojack redraws in recent videos. theyre pretty interesting ways to get zoomers attention and using them as shorthand for teaching is an interesting way to convey things to young people
Hegel is a bit like Kabbalah: if someone claims to understand it completely and to have figured it out once and for all and reached a definitive judgement on it you know for a fact they're talking straight nonsense.
Kabbalah like Hegel, is just full of Gnostic crap. With some hermeticism thrown in. It's both nothing new and there was good reason to throw those insane ideas out nearly 2 millennia ago. Fools keep trying to resurrect the idiocy though.
Well, I went to a very excellent ,wise,well aged,and sharp teacher, Hebrew school, alongside my college studies in English,Critical Writing,theory, philosophy and Humanities, Religions where we did a wide survey course of all world religions and history. And a bio- psych class, anatomy- brain, all the sensory organs and process, eye,vision,cellular,nerve,firing of brain/nerve cells, hearing/ ears, sensory perception,psych 2 ,etc. But my Hebrew classes were Torah,Talmud, Biblical Hebrew, and Orthodox Judaism in practice, and other language related. But he also was a qualified nuclear phycisist, advanced mathematician,and an ad anced expert Mikkabballim- from Lithuania, a Kabballah expert text reader and translator, a mystic, and philospher,and a handy expert at Gemmatria, Tetragrammaton, and was great at using his Nuclear Physics knowledge and language and quick code solving skills, and application to render very good interesting reverse/ alt investigation of Torah parashas, to for example explain thru all of that and the use of tetragra.maton,gematria, and Kabballistic texts and Nuclear Phisiology to relate to Torah, and prophecy, sometimes resulting in quite STUNNING,chilling revealations of apparently an inarguable proif of truth backing up the way our world and lives and space/ astronomy ( space physics,also) astrophysicioligy, ....how the cern portal was planned ( this was in the 1990's!) Before it opened and got going, he had references he had deciphered or recognized signifigance in relation to Torah and Kabbalah with the sciences like space and particle theories and supposed anatomy of time space and particle, it was interesting because he was one of the world earliest among physicists to know about the so called God Particle, the Boson- Higgs, and what Cern Portals are up to. There was for years many Hebrew scholars and Kabballists and Rabbis among others who knew more than hundreds of years ahead about this stuff, BECAUSE OF TORAH AND KABBALLISM! (TEXTS). ITS AN IMPORTANT STUDY but one has to prepare for it well, and it is in line with Biblical prophecy both thee physics,and at Cern portals and kabballah. How the world is to change and the mysteries of CREATION.
JJ if you are reading this thread, I know from a previous video that you've shown interest in fallout. I'd 100% recommend "Fallout: New Vegas" as it goes into things like hegel, capitalism, red scares, and everything in between, while still being accessible to a new gamer unlike the original two.
To be clear, the thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis idea actually came from Johann Gottlieb Fichte and not Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. I study philosophy professionally and for those interested in actual Hegel I recommend checking out Prof. Justin Burke's work or Antonio Wolf's intro to the 'dialectical method' it's very different than what you may expect because a) there is no dialectical method in Hegel and b) the actual method is known as immanent critique (also known as the speculative method in the old sense, which means to look at an idea, at it's inner-relationships, at its content and form, Hegel's method is the most basic form of analysis discovered). Anyhow, yeah check out Antonio Wolf's series on Hegel for those interested in actual Hegel.
While I'm not a Fichte scholar, from what I understand of Fichte's formula, Hegel's triad of Being - Nothing - Becoming fits very neatly within Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis. Not all Hegelian triads do and certainly the abstract form of Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis does not provide any reasoning as to why exactly Being is both the same as Nothing and distinct from it, but Fichte's formula is not that far off from the Science of Logic.
@@IndustrialMilitia also, another quick note is that Hegel doesn't do any synthesis, he does sublation, and there's a part of the Science of Logic, just like in Antonio's video where Hegel talks about why, but the gist is that a synthesis doesn't add anything new, whereas a sublation is all of the previous content but now with more
@@RareSeldas Under this definition, Becoming is the synthesis of Being and Nothing. Determinate Being would satisfy the definition of the sublation of Being and Nothing
@@RareSeldas I think though that's a misinterpretation of synthesis. The analytic a priori adds nothing new to the relationship. The synthetic a priori is defined precisely through its addition of something new.
Literally the only time I’ve ever heard Hiegel come up is with regard to Hiegelian Marxists so learning about Hiegel from a conservative is breaking my brain right now
Hegel was absolutely a classical conservative. Think monarchy rather than capitalism. I don't know why people would interpret the Elements of the Philosophy of Right as being opposed to classical conservatism. Marx's reading of Hegel is quite good but the Young Hegelians were explicitly not orthodox Hegelians.
Fun Fact; Hegelian Dialectics played a MASSIVE role in the conflict of Fallout New Vegas as Edward Sallow (Caesar) uses the philosophy of Thesis vs. Antithesis to justify his conquest against the NCR & New Vegas itself. It makes for compelling dialogue.
Fun fact: There is a RUclips channel who explains Hegel's Phenomelogy of the Spirit by making 30 min on each paragraph. He has been doing it for 8 years and has 360 videos
Hegel did not claim that each era had its own unique spirit. Rather, Hegel claimed that spirit was universal AND particular: it is the same essential thing now as it was in the beginning of human development, but it develops alongside humanity and thus changes over time.
It's also important to note that Hegel was where Marx was coming from initially in most all his philosophy. He indirectly caused Marxism and everything that stems from that
I mean blaming Hegel for Marxism is a bit like blaming the Montgolfier Brothers for 9/11. Marx was just one of the Young Hegelians, who were just one of many groups of philosophers who drew influence from Hegel. In fact trying to find a facet of post-Hegel philosophy that hasn't been in some way influenced by Hegel is akin to trying to find a facet of English language literature that hasn't been influenced by Shakespeare.
@@JJMcCullough Hal guy put it best. Marxism is mostly an extension of dialectic materialism. I said "indirectly" because I'm aware that it's not like Hegel was sitting behind Marx holding the pen while he wrote Das Kapital. It's more like how nationalism eventually led to Nazism
Reminds me of the meme of the in game charecter (player) ranting about dialectics and Hegel as he gets more frustrated as he goes on lmao- I feel like I understand that meme so much better now.
Personally i dont think Hegel is the most difficult to read (Heidegger comes to mind) but he is definitely the hardest to fully comprehent. At this point in my journey i almost believe the theory of everything is hidden somewhere in his thought
Heidegger is much easier...once you know what his special words mean, he's quite understandable (still not easy though). But when you've understood what Hegel wrote, the problems just begin...
@@wlrlel he criticizes mathematical formalism, not mathematics. In Science of Logic the longest discourses are about calculus (hundreds of pages). The dialectical method itself could be seen as a conceptualization based on differential calculus and dynamical sistems, where the terms are taken as changing variables and have a meaning only with respect to the network of relations in which they are inscribed.
@@mattiafabbri8944 this characterization is true. But still, in the pretexts of the Logic, Hegel emphasizes that mathematics can't be a model for philosophy, for philosophical truth. Therefore, both (philosophy/the Science of Logic and mathematics) are not fully comparable, although there might be (as you said) some similarities.
Thanks dude. Spot-on. The contortion of thought which likes to present itself as philosophy. In the history of philosophy that some of those people should have just walked behind an ox and plow.
All I know about Hegel is that he is top of the list for a lot of people for the "If you had to travel back in time to kill one person, who would it be?" question.
Been wondering if this is my great great grand dad, my grandma said she was the last with the last name and she was also a school teacher, became an artist myself.
The world of creation goes through the course of evolution from the beginning to the end, and in this way, beings with agency choose whether their course of evolution is towards positive evolution (toward true perfection) or negative evolution (toward true destruction). Long live eternity ❤️
Fun fact for the curious: The Hegelian dialectic is lifted straight from alchemical scholars, they had the idea about the union of opposites hundreds of years before he was working on it It’s called the Coniunctio Oppositorum in their works
@@halguy5745 Yeah philosophy unfortunately is kind of a small world with a lot of really big names, and it's not to hard to play Seven Degrees of Separation from Stalin, especially when you're using names as big as Hegel.
@@halguy5745 Yes Plato - Some great ideas, but you should be careful about some of these half formed ideas. These Gnostics are screwed up. Kant - Interesting insights but some of these are just wrong. You know that right? Hegel - You are a gnostic mystic renaming science to fit your religion. And these ideas are just crazy. Marx - Ok you've taken crazy and dipped it well into evil at this point, and you sick lazy bastard and you know it. Lenin - You are an evil super villain. A sick evil super villain. Stalin - You thought Lenin was too much of a "nice guy" and wanted to see how deep hell goes. Klaus - Stalin was thinking too small, you want 90% of the world to die, and you want them to beg for it?
Hey, here’s a synthesis I think would be appreciated: Cultural literacy + ‘What is a Christian Country’ = a video about Jesus and the basic tenets of Christianity, maybe with a prequel about the Jewish religion. Living in Israel, I can tell you there is a lot of ignorance about the topic here: I’ve heard people say you can believe in Jesus _instead_ of God, that the New Testament is ‘a Nazi thing’, etc., and they have no idea what Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestants even are, or who the Twelve Apostles were.
Hegelian dialectics are at the core of the major contemporary political divisions in Western countries. They have led to a rejection of scientific determinism on both the far left and far right. On the right, climate determinism gets rejected while on the left, it's biological determinism. While each will likely see it in the other, they are equally unlikely to see it in themselves. Thus, the same psychological processes are going on for both except they focus on different topics. They both think the other is crazy. They both adopt increasingly totalitarian positions when anxious, exhausted, or treated unfairly. Ultimately, they both turn to statist philosophers to rationalize their moral judgements (or, more accurateky, para-moral judgements) and end up cynically undermining democracy.
Hegelian dialectics are a lens for viewing history through. They are an analytical tool and not something that exerts any direct influence in the world.
Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding you -- and I really hope I am -- but by "biological determinism" are you referring to the school-of-dogma that there are two sexes and that this supposed binary arbitrarily must inform social behavior? Because that's factually anti-science just like climate change denialism. I'm very anti-tribalist and a big fan of pedantic bothsidesery myself, I have no love for most rhetoric of the current USian left and tend to have a good deal of sympathy for where people in all camps are coming from, so inb4 anyone tries to come at me about "reee surely you wear the wrong t-shirt color" label-loyalty deflective nonsense ... but if you're actually claiming the issues of climate change and gender divergence are analogous/are each equivalent marks against the two dominant USian political teams, then that's absolutely objectively bonkers
That is the worst simplification of Hegelian dialectics that I have come across in a while. 😅 No, the dialectic is that any thing already bears it’s opposite, arriving at a higher stage by synthesis - just as the flower bud already contains the fruit (an example that is on one of the first few pages)
Never heard of him til now. Thanks JJ! I was wondering btw why the reigns of Charles II and Charles III are called "Carolean eras" but the reign of Charles I is called "Caroline era". Any thoughts?
I was going to point out that Carolean comes from Carolus which is the Latin name for Charles, but I couldn’t tell you why it’s called the Caroline era
NOT Zeitgeist. Just Geist. Zeitgeist is indeed spirit of the times. But Geist is also the spirit of a people or a country/place. Also, thesis, antithesis, synthesis is not Hegel’s. It is Fichte’s formulation. It does not appear anywhere in Hegel’s work except as a reference to a contemporary idea. Hegel’s Logic is the foundation of his work which Hegel scholars have a consensus on, and the Logic does not rely on that “dialectical” formula. Many Hegel “fans” including professors make this error but it is no longer acceptable in Hegel studies nowadays.
Okay thanks for saying a dumb dumb explanation of a dialectic cause you always hear that word thrown around but I have never really gotten what people were on about
One annoying thing philosophers tend to do, and I'm saying this as a lover and long time student of philosophy, is take a massively complex idea that they've developed across multiple works and refer to it by a single punchy and typically rather common word, often with no regard to how massive that idea is to people just newly approaching their work or to how said idea evolved over the course of their work. A good example would be the idea of "The State:" some philosophers have all sorts of ideas on how it should be run, including some who think it should be done away with entirely, but good luck finding a solid definition of what it is.
My only source for this is a me making fun of Caesar from New Vegas but didn't Hegel not actually talk about hegelian dialectics not a reliable source but kind of interested if it's true
Fun fact: Hegel is the grandfather of German philosophy which has, over time, given the world Marxism, Critical Theory, and the modern institutions of Critical Theory (CRT, queer theory, etc.)!
@@JJMcCullough I think his view of history is almost whimsical the way he says “heroes” of the past are the embodiment of human spirit fighting to self-actualize. His teleological approach to the past is so reductive it almost makes sense when you read it. Also his writing is extremely dry.
Hegel "what's that on the table, is it sky or a tree or sea... no, maybe it's a bear or a mountain or an earthquake... no..... many years later. Well my, my, it's none of those things it's my keys! I was looking for them"
Hegel seems like a fairly obscure guy to have in your cultural literacy series. Unless you often find yourself arguing with particularly well-read socialists, or you're actively pursuing a degree philosophy, I question why anyone would ever need to know Hegel. I have a degree in Philosophy. If not for that, I doubt I would have any idea who Hegel was.
The JJ Wojak caught me off gaurd lol
Thesis synthesis and antithesis was an idea developed by Johann Fichte, one of Hegels contemporaries. Hegel spent a lot of energy writing about how that idea is incomplete but its a very common mistake to attribute it to Hegel.
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Thanks for saying this
Poor Fichte ideas ate up by a larger name
Well it's not totally wrong; you can find a similar structure in many of his works and thoughts. But the two main differences are that Hegel's dialectic doesn't stop with the synthesis and that it's not only a method of thinking, but also and most importantly an ontological structure
@@wlrlelno, it is totally wrong. Hegel was very familiar with the thesis, antithesis, synthesis model and very consciously never used the terms. The Hegelian dialectic must be understood without the use of these terms.
JJ comparing Hegel scholars to the soyjack meme nahhh 💀
they are tbh
Accurate.
Once again, an astute observation from JJ.
You know soyjacks have been thoughroghly mainstreamed when JJ uses them.
"scholars"
"The only thing we learn from Hisory is that we learn nothing from History "
Hegel
Another thing we learn from history is that humans are terrible at predicting the future.
Hed did.
Didn’t Bismarck say something to that effext
There’s the oft repeated quote that ‘those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it’ but another line I read more recently is that ‘those who know history are doomed to see it repeat’.
he just understands better than most how life works
Thesis: Hegel
Antithesis: Kegel
Synthesis: Both take discipline, but are rewarding when mastered.
If learning how to complicate things but do nothing else useful is a reward. Then send away for a 6x6 rubicks cube. Completing it will do a lot more good than Hegel ever did.
Synthesis: Khegel
The synthesis of Hegel and Kant would be Fichte.
And if you spend too much effort on either, it can make you way too tense and have negative long-term effects 😂
@@BazukinBelyugovich synthesis : a nice afternoon
Hegel scholars currently FUMING in the comments because you used Fichte's Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis concept
You know it baby
What do you mean ? The good and the bad and how they both go to s*** ? Hence, a Hegelian tragedy like the one in Antigone.
^
at how wrong this video can overall be, that very common mistake is the least thing they'd be fuming ahout
No Hegel fan can ever explain why this is wrong without giving a 30 page essay response
The history of Hegelian scholarship and interpretation is both fascinating and hilarious. Todd McGowan points out in his book “Emancipation After Hegel” that he is probably the only philosopher to consistently be interpreted in not only distinct but literally opposite ways. The right Hegelians famously saw him as a conservative defender of constitutional monarchy, while the left Hegelians saw him as a defender of progressive development. Some modern Hegelians see him as a pantheistic idealist who thinks that all of reality exists within a single Mind/Spirit, while other modern Hegelians (the most famous of them being Slavoj Zizek) see Hegel as arguing that reality is incomplete, unable to be fully grasped by the mind, and ultimately materialist. It’s fascinating.
In that way he's almost reminiscent of Spinoza: a man who has at various points been described as both a heretic and an atheist and also as a "god-drunk" proto-pantheist/deist. You'll find as many videos about Spinoza on channels discussing the history of religion and esotericism as you will on channels discussing philosophy. Everyone wants to get to the bottom of this guy, and I think it's because everyone has near universally agreed that he's a great thinker and they want him to have agreed with them. Honestly I think, like Hegel, anyone who claims to truly understand Spinoza is lying. There has only been one true Spinozist and one true Hegelian, and they've both been dead for centuries.
its kind of why I find him both fascinating and deeply infuriating. YOu can read anything into his stuff, and his fans are INFURIATING.
He should've made his message more clear. It's hard to be so imprecise with your words that you're interpreted in opposite ways.
@@FunkyJeff22 Maybe his entire point is to avoid that, to spur discussion and disagreement, to inspire new ideas!
The fact that Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher explains a lot why he makes no sense in his speeches. He's a communist, but values individual freedom and is against state control, but wants that state to give everyone a universal basic income.
These are amazing! I wish you would make full video versions of these. (Maybe like, cultural literacy: philosophers, and cover 4 or so over 20 minutes? Or monarchs, authors, musicians)
I think that simplification is the most logical explanation of hegelian dialectic I've ever heard. It actually makes sense instead of sounding like a contrived cultural calculus.
Well but it's not Hegel's concept...
really appreciate the wojack redraws in recent videos. theyre pretty interesting ways to get zoomers attention and using them as shorthand for teaching is an interesting way to convey things to young people
I will say, as a zoomer, that yeah, it gets our attention. But it’s also just really funny to see as a fan of JJ the use of a soyjack
@@operleutnant7235 it catches me offguard since he talks about things I wouldn't expect to see soyjacks paired with
Hegel is a bit like Kabbalah: if someone claims to understand it completely and to have figured it out once and for all and reached a definitive judgement on it you know for a fact they're talking straight nonsense.
Kabbalah like Hegel, is just full of Gnostic crap. With some hermeticism thrown in. It's both nothing new and there was good reason to throw those insane ideas out nearly 2 millennia ago. Fools keep trying to resurrect the idiocy though.
🎵But if i claim to be a wise man, it surely means that i dont know🎵
Well, I went to a very excellent ,wise,well aged,and sharp teacher, Hebrew school, alongside my college studies in English,Critical Writing,theory, philosophy and Humanities, Religions where we did a wide survey course of all world religions and history. And a bio- psych class, anatomy- brain, all the sensory organs and process, eye,vision,cellular,nerve,firing of brain/nerve cells, hearing/ ears, sensory perception,psych 2 ,etc. But my Hebrew classes were Torah,Talmud, Biblical Hebrew, and Orthodox Judaism in practice, and other language related.
But he also was a qualified nuclear phycisist, advanced mathematician,and an ad anced expert Mikkabballim- from Lithuania, a Kabballah expert text reader and translator, a mystic, and philospher,and a handy expert at Gemmatria, Tetragrammaton, and was great at using his Nuclear Physics knowledge and language and quick code solving skills, and application to render very good interesting reverse/ alt investigation of Torah parashas, to for example explain thru all of that and the use of tetragra.maton,gematria, and Kabballistic texts and Nuclear Phisiology to relate to Torah, and prophecy, sometimes resulting in quite STUNNING,chilling revealations of apparently an inarguable proif of truth backing up the way our world and lives and space/ astronomy ( space physics,also) astrophysicioligy, ....how the cern portal was planned ( this was in the 1990's!) Before it opened and got going, he had references he had deciphered or recognized signifigance in relation to Torah and Kabbalah with the sciences like space and particle theories and supposed anatomy of time space and particle, it was interesting because he was one of the world earliest among physicists to know about the so called God Particle, the Boson- Higgs, and what Cern Portals are up to. There was for years many Hebrew scholars and Kabballists and Rabbis among others who knew more than hundreds of years ahead about this stuff, BECAUSE OF TORAH AND KABBALLISM! (TEXTS). ITS AN IMPORTANT STUDY but one has to prepare for it well, and it is in line with Biblical prophecy both thee physics,and at Cern portals and kabballah. How the world is to change and the mysteries of CREATION.
Well that sounds bad considering we use his work to establish truth
That's a little bit too much but I get your point xD
Fallout NV called and seemed interested on this guys work 😂
If anything: New Vegas is very much an anti-Hagelian game designed to poke holes in the ideas.
@@kyokyodisaster4842 I kinda agree. I love how they use ceaser quoting hegel to show that educated people can be morons
JJ if you are reading this thread, I know from a previous video that you've shown interest in fallout. I'd 100% recommend "Fallout: New Vegas" as it goes into things like hegel, capitalism, red scares, and everything in between, while still being accessible to a new gamer unlike the original two.
I literally just watched one New Vegas video and got this in my recommended. Crazy
@@craydussy I'd expect nothing less from a profligate...
To be clear, the thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis idea actually came from Johann Gottlieb Fichte and not Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
I study philosophy professionally and for those interested in actual Hegel I recommend checking out Prof. Justin Burke's work or Antonio Wolf's intro to the 'dialectical method' it's very different than what you may expect because a) there is no dialectical method in Hegel and b) the actual method is known as immanent critique (also known as the speculative method in the old sense, which means to look at an idea, at it's inner-relationships, at its content and form, Hegel's method is the most basic form of analysis discovered).
Anyhow, yeah check out Antonio Wolf's series on Hegel for those interested in actual Hegel.
While I'm not a Fichte scholar, from what I understand of Fichte's formula, Hegel's triad of Being - Nothing - Becoming fits very neatly within Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis. Not all Hegelian triads do and certainly the abstract form of Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis does not provide any reasoning as to why exactly Being is both the same as Nothing and distinct from it, but Fichte's formula is not that far off from the Science of Logic.
@@IndustrialMilitia also, another quick note is that Hegel doesn't do any synthesis, he does sublation, and there's a part of the Science of Logic, just like in Antonio's video where Hegel talks about why, but the gist is that a synthesis doesn't add anything new, whereas a sublation is all of the previous content but now with more
@@RareSeldas Under this definition, Becoming is the synthesis of Being and Nothing. Determinate Being would satisfy the definition of the sublation of Being and Nothing
@@RareSeldas I think though that's a misinterpretation of synthesis. The analytic a priori adds nothing new to the relationship. The synthetic a priori is defined precisely through its addition of something new.
@@IndustrialMilitiayep you're quite right with that.
I was astonished to read his notes on his travels. It was as if he'd written his conclusions two weeks sgo!
What do you mean
@@JJMcCullough He recorded his personal responses to things like the overwhelming grinding poverty he saw in India, for example.
@@grovermartin6874he was not in India...
Literally the only time I’ve ever heard Hiegel come up is with regard to Hiegelian Marxists so learning about Hiegel from a conservative is breaking my brain right now
Indeed, its like learning about Zizek from Ben Shapero.
Though JJMcCullough is small C-conservative, so it makes more sense.
Hegel was absolutely a classical conservative. Think monarchy rather than capitalism. I don't know why people would interpret the Elements of the Philosophy of Right as being opposed to classical conservatism. Marx's reading of Hegel is quite good but the Young Hegelians were explicitly not orthodox Hegelians.
There are right wing Hegelians, they existed before the left wingers who interpreted his work, also there’s no I in his name
@@kyokyodisaster4842Not really, Hegel wasn’t a left winger
Fun Fact;
Hegelian Dialectics played a MASSIVE role in the conflict of Fallout New Vegas as Edward Sallow (Caesar) uses the philosophy of Thesis vs. Antithesis to justify his conquest against the NCR & New Vegas itself. It makes for compelling dialogue.
Me after playing Legion questline: "Why yes, I am a bit of a philosophizer smart man myself."
I mean, tbf, the NCR would seem imsane to a caesar who grew up among the bones of his forefathers who went down the NCR's path
Thank god these got continued unlike cultural object breakdown
The JJ wojak made me laugh, loving this mini series, keep it up!
Fun fact: There is a RUclips channel who explains Hegel's Phenomelogy of the Spirit by making 30 min on each paragraph. He has been doing it for 8 years and has 360 videos
Whats the channel name?
i love these! i always felt like Hegel's basic ideas made a lot of sense
JJ is just the best at condensing hours of reading into one minute videos!
Hegel did not claim that each era had its own unique spirit. Rather, Hegel claimed that spirit was universal AND particular: it is the same essential thing now as it was in the beginning of human development, but it develops alongside humanity and thus changes over time.
Excellent case study in how to say nothing in 30 seconds, bravo JJ
It's also important to note that Hegel was where Marx was coming from initially in most all his philosophy. He indirectly caused Marxism and everything that stems from that
How so
I mean blaming Hegel for Marxism is a bit like blaming the Montgolfier Brothers for 9/11. Marx was just one of the Young Hegelians, who were just one of many groups of philosophers who drew influence from Hegel. In fact trying to find a facet of post-Hegel philosophy that hasn't been in some way influenced by Hegel is akin to trying to find a facet of English language literature that hasn't been influenced by Shakespeare.
This sounds right, but I also would love an explanation.
both leftwing and rightwing interpretations of Hegel exist. but yeah Marx's dialectical materialism is a extension of hegelianism
@@JJMcCullough Hal guy put it best. Marxism is mostly an extension of dialectic materialism. I said "indirectly" because I'm aware that it's not like Hegel was sitting behind Marx holding the pen while he wrote Das Kapital. It's more like how nationalism eventually led to Nazism
Great summary, especially that last line.
I need that sweater. I don't know why.
Fell into understanding hegal as fichte towards the end here ❤
When these get to like 30 minutes or an hour I hope you do a compilation video of all of them so far.
jj is the type of person to
I read a book explaining The Phenomenology of Spirit and I couldn’t even understand that book
Reminds me of the meme of the in game charecter (player) ranting about dialectics and Hegel as he gets more frustrated as he goes on lmao-
I feel like I understand that meme so much better now.
Personally i dont think Hegel is the most difficult to read (Heidegger comes to mind) but he is definitely the hardest to fully comprehent. At this point in my journey i almost believe the theory of everything is hidden somewhere in his thought
Heidegger is much easier...once you know what his special words mean, he's quite understandable (still not easy though). But when you've understood what Hegel wrote, the problems just begin...
Hegel's philosophy is deeply influenced by mathematical modelings. Now I don't think that math concepts are famous to be intuitive and simple.
@@mattiafabbri8944 please elaborate that. Because when you read the Science of Logic, Hegel states the exact opposite multiple times.
@@wlrlel he criticizes mathematical formalism, not mathematics. In Science of Logic the longest discourses are about calculus (hundreds of pages). The dialectical method itself could be seen as a conceptualization based on differential calculus and dynamical sistems, where the terms are taken as changing variables and have a meaning only with respect to the network of relations in which they are inscribed.
@@mattiafabbri8944 this characterization is true. But still, in the pretexts of the Logic, Hegel emphasizes that mathematics can't be a model for philosophy, for philosophical truth. Therefore, both (philosophy/the Science of Logic and mathematics) are not fully comparable, although there might be (as you said) some similarities.
I swear I met you at a party in Bushwick last week
This is a pretty great tiny summary
I find Hegel an easy read & straightforward.
Those who argue don't understand his theories.
Great. Now I have the Australian Philosophers Song stuck in my head.
Better summary than any of my professors in university gave ❤
Thanks JJ! I'm gonna tell everyone that I've read Hegel now
Thanks dude. Spot-on. The contortion of thought which likes to present itself as philosophy. In the history of philosophy that some of those people should have just walked behind an ox and plow.
I love that the "cultural literacy" series exclusively deals in obscure knowledge that has nothing to do with current cultural norms.
I thought you might like to know that yesterday I saw someone wearing a Washington Football Team shirt in Missouri.
I remember in college having to reread paragraphs multiple times and never being sure what he was saying
Never heard of this man until now.
You should have mentioned how his philosophy was very influential for some of the major political ideologies of the 20th centuary.
Commenting to put on my watch later
All I know about Hegel is that he is top of the list for a lot of people for the "If you had to travel back in time to kill one person, who would it be?" question.
I actually knew about Hegel thanks to "Action Philosophers!".
Been wondering if this is my great great grand dad, my grandma said she was the last with the last name and she was also a school teacher, became an artist myself.
Who decides when an "era" begins and when it ends?
The world of creation goes through the course of evolution from the beginning to the end, and in this way, beings with agency choose whether their course of evolution is towards positive evolution (toward true perfection) or negative evolution (toward true destruction). Long live eternity ❤️
Hegel, even moreso than Kant, had a profound talent to endlessly describe and discuss nothing important
Yeah that's what people say who don't understand them.
This brings to mind the show the boondocks for some reason. The part of chaos and tyranny synthesize to rule of law
"David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel..." 🎶
Wating for the next one. :)
Fun fact for the curious: The Hegelian dialectic is lifted straight from alchemical scholars, they had the idea about the union of opposites hundreds of years before he was working on it
It’s called the Coniunctio Oppositorum in their works
His dialectic is more than that, but I get what you mean. The concept of the coincidentia oppositorum is just by one man; Nicolaus Cusanus
The Zeitgeist of this century is JJ McCullough
He also invented a set of exercises that can prevent incontinence.
Hegel? You mean the guy who influenced Marx who influenced Lenin and so on...
That's where I know that guy from.
plato? you mean the guy who influenced kant who influenced hegel who influenced marx who influenced lenin who influenced stalin?
@@halguy5745 Yeah philosophy unfortunately is kind of a small world with a lot of really big names, and it's not to hard to play Seven Degrees of Separation from Stalin, especially when you're using names as big as Hegel.
@@halguy5745 Yes
Plato - Some great ideas, but you should be careful about some of these half formed ideas. These Gnostics are screwed up.
Kant - Interesting insights but some of these are just wrong. You know that right?
Hegel - You are a gnostic mystic renaming science to fit your religion. And these ideas are just crazy.
Marx - Ok you've taken crazy and dipped it well into evil at this point, and you sick lazy bastard and you know it.
Lenin - You are an evil super villain. A sick evil super villain.
Stalin - You thought Lenin was too much of a "nice guy" and wanted to see how deep hell goes.
Klaus - Stalin was thinking too small, you want 90% of the world to die, and you want them to beg for it?
Josef Stalin was an opportunist and would’ve found a way to be some type of megalomaniacal bureaucrat regardless of Marx
wilhelm, not “william”
For some reason that picture of Joe Bidden behind you makes me ill. A real Hegelian reconciliation....lol
Hey, here’s a synthesis I think would be appreciated:
Cultural literacy + ‘What is a Christian Country’ = a video about Jesus and the basic tenets of Christianity, maybe with a prequel about the Jewish religion. Living in Israel, I can tell you there is a lot of ignorance about the topic here: I’ve heard people say you can believe in Jesus _instead_ of God, that the New Testament is ‘a Nazi thing’, etc., and they have no idea what Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestants even are, or who the Twelve Apostles were.
He suggested that Napoleon's victory over Prussia at Jena in 1806 represented "the end of history"!
Do The Devine Comedy
Hegelian dialectics are at the core of the major contemporary political divisions in Western countries. They have led to a rejection of scientific determinism on both the far left and far right. On the right, climate determinism gets rejected while on the left, it's biological determinism. While each will likely see it in the other, they are equally unlikely to see it in themselves.
Thus, the same psychological processes are going on for both except they focus on different topics. They both think the other is crazy. They both adopt increasingly totalitarian positions when anxious, exhausted, or treated unfairly. Ultimately, they both turn to statist philosophers to rationalize their moral judgements (or, more accurateky, para-moral judgements) and end up cynically undermining democracy.
Hegelian dialectics are a lens for viewing history through. They are an analytical tool and not something that exerts any direct influence in the world.
Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding you -- and I really hope I am -- but by "biological determinism" are you referring to the school-of-dogma that there are two sexes and that this supposed binary arbitrarily must inform social behavior? Because that's factually anti-science just like climate change denialism.
I'm very anti-tribalist and a big fan of pedantic bothsidesery myself, I have no love for most rhetoric of the current USian left and tend to have a good deal of sympathy for where people in all camps are coming from, so inb4 anyone tries to come at me about "reee surely you wear the wrong t-shirt color" label-loyalty deflective nonsense ... but if you're actually claiming the issues of climate change and gender divergence are analogous/are each equivalent marks against the two dominant USian political teams, then that's absolutely objectively bonkers
That is the worst simplification of Hegelian dialectics that I have come across in a while. 😅
No, the dialectic is that any thing already bears it’s opposite, arriving at a higher stage by synthesis - just as the flower bud already contains the fruit (an example that is on one of the first few pages)
1. It’s called immanent critique not Hegelian dialectics
2. Hegel never used the terms thesis, antithesis, synthesis. That was Fichte
It's thesis, antithesis, synthesis attributed to Fichte?
Do camus next
Never heard of him til now. Thanks JJ! I was wondering btw why the reigns of Charles II and Charles III are called "Carolean eras" but the reign of Charles I is called "Caroline era". Any thoughts?
I was going to point out that Carolean comes from Carolus which is the Latin name for Charles, but I couldn’t tell you why it’s called the Caroline era
I guess language changed
Do one on Thomas kinkade
I never thought I’d see the day where a soyjack meme is used in a JJ video but here we are
I think he used it in the Canadian political compass video.
McCulloughfied wojaks was never something I knew I wanted
Hi JJ
Good stuff.
NOT Zeitgeist. Just Geist. Zeitgeist is indeed spirit of the times. But Geist is also the spirit of a people or a country/place. Also, thesis, antithesis, synthesis is not Hegel’s. It is Fichte’s formulation. It does not appear anywhere in Hegel’s work except as a reference to a contemporary idea. Hegel’s Logic is the foundation of his work which Hegel scholars have a consensus on, and the Logic does not rely on that “dialectical” formula. Many Hegel “fans” including professors make this error but it is no longer acceptable in Hegel studies nowadays.
He looks like the guy who killed vampire
Okay thanks for saying a dumb dumb explanation of a dialectic cause you always hear that word thrown around but I have never really gotten what people were on about
One annoying thing philosophers tend to do, and I'm saying this as a lover and long time student of philosophy, is take a massively complex idea that they've developed across multiple works and refer to it by a single punchy and typically rather common word, often with no regard to how massive that idea is to people just newly approaching their work or to how said idea evolved over the course of their work. A good example would be the idea of "The State:" some philosophers have all sorts of ideas on how it should be run, including some who think it should be done away with entirely, but good luck finding a solid definition of what it is.
love your content but why did you refer to Hegel as ‘European’ and not German?
Did anybody else hear that? Could’ve sworn I heard somebody screaming “RETRIBUTION!!!!!”
My only source for this is a me making fun of Caesar from New Vegas but didn't Hegel not actually talk about hegelian dialectics not a reliable source but kind of interested if it's true
Fun fact: Hegel is the grandfather of German philosophy which has, over time, given the world Marxism, Critical Theory, and the modern institutions of Critical Theory (CRT, queer theory, etc.)!
I mean you could also say he was the grandfather of Heidegger and Nazism lol
JJ how come you look so cool all the time in all of your videos
The irony of making a ten seconds long video on philosophy of history through a pop culture medium
just read hegel's philosophy of history the other day, he's interesting
How so
@@JJMcCullough I think his view of history is almost whimsical the way he says “heroes” of the past are the embodiment of human spirit fighting to self-actualize. His teleological approach to the past is so reductive it almost makes sense when you read it. Also his writing is extremely dry.
Hegel "what's that on the table, is it sky or a tree or sea... no, maybe it's a bear or a mountain or an earthquake... no..... many years later. Well my, my, it's none of those things it's my keys! I was looking for them"
Great. Now I want to read hegel.
Don't bother. Its intentional complex just to sound smart but he was essentially an alchemist using gnostism. And not a very good one at that.
Read him! If you need any help/suggestions, feel free to ask. And ignore the idiot commenting here😂
Ignore this other asshole, do what you want
LMAO the soyjak calarts face looks awesome in your style
Great video too
Hegel seems like a fairly obscure guy to have in your cultural literacy series. Unless you often find yourself arguing with particularly well-read socialists, or you're actively pursuing a degree philosophy, I question why anyone would ever need to know Hegel.
I have a degree in Philosophy. If not for that, I doubt I would have any idea who Hegel was.
He’s a pretty important historical figure who’s influenced society for the past 200 something years
Uh oh, he’s emerging
How about teaching us how to pronounce Goethe
I can't believe that jj drew a goddamn soyjack
So Caesar was acknowledging that the legion was stupid?
Z in German is read as Z in Pizza and TS in Cats
The only thing that I know about Hegel is that Ceasar from F:NV doesn't know shit about Hegel
Objection: tyranny feeds on chaos.
when the canadian centrist vexillology dude starts talking Hegel
Those who marries the spirit of the age will find themselves widows of the next
SO TRUE!
I only open this short video just to watch the narrator speak.
Hegeljak