Hegel: Philosophy of world history and spirit
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
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Philosophy professor Ellie Anderson discusses G.W.F. Hegel's views on world history and the nature of spirit. Why does Hegel think that world history is a rational process? How do freedom, the state, and ethical life fit into the world-historical process?
This video was created for Professor Anderson's Spring 2021 "Continental Thought" course at Pomona College. The text under discussion is G.W.F. Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of World History.
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One thing that is indisputable about Hegel is that reading him is a sure cure for insomnia.
Same with Marx
Hahaha true. No, I find Marx easier to read and understandable but Hegel is really more... Obscure 🙄
@@nolanr1400 Marx isn't hard to understand its just dull.
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Maybe try starting with the Encyclopedia rather than the Phenomenology. It's written towards students.
Learn the Logic first since it's the ground for all the other works so to speak.
Learn his Vocab, understand terms such as Being-for-itself and Being-in-and-for-itself. It'll make the process easier.
Check out readers guides. My personal favorite is Hegel's Philosophy of Right: A Reader's Guide by David Edward Rose.
Hope this makes you're goals easier!
it's been said many times in the comments already, but this channel is a beacon of light. The selection of topics, the professional handling of source materials, the ethical conversion from unapproachable to comprehensive accessibility, and the intuitively entertaining yet meaningful structure. it's good shit fr
People who can spread knowledge with this level of aptitude for the task are saints in my eyes. I had a very unconventional upbringing and didn't get more then halfway through high school so I feel extremely grateful whenever I find enriching content by good people who care about making education accessible.
her passion for philosophy really comes through and is contagious
im sorry but adding hegel to passion is like multiplying by 0
This is the clearest exposition of Hegel's philosophy I have ever heard.
De acuerdo
This is Hegel's philosophy of HISTORY, not his Logic.
Indeed!!
@@IvoMaropo What does he say about Logic?
This is good. Also, try Peter Singer’s Introduction to Hegel. Clearest book ever. Though entry level.
Best philosopy teacher I've ever met. Just can't believe my ears.
For a long time I have been looking for someone who's able to explain these points in Hegel's philosophy, in a simple and relatable way. I think I just found the channel:) Looking forward to hearing more
I’m so glad I found this RUclips channel. Thank you so much for sharing all this.
Thank you Professor Ellie Anderson. Now things have become clearer.
Kudos! To talk Hegel in such a lucid and coherent way, and cover such a broad field of Hegelian concepts requires more than skills and knowledge. You definitely have owned it.
French Philosophers and German Philosophers are the destructors of the world. Their theories lead to destruction and misery for the world. I hesitant to use the word evil, since "evil" would include intention. But intentional or not, the result is the same. It's English men who bring reason, science, technology, progress and prosperity to world.
Such a joy to watch and hear you.
I've never understood Hegel so clearly till now. Awesome video. 👏 👏 👏
This is absolutely brilliant, thank you for your content!
I love the questions and ideas philosophy brings to bear, but I love more the light that biology and psychology and the objective studies of human nature shed on these timeless topics. It is no wonder science was called natural philosophy and the first psychologists were doctors and/or philosophers.
Thanks for the great videos!
This video is my introduction to Hegel and right off the bat I can tell I'm gonna love this guy
Learning hegel has always been one step forward and 2 steps back for me. For the first time I can say I have gone one step forward and one step back.
hegelian dialectic : one step forward, some definitely back
What all the others say. I can't manage Hegel without a bit of this sort of help. Thank you for doing it so well.
Just discovered your channel and I'm so grateful. Thank you for sharing your expertise and your talent for helping students like me gain a foothold on Hegel. Best wishes!
Thank you for this insightful video! It helped me a lot deciphering some ideas by Hegel.
What a great video
I'm a philosophy grad student, and I'm very glad youtube got to recommend this video to me
still haven't studied much about Hegel, but I'm looking forward to it, thanks!!
I could listen to her all day, such a bealtiful voice.
Hey your channel is so amazing, you are so good at taking the most complex concepts and making them concise and simple which I think takes even more skill and knowledge than making some high-falutin video, thanks for sharing!! Subscribed.
Absolutely fantastic lecturer. I love Hegel, but he is so complicated that I just enjoy watching any discussion of his thought because it makes it more sure-footed in my mind. Thank you!
If you want to understand hegel, just replace the words : zeitgeist, spirit, concept, reason, idea etc by the word God. You will understand that the whole philosophy of hegel is nothing more than the philosophy of Christianism( Lutheranism) reformulated with the vocabulary of German’s idealism. Schopenhauer was right to point that out when he talking about the professors of philosophy ( that’s why they love teaching hegel). It’s complicated confusing and obscur. That’s not the role of philosophy at all
You are becoming one of my Premier models of how to make difficult thoughts accessible quickly and appealingly. This is important work.
Not many of us have courage to talk about the great Hegel!! Ellie is such an amazing presenter. I've been into Locke, Bacon, Machiaveli. But not really into Descartes, Schopenhauer, or Hegel. So, thank you Ellie. You open my eyes wide open on Hegel. Subscribed!
I saw the notification for a while but didn’t click on it until today, boy am I glad I did. Sometimes the algorithm gets it really right. Subscribed.
Very clear and well articulated.
this is just an awesome presentation, clear and focused
Absoulately right. I cherished your lectures. Keep it up dear.
Thanks! Sounds like a very intellectual version of unity consciousness. I liked this explanation a lot!!
you are a good narrator. Your speech is hypnotizing.
I love this explanation. THANK YOU
Thanks for the video! I just read his book on this but when I got to the state I was extremely confused, your video helped clear it up a bit
A brilliant, passionate (hah) presentation. A real pleasure. I'll share this one with my daughter, a rare thing.
Excellent. Worth a view and a re-view to get a grounding in this too-easy-to-misunderstand subject.
I think you beautifully distilled Hegel according you your yourself. I love your voice.
Keep cominmg back to Hegel. Awesome.
Really best explanation in simple words and examples appreciated madam
The term "Geist" doesn't only mean "spirit" but also "mind, intellect, reason, rationality". The Phenomenology of Spirit is not so much about the moving force in history, but more an epistemological approach on how the mind works, from the individual level of recognition of objects up onto the abstraction from objects on a social level and self-recognition of the mind. The main question of the book is the same as in Kants Critique of Pure Reason - If and how it is possible to recognize metaphysical truth. But in opposition to Kant, Hegels answer is that it is possible through the analysis of the dialectic movement in nature and history, which is what he calls the "Spekulative Methode" (speculative method).
Excellently put.
Of course the development of individual minds towards self-recognition does have a collective result on society as a whole, as well.
This expansion of Hegel beyond Prof Anderson's excellent summary is truly insightful!
I wish every college student could have a philosophy professor like Prof. Anderson.
You are the best!
I actually like learning about philosophy in my free time. It'd be my dream to learn this fascinating subject at a boring school and college. And she nailed it!
Your spirit is more and more concrete 😊 Excellent explanation.
Thank you for this video!
This is a great, succinct explanation of Hegel's broad philosophy. I've been reading Hegel, as well as other sources for ages, and I think I am only starting to get it now, and this video is another step towards getting there. So thank you Ellie for doing this! I have no background in any university degrees, I am an outsider in that regard, but what is in common here is Hegel, and in the most part, I correlate with what you have presented. Someone said, I'm not sure who, something along the lines of that whatever path you take in studying philosophy, whenever you get to the end, you will always find Hegel there, smiling back at you. And I tend to agree. This may be too much to ask, but if you are interested and have time, I would like to see what you think about what I have presented. I have made a 45-minute video regarding Hegel, and I have never discussed my ideas with anyone, let alone someone with your knowledge. So I am a little scared here, but I am curious to hear any comments you might have. That is, if you have time. Be gentle with me, but at the same time, don't hold back. Thank you again.
Absolutely the clearest and most accurate distillation of Hegel out there. Really excellent - very skilled to do that so effectively
Oh, stop.
OK heidegger remade it there's a book on it
Thank you for talking about Hegel’s ideas with such passion (all puns intended)
thanks so much- wish I took your class on Hegel- clarifies a lot
you're really good at explaining things clearly...very good job. appreciate that!
This is so interesting and ties in so much to Buddhist idea of impermanence (which is like the nature of spirit). The spirit going towards freedom is also similar to a Buddhist path leading to enlightenment (freedom from Samsara). So fascinating to see so many overlaps in philosophy and spirituality.
Good primer thanks for this!! Trying to study for class and this vid was super helpful
What a brilliant articulation, made even Hegel's ideas sound interesting!
I don't know why but I find your comment really funny.
Wdym? They were always interesting
I came to this channel looking for resources for a project but I could never have thought that I would find gold. Top notch channel, bravo.
Congrats. He is a difficult philosopher. You were very clear and concise.
Very helpful and informative video. Eagerly waiting for the next video on Hegel.
This is your best of best presentation. Good job
love this, thank you.
To quote some famous British dude, "this is a bloody brilliant presentation". Heh, concise, coherent, spot on point and fun to watch and listen to. Once read in German, but too many years ago now. Think about how much of this thought is inside the idea of an agreement between a people and a state (constitution)... fun stuff. Thanks for doing this!
Videos for G. W. F. Hegel! Great!
I love this lecture. Thank you. I love philosophy!!
Perfect explanation
First time i hear somebody explaining Hegel to me with ease. Interesting.
Great intro to Hegel!
Thank you.
Brilliant. Thank you
An outstanding elucidation of key Hegelian notions. You mentioned many key concepts but were able to simultaneously relate Hegel back to practical existence. I am currently reading his Science of Logic which actually sheds immense light on his metaphors in Phenomenology. How you described the movement of Geist across time is exactly in keeping with the essence of what he was imparting. Thank you for creating this outstanding and succinct analysis.
Thanks, this helps me to review for tomorrows final exam.
Bravo - so well done👍
Thank you so much 🌷😇🌷
Awesome, thanks!
Wow this was a great explanation what a wonderful teacher
Teleology leads to the 4th law of thermodynamics:-
Being is dual to non being creates becoming -- Plato's cat.
Alive is dual to not alive -- the Schrodinger's cat superposition (duality).
Thesis (alive, being) is dual to anti-thesis (not alive, non being) creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- Hegel's cat or Fichte's cat, the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
Schrodinger's cat is based upon Hegel's cat and Hegel stole it from Plato (and Socrates).
Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy).
Syntropy (prediction) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!
Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
Brahman (creator god, thesis) is dual to Shiva (destroyer god, anti-thesis) synthesizes Vishnu (preserver god) -- Hinduism or the Hegelian dialectic.
You can derive the Hegelian dialectic from the Hindu religion.
Action is dual to reaction -- Sir Isaac Newton (the duality of force).
Cause is dual to effect -- forces are correlated.
Forces are a by product of conserving the duality or correlation of cause & effect.
Attraction is dual to repulsion, push is dual to pull (forces and hence energy are dual).
"Always two there are" -- Yoda.
Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
The Necker cube is a good visual example of duality and you should watch the spinning dancer:-
www.medicaldaily.com/right-your-eyes-science-behind-famous-spinning-dancer-optical-illusion-336122
Bi-stability implies duality.
Clockwise is dual to anti-clockwise.
Master (lordship) is dual to slave (bondsman) -- the Hegelian dialectic.
Left brain dominance is dual to right brain dominance -- brain hemispheres.
Left or right brain dominance? Either way you have duality and Hegel becomes absolute truth!
Forwards is dual to backwards -- which is way is the train moving?:-
ruclips.net/video/kmO_OaYWFD8/видео.html
Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein.
Dark energy is dual to dark matter.
Thanks. For this reason these vibrant young minds are much more aware and advanced to not only understand such a complex architecture of Hegelian literature are able to simplifying and made us to understand. Me got knocked down while listening a video on Hegelian philosophy and could not understand even a sentence. Thanks again.
Recently found your channel and actually understanding a lot of the philosophers I've struggled with.
Thank you
Brilliant!
It is very neat that you are putting out philosophy material like this; it breathes life into the abstract history of philosophical thinking. I'm currently enjoying my own level of "world construction" with my own lens. Just out of curiosity, when is a person ready to dive into a subject like philosophy?
Yessssss someone that gets Hegel ❤ SNAPS🎉
You're a good teacher.
Thank you. I like that the books are shelved with some rules.
Thanks!
First, although analytic philosophy seems to resonate more naturally with me, your introductions and explanations of continental philosophy have been giving me new perspective on that (not that I thought they were as far apart as frequently straw-personned in popular discussion).
But this video with Hegel brought to mind some very interesting parallels with Buddhist philosophy: Particularly the idea of Inner Spirit (contrast with "Buddha Nature").
Thanks yet again for doing your part to bring public intellectualism back into vogue!
i am growing to love hegel
I learned a lot from listening to this, thank you.
Gracias maestra, brillante!
Great explanation, thanx
Hi Ellie I am going to share this on Quora. I like it a lot..
Great! The clearest I have ever heard even it is not in my native language.
very good, thanks
you are one of the best professors out there in clear exposition .Philosophers are not the best writers out there. They often make things turgid when there is no need, This is the prose they have always read I suppose as it is their own subject . I once read a book by Sir Ernest Gowers called 'The Complete Plain Words' .I think some of these learned characters should have been taught this when young. Bertrand Russell is a good example in how to make these philosophical subjects more digestible and understandable ( and yourself of course.).
Thank you for this. I had been reading Marx for a while, now I need to understand Hegel as well and this is really helpful.
Very good.
I love you as a person. Your video rocks.
Learnt in 12 mins what I couldn’t in 6 months of my university professor’s lectures. Thanks buddy. Love from India. Keep posting more and more gists of thinkers with their key ideas explained in lucid terms.
I was so happy the day I discovered thesis antithesis synthesis is not Hegel.. I have a bit of a lisp and I hated saying thesis antithesis synthesis but now when talking about Hegel I don't have to say thesis antithesis synthesis because he never did. Great talk by the way, I could listen to you all day.
Great lecture...would you mind discussing the dialogic pedagogy of Paulo Freire?
You've done the impossible. You've made Hegel comprehensible. Good job!
Hegel's theory of history is the clear part of his work. His text on History is the one people read and the impact he had. His theory of the self and logic are far harder.
@@BobHooker trve, but it is not trve that his metaphysics and logic did not have impact. But still, there must be much broader impacts on his side, as Foucault also says that we did not even give account of even one sentence of how much Hegel affected our thought.
@@entelektuel.yolculuk his LOGIC CHANGED THE WORLD
@@BobHooker aaa yes? That's exactly what l was trying to say.
@@BobHooker so?
Excellent narrative
The work of C.L.R. James introduced me to Hegel; this video has re kindled that interest. Thank you for sharing.
What work
I love it... very true.
Insightful
Thank you for this video, I learned that some of the ideas I have had about the State somewhat resonate with what Hegel had in mind. To me, the State (as a political-entity) has always been the central point of universal recognition, where all of a society's values can be embodied into a universally recognized and a universally applied code-of-law.
You nailed it
I love this stuff.
The intellectual stimulation.