Have been listening to this for several days now. By far the best and clearest exposition of Hegel' philosophy. Hope you can make more like this on key thinkers and ideas.
Thank you so much Marcus. As you will know Hegel is endlessly complex and I am very pleased to hear that my own attempts to find a way through part of his system resonated with you. You're very kind to write to say that.
So pleased to find this. I've been thinking I need a fellow Englishman to help me understand this impenetrable, theoretical, and very continental mystery.
Cracking video idea! Trying to make this a podcast on Spotify would be great as well. For a new pipe cast episode, you could try make a video on current affairs like Brexit, climate change and maybe History GCSE and A-Level exams! Great video again
Aelyx Targaryen I’m sure this great man has better things to talk about than climate change. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
Aelyx Targaryen Let’s take the example of an oak tree. Historically, if its environment became too hot, it would have simply dropped its acorns a few metres north each winter, and over hundreds of years move 50 miles north where it was cooler. The problem is that now, with humans having urbanised so much of the environment, that acorn will likely hit concrete before reaching its promised land. The same goes for bugs, small mammals and fish… there’s simply nowhere to go and no route to get there - we are blocking nature’s progress
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 I am delighted and I will definitely watch it, probably tonight. I have written a short article on the metaphysics of F.H. Bradley, but for some reason when i post a link here, the comment gets deleted. You will find it on Academia and the title is: "Problems concerning metaphysical inquiry. F.H. Bradley’s concept of immediate experience" by Marcel Sa'id
This was very helpful, thanks. I suppose my instinctive response is that, with hindsight, we can now say definitively that history had not and has not achieved its end with Hegel. Given that fact, can we nevertheless, in your view, salvage Hegel's dialectic and bring it forward? And if so, what does that look like? I would also ask what gave Hegel such great confidence to assert that the absolute idea had precisely the characteristics he ascribed to it, i.e. universal rationality and freedom. I am sure many revisions have been ventured. Could you say a bit about those revisionist trajectories within absolute idealism, etc?
Excellent lecture. I actually took notes because I wanted to understand Hegel's philosophy of history; I think I do now. BTW: where exactly can I find that last quote?
I was able to find it with one quick search of "Owl of Minerva": Philosophy appears only in the "maturity of reality", because it understands in hindsight. Philosophy, as the thought of the world, does not appear until reality has completed its formative process, and made itself ready. History thus corroborates the teaching of the conception that only in the maturity of reality does the ideal appear as counterpart to the real, apprehends the real world in its substance, and shapes it into an intellectual kingdom. When philosophy paints its grey in grey, one form of life has become old, and by means of grey it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known. The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering. - G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1820), "Preface"; translated by S W Dyde, 1896
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 It is interesting that the writer of the Wikipedia article on "The Owl of Athena" must have also found that quote beautiful and profound enough to use it in its entirety, as you did.
The audio is bad too. Everything else is awesome though. Love your voice, love the content, love the CONCEPT, just two issues, the audio, and the pipe, the audio more than the pipe. Keep up the good work!
I will subscribe. I love the videos, love the pipe thing, good explanation on Hegel and Arendt. Original and easy for people, in any level of comprehension, to understand. Further simplification of the main points would be appreciated. BUT, if this channel posts another video with 'that awful, cacophony in the background. Or that static sound as if theres a radio with no signal in background. I will Unsubscribe.
Ideas for new videos: Make a podcast Make a video on history GCSE, Climate Change, Karl Marx, Andy Weir's The Egg, The possibility of aliens and the Fermi paradox, a video with a fellow teacher talking about general life Upload podcasts with other teachers to Spotify instead and upload the most important parts or highlights to youtube Great video again
Since everyone seems to be making suggestions, how bout a spin off on Macaulay (or Whigs more generally)? Comparing (alleged) teleology, in other words, in our own tradition (and 'freedom' for that matter). Feel free of course to decline impertinent requests for unpaid work (and all instructions) from strangers.
@@b.alexanderjohnstone9774 thank you! All suggestions are gratefully received. To be honest it's mainly driven by what I'm actually working on or have mentally to hand. Macaulay would be a big project and quite diffuse and hard to pin down - tho I used to enjoy reading his essays which are impressive and fun.
Really clear, wonderful thanks. I can't help wondering what Hegel would have thought of lots of Berliners and their attitude to the German state and the lockdown. I had no idea Berlin had been in Prussia, on my only visit there I stayed in Branderberg but didn't cotton on. It's interesting how the Tory British hierarchy disdains the state but manages to make perfect use out of it. For example to maintain a electoral process that props up a status quo that serves the elite more than anyone. From what I can discern the Liberals (old Wigs) would have got rid of the state, in the name of free marketeering, and suspect that was their downfall. After seeing Mr Clegg rip apart his party for a second time a few years ago, I'm not surprised the Tories remain powerful.
Thank you willow for your kind and interesting reflections. I suspect hegel would have supported lock down - remember that remark often attributed to him - the state js the march of God thro the world. The British state certainly lacks rationality! While the old British liberals favoured a small state they didn't really try to get rid of it. And then they were eclipsed by the new liberals of T.H.Green - who was a follower of Hegel!
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 I believe he would have agreed with the lock down too. I'm interested in Prussia, because, when I visited Australia I passed through Adelaide on a bus. The driver said a group of Prussian exiles settled there and lived alongside the Aboriginals who advised them how to build safely. He then pointed out how Britain settled on the West coast and massacred the indigenous people. Yes the Liberal Party has gone through a lot of changes I don't think it will revive in a hurry. Will look at T. H. Green, being brought up in the South Wales Valleys I've never been interested in their ideas apart from the Whig stand on Ireland cos I'm half Irish.
@@willowbell3756 oh most interesting. Thank you. I didn't know about the Prussians of adelaide! Yes the liberals are important on Ireland. My book on Gladstone has a fair bit on that.
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 I'm aware of a lot of Gladstone's ideas, I studied him for O level History along with the other interesting statesmen of the time, though, I don't remember much from then I've read more about them recently. A lot of people you speak to, even older people, have never heard of Gladstone, Peel or Disraeli. Even Karl Marx was envious of Lord Palmeston. I wish young people had to study the period now but they haven't for decades. I understand and agree the latest claims that history is too Eurocentric but it's down to the way it's taught. believe people underestimates the importance of how 18th and 19th century British statesmen shaped todays thinking as well as politics. So disregarding them is like throwing the baby away with the bathwater. I noticed somebody commented on your talk about Gladstone that they didn't realise Woodrow Wilson admired him. People, because of social media, are even more fixated on the power of America that to my mind is disintegrating (you probably don't agree but I've thought the states might separate for nearly twenty years now, it seems a natural progression). I'm attempting to write my own book on Syrian history but it's in two volumes, I'm about half way through the first and have researched it for years. The policies of Gladstone etc won't come into it until part two but Hegel's take is so important. All the stages he described are really relevant not only to Christian but to Islamic history in the Middle East but particularly in Syria, the eternal buffer zone between East and West.
@@willowbell3756 all very true. Yes no one has really worked out what pupils should study in British schools. Nowadays we do medieval and tudors and then jump to the nazis. So all the stuff in between gets lost. Tho we do teach it at A level. Your project to write a history of Syria sounds a great one. But there must be so much to cover. It will definitely keep you occupied! Good luck with that.
2:20 “I never have got Hegel out of my system-he’s a thinker I’ve continued/recurred to in my career and hence the fact again that I’m talking about Hegel here today.”
Hegel is a great guy, I have read of him in Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder . However I do not agree that human rational thought is the spirit . For most of humans rational is Emotional, or under influence of "executing an order" or driven by a success factor involving money 28:53 (objective spirit. laws, regulation). And comparing a human civil conduct to superior compared to a wild animal, who act on blind instinct, to me such a wild animal is very rational, being able to survive in its own habitat . 25:30 i agree, every local society, has its own spirit, and version of absolute truth. Digression : But concerning Greece 2500 years ago, middle east was a melting pot of action, Sumerians, Egypt, Libya-Baal, Libanon-Petra. Etruscans . I think Baal, a word still meaning "fireplace" in Skandinavian (et bål ) . is a late stone age god , enabling smithing, thus entering the bronze age (requiering trade routes, copper mined cyprus, Tin mines from afganistan). 48:29 the state, is a concept of honour, and law. before it became considered an economic burden .
Yes and of course there is a determinism immanent in the Hegelian version. By inverted I wonder if your referring to Marx who once said he found Hegel standing on his head and turned him the right way up!
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 Thank you for replying to my comment. Yes, in the sense that Marx tried to use the dialectic as a means to predict a future synthesis, rather than allowing it to arrive at that point organically, as Hegel posited. Sure, we can look at examples such as; Aristotle's syllogism, in which a dialogues between ontological materialism and idealism exists, but at least deductive reasoning is axiomatic, whereas the Hegelian dialectic (which essentially proposes; that humanity will arrive at a point of utopian truth) is as verifiable as tarot card reading.
Have been listening to this for several days now. By far the best and clearest exposition of Hegel' philosophy. Hope you can make more like this on key thinkers and ideas.
Thank you so much. I am pleased that you have got any benefit from this! I will definitely try and do some more thinkers as you say.
Amazing video! I’d love to see more, especially as a podcast!
By far the best video I’ve seen on Hegel’s philosophy! Illuminating, inspiring! Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much Marcus. As you will know Hegel is endlessly complex and I am very pleased to hear that my own attempts to find a way through part of his system resonated with you. You're very kind to write to say that.
So pleased to find this. I've been thinking I need a fellow Englishman to help me understand this impenetrable, theoretical, and very continental mystery.
@@b.alexanderjohnstone9774 ha ha thank you! I'm glad being English can be helpful in some things!
Cracking video idea! Trying to make this a podcast on Spotify would be great as well. For a new pipe cast episode, you could try make a video on current affairs like Brexit, climate change and maybe History GCSE and A-Level exams! Great video again
Climate change is a myth
@@jazza9559 it's a topic of debate where there are clear sides of the debate, good video idea
Aelyx Targaryen I’m sure this great man has better things to talk about than climate change.
Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
@@jazza9559 I will agree to disagree. Do you have any other video suggestions?
Aelyx Targaryen Let’s take the example of an oak tree. Historically, if its environment became too hot, it would have simply dropped its acorns a few metres north each winter, and over hundreds of years move 50 miles north where it was cooler. The problem is that now, with humans having urbanised so much of the environment, that acorn will likely hit concrete before reaching its promised land. The same goes for bugs, small mammals and fish… there’s simply nowhere to go and no route to get there - we are blocking nature’s progress
The pipe gimmick is great. Gives me ASMR.
Could you make an episode about Bradley's metaphysics somewhere in the future? A very interesting, but underexposed part of post-Hegelian philosophy.
Thank you. Yes an important topic. If I can feel intellectually strong enough I will try!
I did eventually follow your suggestion!
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 I am delighted and I will definitely watch it, probably tonight.
I have written a short article on the metaphysics of F.H. Bradley, but for some reason when i post a link here, the comment gets deleted.
You will find it on Academia and the title is:
"Problems concerning metaphysical inquiry. F.H. Bradley’s concept of immediate experience" by Marcel Sa'id
@@theCordobaProject oh I'm sorry it doesn't load up here. You will know more than me on these topics so I hope my video isn't too bad!
Whoever gave this a dislike got a 1 in GCSE History
I agree! I also think Ian should do a video of a guide for history GCSE
This was very helpful, thanks. I suppose my instinctive response is that, with hindsight, we can now say definitively that history had not and has not achieved its end with Hegel. Given that fact, can we nevertheless, in your view, salvage Hegel's dialectic and bring it forward? And if so, what does that look like?
I would also ask what gave Hegel such great confidence to assert that the absolute idea had precisely the characteristics he ascribed to it, i.e. universal rationality and freedom. I am sure many revisions have been ventured. Could you say a bit about those revisionist trajectories within absolute idealism, etc?
Excellent lecture. I actually took notes because I wanted to understand Hegel's philosophy of history; I think I do now. BTW: where exactly can I find that last quote?
I was able to find it with one quick search of "Owl of Minerva":
Philosophy appears only in the "maturity of reality", because it understands in hindsight.
Philosophy, as the thought of the world, does not appear until reality has completed its formative process, and made itself ready. History thus corroborates the teaching of the conception that only in the maturity of reality does the ideal appear as counterpart to the real, apprehends the real world in its substance, and shapes it into an intellectual kingdom. When philosophy paints its grey in grey, one form of life has become old, and by means of grey it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known. The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering.
- G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1820), "Preface"; translated by S W Dyde, 1896
Well done for finding it! It's a beautiful and very profound quote I think and often in life one finds oneself recurring to it.
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 It is interesting that the writer of the Wikipedia article on "The Owl of Athena" must have also found that quote beautiful and profound enough to use it in its entirety, as you did.
Maybe bring on a follow teacher at your school to talk about a certain topic they r familiar in as well as general life!!
Thank you very much for this lucid presentation of a complex theory!! Keep them coming!!
The audio is bad too. Everything else is awesome though. Love your voice, love the content, love the CONCEPT, just two issues, the audio, and the pipe, the audio more than the pipe. Keep up the good work!
I will subscribe. I love the videos, love the pipe thing, good explanation on Hegel and Arendt. Original and easy for people, in any level of comprehension, to understand. Further simplification of the main points would be appreciated.
BUT, if this channel posts another video with 'that awful, cacophony in the background. Or that static sound as if theres a radio with no signal in background. I will Unsubscribe.
How does Hegel's theory of history relate to his idealism?
It is his idealism. History is the means through which rational consciousness realises itself through time.
Make this a podcast!!!
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Ideas for new videos:
Make a podcast
Make a video on history GCSE, Climate Change, Karl Marx, Andy Weir's The Egg, The possibility of aliens and the Fermi paradox, a video with a fellow teacher talking about general life
Upload podcasts with other teachers to Spotify instead and upload the most important parts or highlights to youtube
Great video again
Hi Sir,
Teach more history, please.
Since everyone seems to be making suggestions, how bout a spin off on Macaulay (or Whigs more generally)? Comparing (alleged) teleology, in other words, in our own tradition (and 'freedom' for that matter). Feel free of course to decline impertinent requests for unpaid work (and all instructions) from strangers.
@@b.alexanderjohnstone9774 thank you! All suggestions are gratefully received. To be honest it's mainly driven by what I'm actually working on or have mentally to hand. Macaulay would be a big project and quite diffuse and hard to pin down - tho I used to enjoy reading his essays which are impressive and fun.
I thoroughly enjoyed this lecture, thank you
Luv u stjohn u make my day
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Really clear, wonderful thanks.
I can't help wondering what Hegel would have thought of lots of Berliners and their attitude to the German state and the lockdown.
I had no idea Berlin had been in Prussia, on my only visit there I stayed in Branderberg but didn't cotton on.
It's interesting how the Tory British hierarchy disdains the state but manages to make perfect use out of it. For example to maintain a electoral process that props up a status quo that serves the elite more than anyone.
From what I can discern the Liberals (old Wigs) would have got rid of the state, in the name of free marketeering, and suspect that was their downfall. After seeing Mr Clegg rip apart his party for a second time a few years ago, I'm not surprised the Tories remain powerful.
Thank you willow for your kind and interesting reflections. I suspect hegel would have supported lock down - remember that remark often attributed to him - the state js the march of God thro the world. The British state certainly lacks rationality! While the old British liberals favoured a small state they didn't really try to get rid of it. And then they were eclipsed by the new liberals of T.H.Green - who was a follower of Hegel!
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 I believe he would have agreed with the lock down too. I'm interested in Prussia, because, when I visited Australia I passed through Adelaide on a bus. The driver said a group of Prussian exiles settled there and lived alongside the Aboriginals who advised them how to build safely. He then pointed out how Britain settled on the West coast and massacred the indigenous people. Yes the Liberal Party has gone through a lot of changes I don't think it will revive in a hurry. Will look at T. H. Green, being brought up in the South Wales Valleys I've never been interested in their ideas apart from the Whig stand on Ireland cos I'm half Irish.
@@willowbell3756 oh most interesting. Thank you. I didn't know about the Prussians of adelaide! Yes the liberals are important on Ireland. My book on Gladstone has a fair bit on that.
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 I'm aware of a lot of Gladstone's ideas, I studied him for O level History along with the other interesting statesmen of the time, though, I don't remember much from then I've read more about them recently. A lot of people you speak to, even older people, have never heard of Gladstone, Peel or Disraeli. Even Karl Marx was envious of Lord Palmeston.
I wish young people had to study the period now but they haven't for decades. I understand and agree the latest claims that history is too Eurocentric but it's down to the way it's taught. believe people underestimates the importance of how 18th and 19th century British statesmen shaped todays thinking as well as politics. So disregarding them is like throwing the baby away with the bathwater.
I noticed somebody commented on your talk about Gladstone that they didn't realise Woodrow Wilson admired him. People, because of social media, are even more fixated on the power of America that to my mind is disintegrating (you probably don't agree but I've thought the states might separate for nearly twenty years now, it seems a natural progression).
I'm attempting to write my own book on Syrian history but it's in two volumes, I'm about half way through the first and have researched it for years. The policies of Gladstone etc won't come into it until part two but Hegel's take is so important. All the stages he described are really relevant not only to Christian but to Islamic history in the Middle East but particularly in Syria, the eternal buffer zone between East and West.
@@willowbell3756 all very true. Yes no one has really worked out what pupils should study in British schools. Nowadays we do medieval and tudors and then jump to the nazis. So all the stuff in between gets lost. Tho we do teach it at A level. Your project to write a history of Syria sounds a great one. But there must be so much to cover. It will definitely keep you occupied! Good luck with that.
I can help you make this a podcast. Msg me
Phanomenal video!!
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Excellent lecture!
2:20 “I never have got Hegel out of my system-he’s a thinker I’ve continued/recurred to in my career and hence the fact again that I’m talking about Hegel here today.”
Back with the pipe again go on son
Hegel is a great guy, I have read of him in Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder . However I do not agree that human rational thought is the spirit . For most of humans rational is Emotional, or under influence of "executing an order" or driven by a success factor involving money 28:53 (objective spirit. laws, regulation). And comparing a human civil conduct to superior compared to a wild animal, who act on blind instinct, to me such a wild animal is very rational, being able to survive in its own habitat . 25:30 i agree, every local society, has its own spirit, and version of absolute truth. Digression : But concerning Greece 2500 years ago, middle east was a melting pot of action, Sumerians, Egypt, Libya-Baal, Libanon-Petra. Etruscans . I think Baal, a word still meaning "fireplace" in Skandinavian (et bål ) . is a late stone age god , enabling smithing, thus entering the bronze age (requiering trade routes, copper mined cyprus, Tin mines from afganistan). 48:29 the state, is a concept of honour, and law. before it became considered an economic burden .
Ranke
Is that pipe necessary? I mean I understand the name of your channel, and everything, but I assumed it was kind of a joke.
The Hegelian dialectic is fine, unless its inverted and applied. Then it becomes dogmatic determinism. Unfortunately
Yes and of course there is a determinism immanent in the Hegelian version. By inverted I wonder if your referring to Marx who once said he found Hegel standing on his head and turned him the right way up!
@@stjohnspipecasts6801 Thank you for replying to my comment. Yes, in the sense that Marx tried to use the dialectic as a means to predict a future synthesis, rather than allowing it to arrive at that point organically, as Hegel posited. Sure, we can look at examples such as; Aristotle's syllogism, in which a dialogues between ontological materialism and idealism exists, but at least deductive reasoning is axiomatic, whereas the Hegelian dialectic (which essentially proposes; that humanity will arrive at a point of utopian truth) is as verifiable as tarot card reading.
Great! And so clear. But the constant pipe sucking - it's driving me crazy.
Do i need a pipe to understand philosophy? Or simply just to annoy people?!
Hmm... it gives the whole thing a certain character!
Bertrand Russell smoked a pipe , so some what appropriate!😁
Difficult to focus on the lecture while this character is sucking on his pacifier. Almost comical. Audio only works for me on this.