Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of History
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Hegel's Philosophy of History is both a fascinating text from a historical perspective and a text that dives deeper into his philosophy of Spirit.
In short, history is the space for spirit to realize itself (in the concrete existence of freedom) through othering itself in the form of antagonisms in society: state and family, state and religion, and through each new civilization (that Aufhebung the last one): China, India, Egypt... Germany, we continue the realization of spirit.
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Hey man. I'm really enjoying your videos - you have a great manner and way of speaking. However, as someone who has no philosophy background and is doing my best to teach myself this stuff, can I suggest that you use a few more analogies and concrete examples, like your sculpture example. This makes it much easier to grasp. I really appreciate your channel. I'm embarrassed by how little I know, but I'm trying and you're helping!
Certainly! I market these videos towards an intermediate level mostly, especially since we are dealing with German Idealism - the most notoriously difficult school of philosophy, but I will attempt to be more clear in the future.
In what does Hegel see post-Christ spirit as different from the Brahman/Atman identity in Buddhism?
Christ himself (man on earth) is the particularization of Spirit. When Christ ascends to Heaven, Spirit becomes the dynamic community of believers itself. It is immanent to our world.
All Eastern philosophies rely on this abstract sense of returning to this “once Nirvana state of nothingness” we can say. Hegel does not think we can return to this Nirvana state of nothingness because this sense of a pre-state is wholly chaotic. Hegel outlined this in 1805 in the first part of Phenomenology of Spirit