People who share knowledge on TH-cam are the unappreciated hero's of our day; education is the pathway to liberation, I hope to be like you one day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Glad you liked it. You know, I have shorter ones (10-30 minutes) as well -- called "Core Concept" videos, arranged into a playlist. I think there's around 60 of them now
Yes, Hegel remains a tough read, even after more than a decade on my part of reading him! There's a lot of very interesting and useful stuff in his work, that's for certain
I really appreciate your breadth of knowledge, not concerning solely philosophy, but other academic subjects and domains of life. It helps to give your lectures a more grounded, human feel.
Well, as someone who did quite a bit of self-teaching in the course of my own formation and career, I can say from my own experience that there are times when it's very useful to have some step by step instruction.
This really gave me an epiphany on Hegel, I feel like I not only understand the Master Slave dialectic better but I understand the whole phenomenology of spirit significantly more after struggling for so long. Thank you
It still remains a challenging work for me, after years of studying Hegel -- and when I was a grad student leading reading groups and even taking my "special thinker" prelim exam specifically on Hegel's Phenomenology.
You are doing a great service to the education and uploading such lectures is phenomenal! It takes lot of time and effort You are absolutely fantastic!!
Thank you very much for making your lectures accessible to people around the world. They helped me immensely in beginning to understand and appreciate Hegel's philosophy.
Glad it was helpful for you -- tough to boil Hegel down for non-major undergrads, so I'm particularly happy to know that it's also helpful for grad students
I doubt you’ll see this but I really appreciate this content. I love education but just can’t afford and don’t have time for formal schooling right now. This really helps me and people like me more than you could know!
I’m very glad that the videos are useful for you in that way. There are a lot of people who don’t have the time, money, or opportunities at the moment to go to traditional institutions of higher ed
I suppose our experiences and reflections upon them must be vastly different. It's not rarely. And, if you feel these videos are basically just spoon-feeding, I suggest you 1. create your own, or 2. find someone else's that fit your desires. I'm going to continue with the "petagogy", as you call it
I hope you have figured out in the last two years that your tactic to get a master's degree by posting a comment on a six-year-old TH-cam video actually does more harm to your efforts than good.
Well, I suppose that's from undergoing the Hegelian "labor of the negative" -- in other words, it's been a long, rough life-ride! So, I would guess that helps a bit. Glad you enjoy the lectures
Thank you very much for giving such great help to me as a student. Thanks to all people adding great videos , they are a perfect complement to my own lectures and books.
You're very welcome! Glad the videos are useful for you. If it's Hegel that you're working on, I've actually started a series where I go over the Phenomenology paragraph by paragraph -- they're organized over here: halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
Thank you for these great videos!!! A lot of things made sense upon watching the Hegel videos. You are a GREAT professor, your teaching style is highly effective. Love it! Keep doing what you do.
+Yadira Arroyo You're welcome. If you like these Hegel videos, you might check out the Half-Hour Hegel series I've been doing for the last year and a half -- here's the blog where I've got the whole set linked halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
This is a very good lecture. You made what could be a very dull subject interesting. I wish that I had professors like you when I was doing my minor in political philosophy.
Sir, some of us want, crave, need to serve! I am one of them, and only want to serve someone like you! Real servitude, not a fantasy, but just want to serve!
In the realm of this theoretical math that is called Analytic 'philosophy', it's excellent to see Hegel in an intro to philosophy class! Where I go to school Hegel isn't even generally taught in the third or fourth years.
Well, rather than posting a syllabus, much of which is boiler-plate, how about I say these: 1) we read Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Anselm. Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, and will finish with Marx. 2) the unifying theme was "dialogue and dialectic" 3) students write 14 1-1.5 page reflection papers, 3 3-5 page close reading papers, take a midterm and final, and write a short self and class evaluation report 4) I use the class site to provide them with lots of resources
My teacher said that the slave chooses to serve the master in order to survive. She was also using the story in the context of pre-consciousness, where the independent and dependent consciousness comes into self consciousness..
Well, Hegel himself says the first part, and more or less the second as well. The slave is "for an other", the master exists independently (at least for a while)
Well, this is only a piece of the Hegelian dialectic -- it gets taken by many thinkers as a more central part than it perhaps deserves to be -- there's a lot more covered, including economic life and relations, in the rest of the Phenomenology
"the sage on the stage" he he I liked that. Thanks again for a very useful lecture. I like Hegel I think there's a lot in there that's very interesting. I'm reading quite a bit of him currently. I need it to properly understand thinkers that he's influenced too, I believe. He doesn't write in an accessible manner though, talk about hard work. Without supplementary material like yours I'd be at it forever.
3:55 That hit right home. I have WAY too many 'professors' (I study engineering) who I perceive as being this way, especially in project-based courses.
I love thinking about the concept of recognition.....actually, my fave novel is Gaddis's "The Recognitions"......I hope to learn a lot more about this, thanks!
I'm not a big Hegel guy, but my friend is working on his masters degree in genocide studies and I recommended this video to him and he says you sold him on Hegel.
viperzerofsx Well, that's the job of any prof who aims to teach philosophy well -- to be able to present the philosophical views of others competently. Students are there to learn about a range of well-articulated viewpoints of great thinkers, not so much (if at all) about what I happen to think.
the fifth grade library teacher--mean as a monster until her dress snagged on the door one day and my cousin made sure the whole school knew. took her down a notch.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be shooting a sequence on the entire Phenomenology, starting in January
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According to Donald Phillip Verene, we must acknowledge some terminology issues here. He says the following: "Hegel’s title is “Herrschaft und Knechtschaft.” The Herr is the “sir,” the “master”; “-schaft” is “-ship,” thus “mastership” or “lordship.” The Knecht is the “servant,” the one in servitude to another. The Knecht is not a slave (der Sklave)." It is important to see that Hegel is not talking about the slave as a property, like those in ancient Greece, but about servitude which is philosophically much more interesting position.
Meh. I've heard all that stuff before when I first started studying Hegel a few decades back. I don't take that terminological quibble very seriously myself, and I'll continue using "master" and "slave" myself, as I do in the Half Hour Hegel project. . .
As far as teaching it is common now for teachers to call what they do as pedagogy which for me they should call it petagogy. Were the teachers are instructing you with step by step instructional learning. It is like teaching a robot. Rather then for you to learn on your own initiative which is called heutagogy. Delphi method is a vastly updated version of Hegelian Dialectic. You can program a computer with cause and effect with it. It works for forecasting but has many drawbacks.
I once had a teacher tell me that "aphorisms" and "fables" were not a literary form, and recommended I submit poetry instead... I researched aphorisms and fables further in my own time and discovered they are the oldest literary forms... sigh
+Delta Psi You're welcome. On that note, you might check out (and start following along with) the Half-Hour Hegel project I've been engaged in for the last year and a half. We're now just in the middle of the Master-Slave dialectic. Here's the blog (where I'm curating the lecture videos -- 75 produced so far) -- halfhourhegel.blogspot.com
Being more hopeful than hopeless, I thought I would leave a little feed back just to be social of why I am watching this xP ...(I'll see if I can try and do it in four lines to avoid "read more"). Just here from Olly Thorne of "Philosophy Tube" who has a 30 min Hegel vid coming out this Friday. I was getting onto Hegel anyway so for once I am doing some homework. I am only seriously-ish looking at philosophy this last year or so - but not as a flight of fancy, rather it's helping me through serious shit. Thanks :)
Roy Batty (BladeRunner): Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave. Rick Deckard: Yes. My Cortisol levels are through the roof. My blood pressure and blood sugar levels are too high. And I can literally feel my GnRH levels dropping. If this went on for too long I might develop complications such as reduced insulin sensitivity, Hypothalamic Amenorrhea and L-Carnitine Deficiency. Which without treatment could almost certainly lead to impaired mental functions, mental illness, chronic fatigue and pain, diabetes, immune disorders, and even heart failure and death... Roy Batty: I've done questionable things... Rick Deckard: (Looks...)
Well, I think it's become one of those "sexy" topics philosophers and other people like to talk about. There's the fact that it has an underdog story -- the slave develops, but the master doesn't. It seems like it can apply to all sorts of relationships (though, perhaps not). Focusing exclusively on this also has the benefit -- one Hegel would be totally against! -- that it lets you just read a short little bit of Hegel. I totally agree: there are other sections far more interesting
This would obviously not be stand alone work, great introduction for those out of the know in his works, and great overview for those looking to get feel or secondary confirmation. I enjoy your use of instance, very active compared to most teachers with your students. I do wish for more of internalized example as same came be true studying cognitive dissonance I think alluding to this is natural conflict. Truly self knowledge goes beyond any correspondent relation. I personal term that it takes lifetime to learn how to commune or communicate with others let alone you self, some it may never be enough. There correlation in emergent property and self recognition that would add to the discourse, may be thats there just not within realms of this occasion. It's type of material student does need, keep it up, been utilizing you material for some time, in addition to other such as Maslow or Flow concept.
This was so clear and concise, its really incredible.I was really struck by how these Hegelian ideas still go to the heart of what it means to be a social human being in today's world. Did Nietzsche take up this Master Slave idea or are they both pulling from a third source?
Dear Dr. Sadler: Thank you, first, for uploading this lecture. In reading through the section on Consciousness in the Phenomenology of Mind(/Spirit), I'm having some challenge reconciling with Hegel's choice of terminology. If we come to know ourselves through our engagement with the world, or what he calls mediation, then how can we be "self-conscious" until and unless we enter into that process with "objects", with the "other"? Wouldn't it be more accurate to label "self-consciousness" as merely "a consciousness", one that later arrives at a stage of knowing itself through the other? Isn't this what Hegel refers to as in-and-for-itself? Thank you again for your time.
Isn't the shift from Cartesian object-less Cogito to embodiment all too quick? In the way Zizek insists, isn't it possible to think of a pathological object that designates the self-relating of the subject? And isn't the Lacanian object a basically this? Embodiment, for me, comes too close to a Spinozan position, where we possibly lose negativity.
None in particular stands out as especially good -- but I haven't been surveying those texts for some time. All of them should be able to get you started -- they all go over the basics of argumentation, a bit of logic, some of the fallacies, etc.
flopperdilly9 If you are thinking of studying philosophy, you will be required to study logic at least one or two semesters. You will soon get the hang of critical thinking and proper arguing when professors point out flaws in your essays or presentations. I am of course speaking from my own experience studying philosophy in Prague (this is my fifth year).
A fantastic lecture filled with so many great metaphors. I am planning to read the works of Hegel in the near future as I am interested in learning more about Hegel version of the dialectic , I have to finish Descartes discourse first before moving on to another man of letters. Which one of Hegel books do you think would be the best to start of with for someone who has never studied philosophy in college apart from watching your lectures on Hegel. Thanks again and HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Have you ever done a video on top misreadings of Hegel with riposte?? Have you ever done a video on difficult authors like hegel Derrida heidegger etc and how to approach??
Glad to read it. If you would like some more in-depth Hegel analysis, I've got 11 videos done in the Half-Hour Hegel series (which will eventually comprise about 250-300 videos), where I'm going over the entire Phenomenology, paragraph by paragraph
That's awesome. I'm just now realising that I need to know Hegel. I honestly didn't study him at the BA or the MA level. So now I want to know what the Phenomenology is all about. Cheers.
Thank you for uploading this videos! I have a, maybe slightly stupid question, but it keeps ghosting around in my mind: Are consciousness and self-consciousness the same thing?
+Annie Raspberry No, not a stupid question at all, actually. And, it doesn't have a simple answer. So, one way to look at this is that self-consciousness is indeed a type of consciousness -- consciousness of self. It does seem quite different though from the modes of consciousness that are involved with things outside of or not the self. Self-consciousness is reflexive -- it is conscious of its own consciousness. Complicating this, however, is Hegel's insistence that consciousness always does involve, if we examine it closely enough, some self-consciousness! So, one might ask -- isn't all consciousness then self-consciousness? Perhaps this merits a blog entry on the Half Hour Hegel blog. . . . .
I see, this relation is moe complex than it seems on the first glance. I would really appreciate a blog entry about it. Thank you for the quick answer!
Can you tell me which philosopher (if any) has described some sort of non master/slave paradigm please? Examples in modern society - flat management structures, some of the philosophy underlying Steiner Education where kids use first names towards teachers and can leave the classroom and sit outside if/when the subject isn't of interest, the language you use "facilitating' education, as opposed to being the "sage on the stage" - Thanks
Thanks for the great lectures. I had a general question about Hegel. Is Hegel simply talking about societies or is he talking about some type of universal mind (geist?). Would Hegel's analyses extend beyond human societies into the natural world... nature itself?
+otakurocklee You're welcome! Well, Hegel does extend his analyses into nature as well as history/society. . . . but that stuff is considerably less convincing, in my view, than where his real strength lies, i.e. in the human/social
surprised you didn't highlight the master slave, parent child, society individual master slave relationship driving most people into these manufactories. But I liked your presentation.
sorry Mr Sadler ;) I meant specifically around the 20.08 minute mark when you pose the question "why do you actually learn anything". Would you agree this is quite a complex question, I mean it would seem to me a child doesn't necessarily consciously desire to learn... The limbic system is that region of the brain, I really loved your allegory with the reptiles and mammals, I thought the thing which separates them might be language.
nice lecture! i am using Hegel's dialectics for my dissertation. i'm just curious, what are your thoughts on this text? Hegel's Undiscovered Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Dialectics: What Only Marx and Tillich Understood, by Wheat
Greetings, mr Sadler! I wanted to thank you for sharing your lecture with us, this way. It was a very generous thing to do and I can honestly tell you I am amazed by your lecture! Is this what university is going to be like?
Gregory B. Sadler It was splendid! I could practically feel radiance emanating from you :p The teachers I'm used to are too self-absorbed, and often discriminate (our mathematician treats students who don't do well at maths like they're somehow less than human) and honestly I've come to hate lectures because I've associated them with my teachers, whom I can barely stand..but you were smiling warmly, interacted well with students, raised excellent points and were very good at explaining them.. I digress. It's just that I'm pleasantly surprised to see that there are teachers like this. Keep up the good work!
Lady Stoneheart Thanks! Yes, there's a lot of profs who really aren't into teaching very much. . . . If you're interested in taking classes with me, I do actually teach online classes, which involve video-conferences (and lecture videos), with two institutions -- Oplerno: www.oplerno.com and The Global Center for Advanced Studies: globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/
Maxwell Fanfan Thanks! -- If you'd like more intensive Hegel, come on over to my Half Hour Hegel series, which you can find curated here: halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
Fascinating stuff! I have a feeling that I'm going to spend a lot of time absorbing the wealth of information on your channel, especially to return to Hegel after learning more about the schools of thought that precede him. Not that Kierkegaard precedes Hegel, but (coincidentally) that is how I've stumbled across your channel -- looking for supplementary material for a course on Kierkegaard on Coursera. In talking about the distinction between reptiles and mammals, empathy was mentioned and, more specifically, play. I figured the following National Geographic video might be interesting in light of that discussion -- sort of, the extent of reptiles' consciousness. th-cam.com/video/I7fZZUfvx0s/w-d-xo.html
What an elegant tought this is ! Too bad that Hegel was wrong ! No one wants to turn into slaves the ones who can recognize you. You want to be recognized by people who are just like you or, even better, people you admire. That's why the so-called "master" would love to be loved by another master and will do anything to improve the life of others. And that's how human progress and human community is possible. It is just completely false that humans are made to fight each other, even if this is tempting to think that in our perveted capitalist world.
Léo Supertramp You do realize that the Master-Slave dialectic isn't the end of Hegel's Phenomenology, right? So, in taking it as such, and then saying he's wrong, you're making a straw man argument.
Gregory B. Sadler That's the point. Hegel's philosophy is supposed to be a system, so if we have considerable doubts about one idea of his system, we shouldn't have confidence in all the others. But I haven't read the complete works of Hegel, that's why I can only say that he seems wrong on some points you mentioned in your lesson. By the way, I would be happy if you could let me hope that somewhere in Hegel's works I will see a counter-argument to what I said.
It's a system, so you find the actual full meaning of a part when you connect it to the rest of the system. In this case, again, the Master-Slave dialectic is only the beginning of self-consciousness. If you want a "counter-argument," you're looking for something that dialectical philosophy by its very nature and method, isn't going to provide you. If you want to know where Hegel is going after the Master-Slave dialectic, there's nothing like actually reading the text, at the very least the rest of that section.
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People who share knowledge on TH-cam are the unappreciated hero's of our day; education is the pathway to liberation, I hope to be like you one day.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
You're very welcome!
Glad you liked it. You know, I have shorter ones (10-30 minutes) as well -- called "Core Concept" videos, arranged into a playlist. I think there's around 60 of them now
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+stoofydoofy Glad to read it!
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Yes, Hegel remains a tough read, even after more than a decade on my part of reading him!
There's a lot of very interesting and useful stuff in his work, that's for certain
finished up our all-too-brief study of Hegel this week
I really appreciate your breadth of knowledge, not concerning solely philosophy, but other academic subjects and domains of life. It helps to give your lectures a more grounded, human feel.
Well, as someone who did quite a bit of self-teaching in the course of my own formation and career, I can say from my own experience that there are times when it's very useful to have some step by step instruction.
Some of the best TH-cam philosophy lectures here, Dr. Sadler :)
Thanks! Glad you enjoy them
This really gave me an epiphany on Hegel, I feel like I not only understand the Master Slave dialectic better but I understand the whole phenomenology of spirit significantly more after struggling for so long. Thank you
Glad it was helpful for you
We love you, Professor! We love you! Thank you for being there for us. Please keep making more lectures on philosophers!
Paras Anand thanks - I will!
It still remains a challenging work for me, after years of studying Hegel -- and when I was a grad student leading reading groups and even taking my "special thinker" prelim exam specifically on Hegel's Phenomenology.
You are doing a great service to the education and uploading such lectures is phenomenal!
It takes lot of time and effort
You are absolutely fantastic!!
Thank you very much for making your lectures accessible to people around the world. They helped me immensely in beginning to understand and appreciate Hegel's philosophy.
Glad to read it!
Glad it was helpful for you -- tough to boil Hegel down for non-major undergrads, so I'm particularly happy to know that it's also helpful for grad students
I doubt you’ll see this but I really appreciate this content. I love education but just can’t afford and don’t have time for formal schooling right now. This really helps me and people like me more than you could know!
I’m very glad that the videos are useful for you in that way. There are a lot of people who don’t have the time, money, or opportunities at the moment to go to traditional institutions of higher ed
Thank you for your videos and your classes. This was really helpful to me. From a philosophy student from Brazil :)
Glad you like them. No, I haven't got syllabi from my recent classes posted. Why do you ask? A syllabus really doesn't tell you a lot about a class
I suppose our experiences and reflections upon them must be vastly different. It's not rarely.
And, if you feel these videos are basically just spoon-feeding, I suggest you 1. create your own, or 2. find someone else's that fit your desires. I'm going to continue with the "petagogy", as you call it
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I am from India and i want to apply for Masters in Philosophy from US
I hope you have figured out in the last two years that your tactic to get a master's degree by posting a comment on a six-year-old TH-cam video actually does more harm to your efforts than good.
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This was absolutely informative and entertaining. Thank you, kindly for posting this!
Glad it was useful for you! You're very welcome
Very happy to have came across this channel, you can't learn too much about philosophy, Great lecture sir!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well, I suppose that's from undergoing the Hegelian "labor of the negative" -- in other words, it's been a long, rough life-ride! So, I would guess that helps a bit.
Glad you enjoy the lectures
Thank you very much for giving such great help to me as a student. Thanks to all people adding great videos , they are a perfect complement to my own lectures and books.
You're very welcome! Glad the videos are useful for you.
If it's Hegel that you're working on, I've actually started a series where I go over the Phenomenology paragraph by paragraph -- they're organized over here: halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
excellent lecture. Very easy to understand and relate to. Great and knowledgeable prof.
+Alex F Thanks!
Did someone in the class at the 30 minute mark just suggest that Reptiles don't care about Oxygen?
+dccohen Yes
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Thank you for these great videos!!! A lot of things made sense upon watching the Hegel videos. You are a GREAT professor, your teaching style is highly effective. Love it! Keep doing what you do.
+Yadira Arroyo You're welcome. If you like these Hegel videos, you might check out the Half-Hour Hegel series I've been doing for the last year and a half -- here's the blog where I've got the whole set linked halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
Absolutely amazing lectures. Entertaining and to the point, you are a great teacher. Thank you!
You're welcome - and thanks!
This is a very good lecture. You made what could be a very dull subject interesting. I wish that I had professors like you when I was doing my minor in political philosophy.
+epistte Glad you enjoyed it
Sir, some of us want, crave, need to serve! I am one of them, and only want to serve someone like you! Real servitude, not a fantasy, but just want to serve!
I think you're SOL on that one
There is somebody in that class that has bronchitis.
In the realm of this theoretical math that is called Analytic 'philosophy', it's excellent to see Hegel in an intro to philosophy class! Where I go to school Hegel isn't even generally taught in the third or fourth years.
Hahah! Yes, a lot of people thought I was nuts to be teaching students Hegel in an Intro class
I've never heard of it -- then again, there's lots of secondary lit on Hegel out there
Well, rather than posting a syllabus, much of which is boiler-plate, how about I say these:
1) we read Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Anselm. Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, and will finish with Marx.
2) the unifying theme was "dialogue and dialectic"
3) students write 14 1-1.5 page reflection papers, 3 3-5 page close reading papers, take a midterm and final, and write a short self and class evaluation report
4) I use the class site to provide them with lots of resources
This is a great help!! You have very lucid explanations and a relaxed style of teaching. Thank you!
You're very welcome
My teacher said that the slave chooses to serve the master in order to survive. She was also using the story in the context of pre-consciousness, where the independent and dependent consciousness comes into self consciousness..
Well, Hegel himself says the first part, and more or less the second as well. The slave is "for an other", the master exists independently (at least for a while)
Yep, no longer really Hegel under discussion then, but others. This video is about Hegel
Well, this is only a piece of the Hegelian dialectic -- it gets taken by many thinkers as a more central part than it perhaps deserves to be -- there's a lot more covered, including economic life and relations, in the rest of the Phenomenology
"the sage on the stage" he he I liked that. Thanks again for a very useful lecture. I like Hegel I think there's a lot in there that's very interesting. I'm reading quite a bit of him currently. I need it to properly understand thinkers that he's influenced too, I believe. He doesn't write in an accessible manner though, talk about hard work. Without supplementary material like yours I'd be at it forever.
3:55 That hit right home. I have WAY too many 'professors' (I study engineering) who I perceive as being this way, especially in project-based courses.
+Flibbertigibbet Yes, I think there's a LOT of profs like that. I've been one myself, when I first started out, I think.
I love thinking about the concept of recognition.....actually, my fave novel is Gaddis's "The Recognitions"......I hope to learn a lot more about this, thanks!
You're welcome!
Perhaps down the line, but I've got a lot of other topics and thinkers to get to
Great lecture! I wish I had more time to view your impressive videos...
I'm not a big Hegel guy, but my friend is working on his masters degree in genocide studies and I recommended this video to him and he says you sold him on Hegel.
+viperzerofsx The funny part then is that I'm not a Hegelian
+Gregory B. Sadler that is funny since you explain it so well.
viperzerofsx Well, that's the job of any prof who aims to teach philosophy well -- to be able to present the philosophical views of others competently.
Students are there to learn about a range of well-articulated viewpoints of great thinkers, not so much (if at all) about what I happen to think.
the fifth grade library teacher--mean as a monster until her dress snagged on the door one day and my cousin made sure the whole school knew. took her down a notch.
I'll bet
thank you so much for this.you laid this out so well.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be shooting a sequence on the entire Phenomenology, starting in January
According to Donald Phillip Verene, we must acknowledge some terminology issues here. He says the following: "Hegel’s title is “Herrschaft und Knechtschaft.” The Herr is the “sir,” the “master”; “-schaft” is “-ship,” thus “mastership” or “lordship.” The Knecht is the “servant,” the one in servitude to another. The Knecht is not a slave (der Sklave)." It is important to see that Hegel is not talking about the slave as a property, like those in ancient Greece, but about servitude which is philosophically much more interesting position.
Meh. I've heard all that stuff before when I first started studying Hegel a few decades back. I don't take that terminological quibble very seriously myself, and I'll continue using "master" and "slave" myself, as I do in the Half Hour Hegel project. . .
Very interesting and nicely presented!
bastard231 Thanks!
As far as teaching it is common now for teachers to call what they do as pedagogy which for me they should call it petagogy. Were the teachers are instructing you with step by step instructional learning. It is like teaching a robot. Rather then for you to learn on your own initiative which is called heutagogy.
Delphi method is a vastly updated version of Hegelian Dialectic. You can program a computer with cause and effect with it. It works for forecasting but has many drawbacks.
Brilliant teaching. Thank you!!
You're welcome!
I once had a teacher tell me that "aphorisms" and "fables" were not a literary form, and recommended I submit poetry instead... I researched aphorisms and fables further in my own time and discovered they are the oldest literary forms... sigh
Yep -- though often in the form of poetry. Though I bet that isn't the kind of poetry your teacher had in mind
thanks a lot, i really appreciate you upload your clases!
You're welcome. Glad they're useful for you
Thx! I'm researching Marx's theory of alienation and this video has been massively helpful for the process :)
+Delta Psi You're welcome.
On that note, you might check out (and start following along with) the Half-Hour Hegel project I've been engaged in for the last year and a half. We're now just in the middle of the Master-Slave dialectic. Here's the blog (where I'm curating the lecture videos -- 75 produced so far) -- halfhourhegel.blogspot.com
+Gregory B. Sadler what are the best of the christian and buddha philosophers of all time.
Being more hopeful than hopeless, I thought I would leave a little feed back just to be social of why I am watching this xP ...(I'll see if I can try and do it in four lines to avoid "read more"). Just here from Olly Thorne of "Philosophy Tube" who has a 30 min Hegel vid coming out this Friday. I was getting onto Hegel anyway so for once I am doing some homework. I am only seriously-ish looking at philosophy this last year or so - but not as a flight of fancy, rather it's helping me through serious shit. Thanks :)
Well, if it's Hegel you want, you might check this out - xv
Roy Batty (BladeRunner): Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Rick Deckard: Yes. My Cortisol levels are through the roof. My blood pressure and blood sugar levels are too high. And I can literally feel my GnRH levels dropping. If this went on for too long I might develop complications such as reduced insulin sensitivity, Hypothalamic Amenorrhea and L-Carnitine Deficiency. Which without treatment could almost certainly lead to impaired mental functions, mental illness, chronic fatigue and pain, diabetes, immune disorders, and even heart failure and death...
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Hahaha! Looks like I was working quickly and didn't post the link I'd meant to - halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
Well, I think it's become one of those "sexy" topics philosophers and other people like to talk about.
There's the fact that it has an underdog story -- the slave develops, but the master doesn't. It seems like it can apply to all sorts of relationships (though, perhaps not).
Focusing exclusively on this also has the benefit -- one Hegel would be totally against! -- that it lets you just read a short little bit of Hegel.
I totally agree: there are other sections far more interesting
This would obviously not be stand alone work, great introduction for those out of the know in his works, and great overview for those looking to get feel or secondary confirmation. I enjoy your use of instance, very active compared to most teachers with your students. I do wish for more of internalized example as same came be true studying cognitive dissonance I think alluding to this is natural conflict. Truly self knowledge goes beyond any correspondent relation. I personal term that it takes lifetime to learn how to commune or communicate with others let alone you self, some it may never be enough. There correlation in emergent property and self recognition that would add to the discourse, may be thats there just not within realms of this occasion. It's type of material student does need, keep it up, been utilizing you material for some time, in addition to other such as Maslow or Flow concept.
Glad you enjoyed it
This was so clear and concise, its really incredible.I was really struck by how these Hegelian ideas still go to the heart of what it means to be a social human being in today's world. Did Nietzsche take up this Master Slave idea or are they both pulling from a third source?
Neither, really. Nietzsche isn't taking the distinction between master and slave from Hegel. And, Hegel is coming up with the dialectic on his own
Dear Dr. Sadler:
Thank you, first, for uploading this lecture.
In reading through the section on Consciousness in the Phenomenology of Mind(/Spirit), I'm having some challenge reconciling with Hegel's choice of terminology. If we come to know ourselves through our engagement with the world, or what he calls mediation, then how can we be "self-conscious" until and unless we enter into that process with "objects", with the "other"?
Wouldn't it be more accurate to label "self-consciousness" as merely "a consciousness", one that later arrives at a stage of knowing itself through the other? Isn't this what Hegel refers to as in-and-for-itself?
Thank you again for your time.
If you come to Hegel, wanting to impose your own ideas and terms on the text, you're usually impeding your own understanding.
Isn't the shift from Cartesian object-less Cogito to embodiment all too quick? In the way Zizek insists, isn't it possible to think of a pathological object that designates the self-relating of the subject? And isn't the Lacanian object a basically this?
Embodiment, for me, comes too close to a Spinozan position, where we possibly lose negativity.
No, it is not.
Always better to stick with the text under discussion,, rather than try to bring in commentators who very well could be off-base
what books would you recommend for people getting into Hegel? Something that still goes into relative detail would be nice.
Amazing lecture!
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, and Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Is Critical Thinking required in Philosophy?
It certainly doesn't hurt
Are there any textbooks you would recommend that are on Critical Thinking?
None in particular stands out as especially good -- but I haven't been surveying those texts for some time.
All of them should be able to get you started -- they all go over the basics of argumentation, a bit of logic, some of the fallacies, etc.
Thank you for your help and I shall check out some more of your videos because I really liked this one.
flopperdilly9 If you are thinking of studying philosophy, you will be required to study logic at least one or two semesters. You will soon get the hang of critical thinking and proper arguing when professors point out flaws in your essays or presentations. I am of course speaking from my own experience studying philosophy in Prague (this is my fifth year).
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Great lecture, are you still a professor at a university somewhere?
Yes and No
What does Hegel feel about hermits?
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A fantastic lecture filled with so many great metaphors. I am planning to read the works of Hegel in the near future as I am interested in learning more about Hegel version of the dialectic , I have to finish Descartes discourse first before moving on to another man of letters.
Which one of Hegel books do you think would be the best to start of with for someone who has never studied philosophy in college apart from watching your lectures on Hegel.
Thanks again and HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Which Hegel book? They're all tough! I'd say perhaps his Philosophy of History, though it has some rather bad generalizations from time to time.
Have you ever done a video on top misreadings of Hegel with riposte?? Have you ever done a video on difficult authors like hegel Derrida heidegger etc and how to approach??
+lyndon bailey I've not done the first. The Half Hour Hegel series would be a prime example of the second
This was really good
Glad to read it. If you would like some more in-depth Hegel analysis, I've got 11 videos done in the Half-Hour Hegel series (which will eventually comprise about 250-300 videos), where I'm going over the entire Phenomenology, paragraph by paragraph
That's awesome. I'm just now realising that I need to know Hegel. I honestly didn't study him at the BA or the MA level. So now I want to know what the Phenomenology is all about. Cheers.
Thank you for uploading this videos! I have a, maybe slightly stupid question, but it keeps ghosting around in my mind: Are consciousness and self-consciousness the same thing?
+Annie Raspberry No, not a stupid question at all, actually. And, it doesn't have a simple answer.
So, one way to look at this is that self-consciousness is indeed a type of consciousness -- consciousness of self. It does seem quite different though from the modes of consciousness that are involved with things outside of or not the self. Self-consciousness is reflexive -- it is conscious of its own consciousness.
Complicating this, however, is Hegel's insistence that consciousness always does involve, if we examine it closely enough, some self-consciousness! So, one might ask -- isn't all consciousness then self-consciousness?
Perhaps this merits a blog entry on the Half Hour Hegel blog. . . . .
I see, this relation is moe complex than it seems on the first glance.
I would really appreciate a blog entry about it. Thank you for the quick answer!
Can you tell me which philosopher (if any) has described some sort of non master/slave paradigm please? Examples in modern society - flat management structures, some of the philosophy underlying Steiner Education where kids use first names towards teachers and can leave the classroom and sit outside if/when the subject isn't of interest, the language you use "facilitating' education, as opposed to being the "sage on the stage" - Thanks
You can find literally hundreds through a quick google search
Thanks for the great lectures. I had a general question about Hegel. Is Hegel simply talking about societies or is he talking about some type of universal mind (geist?). Would Hegel's analyses extend beyond human societies into the natural world... nature itself?
+otakurocklee You're welcome! Well, Hegel does extend his analyses into nature as well as history/society. . . . but that stuff is considerably less convincing, in my view, than where his real strength lies, i.e. in the human/social
surprised you didn't highlight the master slave, parent child, society individual master slave relationship driving most people into these manufactories. But I liked your presentation.
Well, it's a one-hour class session. You can't get to everything
sorry Mr Sadler ;) I meant specifically around the 20.08 minute mark when you pose the question "why do you actually learn anything". Would you agree this is quite a complex question, I mean it would seem to me a child doesn't necessarily consciously desire to learn... The limbic system is that region of the brain, I really loved your allegory with the reptiles and mammals, I thought the thing which separates them might be language.
nice lecture! i am using Hegel's dialectics for my dissertation. i'm just curious, what are your thoughts on this text?
Hegel's Undiscovered Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Dialectics: What Only Marx and Tillich Understood, by Wheat
What happened to the session on Marx?
What are your thoughts on sexism, racism, imperialism?
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True but rarely.
THANK YOU!
you're welcome -- if you enjoy this, but want a closer look at the Phenomenology check out the Half-Hour Hegel seris
someone made the point the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion is basically this, though they never site hegel by name.
viperzerofsx Could be. . .
Thanks prof dude!
You're welcome
really helps me
tnx
Glad to read it
Greetings, mr Sadler! I wanted to thank you for sharing your lecture with us, this way. It was a very generous thing to do and I can honestly tell you I am amazed by your lecture! Is this what university is going to be like?
Depends on where you go, and who you take classes with. Glad you enjoyed the lecture
Gregory B. Sadler It was splendid! I could practically feel radiance emanating from you :p The teachers I'm used to are too self-absorbed, and often discriminate (our mathematician treats students who don't do well at maths like they're somehow less than human) and honestly I've come to hate lectures because I've associated them with my teachers, whom I can barely stand..but you were smiling warmly, interacted well with students, raised excellent points and were very good at explaining them..
I digress. It's just that I'm pleasantly surprised to see that there are teachers like this.
Keep up the good work!
Lady Stoneheart Thanks! Yes, there's a lot of profs who really aren't into teaching very much. . . .
If you're interested in taking classes with me, I do actually teach online classes, which involve video-conferences (and lecture videos), with two institutions -- Oplerno: www.oplerno.com and The Global Center for Advanced Studies: globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/
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oxygen lol (insider) great lecture professor
Maxwell Fanfan Thanks! -- If you'd like more intensive Hegel, come on over to my Half Hour Hegel series, which you can find curated here: halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
Fascinating stuff! I have a feeling that I'm going to spend a lot of time absorbing the wealth of information on your channel, especially to return to Hegel after learning more about the schools of thought that precede him. Not that Kierkegaard precedes Hegel, but (coincidentally) that is how I've stumbled across your channel -- looking for supplementary material for a course on Kierkegaard on Coursera.
In talking about the distinction between reptiles and mammals, empathy was mentioned and, more specifically, play. I figured the following National Geographic video might be interesting in light of that discussion -- sort of, the extent of reptiles' consciousness.
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TheGerogero You might then take a look at the Half Hour Hegel series. I've got the videos curated over here: halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/
Gregory B. Sadler Awesome! Thank you.
What an elegant tought this is ! Too bad that Hegel was wrong ! No one wants to turn into slaves the ones who can recognize you. You want to be recognized by people who are just like you or, even better, people you admire. That's why the so-called "master" would love to be loved by another master and will do anything to improve the life of others. And that's how human progress and human community is possible. It is just completely false that humans are made to fight each other, even if this is tempting to think that in our perveted capitalist world.
Léo Supertramp You do realize that the Master-Slave dialectic isn't the end of Hegel's Phenomenology, right? So, in taking it as such, and then saying he's wrong, you're making a straw man argument.
Gregory B. Sadler That's the point. Hegel's philosophy is supposed to be a system, so if we have considerable doubts about one idea of his system, we shouldn't have confidence in all the others. But I haven't read the complete works of Hegel, that's why I can only say that he seems wrong on some points you mentioned in your lesson. By the way, I would be happy if you could let me hope that somewhere in Hegel's works I will see a counter-argument to what I said.
It's a system, so you find the actual full meaning of a part when you connect it to the rest of the system. In this case, again, the Master-Slave dialectic is only the beginning of self-consciousness.
If you want a "counter-argument," you're looking for something that dialectical philosophy by its very nature and method, isn't going to provide you.
If you want to know where Hegel is going after the Master-Slave dialectic, there's nothing like actually reading the text, at the very least the rest of that section.
Gregory B. Sadler If nothing can be fully understood without understanding the whole system, I don't see how we could BEGIN to understand Hegel.
Yep. Not what I said. Good luck with the studies
White Russian and Philosophy. Very edible. Am happy to have search-stumbled on the channel.
Glad you're enjoying it