Your videos have helped me so much in writing my first aesthetic essay. It's a shame it took me until I was doing my masters to actually have an opportunity to study aesthetics itself
Thank you so much! your explanation is very good and it made things easier for me, as a new student of Master of Fine Art in Visual Arts in the US, who is originally a computer software engineer who studied in the Middle East and never wrote an academic paper or essay, reading Hegel's text and trying to understand it to write a response as an essay was so difficult and complicated. Your videos made things more understandable. And by the way, you posted this video on October 16th which is my birthday as well :) Thanks again!
Well I'm quite gratified to hear that. Thanks ElectricTeddystein. I've got some more stuff I'm working on for the summer & some of it is definitely going to be aesthetics related.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful articulation and expansion on this-spot on exactly what I needed. What text in particular is this derived from? Is it in Phenomenology of Spirit?
Thanks for not giving the usual party line that in Hegel art is dead. Art and philosophy in it should be a fertile ground or a pretext for more philosophy and art! Very spirited lectures. Thank you.
I would add that I have felt similarly on art, that its capacity to touch upon interior yet larger ideas and possibilities evokes a sort of 'truthfulness'; while feeling elevated I also feel more aware of my own present moment but not in a closed-in systematic way, but in a more freeing kind of way.
Well, I don't entirely understand the question, but if you're asking "is Beyonce's beauty part of freedom?", I suppose to some extent the answer is yes. But probably not in an especially important way. The fact that someone is especially attractive or fetching doesn't speak to the depth of sprit that Hegel sees beauty as reflective of. I think the use of the word beauty in that (more common) way is more of an equivocation between "pretty" & "beautiful". And thus, it's not so very important.
Hi! Thanks for this, I've really enjoyed this. I have one question though. Does Hegel see the Idea and the climax of self consciousness as on and the same thing? Is the Absolute the moment you reach self consciousness?
No, self consciousness is distinct from absolute consciousness, primarily because it is limited by the fundamentally "subjective" (as in, contained in a subject) nature of individual consciousness. Art, however, moves us toward the idea by an "objectification" of ideas in consciousness. Art, in other words, helps us achieve aesthetic & conceptual heights as subjects, that we never could simply in our "subject-ivity".
Just as with Vedanta, thousands years before Hegel, SATCHITANANDA! Being - Consciousness - Bliss. Not the object itself that is beautiful but the freedom inherent in that Bliss of Pure Being.
Maaan, i love to lisen to you while I'm drawing or painting so much! You should put more videos, every day, every day
Your videos have helped me so much in writing my first aesthetic essay. It's a shame it took me until I was doing my masters to actually have an opportunity to study aesthetics itself
Well I'm glad you found them helpful.
Brilliant, thank you!
Well, I'm glad I could help. Let me know if there's other videos you'd like to see.
Really eye-opening! Thanks a lot for the series!
Your lectures are wonderfully engaging. I look forward to them daily.
Far out! rock on dude, love the way you digest and re-disseminate Hegel.
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Thank you very much for your lectures on Hegel, they have helped me to grasp his ideas much better!! :)
Thank you so much! your explanation is very good and it made things easier for me, as a new student of Master of Fine Art in Visual Arts in the US, who is originally a computer software engineer who studied in the Middle East and never wrote an academic paper or essay, reading Hegel's text and trying to understand it to write a response as an essay was so difficult and complicated. Your videos made things more understandable. And by the way, you posted this video on October 16th which is my birthday as well :) Thanks again!
great stuff! Thank you
Thank you very much for these!
Well I'm quite gratified to hear that. Thanks ElectricTeddystein. I've got some more stuff I'm working on for the summer & some of it is definitely going to be aesthetics related.
@Aidan702 Thanks, I'm glad they've been helpful to you. Stay tuned & let me know if there's other topics you'd like me to talk about sometime.
i understood everything. congrats for the simple explanation
I'm glad you liked it. LEt me know if there's other videos you'd like me to make.
Thank you. I totally understood it.
Thanks. I'll put the suggestion in the hopper.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful articulation and expansion on this-spot on exactly what I needed. What text in particular is this derived from? Is it in Phenomenology of Spirit?
I'd love to hear you talk about Adorno and his Aesthetic Theory :)
Thanks for not giving the usual party line that in Hegel art is dead. Art and philosophy in it should be a fertile ground or a pretext for more philosophy and art! Very spirited lectures. Thank you.
Thank you for such an easy explanation of some of Hegel's ideas which at their core remain essentially (pun intended) clear and elegant.
I would add that I have felt similarly on art, that its capacity to touch upon interior yet larger ideas and possibilities evokes a sort of 'truthfulness'; while feeling elevated I also feel more aware of my own present moment but not in a closed-in systematic way, but in a more freeing kind of way.
thank you
very cool thx
Well, I don't entirely understand the question, but if you're asking "is Beyonce's beauty part of freedom?", I suppose to some extent the answer is yes. But probably not in an especially important way. The fact that someone is especially attractive or fetching doesn't speak to the depth of sprit that Hegel sees beauty as reflective of. I think the use of the word beauty in that (more common) way is more of an equivocation between "pretty" & "beautiful". And thus, it's not so very important.
i don't get it, if i see a beautiful rose, how is that related to the concept of freedom?!!
Hi! Thanks for this, I've really enjoyed this. I have one question though. Does Hegel see the Idea and the climax of self consciousness as on and the same thing? Is the Absolute the moment you reach self consciousness?
No, self consciousness is distinct from absolute consciousness, primarily because it is limited by the fundamentally "subjective" (as in, contained in a subject) nature of individual consciousness. Art, however, moves us toward the idea by an "objectification" of ideas in consciousness. Art, in other words, helps us achieve aesthetic & conceptual heights as subjects, that we never could simply in our "subject-ivity".
Just as with Vedanta, thousands years before Hegel, SATCHITANANDA! Being - Consciousness - Bliss. Not the object itself that is beautiful but the freedom inherent in that Bliss of Pure Being.
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