Warning: This comment is meant to feed the algorithm that drives this platform as part of my addiction to good philosophical content. Greetings from the University of Bonn! I can confirm German Idealism is still going strong in the curriculum :)
Das ist serr langweilig... just kidding! I took German in school and travelled to Berlin and Munich in 2006 during the World Soccer cup... I loved being in Germany so much, American society and it's food has been ruined for me because of that 1 experience
Just want to give a shoutout to Greg Sadler who is a philosophy professor on TH-cam that does a video explaining Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit paragraph by paragraph. It's a great resource if you're working your way through the book.
One of the more accessible bits on Hegel I've seen that actually dives right into the dialectic instead of the defanged, neat, tidy, reductive thesis+antithesis=synthesis (= I haven't read a word of Hegel) nonsense you usually see on TH-cam. Great work, as usual, glad to see your profile's building an audience.
So true. The synthesis triad was an oversimplification misunderstanding from the British interpreters (not including F. H. Bradley) of Schelling, Fichte, and Hegel. I was shocked in college when professors actually used this template.
@@MahlerianMuse oh man i always wondered about this. the dialectic is always treated and discussed as extremely profound...but then it is just a rudimentary conceptual description of conflict resolution? if the thesis/antihesis > synthesis thing is not an accurate rendering of his ideas, it makes SO much more sense to me. still need to read to find out what it actually is but at least i dont have this misconception getting in the way. thanks!
Except that... This isn't a video about Hegel's dialectics. It's about phenomenology..... in fact, what you are describing, thesis, antithesis, synthesis was a big part of the Hegelian dialectic which might be why you see people talking about it? just a guess.
Man, I wish you were my philosophy professor in school. You have such an excellent way of expressing your ideas with clarity, and they have even help inform my sociological understanding of the world.
@@dannysze8183 don't just parroting refer people to another long lecture. If you've watched and understood Gregor's lecture, type it out and tell us the differences.
What surprses about this guy is he starts by saying that that he is not an expert in Hegel but I have for years tried to understand Hegel but no one ever explained so that I could understand. In fifty minutes, this guy has done what I could not grasp in years. Hopefully from here now, I will be able to read phenomenology of spirit which I bought a long time ago but found it impenetrable. Thank you sir.
At 1:00 the picture shown is a thumbnail from a channel called "Jonas Ceîka CCK philosophy". The video is called " Learning about Marx with Jordan Peterson" and is a great video in which Jonas points out what Peterson gets wrong about Marx in his debate with Zîzek.
Critiques of JP get boring pretty fast as they strike me as more of a overly repetitive reactionary triggers. Let's try to rehab JP by treating him as an outsider who is reacting to woke academia(not necessarily philosophers), woke public figures and their weird version of Marx/ism and the french theorists... If you state the obvious and claim that JP is not aquatinted with the Marx and french theory I would say you don't need to be an expert in the field to recognize the charlatan.
@@bozoc2572 I think you are correct in a lot of ways. It is not only prof. JP who is not familiar with either Marx, Neo-marxism, or critical theory. There are a lot of people on the progressive side of politics who also misunderstand the theory, especially concerning post-colonial theory. Perhaps JPs understanding of the so called "postmodern neo-marxist" theory comes from an understanding of an already incorrect understanding. This does however not give JP a pass as he is almost always putting both the groups whose theory is sometimes array together with professors like Zîzek. To quote JP himself "Rule 10: Be precise in your speech". Either way, the video in question is not really a criticism of JP, rather a further reading of Marx for those who has got their understanding of Marx from JP or similar sources.
@@MandelTräd Managed to get through few minutes of CCK Philosophy video on JP&Žižek debate that I also kinda skipped through. The guy reading random Marx paragraphs is misunderstanding what Peterson is talking about, Peterson is using the term nature here in a way that is closer to German idealism(would even dare to say that Peterson here is very close to a Hegelian project than Marxism) than dialectical materialism. I managed to get this from only a few minutes into the Žižek&JP debate, what is this guy on? Even from something vulgar as The Communist Manifesto you can get a good smell of dialectical materialism. This is why I mostly hate talking to Marxists, it always eventually turns into stupid bible-thumping. Although a materialist myself, there is IMO always a place for a quality idealism&materialism debate/critique. I see no point in these low effort videos "analyzing" Peterson's ideology, Žižek already did more than a fantastic job. Here is a different and interesting leftist take on JP phenomenon: www.otherlife.co/personal-reflections-jordan-peterson/
You're blowing my mind, I tried to read the phenomenology of spirit and I found it quite difficult to parse but as it's laid out here, it makes a ton of sense!
The embryo quote is getting into the "psychedelic" - and at the same time seems like a bombshell waiting to explode a new perspective into the pro-life vs pro-choice debate. Your quiet lucidity, as always, is greatly appreciated.
Looking forward to the future video on how Hegel relates to Nietzsche and Postmodernism. Feel as though the relationship between Hegel and Nietzsche is particularly interesting and deserves more attention. I think people often assume that the relationship between their philosophies are the same or similar to Schopenhauers relationship to Hegel, so a more nuanced view would be interesting.
Agreed, I've always felt that Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality is a very Hegelian deconstruction of good and bad, although Nietzsche himself rejects German idealism.
Thank you for making an introductory video on Hegel. Hope your hobby leads you to make more videos on him. I am not a philosophy student but I have been wanting to get into Hegel for the longest time. Thank You Professor.
I'm a chemist; so, I found your water analogy very immediate and accessible. Thank you. I also appreciated your distinguishing of a concept-driven science versus a data-driven science. I feel pushed more so recently to approach problems by amassing a data sets and somehow training an algorithm to extract understanding from data. I wish some of my projects would have better concept development.
Your videos complement how I learn so nicely. I would call them a "gift," but they disabuse that notion with the first frame of every video (also appreciated!) Thank you to you and your crew.
What Hegel seems to describe really makes me think of my layman's understanding of what an observer is in physics. For all intents and purposes an observer is that which interacts with a particular phenomenon when that interaction is a measurement. The subject or consciousness here is the observer, while the objective quality gathered about the observed object is the measurement.
I cannot wait for the video on Hegel and Nietzsche! I always felt that between thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Freud there was a strong connection and an interesting development of mind and spirit that ties beautifully with things like 20th century existentialism, 20th century political though (be it Frankfurt School or post-structural interpretations of society, power and politics) or just „postmodern” „(hau)ontology”.
Just a fantastic introduction to some of the most central concepts in Hegel. These kinds of introductory videos would have been of tremendous help when I set out to unravel what that genius mad-man actually meant... Outstanding work as always.
This was extremely informative for me. A few years ago I tried to read phenomenology of spirit after reading the critique of pure reason. I couldn't make heads or tails of it and quickly dropped it. Although the concepts are still hard, I think I now understand what Hegel is trying to say for consciousness as it relates to objects. Because of this video, I'm willing to give the book another try (although with Stanford Encyclopedia on hand :P ). Also, I very recently started reading Marx so I'm looking forward to your next video :)
I really like the specific explorations of the original German terms, esp science of the experience of consciousness and the active connotation of "making an experience" rather than having one.
These type of videos are fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to prepare them. You could pick any philosopher from the western cannon (Plato, Aristotle, all the way through to Lyotard, Agamben etc) and I’d watch.
Such inspiring work! Please keep on doing this Hegelian series. It is so helpful to GRASP the meanings of words in the original work. I just finish the first view of the video, will rewatch it again soon! Thanks a ton!
Not only does this video enhance my appreciation of Hegel, it makes me want to know more about the hieroglyphic properties of German words to convey multiple pictographic concepts in German philosophical writing.
Watching this video was the first time I've ever felt like I was actually understanding something of Hegel. He's unlikely to become my favorite philosopher, but it is something of a relief to see that his writings can make some - any - sense to me.
this is one of the best introductions to hegel i've veer seen on youtube! all of the fundamental concepts are addressed and explained in such a robust and straight way, while at the same time showing how each one of those concepts work in the whole of the system this vid is pure gold
I am so happy to have come across your channel. This is the brain food I've been starving for. Your video on Peterson, and identification of his philosophy with a form of individualism, has made the most sense to me of any critique. Thank you for putting your thoughts out.
I really enjoyed this kinda linguistic approach to Hegel's concepts explaining the various meanings and translations of words and sometimes their ethymology. You could say your elaboration of his "Begriffe" helped me in the process of "Begreifen".
Really looking forward to more videos on Hegel and Marx! I'm also wondering what's the reception of Terry Pinkard and other Anglophone Hegelian scholars like Robert Pippin within the German scholarship?
This was great. Well done - and thanks. As a meditator and buddhist, all of this makes complete sense. I would say that most people’s conscious engagement with the world is initially governed by concern with personal advantage. Many never really go beyond that. It would not really be right to say that such a consciousness is either irrational or false, which I understand you as saying is also Hegel’s view. But it can be infuriating, and leads to much suffering. These are the worldly winds of pleasure - pain, loss - gain, praise - blame, fame and disrepute. But in the Buddhist scheme they are built on a misconception of the ego which Buddhists seek to transcend, and move to an other related and incorporating, boundary changing, consciousness of the world. Crucially this is an active process, using meditation and engagement with the world. So I find the Hegelian scheme you have outlined here very similar to a Buddhist scheme. It would be said though by most Buddhists, that the development of consciousness is very difficult without and effective meditation process. This is really only a skill of looking and acting on the results (mindfulness). Whether Buddhist or otherwise it seems that all those who develop in this way have some such technique. There can be a debate about the words “development” which has an implication of accumulation or building, and simplifying, which has an implication of stripping away or renunciation.
Thank you very much for this. Keeping the scope small and the descriptions simple really goes a long way into properly introducing these ideas. This is so much cleaner than 10 minutes of "learn everything" stuff, do keep it coming!
Excellent stuff. I am not an expert either but I am a huge fan. For someone who thought that philosophy does without images and is purely notional he had an awesome philosophical imagination. 'Death, if that is what we want to call this non-actuality, is of all things the most dreadful, and to hold fast what is dead requires the greatest strength. Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself. It is this power, not as something positive, which closes its eyes to the negative, as when we say of something that it is nothing or is false, and then, having done with it, turn away and pass onto something else; on the contrary, Spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and tarrying with it. This tarrying with the negative is the magical power that converts it into being. This power is identical with what we earlier called the Subject, which by giving determinateness an existence in its own element supersedes abstract immediacy, i.e. the immediacy which barely is, and thus is authentic substance: that being or immediacy whose mediation is not outside of it but which is this mediation itself'. - Hegel, 'Phenomenology of Spirit', 1807.
Thank you for doing these videos and not using superficial eloquence to get your point across. Hegel is very dense and difficult to understand and someone with your knowledge helping to explain his philosophy makes it more accessible to somewhat grasp his ideas. I was wondering if you’d be willing to do a video on Schopenhauer or German Idealism, in the future. Everything you’ve done on Kant has been great and an exciting learning experience. If there’s anything else that you might be able to fit in about the Noumenal realm and separately, how Husserl’s Phenomenology: ‘Back to the Things Themselves’, relates to Kant’s, A Thing in Itself. Thank you again. You do a wonderful job at this.
I've been working slowly through the "Half Hour Hegel" series here on TH-cam by Dr Gregory Sadler. It goes through the Phenomenology a few paragraphs at a time in extreme detail. I remember how lost I felt stumbling through those first few sections of the book. And I continue feeling lost in each new section. But it's really cool to get a review of stuff from the early sections and realize that I actually have internalized those concepts, because everything you said made perfect sense to me from what I already knew. And a few of your insights on the German words clarified things for me, so thanks for your video!
I don't think this video mentions explicitly about the common "thesis/antithesis/synthesis" but watching this made me understand them so much more. Thank you professor for explaining these profound topics with such accessible language. And i look forward to more videos on Hegel! Have a wonderful day. :)
@@thotslayer9914 probably yeah, I'm somewhat of a minimalist so I just need the bare necessities to be happy. As long as I'm safe outside if the collapsing empire that's good enough for me
So right bestie!!! With machine learning and all the breakthroughs happening recently with AIs and stuff, it's basically empirical proof of Hegel's dialectical phenomenology. Kinda. But being able to replicate the building of consciousness using computers!!! Dude this is so awesome this gives words to what I have been thinking thank you. Dude your videos are so awesome finally I'm getting deep into like Kant and Hegel and they're all so right!!!! Omg this is so much fun cannont wait to watch more videos and give you more money and thus feed into the system of TH-cam but that's fine it's cool what is life if not participating in systems that are designed to get your attention!!!
I got a 1st in my phenomenoloy module in university and still have no idea what the fuck it's about. This video just makes me completely wtf. How I got that mark I'll never know.
@@maximthefox Husserl's philosophical analyses provide a very dense reading but it is simultaneously so incisive and thorough, definitely essential reading, albeit a traumatic one at that.
Great stuff! Just a small thing (brought by my own experience of this work read) to note here: we understand the appearance as it is when it's "nullified", it's essence is to be unessential, to be nothing. The same could be said about the work of concept in general: it neutralizes the sense certainty, nullifies it, and, by this nullification, actualizes it. So in a way we may say, that this negative aspect (to nullify just to make it actual) encompasses the whole of spirit's development.
Ngl I had to take a couple of snack breaks throughout the video 😪, thank you so much for your breakdown of hegel and super excited for the other videos in the series. LET'S GOOOOO 😤 😤
I used Hegel’s concept of zeitgeist in my dissertation’s analysis on the rave culture in the North East region of England, where I’m from, and his take on aesthetics and artistic expressionism seemed beyond the consensus reality
Ive read the phenomenology and a few commentaries and I still found this very helpful, I learned something! This channel or something like it is needed on TH-cam imo, this is great stuff. I just wanted to note that on sense certainty I prefer J M Bernstein’s reading (and Hyppolite maybe) in which that shape of consciousness is not primitive or basic but only possible as some kind of philosophical achievement. Or it takes philosophical work to reach such an abstract viewpoint.
Great video! Thanks, Dr Moeller! Side note: it's funny how as recently as in the 19-th century philosophers (not just Hegel) called what they did "science"... Nowadays it's unthinkable, thanks to the advances of materialistic teachings like positivism, postpositivism and the specific "sciences"
I just fell in with hegelian philosophy again. Especially the German concepts got a nice tone to it all from my native language that happens to be Swedish. Swedish and German are rather similar but from another standpoint compared to English. Many times I find the core concept being understood better from synonyms in Swedish. I try to figure out how the connections are made, and waves of thoughts are instantaneously spiraling away... Although, I probably should find out the proper translations to learn the exact interpretation!
Excellent presentation. Would you please consider making a video on The Phenomenology Of Perception, contrasting and comparing it to the philosophy and science from which Merleau-Ponty took his cue, breaking ground in this most extraordinary book -- from Descartes, thru Kant, Hegel, Husserl (?) Heidegger and gestalt psychology etc? Listening to your explanations in this video has thrown some light on my understanding of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Thank you.
As you probably know, in Advaita Vedanta, they say that if something IS experienced, then it cannot be the subject. So, even when we wake up and say "I slept," we are having an experience of having slept. The sleep cannot be the subject who slept. Likewise, thoughts are experienced, so they are not the subject.
Hello as somebody with hobby level knowledge of philosophy and only an no experience with Hegel, I would be curious about how the concept of "recognition" connects with Althusser's concept of "interperlation"? it seems like the difference has to do with the role of the subject , as it takes a more passive/receptive role. In addition, a comparison between hegel's and daoist dialectics would also be interesting to learn more about.
Are you experienced?
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@@origenaleunuch9708 this was your criticism? Lol the philosopher has a thin neck
@@somebodyontheinternet1090 No, no, he's got a point
*rips into Hendrix solo*
i enjoy experiencing u :)
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Greetings from the University of Bonn! I can confirm German Idealism is still going strong in the curriculum :)
Das ist serr langweilig... just kidding!
I took German in school and travelled to Berlin and Munich in 2006 during the World Soccer cup... I loved being in Germany so much, American society and it's food has been ruined for me because of that 1 experience
Are you studying under M. Gabriel by any chance?
lmfao
Just want to give a shoutout to Greg Sadler who is a philosophy professor on TH-cam that does a video explaining Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit paragraph by paragraph. It's a great resource if you're working your way through the book.
I'm a third of the way through that series. It's been a slow, but fruitful process.
Exactly what I've been searching for, thank you!
check out gregor moder, professor of Cambridge, on hegel vs spinoza. he is very clear and precise.
Thank you for the recommendation! I just started the series and this kind of stuff is super valuable to me
It's amazing how intuitive Hegel is when you understand what he's saying.
One of the more accessible bits on Hegel I've seen that actually dives right into the dialectic instead of the defanged, neat, tidy, reductive thesis+antithesis=synthesis (= I haven't read a word of Hegel) nonsense you usually see on TH-cam. Great work, as usual, glad to see your profile's building an audience.
So true. The synthesis triad was an oversimplification misunderstanding from the British interpreters (not including F. H. Bradley) of Schelling, Fichte, and Hegel. I was shocked in college when professors actually used this template.
It's wild that this is considered accessible for Hegel. I found my brain melting at least twice.
@@MahlerianMuse oh man i always wondered about this. the dialectic is always treated and discussed as extremely profound...but then it is just a rudimentary conceptual description of conflict resolution?
if the thesis/antihesis > synthesis thing is not an accurate rendering of his ideas, it makes SO much more sense to me. still need to read to find out what it actually is but at least i dont have this misconception getting in the way. thanks!
Thesis antithesis synthesis is Kant’s terminology anyway
Except that... This isn't a video about Hegel's dialectics. It's about phenomenology..... in fact, what you are describing, thesis, antithesis, synthesis was a big part of the Hegelian dialectic which might be why you see people talking about it? just a guess.
Hegel launched a spiritual revolution under the guise of a state sanctioned philosophy professor.
He is a genius and a saint of Cosmic spirituality.
A passionate, accessible and demanding invitation to Hegel. The next episodes will be hugely welcome.
Man, I wish you were my philosophy professor in school. You have such an excellent way of expressing your ideas with clarity, and they have even help inform my sociological understanding of the world.
no, he is very very bad.
@@dannysze8183 Did he teach you
@@joshbaino3087 no. he just completely misinterpreted hegel. check out gregor moder, from Cambridge, he knows what hegel is about.
@@dannysze8183 don't just parroting refer people to another long lecture.
If you've watched and understood Gregor's lecture, type it out and tell us the differences.
I love your pairing of deep and nuanced exegesis with tasteless and tawdry corporate clipart.
Halfway through the book! Keep the insight coming!
I think that clipart is a contribution from the student compiling the videos, but I might be wrong. I'd get rid of most of it tbh
i love it lmfao
What surprses about this guy is he starts by saying that that he is not an expert in Hegel but I have for years tried to understand Hegel but no one ever explained so that I could understand. In fifty minutes, this guy has done what I could not grasp in years. Hopefully from here now, I will be able to read phenomenology of spirit which I bought a long time ago but found it impenetrable. Thank you sir.
He is modest.
At 1:00 the picture shown is a thumbnail from a channel called "Jonas Ceîka CCK philosophy". The video is called " Learning about Marx with Jordan Peterson" and is a great video in which Jonas points out what Peterson gets wrong about Marx in his debate with Zîzek.
Link - th-cam.com/video/V2hhrUHSD6o/w-d-xo.html
Cuck philosophy is a gem
Critiques of JP get boring pretty fast as they strike me as more of a overly repetitive reactionary triggers.
Let's try to rehab JP by treating him as an outsider who is reacting to woke academia(not necessarily philosophers), woke public figures and their weird version of Marx/ism and the french theorists...
If you state the obvious and claim that JP is not aquatinted with the Marx and french theory I would say you don't need to be an expert in the field to recognize the charlatan.
@@bozoc2572 I think you are correct in a lot of ways. It is not only prof. JP who is not familiar with either Marx, Neo-marxism, or critical theory. There are a lot of people on the progressive side of politics who also misunderstand the theory, especially concerning post-colonial theory. Perhaps JPs understanding of the so called "postmodern neo-marxist" theory comes from an understanding of an already incorrect understanding.
This does however not give JP a pass as he is almost always putting both the groups whose theory is sometimes array together with professors like Zîzek. To quote JP himself "Rule 10: Be precise in your speech".
Either way, the video in question is not really a criticism of JP, rather a further reading of Marx for those who has got their understanding of Marx from JP or similar sources.
@@MandelTräd Managed to get through few minutes of CCK Philosophy video on JP&Žižek debate that I also kinda skipped through.
The guy reading random Marx paragraphs is misunderstanding what Peterson is talking about, Peterson is using the term nature here in a way that is closer to German idealism(would even dare to say that Peterson here is very close to a Hegelian project than Marxism) than dialectical materialism. I managed to get this from only a few minutes into the Žižek&JP debate, what is this guy on? Even from something vulgar as The Communist Manifesto you can get a good smell of dialectical materialism.
This is why I mostly hate talking to Marxists, it always eventually turns into stupid bible-thumping.
Although a materialist myself, there is IMO always a place for a quality idealism&materialism debate/critique.
I see no point in these low effort videos "analyzing" Peterson's ideology, Žižek already did more than a fantastic job.
Here is a different and interesting leftist take on JP phenomenon: www.otherlife.co/personal-reflections-jordan-peterson/
best philosphy channel I've seen
You're blowing my mind, I tried to read the phenomenology of spirit and I found it quite difficult to parse but as it's laid out here, it makes a ton of sense!
I just got that book in my mail. Happy for this comment. Glad I'm watching this
It is difficult to parse because Hegel wants to dazzle you with his empty verbeage.
@@93alvbjo Ok, give us yours
The embryo quote is getting into the "psychedelic" - and at the same time seems like a bombshell waiting to explode a new perspective into the pro-life vs pro-choice debate. Your quiet lucidity, as always, is greatly appreciated.
Great video! Can't wait for the next Hegel video!
Hegel related to Nietzsche and post-modernism is going to be great!
you are an amazing teacher
Looking forward to the future video on how Hegel relates to Nietzsche and Postmodernism. Feel as though the relationship between Hegel and Nietzsche is particularly interesting and deserves more attention. I think people often assume that the relationship between their philosophies are the same or similar to Schopenhauers relationship to Hegel, so a more nuanced view would be interesting.
Agreed, I've always felt that Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality is a very Hegelian deconstruction of good and bad, although Nietzsche himself rejects German idealism.
Thank you for making an introductory video on Hegel. Hope your hobby leads you to make more videos on him. I am not a philosophy student but I have been wanting to get into Hegel for the longest time. Thank You Professor.
I'm a chemist; so, I found your water analogy very immediate and accessible. Thank you. I also appreciated your distinguishing of a concept-driven science versus a data-driven science. I feel pushed more so recently to approach problems by amassing a data sets and somehow training an algorithm to extract understanding from data. I wish some of my projects would have better concept development.
Nice video! I love spotting "Blame!" in the middle of the usual wall of philosophy books behind the lecturer lol.
Your videos complement how I learn so nicely. I would call them a "gift," but they disabuse that notion with the first frame of every video (also appreciated!) Thank you to you and your crew.
I am truly looking forward to watching your next video on Hegel. Thanks for putting out such high quality videos!
Thank you for a sincere yet not overwhelming approach to a great thinker! I treasure this video 📹
What Hegel seems to describe really makes me think of my layman's understanding of what an observer is in physics. For all intents and purposes an observer is that which interacts with a particular phenomenon when that interaction is a measurement.
The subject or consciousness here is the observer, while the objective quality gathered about the observed object is the measurement.
I cannot wait for the video on Hegel and Nietzsche! I always felt that between thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Freud there was a strong connection and an interesting development of mind and spirit that ties beautifully with things like 20th century existentialism, 20th century political though (be it Frankfurt School or post-structural interpretations of society, power and politics) or just „postmodern” „(hau)ontology”.
Lucky day! I was about to head to bed saw this on my feed, Love this channel's content
Just a fantastic introduction to some of the most central concepts in Hegel. These kinds of introductory videos would have been of tremendous help when I set out to unravel what that genius mad-man actually meant... Outstanding work as always.
lets gooooo!!! post modernist talk and more jordan peterson take down?? i’m so ready for next video!
Thanks Hans!
This was extremely informative for me. A few years ago I tried to read phenomenology of spirit after reading the critique of pure reason. I couldn't make heads or tails of it and quickly dropped it. Although the concepts are still hard, I think I now understand what Hegel is trying to say for consciousness as it relates to objects. Because of this video, I'm willing to give the book another try (although with Stanford Encyclopedia on hand :P ). Also, I very recently started reading Marx so I'm looking forward to your next video :)
I really like the specific explorations of the original German terms, esp science of the experience of consciousness and the active connotation of "making an experience" rather than having one.
I love that Hegel has a philosophy around why his writing is incomprehensible.
Philosophy being too complex to explain in mere mortal terms
This was great! Can’t wait for part 2
Thanks for this tour of Hegel's 'Phenomenology' very clear and informative,
These type of videos are fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to prepare them. You could pick any philosopher from the western cannon (Plato, Aristotle, all the way through to Lyotard, Agamben etc) and I’d watch.
Such inspiring work! Please keep on doing this Hegelian series. It is so helpful to GRASP the meanings of words in the original work. I just finish the first view of the video, will rewatch it again soon! Thanks a ton!
I love the warning. It's honestly the fastest any video has made me both laugh and subscribe to a channel.
wow im early :D.. keep it up good and much needed videos.
Hi Professor! Thank you so much for your effort 🙏👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love it! Can’t wait for the coming video!
I see the happiness in you when you started this video.
Now I reach a realization that u r cracking on with a philosophy 101 series( Kant,Hegel,Marx,........)
What a CONTRIBUTION to the starters!
Not only does this video enhance my appreciation of Hegel, it makes me want to know more about the hieroglyphic properties of German words to convey multiple pictographic concepts in German philosophical writing.
Watching this video was the first time I've ever felt like I was actually understanding something of Hegel. He's unlikely to become my favorite philosopher, but it is something of a relief to see that his writings can make some - any - sense to me.
This was so enjoyable ~ can’t wait to listen to the further lectures😎
Thank you!
Thank you very much professor!
Thank you for this. Very clear, very useful.
this is one of the best introductions to hegel i've veer seen on youtube! all of the fundamental concepts are addressed and explained in such a robust and straight way, while at the same time showing how each one of those concepts work in the whole of the system
this vid is pure gold
Loved that warning
I am so happy to have come across your channel. This is the brain food I've been starving for. Your video on Peterson, and identification of his philosophy with a form of individualism, has made the most sense to me of any critique. Thank you for putting your thoughts out.
Looking forward to the next video, thank you for the time and effort you both invested.
Nice job with the pre-roll and post-roll warnings. Spot on.
Amazing! One of the best philosophy channels in TH-cam.
I really enjoyed this kinda linguistic approach to Hegel's concepts explaining the various meanings and translations of words and sometimes their ethymology. You could say your elaboration of his "Begriffe" helped me in the process of "Begreifen".
Really looking forward to more videos on Hegel and Marx! I'm also wondering what's the reception of Terry Pinkard and other Anglophone Hegelian scholars like Robert Pippin within the German scholarship?
I love the reference to Jonas Ceîka CCK philosophy video about Jordan Peterson at 1:00
Fantastic video, I’m really glad and happy you decided to do Hegel!! Looking forward to the other vids :)
This was great. Well done - and thanks.
As a meditator and buddhist, all of this makes complete sense.
I would say that most people’s conscious engagement with the world is initially governed by concern with personal advantage. Many never really go beyond that. It would not really be right to say that such a consciousness is either irrational or false, which I understand you as saying is also Hegel’s view. But it can be infuriating, and leads to much suffering. These are the worldly winds of pleasure - pain, loss - gain, praise - blame, fame and disrepute.
But in the Buddhist scheme they are built on a misconception of the ego which Buddhists seek to transcend, and move to an other related and incorporating, boundary changing, consciousness of the world. Crucially this is an active process, using meditation and engagement with the world.
So I find the Hegelian scheme you have outlined here very similar to a Buddhist scheme.
It would be said though by most Buddhists, that the development of consciousness is very difficult without and effective meditation process. This is really only a skill of looking and acting on the results (mindfulness). Whether Buddhist or otherwise it seems that all those who develop in this way have some such technique.
There can be a debate about the words “development” which has an implication of accumulation or building, and simplifying, which has an implication of stripping away or renunciation.
The way to go ! A great indroduction to Hegel . look forward to your discusion of Marx's relationship to Hegel.
Thank you very much for this. Keeping the scope small and the descriptions simple really goes a long way into properly introducing these ideas. This is so much cleaner than 10 minutes of "learn everything" stuff, do keep it coming!
Excellent stuff. I am not an expert either but I am a huge fan. For someone who thought that philosophy does without images and is purely notional he had an awesome philosophical imagination.
'Death, if that is what we want to call this non-actuality, is of all things the most dreadful, and to hold fast what is dead requires the greatest strength. Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself. It is this power, not as something positive, which closes its eyes to the negative, as when we say of something that it is nothing or is false, and then, having done with it, turn away and pass onto something else; on the contrary, Spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and tarrying with it. This tarrying with the negative is the magical power that converts it into being. This power is identical with what we earlier called the Subject, which by giving determinateness an existence in its own element supersedes abstract immediacy, i.e. the immediacy which barely is, and thus is authentic substance: that being or immediacy whose mediation is not outside of it but which is this mediation itself'.
- Hegel, 'Phenomenology of Spirit', 1807.
Thank you for doing these videos and not using superficial eloquence to get your point across. Hegel is very dense and difficult to understand and someone with your knowledge helping to explain his philosophy makes it more accessible to somewhat grasp his ideas.
I was wondering if you’d be willing to do a video on Schopenhauer or German Idealism, in the future.
Everything you’ve done on Kant has been great and an exciting learning experience. If there’s anything else that you might be able to fit in about the Noumenal realm and separately, how Husserl’s Phenomenology: ‘Back to the Things Themselves’, relates to Kant’s, A Thing in Itself.
Thank you again. You do a wonderful job at this.
I've been working slowly through the "Half Hour Hegel" series here on TH-cam by Dr Gregory Sadler. It goes through the Phenomenology a few paragraphs at a time in extreme detail.
I remember how lost I felt stumbling through those first few sections of the book. And I continue feeling lost in each new section. But it's really cool to get a review of stuff from the early sections and realize that I actually have internalized those concepts, because everything you said made perfect sense to me from what I already knew.
And a few of your insights on the German words clarified things for me, so thanks for your video!
I don't think this video mentions explicitly about the common "thesis/antithesis/synthesis" but watching this made me understand them so much more. Thank you professor for explaining these profound topics with such accessible language. And i look forward to more videos on Hegel! Have a wonderful day. :)
"Thesis/antithesis/synthesis" isn't actually from Hegel, thats just often ascribed to Hegel
thank you for this video ! I have been hoping you would do a video on Hegel. looking forward to part two!
Great video, I'm excited for the next three!
"By making this experience the mind grows- the mind develops- it does not stay the same." ✍️
@@thotslayer9914 been pretty benign so far, in a good way
@@thotslayer9914 haven't been in hs for years, you probably got me confused for someone, sorry!
@@thotslayer9914 nah couldn't afford college, working to move to China, more opportunity there
@@thotslayer9914 just in general really, in my case specifically I'm probably jump into the public transportation industry
@@thotslayer9914 probably yeah, I'm somewhat of a minimalist so I just need the bare necessities to be happy. As long as I'm safe outside if the collapsing empire that's good enough for me
Beautifully presented
I rarely comment on any video ... but the quality of your content is, to put it rather blunt, " UNHEARD-OF " in TH-cam.
Excelent video, very clear explanation, keep this amazing work! Surely I will keep following your channel.
This is a wonderful video introducing Hegel. Thanks.
VERY GOOD EXPLANATION. THANK YOU!
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So right bestie!!! With machine learning and all the breakthroughs happening recently with AIs and stuff, it's basically empirical proof of Hegel's dialectical phenomenology. Kinda. But being able to replicate the building of consciousness using computers!!! Dude this is so awesome this gives words to what I have been thinking thank you.
Dude your videos are so awesome finally I'm getting deep into like Kant and Hegel and they're all so right!!!! Omg this is so much fun cannont wait to watch more videos and give you more money and thus feed into the system of TH-cam but that's fine it's cool what is life if not participating in systems that are designed to get your attention!!!
I got a 1st in my phenomenoloy module in university and still have no idea what the fuck it's about. This video just makes me completely wtf. How I got that mark I'll never know.
It's important to know that phenomenology was also coined in a broader sense by Husserl, so the hegelian concept of phenomenology is not univocal
@@awimbaweman yeah it was Husserl that fucked me up man, that guy just writes in the most west way
@@maximthefox Husserl's philosophical analyses provide a very dense reading but it is simultaneously so incisive and thorough, definitely essential reading, albeit a traumatic one at that.
@@maximthefox "writes in the most west way" - what did you mean by this? 'west way'?...
Moeller is so easy going and well spoken. Good man and very helpful.
Great stuff!
Just a small thing (brought by my own experience of this work read) to note here: we understand the appearance as it is when it's "nullified", it's essence is to be unessential, to be nothing. The same could be said about the work of concept in general: it neutralizes the sense certainty, nullifies it, and, by this nullification, actualizes it. So in a way we may say, that this negative aspect (to nullify just to make it actual) encompasses the whole of spirit's development.
Ha ha! Loved the Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced-album cover 'theft' used in the thumbnail for the clip.
Ngl I had to take a couple of snack breaks throughout the video 😪, thank you so much for your breakdown of hegel and super excited for the other videos in the series. LET'S GOOOOO 😤 😤
This was great. Love the work you are doing. Keep it up!
Glad to be this early. This is my favorite channel right now. I would love if the professor recommended some more books to read.
I used Hegel’s concept of zeitgeist in my dissertation’s analysis on the rave culture in the North East region of England, where I’m from, and his take on aesthetics and artistic expressionism seemed beyond the consensus reality
awesome; looking forward to it
Ive read the phenomenology and a few commentaries and I still found this very helpful, I learned something! This channel or something like it is needed on TH-cam imo, this is great stuff.
I just wanted to note that on sense certainty I prefer J M Bernstein’s reading (and Hyppolite maybe) in which that shape of consciousness is not primitive or basic but only possible as some kind of philosophical achievement. Or it takes philosophical work to reach such an abstract viewpoint.
Great video! Thanks, Dr Moeller! Side note: it's funny how as recently as in the 19-th century philosophers (not just Hegel) called what they did "science"... Nowadays it's unthinkable, thanks to the advances of materialistic teachings like positivism, postpositivism and the specific "sciences"
very enjoyable style of explaining
Absolutely loved it!!
Awesome stuff as always. Looking foreward to the fallow up!
Great video! Keep up with the amazing work!
Excellent. Enjoy or you videos.
I just fell in with hegelian philosophy again. Especially the German concepts got a nice tone to it all from my native language that happens to be Swedish. Swedish and German are rather similar but from another standpoint compared to English. Many times I find the core concept being understood better from synonyms in Swedish. I try to figure out how the connections are made, and waves of thoughts are instantaneously spiraling away...
Although, I probably should find out the proper translations to learn the exact interpretation!
ধন্যবাদ,Danke,Merci,Thanks!
Excellent presentation. Would you please consider making a video on The Phenomenology Of Perception, contrasting and comparing it to the philosophy and science from which Merleau-Ponty took his cue, breaking ground in this most extraordinary book -- from Descartes, thru Kant, Hegel, Husserl (?) Heidegger and gestalt psychology etc? Listening to your explanations in this video has thrown some light on my understanding of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Thank you.
great videos!!!
learnt a lot
As you probably know, in Advaita Vedanta, they say that if something IS experienced, then it cannot be the subject. So, even when we wake up and say "I slept," we are having an experience of having slept. The sleep cannot be the subject who slept. Likewise, thoughts are experienced, so they are not the subject.
We become ourselves forever
Hello as somebody with hobby level knowledge of philosophy and only an no experience with Hegel, I would be curious about how the concept of "recognition" connects with Althusser's concept of "interperlation"? it seems like the difference has to do with the role of the subject , as it takes a more passive/receptive role.
In addition, a comparison between hegel's and daoist dialectics would also be interesting to learn more about.
I don't know if this is too broad or well put, BUT here it goes: could we link Daoism to Hegel in what you've come to name *Genuine Pretending*
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Wirklichkeits literal translation is workableness.