German Philosophy: 1789 - 1815 (Fichte, Schelling & Hegel) by Will Durant

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  • Embark on a philosophical journey through the tumultuous period of German philosophy from 1789 to 1815, featuring the influential thinkers Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, with the esteemed historian, Will Durant, as your guide. In this enlightening video, Durant navigates the intellectual landscape of this era, exploring the groundbreaking ideas and contributions of these philosophers.
    🧠 Explore Durant's insightful commentary as he covers the following key aspects of German philosophy during this revolutionary period:
    The historical backdrop of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Germany
    The philosophical evolution from Kantian thought to German Idealism
    The works and philosophies of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    The exploration of idealism, transcendental philosophy, and the nature of reality
    The influence of these philosophers on subsequent philosophical movements and thought
    The societal and political implications of their philosophical ideas during a time of great change

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  • @AB-gw6uf
    @AB-gw6uf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    01:17 Fichte: 1762-1814
    08:01 The Philosopher (Fichte and Schelling)
    30:30 Hegel (1770-1831)

  • @leahcimolrac1477
    @leahcimolrac1477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    How did this guy know so much about history? I know some things have been revised and he teetered on subjectivity at times, but he had such a phenomenal general knowledge that I don't know how I'd walk through the world in his shoes without thinking 95% of the people around me were ignorant peons.

    • @kenrichard4575
      @kenrichard4575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They were studying in a university. You imagine that they came up with all of this on their own out of thin air? People take "ancient' knowledge and suit it for their own times and contemporaries, where it is often mistaken for their own rare genius, long after they are dead. True, they spent a great deal more time than most reading, thinking, and reflecting. The average person is not steeped in reason but neck deep in BS, and that is exactly where they want to be. Plenty do right well by it, socially and economically and they don't want their s - - t stirred.

    • @Oners82
      @Oners82 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Leahcim Olrac
      A lifetime of study, obviously.

    • @virvisquevir3320
      @virvisquevir3320 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Leahcim Olrac - Hegel had one grand system, he assigned one plot to history, and crammed everything into it, i.e., Plato did not see "subjective idea" - for Plato, the Ideals or Forms were objective - thus Aristotle would not have been able to "synthesise" Plato with Democritus' "objective matter". 1:12:31
      It's easy when you stick to your guns and everything is transformed into fodder for your philosophy. You see religious dogmatists of all kinds - Christian, Islamic, Jewish - doing that also, as well as dogmatic materialist scientism. Hegel had his model, others have theirs.
      Hegel replaced God with Reason. What moves things behind the scenes and what eventually pans out. It's almost tautological.
      How far does Hegel's model help us today to predict the future? To define our ideals? To produce better political systems?
      I don't know.
      He seems to have been a man of his times. His star is descending. He doesn't have many followers or people who check what he said in making decisions. Unlike, let's say, Jesus with his more simple and direct message, who has more followers than ever - over 2.5 billion, 1/3 of the world's population. Complexity is not the criterion, effective transmutation towards something better is. "By their fruits ye shall know them."
      I wonder what Hegel would have made of the history of Russia after his death. 1860 - serfs freed in a very Christian Russia under the Tsar. 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution, atheistic, materialistic, state control economy, repressive, thought and travel restrictions. 1991 - Soviet Union collapsed, free enterprise returns, freedom to travel, Christianity flourishes again... Russia probably would have evolved to something like today even without the Soviet hiccup.

    • @zionistkid
      @zionistkid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@virvisquevir3320 you fucking idiot. How many places are you gonna copy and paste that trite garbage. Hey idiot, opinions are like assholes - everybody has one.

    • @virvisquevir3320
      @virvisquevir3320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      zionistkid - "Zionist Kid", LOL.

  • @FormsInSpace
    @FormsInSpace 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    great upload. thanks

  • @vampireducks1622
    @vampireducks1622 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hello. *Which book is this from?* (The Story of Philosopgy contails only "A Note on Hegel" [subsection in the chapter on Kant, almost an afterthought], so it's not that.) [Edit: I think I know now; it's from the final volume of The Story of Civilization.]

    • @AK-ef5li
      @AK-ef5li 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The Story of Civilization, Volume 11

  • @michaelhebert7338
    @michaelhebert7338 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for sharing

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 55:44

  • @RossDixonTeaching
    @RossDixonTeaching 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thankyou for sharing

  • @climatedeceptionnetwork4122
    @climatedeceptionnetwork4122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Didn't the locals sweep this forest?

  • @AYstrength
    @AYstrength 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What's the name of the painting?

    • @S2Cents
      @S2Cents 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shoot, I just asked. No response.... I like it too.

    • @tibormarkovic3637
      @tibormarkovic3637 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Conrad Martens, Forest, Cunningham's Gap, 1856, Watercolour on paper

    • @artistjoh
      @artistjoh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Amazing to think that this spot is now a four lane highway, although just a couple of meters into the rainforest either side of the highway is just like this even today. I have walked in this rainforest many times and I probably feel a similar awe to what Conrad Martens felt on that day so long ago. It is a beautiful place. Conrad Martens might not be as famous as some other painters, but his poetic appreciation of the Australian bush at that time is quite wonderful. A great Australian artist with a great heart for pioneer life.

    • @6442hithere
      @6442hithere 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2cents htthtttttthttttttttttnbbnntnnbbtnbbttnbbbbb bby bbbbbbbbbb bb tbtgh).gh

    • @erictko85
      @erictko85 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tibormarkovic3637 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @zenden6564
    @zenden6564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @25:05 ---- "how the hot blood runs through my veins..."

    • @bonnie43uk
      @bonnie43uk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      .." i love a plump bosom" the desire of the flesh overcame him :-)

  • @Randall2023
    @Randall2023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dauphin River First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

    • @FreshTake01
      @FreshTake01 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cold-nada! Anyone?

  • @apiro1000
    @apiro1000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What book is this from?

    • @romeosyne
      @romeosyne 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Age of Napoleon, p. 197ff.

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Philosophy For Dummies . Book 3.

  • @djewelbenz4316
    @djewelbenz4316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    هذا كل ما اريد (( الاقامة )) معه لبقية حياتي ....كنت هناك دائما ...على تلك التخوم دائما ....(( سحابة اللامعرفة )) ...معرفة السحابة ....لاشيئ مما اسمعه في هذه (( المعابد )) غريب عن عقلي او قلبي ....ترى ،هل راتني تلك (( العين )) السرمدية في تطوافي الطويل ...المشي الطويل ...في الصحاري المتاخمة لمدينتي الصغيرة على مدى اربعين عاما كاملا ...ذلك انني بدات (( المشي )) مبكرا جدا ....ومامن شيئ في العالم استحق ان يكون بديلا او حتى شريكا في ذلك المشي الذهني ...مشي بالروح والجسد ....وتكرار الحضور امام السؤال ....اووه لم يكن ذلك هو الفلسفة بحصر المعنى ...لقد كان ايضا (( شهوة )) وكان امطارا من (( الحدوس )) والصور ...و (( العلامات )) ....ها انا على وشك ان اغضب من تخشب الابجدية ، وقد يدفعني الشطح الغاضب الى انها كانت ( مضاجعة لجسد العالم ) او ....ام انه العالم هو الذي ضاجعنا داخل معابد ومكتباب مزحومة بالمتخصصين في (( العهر المقدس )) ....

  • @HoovyTube
    @HoovyTube ปีที่แล้ว +2

    25:30
    This goes hard af damn

  • @bradleyhudson9742
    @bradleyhudson9742 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Schelling was great

  • @antrewt
    @antrewt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hegel flagel magel splagel, craigel, bagel, stragel plalagel.

    • @markusoreos.233
      @markusoreos.233 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very deep, very philosophical indeed.

  • @estrelaazulprata6494
    @estrelaazulprata6494 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    to beer or not to beer dhat is the question/ to drink's or not to drink dhat is the question?

  • @johnndamascene
    @johnndamascene ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How could the hegelian Marx not see that humans cannot be in a planned economy as long as they are "becoming". Planned economies are antithesis of synthesis

    • @SPIDERM0OSE
      @SPIDERM0OSE 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe he knew all that n was working on behalf of The Supreme Evil Being ?
      #ThinkAboutIt
      😈

    • @anarcho-monarchistluddite
      @anarcho-monarchistluddite 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think he probably knew that somewhere in his mind. I tend to agree with Wolfgang Eckhardt that much of Marx's prescriptions were reactions to critiques by anarchists of the time whom he agreed with on most major positions; especially those which would lend towards a decentralized planning

    • @derpfaddesweisen
      @derpfaddesweisen 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because Marx didn't believe in planned economies. A marxist society is by definition stateless. Marx was mainly a critic of capitalism, he didn't even like socialist "planned economy" ideas.

  • @Randall2023
    @Randall2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is German Philosophy a big thing
      in Manitoba. ? I didn't get that
      impression on my last visit.

    • @TorMax9
      @TorMax9 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Guess Who

  • @TwistedMarksman
    @TwistedMarksman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    23:40 SCHELLING 1775 - 1854

    • @TwistedMarksman
      @TwistedMarksman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      31:18 SKEPTIC'S PROGRESS

    • @TwistedMarksman
      @TwistedMarksman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      47:39 MIND

    • @TwistedMarksman
      @TwistedMarksman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      54:55 MORALITY, LAW, AND THE STATE

    • @TwistedMarksman
      @TwistedMarksman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1:04:37 HISTORY

    • @TwistedMarksman
      @TwistedMarksman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1:13:18 DEATH AND RETURN

  • @mohdharoon4938
    @mohdharoon4938 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:03:00

  • @alecmisra4964
    @alecmisra4964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You cant pretend that youre aristotle if you dont have a set of categories

    • @timd8912
      @timd8912 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah!!!!!

  • @adagio2903
    @adagio2903 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    40:00

  • @mohdharoon4938
    @mohdharoon4938 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    26:00

  • @3x4architecture77
    @3x4architecture77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    -3:17

  • @Parsons4Geist
    @Parsons4Geist 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    love Durant but dude haters goin hate hegel

    • @DurantandFriends
      @DurantandFriends  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think that was meant to critize Hegel and his followers?

  • @EwingAmaterasu
    @EwingAmaterasu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    23:42

  • @kenrichard4575
    @kenrichard4575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It is odd how much German philosophy reminds me of the philosophy which precedes Germany by one and a half millennia.

    • @Oners82
      @Oners82 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes that is odd considering how radically different it is.

    • @shawnsaul7759
      @shawnsaul7759 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      As in Greek philosophy?

  • @jokers7890
    @jokers7890 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You silly Kant, you Kant do it.

  • @frederickanderson1860
    @frederickanderson1860 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The princes lived in their world the ordinary people same. You can't use intellectual theories on simple folk's. Lenin Trotsky intellectual theories, wernt understood by the serfs of backward heritage.

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They made an impression on the Czar ?

  • @YawehthedragondogofEL
    @YawehthedragondogofEL 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fichte was not a pacifist.

  • @tomlarson5486
    @tomlarson5486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The painting is a masterpiece by Dyck van Wyck titled " Manbearpig stalking village idiot ".

    • @MorusAlba1975
      @MorusAlba1975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you serial?

    • @tomlarson5486
      @tomlarson5486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MorusAlba1975 I'm superdoopersupersuper serial.

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Which village is missing you ?

    • @archaedemos
      @archaedemos ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok, I see, I think, the idiot. Where's the owlbear?

  • @virvisquevir3320
    @virvisquevir3320 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "In the beginning was the LOGOS and the LOGOS was with God and the LOGOS was God." John 1:1

  • @YawehthedragondogofEL
    @YawehthedragondogofEL 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I wonder if Jefferson was influenced by Fichte. Fichte's suggestions for mandatory education for all, encouraging moral uniformity and a none to subtle state control of the individual soul sounds an awful lot like the system implemented by that cowardly slave raping yuppy Thomas Jefferson. A system which tells you how to think and live, all the while insisting that you are free, and should be grateful for this freedom they have provided for you. If so, then Fichte's ideas have had a direct impact on my life, on my soul, on all of ours. You see, friends, when we study history, especially the history of ideas and how these ideas have influenced our lives and institutions, we are not studying something aloof and separate from ourselves. Every individual will, within the system, is a reflection, a microcosm of the whole. To study history and philosophy is to study one's self, literally. Interesting that Fichte should start as an anarchist and evolve into a sort of totalitarian. The young Will Durant once embraced an anarchist interpretation of history, though he claimed to have outgrown it later on.

    • @Carltoncurtis1
      @Carltoncurtis1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fichte lacked faith in humanity.

    • @ismireghal68
      @ismireghal68 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Roman Brown interesting indeed and he is not the only one.many people wanting freedom for themself seem to have some "subliminal" desire for order and authority.Just think of rousseau.

    • @11Kralle
      @11Kralle 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jefferson was influenced by Rousseau - as most people still are (not knowingly of course; it is far more important to have detailed knowledge about factual merchandise, brands and public figures called 'celebrities').
      To make 'Bildung'* mandatory is just a german notion of Fichtes time, a crude (yet oddly effective and thus sublime...) repulsion of the mandatory catechism, mandatory obediance to magistrates and the mandatory compulsion of every german prince to conscript his subjects for a career as cannon-fodder.
      *a.k.a. "education"

    • @stevebrule9343
      @stevebrule9343 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Roman Brown nah Jefferson just recognized that most people aren’t intelligent enough to be allowed to develop freely without an education ordered by better men. Without this system, they would degenerate the moral community they belong to without slowing down.

    • @Oners82
      @Oners82 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevebrule9343
      Yeah, the alleged "better men" (otherwise known as oligarchs) aren't a moral cesspool at all, are they lol?!
      They indoctrinate people to CONTROL them, not to stop moral decay; your idea is so naive it is almost cute!

  • @josephlancaster7997
    @josephlancaster7997 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It would have been a wonderful correction to mankind if this trip of comedians had ever bothered to make a study of Chemistry. Idealist drivel !!!

  • @virvisquevir3320
    @virvisquevir3320 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Leahcim Olrac - Hegel had one grand system, he assigned one plot to history, and crammed everything into it, i.e., Plato did not see "subjective idea" - for Plato, the Ideals or Forms were objective - thus Aristotle would not have been able to "synthesise" Plato with Democritus' "objective matter". 1:12:31
    It's easy when you stick to your guns and everything is transformed into fodder for your philosophy. You see religious dogmatists of all kinds - Christian, Islamic, Jewish - doing that also, as well as dogmatic materialist scientism. Hegel had his model, others have theirs.
    Hegel replaced God with Reason. What moves things behind the scenes and what eventually pans out. It's almost tautological.
    How far does Hegel's model help us today to predict the future? To define our ideals? To produce better political systems?
    I don't know.
    He seems to have been a man of his times. His star is descending. He doesn't have many followers or people who check what he said in making decisions. Unlike, let's say, Jesus with his more simple and direct message, who has more followers than ever - over 2.5 billion, 1/3 of the world's population. Complexity is not the criterion, effective transmutation towards something better is. "By their fruits ye shall know them."
    I wonder what Hegel would have made of the history of Russia after his death. 1860 - serfs freed in a very Christian Russia under the Tsar. 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution, atheistic, materialistic, state control economy, repressive, thought and travel restrictions. 1991 - Soviet Union collapsed, free enterprise returns, freedom to travel, Christianity flourishes again... Russia probably would have evolved to something like today even without the Soviet hiccup.

    • @zionistkid
      @zionistkid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fucking idiot

    • @keithcollard3933
      @keithcollard3933 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So life is a mystery like the madonna song?

    • @keithcollard3933
      @keithcollard3933 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shut the fuck up keith

    • @TorMax9
      @TorMax9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zionistkid - Yes, you're right, Hegel was a fucking idiot. Or are you referring to yourself? Or perhaps Marx. You're not very articulate, are you? Oh, well, I guess some people are fucking idiots. Cheers!

  • @jordanwhisson5407
    @jordanwhisson5407 ปีที่แล้ว

    Franco-Prussian War 1870, WW1-1914. WW2-1939, your Philosophy is irrelevant

  • @Randall2023
    @Randall2023 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dauphin River First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦