The second in my series of lectures on great German thinkers explores the life, work and influence of Hegel. Presented by Wesley Cecil PhD at Peninsula College
Thanks so much for all your lectures. I appreciate your accessible style. Its casual, practical, and still dense with ideas. Almost reminiscent of will durant.
quote is by foucault and is as follows: “[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.”
I really like Wes's introduction of thinkers' childhood, educational and general social background for their philosophical developments. Really put in new perspectives to understand their thinkings that are rarely seen in streamlined academic texts. Great Job!
Great lecture, also l really like that you didn't mention thesis anti-thesis synthesis. Edit: haha you mentioned it at the end only to dismiss it. Good on ya! And l believe it came from Fichte.
Dear Wes. I enjoy your lectures and I refer my students to you. Excited to hear you're doing Schopenhauer. I wonder if you have any plans to cover Lacan?
One thing I think that drives many people away from philosophy is the difficult writing so to purposely make your writing difficult is a big mistake in philosophy. Was it Einstein that said, "as simple as possible but no simpler". Of course that doesn't mean that it will be simple...
well i dont think it mattered too much to hegel who would be running society but just that it was allowing for people to freely develop themselves within its structure - totalitarianism imposes alot of restrictions on what people can do within the structure, which seems tobe just what hegel disagreed with about the prussian state, so i dont see a direct line from hegel to totalitarianism at all, and probably less so than say the work of Nietzsche who people also misunderstood.
Hegel influenced Marx in sooo many different ways. It's very interesting to have knowledge abt Marx, then going back to read Hegel. You can see so much of how Hegel influenced Marx more than virtually any other thinker!
The velocity of light is the same and equal for all observers, it is independent of the observer's perspective or 'position' it therefore conforms to a principle of objective democracy. The laws of physics are the same for all observers everywhere, this puts all observers in the same state and bosons are entities that like to be in the same state. This unbiased state is the definition of an objective democracy, a target state, teleology.
@French Frys Collectivism is dual to individualism. The multiverse is dual to the universe. Everything (infinity) is dual to nothing (zero). "All for one and one for all" -- The 3 musketeers The observer is dual to the observed, to get something from nothing requires a second observer. Gravitation is equivalent or dual to acceleration -- Einstein's happiest thought Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein Space is dual to time -- Einstein Certainty is dual to uncertainty -- The Heisenberg certainty/uncertainty principle. The concept of a multiverse is derived from the concept of a universe, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Duality creates reality that is what Hegel is claiming, the Hegelian dialectic.
Understand, "Ourselves," means Europeans and not Africans. I hope that in the future Mr. Cecil will not speak in a manner that distorts the actual racism of the text. I enjoy this information very much.
Again the paradox rears its ugly head. Yes you should be the best version of yourself. This is a life long process that many people do not do. But yes the roads need to be built and the hospitals staffed. One must combine the practical with the artistic as they live. But the most important thing is to have the artistic aspect of ourselves as the captain of our lives.
Dear Lord. When this guy says "it was not that crazy when Napoleon crowns himself emperor". Seriously? Who can take whatever else he says seriously after that??
@@franzsperginand113 Nope. You are probably not watching the video, that's why you are speaking so much nonsense. What comes right before that is: "In Napoleon's mind, the best way (...) was to lead the existent police structure." Then the speaker states "this is not crazy". One of the most ludicrous statements I have ever seen anyone ever make in a lecture.
@@RafaelSilvaLivroDorri Even if you are correct, "this is not crazy" would then refer to the notion of trying to negotiate and meet the form of the existing power structure.
Dear Wes, why do you doubt Kants claim to be religious, in the metaphysics of morality he says to be religious is a duty of man against himself. That’s quite a statement to my mind. Same goes for Hegel, he loved the trinity because it is the symbolic representation that the spirit is dynamic. His philosophy of history is drawn from the trinitarian idea that the spirit incarnates and returns to itself but in a purified way. Ich liebe Ihre Vorlesungen, aber ihr Verständnis von Religion ist unterkomplex :-) Bitte, bitte traktieren Sie Schleiermacher! At least once! All the best from Germany Martin
When "outside looking in" of the "Philosophers" of the all the ages, one learn about the profundity of superficialism to fit the millenials of structured ignorance to produce a world of GODLESS gullibles.
Not even close. Hegel did not believe we are born with these twelve categories, a priori. He developed (more in line with Fichte) a process philosophy.
@@alisonleejones3109 I respectfully disagree. I suspect your impression is based on very limited exposure to other philosophy lectures...because the vast majority are most obviously nothing like this. The differences are so distinct - which I would love to detail, but a comment reply is not the forum- so just encourage you to check out other lectures/channels...you'll quickly miss what we are all privileged enough to receive here!
