Hegel's Philosophy of History 

No notes, no pauses, no equivocation, no tangents, making extremely complex ideas comprehensible for everyone. Amazing job. I wish I'd had a philosophy teacher like this.

Perhaps the most talented lecturer on philosophy I’ve ever witnessed

The guy is a natural genius, who has distilled complex thought down to, or up to general comprehension.

"There's gonna be a whole new generation of philosophers that want to get tenure that are going to have to get rid of this earlier generation and *really* turn the corner and have a new, totally changed end of history. It could be that we'll never get beyond Hegel in this respect, though we all feel the need to create a novelty that is spurious but entertaining. And that is our homage to Hegel I would say." Golden.

He really explains it in down to earth every day language , I can’t even believe his lecture is over, it went by so quick, I can listen to him all day

We are getting an Ivy league philosophy class for free. Incredible

00:00 - 03:50 Intro to Spirit (Geist) 03:50 - 08:20 Hegelian Subjectivity 08:20 - 09:17 Interpretation of Human Existence 09:17 - 13:41 Modern Eschatology 13:41 - 18:23 Laws of History 18:23 - 20:09 Development of Spirit's Consciousness 20:09 - 21:47 Knowledge & Power 21:47 - 24:27 Rational Mythology 24:27 - 27:31 Human Potential 27:31 - 30:00 Differences in Marxist and Hegelian Thought 30:00 - 33:45 Architectonic Plan of History 33:45 - 38:04 The Meaning of History 38:04 - 41:09 The Study of History 41:09 - 43:09 Legacy of Hegel

Videos and audio have forever changed the world.

Rest in peace professor Sugrue. We miss you dearly. You have indeed left a big. shady tree for all of us.

PLEASE do some new lectures, your knowlage is astounding and id love for more people around the world to experience it!

Whats great about Dr. Sugrue's interpretation of philosophy and ideas is that he ties it to the poetic, the lyrical, the artistic and the spiritual aspects of human experience. The four pillars of culture- art, philosophy, religion and science- are intimately intertwined like a thread running through Western thought.

I recently feel so depressed with my work, then I come back to the lectures of Prof. Sugrue, everything is so beautiful.

God-tier Hegel explanatory, well done sir

Thank you so much Mr Sugrue. Your lectures are expertly delivered, I find them fascinating. I don't think you are aware just how grateful we all are for these absolute gems. These lessons are keeping me going right now as we trudge through this draining covid purgatory. If there was a syllabus I could follow, I would love to study these courses in the correct order. If you ever launch a new online course I would sign up immediately. Thanks once again.

This is the greatest channel to ever exist.

Before watching i knew there is a guy named Hegel. After i watch the video i will know what he stands for, what he brought new to the table, his place in history, relation to old, then and now, in less than an hour.

One of the best lectures I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Thank you for the upload.

Humans can be too good when put effort on anything. The lecture is super. As an African living here in USA exploring to exploit whatever knowing comes my way, am grateful to come across your video(s). I must say again, this is Super! Super!

When you temporalize and turn the history of philosophy into a series of phases the last phase has to be you. And the last phase has been us for the last 150 years now. I have no doubt that in the next century--again here's charting out the Hegelian trajectory--there's gonna be a whole new generation of philosophers that wanna get tenure that are gonna have to get rid of this earlier generation and really turn the corner, have a new, totally changed end of history. It could be that we'll never get beyond Hegel in that respect: that we all feel the need to create a novelty, [something] spurious but entertaining. And that is our homage to Hegel. So even if it is a little presumptuous to explain the true reconciliation of God and Man, even if it's just a tad implausible to write the Geist's autobiography, to actually be the Geist, all of our intellectual concerns and all of the intellectual concerns since the time of Hegel have been one way or another dealing with his legacy: either by accepting it and trying to reformulate it in such a way as is consistent with the dominant intellectual trends of the time (and what could be more Hegelian than that?) or rejecting it and saying that we've totally changed the corner, we have to trow out all this Hegelian stuff (and what could be more Hegelian than that?). Either way, we're stuck with Hegel. For all the limitations, for all the poetry, for all the sort of metaphysical lapses in it, it's the last great attempt to articulate the meaning and the significance of all human existence.

Thank you for posting these. They truly add value to my life. You have a gift for communication.

What a fantastic human being. He will be missed by all of us who found beauty and comfort in his lectures.

These videos really are terrific. Thank you so much for uploading them.

This has quickly become one of my favorite channels! Looking forward to new uploads!

39:05 *Geist* “I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century. I did, like all other solemn little boys, try to be in advance of the age. Like them I tried to be some ten minutes in advance of the truth. And I found that I was eighteen hundred years behind it.” -G.K. Chesterton

Oh boy, I so enjoy's this guy's lectures. I can hardly wait to hear the next one from day to day.

What a fantastic lecture. Thank you!

These are fascinating in substance and perfectly presented. Very grateful.

Few can make as great an impact on as many people as college professors who are truly passionate about *teaching*. Many are experts in their field, but never learn how to make complicated ideas accessible without comprising their complexity.

Dr. sugrue and the other professor on this channel are the best lecturers I have ever seen. Amazing and thank you for posting!

Thank goodness for this channel😀❤️

I’m new to Sugrue and his lectures and very much enjoying his approach. Kierkegaard supposed that we are faced with a life choice of either an aesthetic or ethical life. When I was a young man(more than 50 years ago) I considered my life’s path and the 2 choices discussed went, rather crudely, through my mind. I did come to a conclusion that satisfied both my aesthetic and ethical ideals. I took up the path of a gardener, specifically Japanese gardens. With a more than thousand year history guided by the egalitarian traditions of both Shinto and Buddhist disciplines. There was also the added benefit of a physically rigorous effort to execute the practice and principles of an ecologically and ethically correct path. A good life,indeed, resulted.

Every one of these lectures is a light and they only get better.

I've been staring at this ellipsis for 43 minutes now.

Always inspiring and always making me think. I really enjoy these lectures.

Thank you for this. Hagel had an insight that was eternal. I appreciate your lecture and honor it!

These lectures are gold.

Thank you so much for posting.

I just had the best hike listening to this

Remarkable. Thank you, Dr Sugrue.

Love it! Keep ‘em coming.

Wow....terrific...I am extremely happy to find or come across this clip...a dream to find an ideal professor. Such a great germ...

I love how are RU-vid allows us to audit amazing classes in time and space.

I take a break from car crash videos to get down with something really exciting when I have the time and patience. Always worth hearing Professor Sugrue.

the Professor length and depth of knowledge result in outstanding lectures and the result - his teachings are extraordinary. I’m now continuing my education and philosophy

Brilliant, Michael. I am grateful to have come upon this lecture of yours.

Thank you , great as always 🤟

Speaking as a teacher of Transcendentalism, etc. Well that's lovely and very well laid out. A wonderful lecturer.

Really interesting!! I like the idea that we're somehow invariably stuck in that loop of not being able to push past the 'end' of things. Such a human notion :) x

Michael Sugrue was clearly a brilliant man with amazing comprehension of the history of ideas ... absolutely love his lectures.

Sugrue is the man!

Just helped me out tremendously, especially the analogies to Kant and the descriptions of chialism and eschatology.. Thank you!

This is incredibly beautiful

I sure want to hear more from Dr. Sugrue on Hegel. There is so much more to discuss.

Great lecture, the relation expounded between kant's and christian morality as well as, subsequently, hegel's philosophy and christian eschatology is especially interesting.

Thanks! I am studying again these philosophers I thought I knew so well.

What a great teacher.

Great lecture. Thank you.

I feel asleep during a terrible headache and this video turned on. In the dream the Hegelian concepts were laid out through symbols which I could distinclty understand, while I was walking around a temple-like setting with palms and old acquantances. I found that profound for some reason, I need to get into this stuff more.

Fantastic presentation

Wow. Incredible foresight. Brilliant guy. I’ve learned more from Sugrue than I have anywhere else. I’m incredibly grateful for these lectures.

21:45 thank you good sir! Top Philosophy Boss. We are so lucky to have these tapes, thank you for sharing them. I now understand the goal of 'Progressives', I've asked them for two decades and never get a straight and coherent answer. I now understand that they seek to 'complete' the process of praxis of Hegelian Dialectics with eternal revolution until all the contradictions are dealt with, they find synthesis from the thesis and antithesis. The end of the game is to reach mass Transcendence of/for all of humanity, Nirvana of The Geist. It is a type of gnosticism.

God bless you Dr. Sugrue.

just smoothly deep

Thank You!

This was extremely useful! thank you!

What an amazing man.

One word: Superb!

Love your lectures. Thank you ✌️

You presented other thinkers with dignity. I wish you a Hagelian understanding of it. Its captivating and especially from the idea of the seed that holds the oak tree point of view. I cannot say RIP because i dont know anymore that these letters hold the message they have been burdened with but if you are still an orater's consciousness in someone thats fine by me as you are a part of me and all humanity due to the phases you went thru and was part of change for good or worse; still a phase. Thank you, sir.

Excellent lecture, 11/10

How is this guy so good at lecturing

This is accurate. Hegels whole philosophy basically stems from his dialectical view of human nature and it’s interaction with nature (the physical world) and with other humans. Good stuff.

A perfect class/talk.

Listening to this while working out

Awe yes even RU-vid understands the significance of these lectures, I never get no ads when I watch these..... Tha ks RU-vid.. much love for this man

Great lecture....

What a great man. Thank you Hegel

Rest in peace Dr. Sugrue ! You will be missed a lot

Fantastic

Fantastic!!👏👏

He is really brilliant

Simply brilliant big thinking lecture. Great humor and irony too. I found myself laughing out loud at times.

26:56 hahahah we had so many of these moments in our post grad philosophy department. Love it!

If you don’t listen : A+ asmr If you listen: simply amazing

Amazing.

Great presentation of very squirrelly minds.

amazing expression.

Excellent

You are my hero. Rest in peace, doctor

Wow youtube algorithm sometimes hits the nail on the head. Amazing lecture.

my favorite teaching company lecture

Amazing!!!

we go from plato envisioning the city-state, the People or the Polis, as its own organism with a soul to hegel envisioning the whole of humanity in a similar way...this is my first time engaging with western philosophy at this level of depth and im so excited to discover more!!!!

This chap is the epitome of embodied transcendence.

He once had to fill in at the last minute on a lecture about Machiavelli. He filled up 45 minutes without notes , just a great mind well read.

The last five minutes of this were wild.

Collective. Got it. Explains a ton.

This guy is awesome

First off 40:16 Sans All the more: “Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.” ― George Sand

1:06 World, History, Everything 1:46 Geist- Spirit, the Non-Natural, Mind Geyser - Upwelling 4:00 Subjectivity, Personality, Ego 8:00 Geist- The Grand Soul of All of Humanity 9:21 Biblical Moral Theories and Formulating it Intellectually 10:45 Eschaton 11:36 The End of Human Purpose 13:46 Geist - Human Soul/Human Spirit Society is an expression of Spirit 14:54 Each Epoch has it's own Level of Maturity OverSoul, ZeitGeist 15:44 Freedom and Rationality are bound together in German Idealism 18:51 Self-Knowing Spirit 20:24 Knowledge is Power 22:45 Owl of Minerva Retrospection --> Knowledge 26:21 History ends when we Reconcile ourselves with The Divine Mind 28:09 Laws of Nature are The Laws of Causation Laws of History are The Laws of Rationality, Humanity climbs to It's Highest Potential, Self-Consciousness 31:08 Aquinas - God, Theology Renaissance, Enlightenment - Nature of Man 32:30 Hegel - History End History! 1800s belong to Hegel 34:52 The End of Human History, End of Purpose to Changing The World WWI - "The War To End All Wars." 39:31 Philosopher of History leads up to Me