G.W.F. Hegel on Self-Consciousness, Desire, and Spirit - Philosophy Core Concepts

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This Core Concept video focuses on the Self-Consciousness section of G.W.F. Hegel's early masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and examines his discussion bearing upon the nature of self-consciousness as desire for the other. The desire (Begierde) is actually for recognition (Anerkennen) from the other. Self-consciousness cannot be what it is - cannot be related to itself, and understand itself adequately - without its other. Following out this dialectic will eventually lead into the dialectic of Master and Slave.
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[@tvMisha]

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[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome. You might find this interesting, if you enjoy Hegel - halfhourhegel.blogspot.com/

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[@oregongirl42]

I am writing an essay on Hegel and I have been trying to understand this for a week. Yours is the only video I've come across that doesn't oversimplify it and that explains it in an understandable way.

[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@Olivia-yy3mb]

Thank you so much! You explained this in a way that made me excited to learn when I’ve struggled listening to others!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You’re very welcome!

[@lofiwilddrives]

i watched three other guys waffling on saying how complex and complicated these concepts were and yet this is so clear and well constructed going once again to prove if you cant explain it simply, you don't know it well enough. thank you for this. wonderful teaching

[@GregoryBSadler]

This is one of the simpler dialectics within Hegel's Phenomenology

[@xoxo-ww1ox]

Thank you so much I have been struggling to comprehend hegel and this helped so much

[@Implementing0Failure]

This is extraordinarily well done. Thank you, sir!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome!

[@cristinaap702]

Amazing explanation, thank you so much!

[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@ZeynepHERDEM]

I am studying at METU which is a famous university in Turkey primarily, but also in the whole world then. Anyway, our lectures are also in English and I have an exam on Sociology. And this video enabled me to get Hegel’s idea. Its not an abstract concept then. I got his idea in a concrete way thanks to you.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad it was useful for you!

[@christianahadeyemi]

This was amazing ! Made it so easy to understand

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad it was helpful for you

[@zulal6049]

thank you so much! I finally can understand

[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@elliemaclean9070]

these videos are very helpful, we are learning about Hegel in sociological theory, im reading paragraphs 177-196 and was struggling to follow, this has helped!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad the videos have been helpful for you

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I down below the comment section to leave a comment "Amazing" and I already saw so many comments, thanks a lot

[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@aamgenius]

As a philosophy graduate..I’d like to thank you doctor for all your effort ..

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome!

[@EB-fs1jy]

This was excellent 👏

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@Retrogamer71]

Just when you thought you left Hegel there's suddenly a Hegelian paradigm that crosses into your own thought direction at another time.

[@GregoryBSadler]

He's hard to get entirely away from

[@sweetyghosh2004]

Thanx for ur video

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome

[@usamatariq8077]

Wow brilliant pedagogy

[@GregoryBSadler]

Well, I don't know about that, but thanks

[@usamatariq8077]

Thanks for your reply sir. Can you help me out n finding the answer for this question,i’ve spend 2 days but dont know how to cope with this. If u can then it’ll be a great help for your student ♥️ “Examine the view that hegelian spirit is nothing but evolution of human consciousness to the realization of political maturity for global human coexistence”

[@surajdhakal6454]

useful......thanks a lot!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!

[@adocentyn9028]

cool talk

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@swagatosaha]

Could you broadly trace the differences between Hegel's collectivized 'I' and Fichte's self-positing I (which is also similarly embodied)?

[@GregoryBSadler]

No thanks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYfChWt7ot6ZbKs

[@shen7728]

Sir on the note of German Idealism and self-consciousness, what do you think of the other figures within the tradition - i.e. Fichte and Schelling?

[@GregoryBSadler]

What are you asking?

[@shen7728]

@@GregoryBSadler Sorry, I mean do you think they are worth studying

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@shen7728 Sure, they're worth studying - if you've got the time and inclination

[@antrewt]

Nice & clear intro - would be nice to understand more fully the meaning of this self-consciousness seeking recognition through other self-consciousness in terms of the world-spirit movement: given that self-consciousness negates itself within itself for its object, is, ultimately, this movement the one consciousness in and as all consciousnesses so there is a kind of semi-anihilation of the particular within the whole? Can any self-consciousness be for-itself besides world gheist?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Every self-consciousness is for-itself, by virtue of being self-consciousness. So, yeah. Keep reading and rereading the text

[@SeenaTabatabai]

I have a question about desire in the field of self help guru's do those people attract things to happen in other people's lives because their just such bigger in desire then other people?

[@SeenaTabatabai]

Eddited.

[@GregoryBSadler]

No

[@SeenaTabatabai]

@@GregoryBSadler why not?

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@SeenaTabatabai Self-help gurus - and gurus in general - are usually BS Who says anyone attracts anything to happen? Why would they have much bigger desires? So many assumptions built in to your question

[@SeenaTabatabai]

@@GregoryBSadler I saw another video of yours on desire and setting a goal, I'll use an example let's say there is a person who wants to be physically superior to everyone and tries to make everyone think he is so righteous and really just wants people to keep returning to his site and referring people to his videos and books ...... but what if he was not this way what if he was genuine and set goals to truly help people become fit and did not use strong words for basic things saying running a Ultra Marathon is the suffering as to taking a shower , he called taking a shower suffering by the way....

[@peterhails9672]

Hegels self-conciousness is basically what Lacan calls the Ego, making yourself an object.

[@GregoryBSadler]

As someone who has been working on both of over two decades, I wouldn't make that easy identification.

[@emmanueloluga9770]

NO. More like the Ego as posited by Lacan is an oversimplification of one of the important elements of consciousness as posited by Hegel. Remember Lacan took some inspiration from Hegel and Freud.

[@mahmoudijbariya5625]

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[@designdotd]

What Hegel means by others?

[@GregoryBSadler]

What the word means

[@christrifinopoulos8639]

why is he using something so specific and subjective as desire to define something so abstract like consciousness. this feels like a mix of basic materialistic psychanalysis and complex metaphysics. maybe it seems weird to me because psychanalysis was inveneted much later as a separate subject

[@GregoryBSadler]

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[@cinezoic]

All is vanity... One of the few good quotes from the Bible

[@GregoryBSadler]

Well, mining scripture for quotes is probably an unproductive approach

[@AppleCinnamon1]

🙌🏻👍

[@cedric2452]

gut gemacht, you could have given the example of the paradox of the lovers, used by kojeve (introduction to the lecture of hegel) and sartre (in being and nothingness), to illustrate the necessity of the independance of the other self-consciousness, it works very good in my view.

[@GregoryBSadler]

If it was a core concept video on Sartre or Kojeve, that would make sense

[@sonofnike2800]

Americans never expand on anything that would help the direct message. Straight to the point.