Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit (Preface, sec 26)

[@metatron7515]

it's impossible to overstate how much of a treasure this and all your instructional and insightful videos are, can't thank you enough

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome!

[@johnbeaubien8826]

by far one of the most enjoyable and comprehensive series of lectures I have ever heard - especially on Hegel. I have always felt intimidated by this writer and this series has helped make the concepts accessible and useful to real like. By the second lecture I was floored by Hegel's breakdown on what culture is and how I can apply this principle in my daily life and career. This is GOLD.Thank you so much for sharing this Dr. Sadler!

[@michelc1200]

Thanks!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome - and thanks!

[@GregoryBSadler]

the next installment in the series -- we're now in the double digits, with number 11 -- with the long, long discussion in section 26

[@billybobybobybob]

Would it be accurate to say that Hegel's "science" refers to all forms of academia that seek to understand reality through their various lenses (including theological study), as well as to understand/critique themselves (within and across/between different fields; e.g. a critical theory analysis of what we'd term "science", on the whole and in reference to specific topics), as differentiated from practiced religion? Thank you so much for this. I've had a pull towards understanding Hegel for a few years now, but I'm not in a position for university at the moment, and I'd estimate that you've cut the time it would have taken for me to understand any of this, by about 90%.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Better to say that Wissenschaft, which we translate as "science" means "disciplinary study" whether done in or outside of academia

[@novascotianmusician]

Incredible exposition. Very very useful and clear, thank you

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful

[@WalrusWillpower]

The greatest feeling in the world is making a little diagram in the margins of the book and then seeing that you have the same diagram on your chalkboard

[@GregoryBSadler]

Nice!

[@RobWickline]

Do you think it would be more fruitful to read each passage and listen to the lecture afterward, or do you think it would be better to simply try and read the totality of the preface and come back to the lectures at points where I get lost or confused to clarify those passages? I have a slight fear of missing connections from passage to passage or missing some kind of larger structure of the section, in this case the preface, by going through in this intensely granular way. More broadly, any advice for how to engage with this as an educational resource? Thanks a lot for this, this has been very helpful so far.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Give the book an initial read first

[@MrMarktrumble]

Preface, sec 26 thank you.

[@brentwejrowski]

You're talking about Individuals with science.. Hegel mentions consciousness as the antithesis to science and science to consciousness. Is Hegel substituting consciousness for individuals here?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Brent Wejrowski "Is Hegel substituting consciousness for individuals here?" No, I wouldn't say that. Individuals have consciousness, as individuals, but are also part of consciousness, in its historical development. Keep in mind, as well, that "science" is something here under a double aspect -- what "science" is taken to be at a given time, and "science" as it is being worked out through the remainder of the work, in which these seeming antitheses are going to be worked through

[@iggigrinner]

Thanks

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome

[@akewigren6637]

Thank you so much for publishing all these very interesting and engaging videos. I have watched your lessons on Heidegger, Nietzsche and now your excellent serie on Hegel. I`m reading the Phenomenology of spirit in Swedish and then watching your take on just that paragraph. I could not have managed to do this just by reading the textbook. How can I give a money contribution to you Dr Sadler?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Well, if you like to support this series in an ongoing way, and get some perks, there's Patreon - www.patreon.com/drgbsadler If it's a one-time thing, then you want our donations page - www.paypal.com/donate/?token=k6pl2ikxHhiIOIUoOzMa4C1-VRLPsfM7fMdyZh6N2hlSocWgeZsVXNAcvaNRY2lbpqi42m Glad that you're enjoying the Hegel lectures. Down the line, I'm hoping to do something along these lines for some other big works, like Being and Time. But first, I've got to get this one done!

[@Alic3IiWL]

Who or what possesses the "natural consciousness?"

[@faramakzahraie7967]

So far very interesting. But, it seems Hegel is refuting himself in this Preface, as he begins it by stating that such a philosophic work needs no such preface as "superfluous". And, if Hegel is negating himself, here to begin with, seemingly in keeping with the Dialectical Spirit, can we say then that Marx was also justified in negating Hegel, who in turn is justified to be negated, insofar as we are in Dialectical process towards the Absolute?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Keep reading - the key term there is "seems" - and you want to think about whether noting and working through a contradiction is the same as "refuting"

[@faramakzahraie7967]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, "seem" seems to indicate appearance as in phenomenology itself. Nevertheless, it "seems' like the preface itself is becoming a good example of Phenomenology of Spirit itself, which seems to be a dialectical process of negation of negation .... to the Absolute. No? I think you are right about "refuting", it is an excessive term to be used in this context. Thanks again.

[@eylon1967]

@@GregoryBSadler yeh, from my prespecive marx didn't refute hegel, ut developed hegelian economics/sociology-further developments in philosophy etc etc

[@eupraxis1]

Bravo.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@chrisc7265]

Although it remains impenetrable, I'm starting to have an inkling of the appeal of Hegel's prose --- there's an almost biblical poetry to it.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Well, it's definitely something

[@gregshende4027]

The title of Ian Mcgilchrist's book "The Master and the Emissary" kept popping into my mind as a great analogy for Hegel's conceptualization of science and the individual. Science is a great emissary but is not a great master.

[@lyndonbailey3965]

I never really thought about it that way..but it is almost a dyadic thing...push education too far in the vulgar enthusiastic deweyite direction and you instrumentalise education,push it too far the other way and you instrumentalise people.

[@GregoryBSadler]

+lyndon bailey Indeed!