Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit (Sense Certainty, sec. 90-93)

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In this thirty-ninth video in the new series on G.W.F. Hegel's great early work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, I read and comment on the ninetieth, ninety-first, ninety-second, and ninety-third paragraphs of the text, beginning our study of the first portion of the section "Consciousness," i.e "Sense Certainty".
Hegel begins the Phenomenology proper in this section, beginning from what seems at first to be the most immediate, most concrete, and truest kind of knowledge -- Sense Certainty, which purports to give us an unmediated consciousness of objects.
As it turns out, matters are more complicated than this. Sense Certainty turns out to provide an abstract truth in relation to the object, reducing it to a "This", and likewise treating consciousness as a pure "I," a second "This." In fact, what we take to be the essence of Sense Certainty reveals itself as being just an example or instance of it. Sense Certainty turns out to be mediated, precisely through the "I" that at first seemed inessential.
In this video series, I will be working through the entire Phenomenology, paragraph by paragraph -- for each one, first reading the paragraph, and then commenting on what Hegel is doing, referencing, discussing, etc. in that paragraph.
This series is designed to provide an innovative digital resource that will assist students, lifelong learners, professionals, and even other philosophers in studying this classic work by Hegel for generations to come. If you'd like to support this project -- and also receive some rewards for your support -- please contribute! - / drgbsadler
I'll be using and referencing the A.V. Miller English-language translation of the Phenomenology, which is available here: amzn.to/1jDUI6w
The introductory music for the video is: Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 1 in Bm, BWV 1002, is available in the public domain, and can be found at musopen.org.
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[@GregoryBSadler]

A few firsts here for this project! This is the first new installment in the Half-Hour Hegel series for 2015. We're also finally starting the Phenomenology proper, with the first section, Sense Certainty.

[@professorrshaldjianmorriso1474]

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[@dyl715]

This is an amazing series! Thank you for the time and effort you put in to create this body of work.

[@Havre_Chithra]

I'm glad I've finally felt comfortable enough to confront some of hegel's works for the first time and, I must say, these half-hour hegel videos are great!

[@amarmujezinovic]

Hey there, big fan! I have been watching this series alongside 2 commentaries and I must say, your commentary always makes the most comprehensive sense. Thank you so much for creating such an amazing contribution to philosophy (in the form of a commentary)!

[@lucasjankowski7117]

I just wanted to say, that you are doing a brilliant job with this. Phenomenology of spirit is one of the most complicated works in the history of western philosophy. Such elaboration (section by section) is truly very heplhul. Thank you.

[@tumultodevozes6947]

I love youman. Your videos had saved my live.

[@kevinkessler5809]

This was great! I decided that I'm going to 'arm-chair' philosophy this book and really started struggling when I got to the 'Inverted World' that has Laws that don't exist, but do, in the fact that they don't in this world but not the other. I was looking for resources and found this amazing series! Thank you so much for doing this; taking your own time to help us all up this Sisyphus-Hill of Negation and nonsense

[@MrLucas1963]

Many thanks for such enterprise, professor!

[@o-tu2vo]

Thanks for sharing ❤

[@T3104j]

you are awsome dr. G

[@ileanapagiataki8241]

Many thanks. Finals week is coming up and I was really confused. Greetings from Greece.

[@lyndonbailey3965]

Hegel: Critiquing the living daylights out of Hippies before being a hippy was cool

[@oddities8828]

I really, really. really appreciate all the work you are going through, and just giving to the public for free, but the volume levels between some of your cuts can be deafening! It's certainly an easy fix, and makes a load of difference for headphone users!

[@DaveWasley]

Thanks for these. I finished the Phenomenology last year, I just finished the Kojeve and am making my way through Hyppolite, but I got lost at the end of Perception and the beginning of Understanding (again). Anyways, this helps a lot.

[@Yash42189]

Dr. Sadler is the paragraph 90 directly against the Kantian philosophy? As İ feel like something couldn't have existed ("what simply is") without subtracting something from it, or shaping it (by categorizing). Thank you.

[@post-modernneo-marxist8102]

I love how you can find bits in a 200+ year old text that seem to be direct replies to Sam Harris nerds in youtube comments

[@TheMadnessOfCrowds]

Wow. good lecture Proff. Studying the preface helps for sure. Thanks

[@QuintessentialQs]

As critical as Hegel was of mysticism, it's weird because I encountered basically this exact concept within mysticism. Particularly among the kabbalists, they have this idea that the 4 letter name of God is a description of the process of manifestation/creation, and also the process by which the mystic becomes fully realized.

[@danielaheckel4279]

I have started reading Heidegger' s Being and Time concurrently with listening to your Hegel expositions (am up to the Master/Slave dialectic...so would it be right to conclude that Heidegger and Hegel disagree on how to interpret 'perception'? Whilst Hegel teases apart this 'perception' Heidegger' s phenomenology starts by saying ... no, the world does not initially appear to us empirically as perception at all... but we 'perceive' the world through our being absorbed in it... Has there been attempts made to reconcile these different ways to make sense of our sense-making?