Hegel: Absolute Idealism and The Dialectic

Join George and John as they discuss and debate different philosophical ideas. Today they will be looking into the works of Hegel and discussing Absolute Idealism and the dialectic.
How much is our perception and reality shaped by ideas such as culture and society, and how much does the dialectic help in evolving these ideas? Can it be said that we are part of a greater spirit, a shared idea among all conscious people? Watch as Hegel’s works is explained and critically assessed.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - What is Idealism?
2:11 - The Spirit
4:50 - The Dialectic
6:42 - Self Actualisation
7:55 - Absolute Idealism explained
9:14 - Problems with Absolute Idealism
12:27 - Problems with the Dialectic
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How would you prove robot has consciousness using empirical data. How do you prove to blind man what color red is using empirical data. In theory, robot can be programmed to move its hand when it touches hot surface. How do I know its having the experience of hot using test tube(Deduction/induction). The only thing i am certain of is that i have experience of hot. This experience can only come from entity that can already experience existence (Allah-one/indivisible/self-sufficient/unique/All-Loving infinite perfection). If you cannot prove your own consciousness using “scientific method”, then how can you reject the existence of Perfect/infinite metaphysical being(Allah)? “Cogito ergo sum”( I think therefore I am) should be read as “cogito ergo est”(I think therefore Allah is)

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[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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[@BinaryHedgehog1]

I just finished studying Hegel and am going to write a research paper comparing faulty self-actualization to real-world public figures of the modern era to show how timeless his ideas are. One thing that I find interesting is the idea that society sometimes steps back disproves the idea that it is always moving forward. However, every time society took a massive step back, it also tended to take a massive leap forward afterwards, so I feel like the steps back are more part of the dialectical process than a refutation of it, but I'm open to understanding that this is probably surface level.

[@parkerjwill]

Nice video. Summarized nicely. Regarding the critique of the dialectic and its apparent assumption of continual forward progress despite our experiencing many examples in history of devastation or reversals of progress; the reversals are simply the antithesis of prior thesis’ of a given people and their culture. Hegel’s Absolute Idealism works on the individual and collective level. The challenge with seeing the validity of the dialectic’s progressive nature on the collective level is a function of the scope or framework of space and time within which a person analyzes the event in question. This brings us to the importance of one’s concept of the universe, its nature, and the purpose of it.

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[@hsunteik]

1) I think there can still be free will, cause we are just part of the Absolute (in substance or emanation), but not the Absolute itself. Even if all of us achieve the Absolute, it just means we know all things, it doesn't mean we become the absolute, and lose our free will. 2) I don't think he left the external world untouched, he shifted it inward and called it the spirit and the Absolute. 3) I think the reason the dialectic doesn't always bring us to the absolute truth is because it needs to be done with purposeful and sincere effort, it won't be automatic.

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Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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[@JohnGarcia-bm3jt]

Just my key points for notes dont mind me xd 2:13 3:08 the spirit 3:59 4:54 5:30 6:27 6:56 self actualization 8:05 8:49 9:50 10:58 11:17 12:15 12:29 Dialectic is good yes except for when it starts with a bad idea and continues with bad perceptions. Proven by history

[@robertwilsoniii2048]

I think Hegel can and should be compartmentalized into a political philosophy as a golden mean between Locke and Rousseau. I personally believe in the existence of the external natural world, but I also believe that you can't rule out its non existence. So actually I'm agnostic towards skepticism. In this way, Absolute Idealism can be interpreted as an agnostic view of skepticism that irrespectively acknowledges the universal reality of multiple minds and interactions.

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[@FutureMindset]

I don't think the importance of the dialectic could ever be stressed enough because the evolution of ideas through criticism and the field of discourse is responsible for all types of progress including technological, social and moral. However, the idea of the absolute spirit seems not only unrealistic but also kind of dangerous since it gives off very dystopian vibes. The idea that all people will come together and agree on one common interpretation of reality is not only very farfetched but if achieved, might inevitably become the only socially acceptable viewpoint and anything outside of that could be punished or scoffed at severely. But that's just my way of looking at it. Love these insightful videos :)

[@stevehodson2613]

Is cold blooded murder repulsive? Society seems to think so which is why we have laws against it. I see that as one aspect of the Absolut Spirit, a common understanding arrived at through the clashing of ideas throughout history. The video does suggest that at the Absolute all discussion ends and that is not how I would read Hegel. In fact it was Feuerbach and later Marx that evolved Hegel's ideas and his method to encompass many of the critical points left unanswered in the video, ideas that were latent in Hegel. As for the point about the Dialectic not necessarily being progressive, where the video then shows war and misery, uses a different view of progress than one that Hegel would recognise; for him it meant getting greater and greater insight. After all as Spinoza might have said "What we know that something is not is still something we know".

[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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[@Rittley]

Thank you! Great discussion especially in its part on the dialectic. I wrestle a lot with the Absolute and the narrative of progress/improvement. I suspect this is a profound illusion that most humans are prone to but why should that be the case? Why do we need to operate in the world under the, let's call it, belief in improvement? Can't we just say that the dialectic leads us to a more complex understanding of an issue (the thesis)? I call that understanding "a higher degree of complexity" but I understand if you call it "truth" too. What I don't understand is how we get from "complexity" to "improvement." There is some great leap there I am totally missing. Does Hegel conflate complexity with progress? I see today this pervasive fascination with complexity, depth, diverse views, multiperspectivism, pluralism and they are all regarded as indicators of "progressive thinking" and "progressive politics." How does this happen? Am I out of my mind if I don't share this fascination?

[@christopherlin4706]

Ah but this more complex understanding of the issue offers great benefit and improvement to those wishing to work within its framework. Those who act with selfish intentions however can subvert the dialectic, introducing their own warped thesis and antithesis to disrupt reality.

[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@wako1576]

Im not sure what you mean by improvement is completely clear. Are you asking why people feel the need to improve things? I would generally call the dialectic approach to an issue as improving things because its to deepen the understanding of the issue which naturally, presumably, is movement towards a solution.

[@colinkang6665]

I see your point! A situation that became more complex does not necessarily mean it has improved. But I believe there is a sort of positive connotation when referring to 'improvement' that is assumed. I feel that complexity can be related to improvement, but improvement and progress in the pure sense of development. The dialectic develops a thesis through integrating another perspective, adding another layer of complexity to it; however, this development could involve positive or negative effects. The dialectic might well result in logical contradictions or negative developments, a rough example being the fall of the Weimar Republic, but the thesis presented each time is still developed as the original thesis would be made more complex. However, there is the argument that a rationally sound antithesis might not occur with every thesis, which means that the original thesis might not be developed or might even regress, a point raised in the video; but that is an argument against the nature of the dialectic. In conlusion, when a sound antithesis is present, the thesis is made more complex through the dialectic, and thus improvement of the thesis is achieved, but improvement in the sense of development, as a different perspective has been taken into account. This is only from my understanding of the video - please tell me if I am missing a bigger picture!

[@wako1576]

​@@colinkang6665 To build on what you said, I think the problem here might be with the term "complexity" and that the true goal isn't specifically complexity, but something a bit more vague that could also be synonymous with "advanced" or "deeper". To understand something well is to also understand it from many different angles, and this understanding could be described with many different terms.

[@goofyahhh254]

The only thing that would've made this video better that I can think of immediately is defining spirit not through the English word, which does the origin injustice. But through the German "Geist", before proceeding to talk about spirit. Otherwise it doesn't capture the ideas quite so well. Edit: 11:10 the 2 arent mutually exclusive. You can have free will whilst participating in the greater movement of Geist. Everyone's expression of free will synthesises and forms the Geist.

[@TheCIScommander]

Great video! As a suggestion, you should do a video on Marx's historical materialism/dialectical materialism, given that it was more or less the same philosophy as Hegel's but completely flipped from an idealist point of thought to a materialist one.

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[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@thefreelich4875]

Thank you! This is very informative. Speaking of Hegel, would you care to make a video on dialectical materialism and Marxism?

[@PhilosophyVibe]

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[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@eleniaristeidou502]

nice video! A question. Is the absolute then what is reached through dialectic, meaning it is there and we sort of excavate it through the dialectic, or is it something that is created through this thesis antithesis synthesis?

[@eleniaristeidou502]

meaning, do we, through the dialctic, reach, or create the absolute

[@EdRaso]

I agree with the argument against Hegel’s dialectic. I understood the Thesis to be the ideal rather than moving toward the ideal with Synthesis. Hegel’s dialectic’s movement seems to me similar to Baudrillard’s progression of simulacra.

[@larrypaul8688]

Good video and thumbnails complex arguments and ideas. I'd suggest something that takes this a bit farther. John Boyd's paper, Destruction and Creation which brings more contemporary thought into the dialectic. He uses Gödel, Heisenberg, and the second law of thermodynamics as a way to cast doubt on both the ideal and real world's while goal setting insures our individual free will gets counted.

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[@bombdatacenters]

I'm confused, maybe you could help clear it up? I've heard some say that Hegel conceived of dialectics in terms of "thesis, antithesis, synthesis", yet others claim that Hegel only ever mentioned this model once, and to critique it. Why the discrepancy, and what did Hegel really believe?

[@quantaali543]

The free will is not a pre-defined object. It is not a ready made thing out there. Everyone's free will is determined by their closeness to the absolute. The more you are conscious and aware of your sipirt and the collective spirit the more free will you have. Free will is governed by the principals of dialects.

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[@Hegeleze]

(1) It's probably closer to pan-en-theism not pantheism (and yes, that makes a difference). But, this is a good historical critique as many in Hegel's own day called him a pantheist. (2) Hegel isn't clearly a monist as the beginning is the triad of Being - Nothing - Becoming. If we do want to keep it a monism, it's at least a developing monism (as an acorn and oak tree would be "monist" as both having the same DNA). (3) Hegel's idea of freedom (and all Enlightenment freedom) isn't what you stated in the video. Freedom for Hegel is an interesting combination of following our conscience (your idea of freedom in video) and submitting to reason (not addressed). The slave becomes free as they learn how to work where the master didn't (reason). Ultimately this culminates in the Prussian government which takes the wild freedom of the French Revolution and the structured reason of the German protestant mind and infuses it into the State. (4) Of course the dialectic doesn't always reach the Absolute Truth and Hegel says as much (he shows the regression in his chapter on the French Revolution). The problem here is in viewing the dialectic as a thing and forgetting the Owl of Minerva only flies at night. Through history there is just people following their own desires, wants, etc. but somehow looking back after it is all over we can see that the Absolute sneakily was directing the process (again, Hegel always keeps both sides - our experience and the Absolute). Your very critiques of earlier history actually shows he is right... Enjoyed the effort. An interesting introductory video.

[@tugalic3979]

Hegel never said "thesis-antythesis-synthesis", he was literally against it. Main thing related is just adding Fichte and Shelling metaphysics to form Absolute Idealism

[@dmr11235]

The “thesis-antithesis-synthesis” model is not really that indicative of the actual definition of the dialectic given in Phenomenology of Spirit. That model is originally due to Fichte, but a better description might be something like “abstract-negative-concrete”, which at least incorporates the process of sublation

[@drink.juice.]

It is very simple to explain being apart of the whole and having free will Have you ever made a mistake? You fail and then learn and succeed. Questions are asked and solved. Justice prevails in whatever new form it is. Issues are to be sorted out. It is all self solving. Evolution solves issues for the next generation. This is a mind coming to know itself as so a human does as they grow. Many people do not understand themselves until much later in life. No child understands why they are the way they are. You learn who you are through others and the lessons you learn. A self solving singular entity will know itself through a near infinity of circumstance and experience through lifetimes and life forms. Expressing it's unconscious as matter.

[@stevehodson2613]

I wish popular promoters of the dialectic would stop using the abstract notion of thesis-antithesis-synthesis when describing Hegel's use of the dialectic. You could perhaps apply such abstract notion to Plato's Dialogues but Hegel was at pains to point out that the movement springs from the content of the categories being analysed and not the introduction of further categories which themselves would need explaining. Hegel is hard to understand athough the hint that you can only understand him via the original german does not explain why the same caveat is not used for say Kant or Nietzsche. There are good english translations out there and he is worth the time and the effort.

[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@stevehodson2613]

@@hyperduality2838 Your word salad is not philosophy.

[@hyperduality2838]

@@stevehodson2613 "Philosophy is dead" -- Stephen Hawking. Being is dual to non being creates becoming -- Plato's cat. Alive is dual to not alive -- the Schrodinger's cat superposition. Schrodinger's cat is based upon Hegel's cat (thesis, anti-thesis) and Hegel stole it from Plato. Limited (forms) is dual to limitless (formless) -- Plato. Yin is dual to Yang. Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork. Action is dual to reaction -- Sir Isaac Newton (the duality of force). Attraction is dual to repulsion, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual. Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz. Monads are units of force which are dual, monads are dual. "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi teaching. "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi teaching. Gravitation is equivalent or dual to acceleration -- Einstein's happiest thought, the principle of equivalence (duality). The concept of gravity is dual to the concept of acceleration -- Einstein. Space is dual to time -- Einstein. Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein. Dark energy is dual to matter. Time dilation is dual to length contraction -- Einstein, special relativity. The observed is dual to the observer -- David Bohm. There is a pattern of duality hardwired into physics, mathematics & philosophy which means that in physics you can ask the question, what is dual to entropy? Syntropy is dual to entropy. Questions are dual to answers. The duality of the Hegelian dialectic leads to the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@hyperduality2838]

@@stevehodson2613 My "word salad" is actually physics, there is a 4th law of thermodynamics and the Hegelian dialectic is consistent with this! Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Unity is dual to division. Unity (holism, convergence, syntropic) is dual to division (reductionism, divergence, entropic). Integration (syntropy) is dual to differentiation (entropy). Randomness (entropy, uncertainty) is dual to order (syntropy, certainty). Duality creates reality. Stephen Hawking used numbers all the time as a physicist and numbers are metaphysical!

[@stevehodson2613]

@@hyperduality2838 The Hegelian dialectic exists only in the interpretations of hegel by analytic philosophers as they struggle to force definitions into Hegel that are not there in the primary material. The dialectic, or dialogue, arises out of the objects under investigation, for example Being, Quantity or Substance; the dialectic is not imposed from some external source like a model that one builds in one's head and forcing some relationship. So leaving aside the relationship you described as this does not exist. Looking instead at the 4th Law mentioned, if there is a relationship between the flows and forces acting on a gas or liquid, the it would be necessary to show the dialectical movement for these concepts, say by showing how a flow arises out of a force. Statistical analysis goes part of the way but it doesn't consider how the increasing quantity creates a qualitative shift the motion as it only deals with averages masking the true nature. Simply looking for any dynamic system and stating that it is related to Hegel is not Hegelian. It is not philosophy.

[@lizaliseradana9276]

10:23 it would only be a probably if the whole is already the whole. Hegel could be saying that we are developing towards becoming the whole, rather than the whole being itself in itself.

[@Hotshot2k4]

Yeah, that's the same thought I had while listening to the criticism. Our free will, it seems, is contributing to the whole, which is the sum of its parts rather than being something that determines our actions.

[@anupamdebnath1884]

Is Absolute Idealism and Speculative Idealism same?

[@abhijitsharma7425]

Amazing

[@PhilosophyVibe]

Thank you.

[@vedanshvedansh844]

Danke schon!

[@PhilosophyVibe]

Bitte

[@Jamric-gr8gr]

OMG HEGEL💕💕

[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@DischordInMyHead]

Note: Hegel has never ever used thesis-antithesis-synthesis. Probably the most misread philosopher ever

[@duqueadriano0081]

every major philosopher is misread in some way, unfortunately

[@DischordInMyHead]

@@duqueadriano0081 true, but Hegelian dialectic is an extreme example

[@duqueadriano0081]

@@DischordInMyHead yeah

[@thegoldensealion9463]

Yeah it was by Fichte

[@robertwilsoniii2048]

I am a Hegel fan, so I disagree with the shaven guy. But I like the educational content here.

[@joostietoost4220]

This video presents a common misrepresentation of Hegel as a philosopher of the absolute. The dialectic is a thought of constant repeating thesis-antithesis-thesis-antithesis etc., Hegel didn't write about synthesis in his dialectic. Hegel was really interested in events like the French revolution because of how good intentions can have disastrous effects, not that it was a good step in creating a perfect society of synthesis. (Which makes it interesting that they mention historic events like this one as a way of criticising Hegel, not confirming his ideas.) Hegel formalized a system of anti-formalism, in other words, he "absolutised" a system of the anti-absolute. He's a materialist thinker at heart.(See Julian De Medeiros' videos on Hegel for more)

[@lisikhun7236]

Tomorrow I have an exam, You are helping me a lot

[@PhilosophyVibe]

Glad we could help, good luck in your exams.

[@KamKamKamKam]

Sorry to be harsh, but I think this video displays a very limited understanding of Hegel. Especially the whole "how can one be free and yet fully determined?" is kind of a beginner problem, and somehow the video spends several minutes discussing it as if it was a legit rebuttal of Hegel, somehow. I'm not going to demonstrate the whole thing here of course, but Hegel's says that "freedom is the understanding of necessity" (= freedom is when you know the laws of nature/determinism, so that you can actually submit to them in the particular way required to reach your ends). I would say that video might be very misleading for beginners. I recommend anyone to actually read Hegel (or at least, people who know about Hegel), instead of this wikipedia-level sort of take.

[@gudi4412]

can you recommend me some books that do explain Hegel's philosophy well?

[@KamKamKamKam]

@@gudi4412 It's very hard to point you at anything specific because it really depends on what's your background knowledge. No matter what I give you, it would require additional work and it will not make sense right away, unfortunately. Maybe you check "The Meaning of Hegel's Logic", by Andy Blunden (you can read it on marxists.org), and from there try to check out Hegel's "Science of Logic" itself. You might only be able to understand a few small bits here and there at first, but over time it adds up things start to make more sense in the long run. Not sure if that's good enough for what you ask. There isn't really any short way to get to Hegel :(

[@stevehodson2613]

@@gudi4412 I've listened to Stephen Houlgate's public lectures on Hegel's Logic and he does explain Hegel's complexities very well and explains why his language is complex. You'll find the first lecture here kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ7FmYmLfc9_nbM.

[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@lynchianfloydian451]

@@gudi4412 Sadler's lectures on Hegel

[@swatiupadhyay7037]

What is spirit ?

[@fall9561]

Can anyone explain what the Noumena is

[@dinojoe1788]

Noumena is the world completely independent of experience. A phenomenon is the projection to the conscious made possible by our sensory ability and mental processes. The noumenon is the object “in-itself”, it’s existence on its own. We can say that a strawberry is red, but it is red insofar as it interacts with our human abilities, such as how our eyes function to create a coherent image out of that chaotic light and filtering the wavelengths to produce redness for our mind. Kant thought that the act of observing the noumena through experience immediately creates things other-than-themselves, but most of the time we falsely take them to be the object-itself. Therefore the only pure things we (as that which experiences) can ‘know’ are the conditions of the possibility of experience: Space, Time, and the categories (Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Modality) Hope this helps! Take with a grain of salt tho

[@pritamsah535]

I stopped at thesis, antithesis and synthesis

[@eggheadusa9900]

Why do people feel the need to constantly say this?

[@javiersoto5223]

​@@eggheadusa9900 because they like to pretend they've read hegel 😂

[@theangrygermanlad1328]

“Ave, true to Caesar” type response

[@isaacm4159]

I disagree that it can't be both, reality/the absolute spirit are paradoxical I think.

[@truncatecar3429]

Guy on the left suuuure seems confident denying hegalian dialectic while he, himself, participates in that dialectic.

[@fall9561]

So what us absolute idealism

[@jimmazurek5589]

I see…. I understand…. Right…. Remarkable…

[@crisvamc83]

The first person proposed thesis of Hegel. The other who raised doubts is Anti Thesis.

[@kckrish0169]

Very lucid explanation. My friend once said philosophy is so tuff we cannot understand at one go . Then I replied, No I don't think so coz philosophy vibes made philosophy easy .

[@PhilosophyVibe]

Thank you, so glad we can help.

[@christopherlin4706]

No philosophy is easy. The greatest philosophers that ever existed never did any philosophy.

[@hyperduality2838]

Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda.

[@stevehodson2613]

Rascism (thesis), Anti-Rascism (anti-thesis), Errr... (synthesis). Hopefully you can see that applying this formal pattern, not only does it lead to absurdity but it brings us no closer to the Truth. Hegel spent his life making sure form and content were never separate when trying to work towards some truth. The "one size fits all" tool will not help you in understanding the world. When you have a hammer you will see all problems as nails and not as they really are.

[@hyperduality2838]

@@stevehodson2613 The word synthesis means the converging thesis. Division (entropy, divergence) is dual to unity (syntropy, convergence). Points are dual to lines -- the principle of duality in geometry. The point duality theorem is dual to the line duality theorem -- universal hyperbolic geometry. Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant. Divergence (differentiation, reductionism) is dual to convergence (integration, holism). Science (reductionism, entropy) is dual to religion (holism, syntropy). "Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind" -- Einstein. Science is dual to religion -- the mind duality of Albert Einstein. Injective is dual to surjective synthesizes bijective or isomorphism (duality). Non duality (points, singularities) is dual to non duality (points, singularities) synthesize lines -- there is a second level of non duality which everyone misses! Two points define a line -- space duality. Duality within duality!

[@hsunteik]

@@stevehodson2613 I don't think it leads to absurdity, it can work. In this case, rascism is based on freedom, while anti-racism is based on love. With this, I have the freedom to do whatever I want, but if what I want to do is love, then there is no more contradiction. Synthesis completed? I could go on to justify why we should want love, etc, but i think you get the idea, so I don't have to elaborate too much.

[@degeneratedeuterium5164]

@@hyperduality2838 Stop chucking together random mathematical and philosophical terms that are superficially similar and pushing them as this quasi-mathematical Hegelian exposition. You cannot just heuristically associate mathematical concepts as an argument, and on that matter, half your mathematical dualisms make no sense mathematically (for example, describing a bijective function as a synthesis of the theses and contratheses of injective and surjective properties of the function, not only misunderstands what a bijective function is, but also misinterprets what the Hegelian dialectic is)

[@hyperduality2838]

@@degeneratedeuterium5164 Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork. Absolute idealism is dual to relative idealism -- Hegel Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Alive is dual to not alive -- the Schrodinger's cat superposition (duality). Schrodinger's cat is based upon Hegel's cat (Thesis/anti-thesis) and Hegel stole it from Plato. Yin is dual to yang. Duality is a common theme through out history if you look for it. God (thesis) is dual to the Christ consciousness (anti-thesis) synthesizes the holy spirit or mind/soul. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes or Plato's divided line.

[@zekie106]

We just finished Kant in my philosophy class then my professor introduced Hegel and I've never been more confused 🤣 It's not even "confusing", just straight up incomprehensible and ABSTRACT

[@WayneHarropson]

Here's an experiment in Hegelian Dialectic. Put two sticks of chewing gum in your mouth, and chew until it's at a proper chewing consistency. That's ‘thesis’. Now place a pad of butter in your mouth and chew it into the gum. That's ‘antithesis’. Now do what any sane person would do, spit that Hegelian dialect crap out!

[@carpediem44]

Isn't Hegel's "absolute spirit" limited to the beliefs of his protestant Christianity? And isn't the whole point of Christianity to teach that "absolute knowledge" only comes through the biblical teachings? That's not my take, but I read he was a devout Lutheran...

[@007lutherking]

Here is a simple example. Suppose we wanted to find the answer to what's 2+2 and our ancestors came up with 3, and then 5 but it never made sense or made our life better.. But then thanks to some gifted minds of our generation we found the exact right answer and it was 4 and it helped mathematics grow and evolve and other branches of science as a consequence and we had the modern world, which was based on the foundations of the truth that will never be destroyed. Everyone accepts this as a fact, which means we all worship this common god (2 +2 =4). Universe is made up of inherent truths and its our quest to find the truth. This whole truth about everything is the thing that unites us. So be very wary of what you believe in. Life and death

[@christopherlin4706]

The universe is the inherent truth

[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@JosephSneep]

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[@williamihardwick2871]

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[@extinctionistrecordsblackm6380]

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[@PhilosophyVibe]

Thanks

[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@surivicky]

👍🙂👍

[@MrClockw3rk]

You could probably condense everything he wrote down to around 4 pages.

[@supawattunganusornsuk4442]

i see

[@jackw2894]

U guys reject the dialect, but you guys are doing a great job at it and are definitely approaching the truth thru it!😂

[@expantherdigital]

Hmmmm

[@memegazer]

Disagree with the criticism that determinism and free will are mutually exculsive. That is not a valid criticism imo bc Hegel is not trying to insist upon one or the other...but rather upon the notion that it represent a false dilemma.

[@thegoldensealion9463]

It was going good until it got to "thesis, antithesis, synthesis". Hegel did not use this mechanic, this was developed by Fichte.

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[@PhilosophyVibe]

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[@hyperduality2838]

Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic is dual if it is dependent & independent of time (both at the same time). Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Dyads or zygons are yokes that connect two similar things -- The ancient Greek philosophers -- Isomorphism or duality! Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Syntropy (prediction) is isomorphic or dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@LilGanjam]

Hegelism: 1. External reality is real, same, objective. 2. Perception of reality from person to person is different, subjective. 3. Some perceptions are the same with a couple people, they are shared perceptions, they'd be called "Spirit". 4. Spirits are evolving through the mechanism of dialectics. The goal of evolution is becoming the super-Spirit (absolute idea/truth), something shared by everyone. Pretty Meh

[@mentalitydesignvideo]

Ghe-org, not Jordsh.