Hegel's Moral & Political Philosophy - From Socrates to Sartre (1979)

[@richardbaroff4911]

As a former student to TZ Lavine in the late 1970s this really takes me back.

[@antoniovittorio4686]

The best 👌 presentation of Hegel's Moral and Political philosophy I have ever seen. Many thanks 🎉 to Martha Z. Lavine whose extensive knowledge of philosophers and her talent to present their works are really impressive. I really enjoy to watch her presentations. This because she not only has one of the most extensive knowledge of philosophies through the ages but she also has the the talent to add rythm, to add music to abstract concepts. It is like listening to one of the best symphonies. Such a talent is given to very, very few and this makes all the difference between mediocrity and excellence.

[@anigzaid9563]

So relevant in today’s society. What a great professor!

[@mustafakandan2103]

Hegel is probably the most stimulating philosopher that I have ever read. Excellent presentation.

[@abableeah3070]

This was done with unspeakably great quality.

[@Karlushy]

I would love to watch the whole series! Please upload the other episodes! 🙏🏼

[@GregoryJWalters]

Super lecture!

[@mightafonso]

Hello! Thank you very much for uploading these videos. Unfortunately, most people cant access the entire series, which is public domain in the US. Do you mind uploading the second part of the lecture on Sartre? Thank you very much

[@Karlushy]

Yes! Would be fantastic ❤

[@faede-rc7um]

Philosophy in the best format

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

What is larger meaningful totality?

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

What is spiritual pocerty in hegal view

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

What is larger spiritual life

[@Choronzondegreaser]

Where's the next hegel video?!?!?

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

What is Free spiritual being?

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

What is spirit of people? Olease explain in simple words

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

What is spirit of absolute

[@Reviving_Virtue]

This is great. The way this is presented it argues Marx was wrong and Hegel was right. Curious to see the next episode on Marx...

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

Explain social ethics with examples

[@mojdemarvast2366]

❤️Thank you! Maybe these people filled their society with philosophical, political, scientific... material to make a Knowledgeable people spirit so that their being part of the state is welcomed and happiness is their share ... And maybe the factor of pleasure a little bit pushes aside the process of learning and thinking for the modern human who is more and more overwhelmed with diverse pleasures

[@davesiegal3592]

But how do we reckon Hegel's ideas in modern societies in which Sartre says there is no division between the social, economic and political, all are one.

[@HeyManWhereAmI]

Most societies have economies and political affiliations, it’s more of a cause and effect relationship rather than ‘all are one’.

[@davesiegal3592]

Take it up with Jean Paul Sartre, I didn't say it and I'm not sure you understand what he meant. It cant be explained in a few sentences as is the case with most philosophy and the life's work of a particular philosopher. I only assume the presenter is well versed in Sartre's work.@@HeyManWhereAmI

[@francpez7564]

Sounds like hegel is describing the government of China. Geez.

[@Ian_Paq]

Solid.

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

What is actual that philosophers define

[@ReclusiveAshta]

So he didn't actually have a moral or political philosophy of his own, only a theory of from where they are found, and arise, namely from the collective tastes of any given time and place.

[@Tom-rg2ex]

When you frame it that way it's no wonder his popularity made an individualist like Schopenhauer's blood boil.

[@ReclusiveAshta]

@@Tom-rg2ex Schopenhauer's idea of the will being all one and the same seems very collectivist to me

[@jason8434]

I think "collective tastes" is a mis-framing of Hegel's philosophy of the nation. What he's saying is that individuals all die, no individual exists transhistorically. Only the "nation" exists transhistorically. For Hegel, the nation is the historical embodiment of a people, and individuals only emerge as "individuals" insofar as they are historical embodiments of the transhistorical nation. The Nazis took this idea and subsumed or dissolved individual Germans into the life of the nation. In other words, in Nazi Germany what mattered was the nation-state as the embodiment of the "folk," the people. German soldiers went off to die cheerfully in WWII because they believed what mattered was the existence and survival of the German state, not individual Germans. "Collective tastes" is an individualist (or democratic) conception of the nation as "e pluribus unum," out of many one. This is not what Hegel had in mind, but rather the opposite: out of one, many.

[@ReclusiveAshta]

@@jason8434 Very right, that is a more accurate description of Hegel's philosophy. You're also right about my individualist interpretation, which I admit is purposeful as I fundamentally disagree with, and find the collectivist perspective to be quite dangerous, as you've demonstrated with the case of Nazi Germany - but I suppose that's neither here nor there for the purpose of understanding him.

[@ergot1803]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ReclusiveAshtaSchopenhauer's idea of the Will, is about as collectivist as a physicalist's idea of matter. It's simply an account of a universal substance, of the thing-in-itself. It's uniformity, in contrast to the variety of physical and mental forms (representations), is analogous to a physicalist's conception of the contrast between the uniformity of energy and the multiplicity of physical forms, though Schopenhauer placed vastly less ontological existence value on these representations than a physicalist does on the various physical objects, considering them more illusionary. However, he didn't derive any collectivist prescriptions out of this description, just as a physicalist by no necessity does out of their conception of energy as ontologically primary, but rather, on the contrary, advocated for disattaching one's self from the servitude to this Will, such as (and actually namely) by "losing one's self" in private and personal aesthetic experience. Surely the lines between individualism and collectivism are not drawn by whether one commits to a pluralistic or to a monistic account of the fundamental substance(s) of existence?

[@skippy180864]

State Theory = Grotius (summum imperium).

[@starcapture3040]

can someone remaster this show with AI?

[@coimbralaw]

NO

[@starcapture3040]

@@coimbralaw why no

[@pjrodney]

i like the grainy vintage vibe

[@mightafonso]

HEGEL TIME

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

Philosophical wisdom comes too late. Examples?

[@miamivicemami]

Apt

[@thomasd2444]

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