Hegel's Philosophy of History

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No notes, no pauses, no equivocation, no tangents, making extremely complex ideas comprehensible for everyone. Amazing job. I wish I'd had a philosophy teacher like this.

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@@matthewchunk3689 Both are flawed, but that’s only my opinion

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Still he talks about weird words related to Geist without its direct translation: ghost xD

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[@abubatatu3241]

He even paces like Hegel, great guy, a little weird, but a great guy, لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله

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He really gets down to the gist of the argument

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Perhaps the most talented lecturer on philosophy I’ve ever witnessed

[@Daddy0os]

"There's gonna be a whole new generation of philosophers that want to get tenure that are going to have to get rid of this earlier generation and *really* turn the corner and have a new, totally changed end of history. It could be that we'll never get beyond Hegel in this respect, though we all feel the need to create a novelty that is spurious but entertaining. And that is our homage to Hegel I would say." Golden.

[@Brainteaser5639]

I was cleaning a lab and listening to this talk. When he actually uttered these words😂, my eyes and mind were fixed at a bottle sitting on some kind of brown fresh stain on a newly installed workstation, which I am meant to clean. On the bottle there was a warning label that warned me not to touch as whatever this wash was dangerous as it was biological😮 and now stuck between the curious statement and this I was there for a moment reflecting on the thought of the phases that the wholesomeness of humanity depended on in the eyes of Hegel. The good the bad and the ugly are processes that the growing child is better going thru to trully appreciate life and know when adulthood hopefully brings the harmony home. I then looked at one of his references, "One Dimensional Man" book on the subject of totalitarianis 😢 then I thought poor we! We have taken dominion over all things with too much unawareness of what it actually means. There is a meaning what mankind is and must be but if its overtime and yet we still dont what that is all we have is what, Hagel assures us, which is that nature has got our back?

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Prof taught at Ivy League. String lecture’s together and you’ve got a class. His brilliance and delivery is the important part here friend. Your education is on you but these lectures are incredibly valuable.

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These lectures are for general audience

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Perhaps, though his facility with subject matter is world-class.​@@tchaivorakfauresohnsieg9532

[@Levi_170]

00:00 - 03:50 Intro to Spirit (Geist) 03:50 - 08:20 Hegelian Subjectivity 08:20 - 09:17 Interpretation of Human Existence 09:17 - 13:41 Modern Eschatology 13:41 - 18:23 Laws of History 18:23 - 20:09 Development of Spirit's Consciousness 20:09 - 21:47 Knowledge & Power 21:47 - 24:27 Rational Mythology 24:27 - 27:31 Human Potential 27:31 - 30:00 Differences in Marxist and Hegelian Thought 30:00 - 33:45 Architectonic Plan of History 33:45 - 38:04 The Meaning of History 38:04 - 41:09 The Study of History 41:09 - 43:09 Legacy of Hegel

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God-tier Hegel explanatory, well done sir

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Thank you for this. Hagel had an insight that was eternal. I appreciate your lecture and honor it!

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Remarkable. Thank you, Dr Sugrue.

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Really interesting!! I like the idea that we're somehow invariably stuck in that loop of not being able to push past the 'end' of things. Such a human notion :) x

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I sure want to hear more from Dr. Sugrue on Hegel. There is so much more to discuss.

[@Bonkikavo]

Before watching i knew there is a guy named Hegel. After i watch the video i will know what he stands for, what he brought new to the table, his place in history, relation to old, then and now, in less than an hour.

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the Professor length and depth of knowledge result in outstanding lectures and the result - his teachings are extraordinary. I’m now continuing my education and philosophy

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[@nightoftheworld]

39:05 *Geist* “I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century. I did, like all other solemn little boys, try to be in advance of the age. Like them I tried to be some ten minutes in advance of the truth. And I found that I was eighteen hundred years behind it.” -G.K. Chesterton

[@upsty6499]

Chesterton wasn't religious at all, in fact he changed certain ideas in the bible. Look it up

[@nightoftheworld]

@@upsty6499 Chesterton _participated_ by writing endlessly about Christianity in defense of what he saw as its deeper logic-he went beyond the letter of the Law and found the Spirit-which makes him a _true_ Christian in Sugrue’s own logic.

[@MrDLWheeler]

@@upsty6499 um..his conversion to and advocacy of catholicism was one of the central themes of his works. Look it up.

[@Oculoustuos]

Brilliant, Michael. I am grateful to have come upon this lecture of yours.

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Do you have proof of claim that we are humans which evolved from a primate

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Thanks! I am studying again these philosophers I thought I knew so well.

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This is incredibly beautiful

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Fantastic presentation

[@michaelmiller8920]

I’m new to Sugrue and his lectures and very much enjoying his approach. Kierkegaard supposed that we are faced with a life choice of either an aesthetic or ethical life. When I was a young man(more than 50 years ago) I considered my life’s path and the 2 choices discussed went, rather crudely, through my mind. I did come to a conclusion that satisfied both my aesthetic and ethical ideals. I took up the path of a gardener, specifically Japanese gardens. With a more than thousand year history guided by the egalitarian traditions of both Shinto and Buddhist disciplines. There was also the added benefit of a physically rigorous effort to execute the practice and principles of an ecologically and ethically correct path. A good life,indeed, resulted.

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Sugrue is the man!

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Speaking as a teacher of Transcendentalism, etc. Well that's lovely and very well laid out. A wonderful lecturer.

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Great lecture. Thank you.

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Thank goodness for this channel😀❤️

[@HoovyTube]

I feel asleep during a terrible headache and this video turned on. In the dream the Hegelian concepts were laid out through symbols which I could distinclty understand, while I was walking around a temple-like setting with palms and old acquantances. I found that profound for some reason, I need to get into this stuff more.

[@kkratzer11]

Just helped me out tremendously, especially the analogies to Kant and the descriptions of chialism and eschatology.. Thank you!

[@upsty6499]

Think how modernity has really messed up society and that is a good thing hey 😂

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Few can make as great an impact on as many people as college professors who are truly passionate about *teaching*. Many are experts in their field, but never learn how to make complicated ideas accessible without comprising their complexity.

[@caseyspaulding]

What a great teacher.

[@Brainteaser5639]

You presented other thinkers with dignity. I wish you a Hagelian understanding of it. Its captivating and especially from the idea of the seed that holds the oak tree point of view. I cannot say RIP because i dont know anymore that these letters hold the message they have been burdened with but if you are still an orater's consciousness in someone thats fine by me as you are a part of me and all humanity due to the phases you went thru and was part of change for good or worse; still a phase. Thank you, sir.

[@resonanceexperience]

God bless you Dr. Sugrue.

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A perfect class/talk.

[@ryans3001]

Thank You!

[@ShreddedASMR]

Excellent lecture, 11/10

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I just had the best hike listening to this

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I hike every day listening to him and others, too, e. g Berlin’s lectures. Greetings from the Appalachian Trail..

[@stephenwarren64]

Michael Sugrue was clearly a brilliant man with amazing comprehension of the history of ideas ... absolutely love his lectures.

[@grassyknoll7869]

When you temporalize and turn the history of philosophy into a series of phases the last phase has to be you. And the last phase has been us for the last 150 years now. I have no doubt that in the next century--again here's charting out the Hegelian trajectory--there's gonna be a whole new generation of philosophers that wanna get tenure that are gonna have to get rid of this earlier generation and really turn the corner, have a new, totally changed end of history. It could be that we'll never get beyond Hegel in that respect: that we all feel the need to create a novelty, [something] spurious but entertaining. And that is our homage to Hegel. So even if it is a little presumptuous to explain the true reconciliation of God and Man, even if it's just a tad implausible to write the Geist's autobiography, to actually be the Geist, all of our intellectual concerns and all of the intellectual concerns since the time of Hegel have been one way or another dealing with his legacy: either by accepting it and trying to reformulate it in such a way as is consistent with the dominant intellectual trends of the time (and what could be more Hegelian than that?) or rejecting it and saying that we've totally changed the corner, we have to trow out all this Hegelian stuff (and what could be more Hegelian than that?). Either way, we're stuck with Hegel. For all the limitations, for all the poetry, for all the sort of metaphysical lapses in it, it's the last great attempt to articulate the meaning and the significance of all human existence.

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This was extremely useful! thank you!

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Great lecture....

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Fantastic

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I've been staring at this ellipsis for 43 minutes now.

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I take a break from car crash videos to get down with something really exciting when I have the time and patience. Always worth hearing Professor Sugrue.

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Relatable

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Listening to this while working out

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One word: Superb!

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Fantastic!!👏👏

[@carljung2]

What a great man. Thank you Hegel

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Simply brilliant big thinking lecture. Great humor and irony too. I found myself laughing out loud at times.

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Amazing.

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He is really brilliant

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my favorite teaching company lecture

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"teaching company" lol

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@@pointblank3409 thats their name btw.

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@@ME-ud5fo o really? I thought you were calling universities in general, teaching company

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I mean that’s kinda what they are nowadays

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amazing expression.

[@mysterioso2006]

we go from plato envisioning the city-state, the People or the Polis, as its own organism with a soul to hegel envisioning the whole of humanity in a similar way...this is my first time engaging with western philosophy at this level of depth and im so excited to discover more!!!!

[@KamalElfahssi]

Excellent

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He once had to fill in at the last minute on a lecture about Machiavelli. He filled up 45 minutes without notes , just a great mind well read.

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Wow youtube algorithm sometimes hits the nail on the head. Amazing lecture.

[@Damascene749]

This is accurate. Hegels whole philosophy basically stems from his dialectical view of human nature and it’s interaction with nature (the physical world) and with other humans. Good stuff.

[@lokaldenker]

Thank you very much it really helps me to study and also watching it inspires me on how I should work on similiar topic. However I do not know what awaits a person in today's world after a Master or Phd degree in philosophy. But this is ofcourse not the topic of the video.

[@cosmicanarchist]

Rest in peace Dr. Sugrue ! You will be missed a lot

[@coahuiltejano]

Brilliant.

[@jackthecat8210]

26:56 hahahah we had so many of these moments in our post grad philosophy department. Love it!

[@curorisluodi]

First off 40:16 Sans All the more: “Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.” ― George Sand

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How is this guy so good at lecturing

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Opposites chronological order definitions

[@m-a9673]

Great lecture, the relation expounded between kant's and christian morality as well as, subsequently, hegel's philosophy and christian eschatology is especially interesting.

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Imagine there's no heaven....

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Beautiful

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[@garrettbryan2717]

Amazing! I would like to learn more about Hegel's use of alchemy.

[@gauravnikumbh4737]

00:29 Teaching Hegel's philosophy in a short time is difficult 02:47 The concept of 'geist' implies a natural upwelling and essence of human existence. 07:20 Maturation is the process of development, where individuals realize their potentials. 09:33 Kant's Christian ethics provide a logical foundation for morality while Hegel's German idealism interprets Christian eschatology. 13:30 Hegel's philosophy of history explains the development and changes of human spirit over time. 15:28 The development of the geist according to its own necessary laws 19:02 Spirit learns about itself and becomes conscious of its essential characteristics. 20:54 Human beings are progressing in self-consciousness, increasing their knowledge and power. 24:28 Hegel's writing desk is where all history leads to the understanding of human self-consciousness 26:28 Hegel's philosophy is about everything and accounts for all of human doings 30:02 The career of spirit in human history is a remarkable intellectual achievement. 31:52 Enlightenment focused on transitioning from God to nature, while 19th century movements focused on history. 35:21 Attempts to fundamentally change human history have been made through ideologies and reforms. 37:10 The idea that we can no longer articulate our views or articulate thought in the same way as before 40:28 The impact and influence of Hegelian philosophy on intellectual concerns 42:10 Hegel's philosophy is a poetic attempt to explain the meaning and significance of human existence

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Love this guy

[@antiprismatic]

Great presentation of very squirrelly minds.

[@derekwhite8844]

This guy is awesome

[@luizaugustozillmanndasilva2814]

Dr Sugrue I’m from the futre and you’re right. We’re still coming up with new end of history epochs! Great lecture! Hegel really thought he had finally gotten gold out of lead wink wink

[@OALM]

Brilliant

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Where do I send my student loan payment to? One of the best teachers in the world. 👍🤓

[@thattimestampguy]

1:06 World, History, Everything 1:46 Geist- Spirit, the Non-Natural, Mind Geyser - Upwelling 4:00 Subjectivity, Personality, Ego 8:00 Geist- The Grand Soul of All of Humanity 9:21 Biblical Moral Theories and Formulating it Intellectually 10:45 Eschaton 11:36 The End of Human Purpose 13:46 Geist - Human Soul/Human Spirit Society is an expression of Spirit 14:54 Each Epoch has it's own Level of Maturity OverSoul, ZeitGeist 15:44 Freedom and Rationality are bound together in German Idealism 18:51 Self-Knowing Spirit 20:24 Knowledge is Power 22:45 Owl of Minerva Retrospection --> Knowledge 26:21 History ends when we Reconcile ourselves with The Divine Mind 28:09 Laws of Nature are The Laws of Causation Laws of History are The Laws of Rationality, Humanity climbs to It's Highest Potential, Self-Consciousness 31:08 Aquinas - God, Theology Renaissance, Enlightenment - Nature of Man 32:30 Hegel - History End History! 1800s belong to Hegel 34:52 The End of Human History, End of Purpose to Changing The World WWI - "The War To End All Wars." 39:31 Philosopher of History leads up to Me

[@DelandaBaudLacanian]

bless you, you beautiful soul

[@TheDocRitchie]

cheers!