Introduction to The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL | Full Audio Book

Introduction to The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL (1770 - 1831), translated by John SIBREE ( - )
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History , Philosophy
Read by: D.E. Wittkower in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - I: Original History
00:10:43 - 02 - 02 - II: Reflective History
00:25:28 - 03 - 03 - III: Philosophical History
00:36:41 - 04 - 04 - III: (I) - Reason Governs the World
00:53:35 - 05 - 05 - III: (II) - The Essential Destiny of Reason, Subsection 1: The Abstract Characteristics of the Nature of Spirit
01:08:49 - 06 - 06 - III: (II) - The Essential Destiny of Reason, Subsection 2: What Means Spirit Uses in order to Realise Its Idea
02:09:11 - 07 - 07 - III: (II) - The Essential Destiny of Reason, Subsection 3: The Shape which the Perfect Embodiment of Spirit Assumes
03:04:44 - 08 - 08 - III: (III) - The Course of the World's History, Subsection 1: The Principle of Development
03:36:48 - 09 - 09 - III: (III) - The Course of the World's History, Subsection 2: The Direction of Development
04:06:28 - 10 - 10 - III: (III) - The Course of the World's History, Subsection 3: The Idea of the World's History as Such
The introduction to Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of world history is often used to introduce students to Hegel's philosophy, in part because Hegel's sometimes difficult style is muted in the lectures, and he discourses on accessible themes such as world events in order to explain his philosophy. Much of the work is spent defining and characterizing Geist or spirit. Geist is similar to the culture of people, and is constantly reworking itself to keep up with the changes of society, while at the same time working to produce those changes through what Hegel called the 'cunning of reason'. Another important theme of the text is the focus on world history, rather than regional or state history. The obscure writings of Jakob Böhme had a strong effect on Hegel. Böhme had written that the Fall of Man was a necessary stage in the evolution of the universe. This evolution was, itself, the result of God's desire for complete self-awareness. Hegel was fascinated by the works of Spinoza, Kant, Rousseau, and Goethe, and by the French Revolution. Modern philosophy, culture, and society seemed to Hegel fraught with contradictions and tensions, such as those between the subject and object of knowledge, mind and nature, self and Other, freedom and authority, knowledge and faith, the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Hegel's main philosophical project was to take these contradictions and tensions and interpret them as part of a comprehensive, evolving, rational unity that, in different contexts, he called 'the absolute idea' or 'absolute knowledge'. According to Hegel, the main characteristic of this unity was that it evolved through and manifested itself in contradiction and negation. Contradiction and negation have a dynamic quality that at every point in each domain of reality-consciousness, history, philosophy, art, nature, society-leads to further development until a rational unity is reached that preserves the contradictions as phases and sub-parts through an up-lifting (Aufhebung) into a higher unity. This whole is mental because it is mind that can comprehend all of these phases and sub-parts as steps in its own process of comprehension. It is rational because the same, underlying, logical, developmental order underlies every domain of reality and is ultimately the order of self-conscious rational thought, although only in the later stages of development does it come to full self-consciousness. The rational, self-conscious whole is not a thing or being that lies outside of other existing things or minds. Rather, it comes to completion only in the philosophical comprehension of individual existing human minds who, through their own understanding, bring this developmental process to an understanding of itself. (summary by wikipedia and d.e. wittkower)
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[@derrickprice9189]

Read by: D.E. Wittkower, Thank you for reading this book, your readings are ALLLWAYYSS clear w/ expression a compete joy to listen to, Thank you !!!

[@osmangun2103]

thanks Mr. Wittkower. your reading & intonation gives an excellent interpretation of Hegel.

[@smhsophie]

Best narrator

[@evanmcarthur478]

My first foray into Hegel!

[@clarkharney8805]

“We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Intro. to The Philosophy of History) 1770-1831 CE

[@GR_BackingTracks]

...and then there's the guy reading this book.

[@levimatthew8911]

Narration is conspicuously superior.

[@fleongoogle2429]

The ultimate background for any knowledge. Many thanks.

[@NathanWHill]

1:44:09 he sounds like Schumpeter here

[@Primetiime32]

Great reader

[@abxmb]

Ive done my best to avoid philosophy for most of my life. Im trying to uncover a new leaf and expand my perspective a bit, but man this is putting me to sleep. How do you all do it?

[@erichthor2580]

So, from what I understand about these lectures are really lecture notes taken by his students. Right? What does Hegel mean by this statement: ‘The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth ... We must therefore worship the State as the manifestation of the Difficult to comprehend Nature, it is infinitely harder to grasp the Essence of the State" I've seen used in Karl Popper's Book The Open Society and in Peikoff Books Ominous Parallels as "proof" that Hegel was advocated for a totalitarian society. I think lean towards Peter Singers interpretation on the matter. That the above quote is taken out of context. Am I right?

[@NathanWHill]

3:51:08 here he is defending the October revolution

[@arlieferguson3990]

I suppose the reader must consider Hegel a very lofty character.

[@redlightoftryst]

Lololol

[@surgeland9084]

It's really not hard to see why this was rejected to form the philosophy of materialism.

[@doit3409]

wdym?

[@surgeland9084]

@@doit3409 Marx is said to have stood Hegel on his head by inversing his hypothesis; rather than ideas and spirit shaping reality, Marx believed that material conditions shaped reality and that ideas and spirit followed.

[@doit3409]

@@surgeland9084 Ok that makes sense. I kind of figured that's what you meant. but I wasn't sure if you were talking about some potentially non-marxist materialism. Or what exactly you meant by rejected such as Marx's materialism not being dialectical. Thanks for the clarification

[@in.der.welt.sein.]

​@@surgeland9084"spirit" basically means the fruits of human culture in Hegel.

[@surgeland9084]

@@in.der.welt.sein. I am aware. I just think it's a dumb concept.

[@johnjepsen4243]

Talk bout verbiage. Woooeeee

[@sdfsdfs13]

Even the narrator is has such a bored tone in his voice as such is his enthusiasm to read this.

[@nihilistbookclub5370]

Who else is here because of Peter singer

[@tomasomaonaigh7659]

Yer mama.