Hegel: Philosophy of world history and spirit

[@BenjaminIdle]

it's been said many times in the comments already, but this channel is a beacon of light. The selection of topics, the professional handling of source materials, the ethical conversion from unapproachable to comprehensive accessibility, and the intuitively entertaining yet meaningful structure. it's good shit fr

[@BenjaminIdle]

People who can spread knowledge with this level of aptitude for the task are saints in my eyes. I had a very unconventional upbringing and didn't get more then halfway through high school so I feel extremely grateful whenever I find enriching content by good people who care about making education accessible.

[@mencken8]

One thing that is indisputable about Hegel is that reading him is a sure cure for insomnia.

[@sacredgeometry]

Same with Marx

[@nolanr1400]

Hahaha true. No, I find Marx easier to read and understandable but Hegel is really more... Obscure 🙄

[@sacredgeometry]

@@nolanr1400 Marx isn't hard to understand its just dull.

[@shahid3520]

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[@samparr3368]

and yet here i am at almost 5:00 feeding an impromptu fixation on this philosopher dweeb that i’d rather just keep hating in ignorance.

[@jti107]

her passion for philosophy really comes through and is contagious

[@zuz-ve4ro]

im sorry but adding hegel to passion is like multiplying by 0

[@fordrivingandothers]

@@zuz-ve4rowdym?

[@zuz-ve4ro]

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[@bswurve8957]

@@fordrivingandothers Dry, very dry!!!

[@arielrodriguez968]

I really appreciate how simply you explain these topics and that you speak somewhat slowly and clearly, it's very helpful

[@capitalmarketsandinternati1501]

Kudos! To talk Hegel in such a lucid and coherent way, and cover such a broad field of Hegelian concepts requires more than skills and knowledge. You definitely have owned it.

[@seanleith5312]

French Philosophers and German Philosophers are the destructors of the world. Their theories lead to destruction and misery for the world. I hesitant to use the word evil, since "evil" would include intention. But intentional or not, the result is the same. It's English men who bring reason, science, technology, progress and prosperity to world.

[@GeekPhilosopher]

This is the clearest exposition of Hegel's philosophy I have ever heard.

[@marcialhernandezmedina5149]

De acuerdo

[@IvoMaropo]

This is Hegel's philosophy of HISTORY, not his Logic.

[@emilioramos4992]

Indeed!!

[@davide7708]

@@IvoMaropo What does he say about Logic?

[@LucasEWall]

This is good. Also, try Peter Singer’s Introduction to Hegel. Clearest book ever. Though entry level.

[@guapelea]

Best philosopy teacher I've ever met. Just can't believe my ears.

[@pratikgore6536]

Learning hegel has always been one step forward and 2 steps back for me. For the first time I can say I have gone one step forward and one step back.

[@deepthebookkeeper]

hegelian dialectic : one step forward, some definitely back

[@albertsonntag754]

Thanks!

[@jared3370]

This video is my introduction to Hegel and right off the bat I can tell I'm gonna love this guy

[@learn-unlearn1]

For a long time I have been looking for someone who's able to explain these points in Hegel's philosophy, in a simple and relatable way. I think I just found the channel:) Looking forward to hearing more

[@adriansavastian8774]

Thanks

[@ben19867]

Absolutely the clearest and most accurate distillation of Hegel out there. Really excellent - very skilled to do that so effectively

[@santacruzman]

Oh, stop.

[@adaptercrash]

OK heidegger remade it there's a book on it

[@xMaiiliiEx]

I watched so many of your videoes now, and I honestly think I'm passing my exam tomorrow just because of how clear you make it for me. I usually can't stand when people just talk to the camera like that, but this is everything. I love it. Thank you!!!

[@suchawolfy]

I've never understood Hegel so clearly till now. Awesome video. 👏 👏 👏

[@romanapc3000]

I study Hegel at a graduate level. This is probably the best summary of his views on world history I've seen. It is free of conventional misinterpretation which plagues even Hegel scholars, and contains a deep insight into his complex views; all in an exceptionally short time frame. Congratulations!

[@sentimentalsediment3000]

Been following the channel for a while and have always loved it. I just started my M.A. in philosophy and my appreciation for you and David has swelled! Thank you for your work :)

[@kevinevans8505]

What all the others say. I can't manage Hegel without a bit of this sort of help. Thank you for doing it so well.

[@matthewr7593]

Absolutely fantastic lecturer. I love Hegel, but he is so complicated that I just enjoy watching any discussion of his thought because it makes it more sure-footed in my mind. Thank you!

[@killerbees2922]

If you want to understand hegel, just replace the words : zeitgeist, spirit, concept, reason, idea etc by the word God. You will understand that the whole philosophy of hegel is nothing more than the philosophy of Christianism( Lutheranism) reformulated with the vocabulary of German’s idealism. Schopenhauer was right to point that out when he talking about the professors of philosophy ( that’s why they love teaching hegel). It’s complicated confusing and obscur. That’s not the role of philosophy at all

[@dr.phil.pepper3325]

The term "Geist" doesn't only mean "spirit" but also "mind, intellect, reason, rationality". The Phenomenology of Spirit is not so much about the moving force in history, but more an epistemological approach on how the mind works, from the individual level of recognition of objects up onto the abstraction from objects on a social level and self-recognition of the mind. The main question of the book is the same as in Kants Critique of Pure Reason - If and how it is possible to recognize metaphysical truth. But in opposition to Kant, Hegels answer is that it is possible through the analysis of the dialectic movement in nature and history, which is what he calls the "Spekulative Methode" (speculative method).

[@thenowchurch6419]

Excellently put. Of course the development of individual minds towards self-recognition does have a collective result on society as a whole, as well.

[@penelopehill9710]

This expansion of Hegel beyond Prof Anderson's excellent summary is truly insightful!

[@williamkraemer8338]

I wish every college student could have a philosophy professor like Prof. Anderson.

[@williamkraemer8338]

You are the best!

[@vedantsridhar8378]

I actually like learning about philosophy in my free time. It'd be my dream to learn this fascinating subject at a boring school and college. And she nailed it!

[@philipvlnst]

Thank you Professor Ellie Anderson. Now things have become clearer.

[@damonzex1017]

An outstanding elucidation of key Hegelian notions. You mentioned many key concepts but were able to simultaneously relate Hegel back to practical existence. I am currently reading his Science of Logic which actually sheds immense light on his metaphors in Phenomenology. How you described the movement of Geist across time is exactly in keeping with the essence of what he was imparting. Thank you for creating this outstanding and succinct analysis.

[@zeldaguy32]

You've done the impossible. You've made Hegel comprehensible. Good job!

[@BobHooker]

Hegel's theory of history is the clear part of his work. His text on History is the one people read and the impact he had. His theory of the self and logic are far harder.

[@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius]

@@BobHooker trve, but it is not trve that his metaphysics and logic did not have impact. But still, there must be much broader impacts on his side, as Foucault also says that we did not even give account of even one sentence of how much Hegel affected our thought.

[@BobHooker]

@@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius his LOGIC CHANGED THE WORLD

[@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius]

@@BobHooker aaa yes? That's exactly what l was trying to say.

[@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius]

@@BobHooker so?

[@Nedwin]

Not many of us have courage to talk about the great Hegel!! Ellie is such an amazing presenter. I've been into Locke, Bacon, Machiaveli. But not really into Descartes, Schopenhauer, or Hegel. So, thank you Ellie. You open my eyes wide open on Hegel. Subscribed!

[@dystopiaahoy]

I saw the notification for a while but didn’t click on it until today, boy am I glad I did. Sometimes the algorithm gets it really right. Subscribed.

[@muzza49]

What a brilliant articulation, made even Hegel's ideas sound interesting!

[@eduardo_gallardo009]

I don't know why but I find your comment really funny.

[@aureliano_37]

Wdym? They were always interesting

[@bankafouf]

😢 interesting?

[@scottfowler8380]

I’m so glad I found this KZbin channel. Thank you so much for sharing all this.

[@richardl.metafora4477]

You are becoming one of my Premier models of how to make difficult thoughts accessible quickly and appealingly. This is important work.

[@gerryleb8575]

A brilliant presentation. Hegel devises the first metanarrative that isn't about how kings came to rule and who begat whom.

[@robertoa.m.3984]

Such a joy to watch and hear you.

[@straightuntotruth]

Learnt in 12 mins what I couldn’t in 6 months of my university professor’s lectures. Thanks buddy. Love from India. Keep posting more and more gists of thinkers with their key ideas explained in lucid terms.

[@fialaclub617]

I could listen to her all day, such a bealtiful voice.

[@sokratmektebi]

you are a good narrator. Your speech is hypnotizing.

[@jukeboxhero5]

This is absolutely brilliant, thank you for your content!

[@mark.J6708]

To quote some famous British dude, "this is a bloody brilliant presentation". Heh, concise, coherent, spot on point and fun to watch and listen to. Once read in German, but too many years ago now. Think about how much of this thought is inside the idea of an agreement between a people and a state (constitution)... fun stuff. Thanks for doing this!

[@Tenorio74]

I love the questions and ideas philosophy brings to bear, but I love more the light that biology and psychology and the objective studies of human nature shed on these timeless topics. It is no wonder science was called natural philosophy and the first psychologists were doctors and/or philosophers. Thanks for the great videos!

[@ronald3836]

You are right. The development of the sciences has rightfully killed off any merit of the kind of metaphysical philosophical drivel that Hegel spouted.

[@thespiritofhegel3487]

I was so happy the day I discovered thesis antithesis synthesis is not Hegel.. I have a bit of a lisp and I hated saying thesis antithesis synthesis but now when talking about Hegel I don't have to say thesis antithesis synthesis because he never did. Great talk by the way, I could listen to you all day.

[@kaivonmassenbach4357]

Thanks! Sounds like a very intellectual version of unity consciousness. I liked this explanation a lot!!

[@olgajaworska7430]

I'm regretting so much t that I skipped that one lecture on Hegel and now I have to dig through the Preface to The Phenomenology on my own... the toughest read so far (I'm a first-year philosophy major). Thank you professor Anderson for giving me a fighting chance!

[@faqirkhan6223]

Really best explanation in simple words and examples appreciated madam

[@tedjaeckel5623]

I think you beautifully distilled Hegel according you your yourself. I love your voice.

[@manuelrodriguez5293]

Thanks for the video! I just read his book on this but when I got to the state I was extremely confused, your video helped clear it up a bit

[@samhoratio]

Just discovered your channel and I'm so grateful. Thank you for sharing your expertise and your talent for helping students like me gain a foothold on Hegel. Best wishes!

[@Maldoror1972-MG]

Just exploring the wonderful and fascinating world of multi-valued logic with Hegel and Gotthard Günther, one of the most brilliant and underrated german philosophers of the 20th century!

[@bridgingparadigms]

This is a great, succinct explanation of Hegel's broad philosophy. I've been reading Hegel, as well as other sources for ages, and I think I am only starting to get it now, and this video is another step towards getting there. So thank you Ellie for doing this! I have no background in any university degrees, I am an outsider in that regard, but what is in common here is Hegel, and in the most part, I correlate with what you have presented. Someone said, I'm not sure who, something along the lines of that whatever path you take in studying philosophy, whenever you get to the end, you will always find Hegel there, smiling back at you. And I tend to agree. This may be too much to ask, but if you are interested and have time, I would like to see what you think about what I have presented. I have made a 45-minute video regarding Hegel, and I have never discussed my ideas with anyone, let alone someone with your knowledge. So I am a little scared here, but I am curious to hear any comments you might have. That is, if you have time. Be gentle with me, but at the same time, don't hold back. Thank you again.

[@avi3681]

Very clear and well articulated.

[@meesalikeu]

this is just an awesome presentation, clear and focused

[@oliverperater3054]

Thank you for this. I had been reading Marx for a while, now I need to understand Hegel as well and this is really helpful.

[@VikrantSingh-se2zb]

Thanks 👍 wonderful narration of Hegel work on the phenomenology of the spirit.😊

[@Eavvt]

Amazing explanations, Thank you

[@Conatus_100]

Thank you for this beautiful explanation

[@jimgallagher8029]

Excellent. Worth a view and a re-view to get a grounding in this too-easy-to-misunderstand subject.

[@tuliowz]

What a great video I'm a philosophy grad student, and I'm very glad youtube got to recommend this video to me still haven't studied much about Hegel, but I'm looking forward to it, thanks!!

[@dilbyjones]

Keep cominmg back to Hegel. Awesome.

[@pauloferes8902]

Congrats. He is a difficult philosopher. You were very clear and concise.

[@manjunathac4992]

Your spirit is more and more concrete 😊 Excellent explanation.

[@ghostsamya]

This is so interesting and ties in so much to Buddhist idea of impermanence (which is like the nature of spirit). The spirit going towards freedom is also similar to a Buddhist path leading to enlightenment (freedom from Samsara). So fascinating to see so many overlaps in philosophy and spirituality.

[@syedali9472]

Your explanation so superb

[@emankir]

Thank you for talking about Hegel’s ideas with such passion (all puns intended)

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

8:00 after the Battle of Jena, near where Hegel was a privatdozent at the time, he says he saw Napoleon, and said for him it was seeing the world-spirit pass

[@pipersolanas3322]

Great intro to Hegel!

[@joeyrufo]

5:49 YES! SYNTHESIZE THE _PASSION_ WITH THE _IDEA!_ 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@dhritichakraborty]

I notice you talk very clearly and with conviction…at first I found this distinctive and unusual, then realized maybe more women should talk this way more often.

[@sajolchoudhury7832]

I understand Hegel. I'm just here to watch you talk.

[@sudarshanbadoni6643]

Thanks. For this reason these vibrant young minds are much more aware and advanced to not only understand such a complex architecture of Hegelian literature are able to simplifying and made us to understand. Me got knocked down while listening a video on Hegelian philosophy and could not understand even a sentence. Thanks again.

[@robertmayfield8746]

Good lecture. Unlike some lecturers who are basically emotionless talking heads.

[@Bokhari786]

Absoulately right. I cherished your lectures. Keep it up dear.

[@divyanshsh]

i am growing to love hegel

[@timothythechoi]

Thank you. I like that the books are shelved with some rules.

[@almodovar251]

I love this lecture. Thank you. I love philosophy!!

[@Khethatipet]

@00:30 My first time watching this channel, subbed. Thanks for explaining Hegel so clearly. Now I'm very shocked to discover Hegel's notion of Spirit revealing itself in time sounds very much like the medieval Christian notion of humanity being witness to the Logos unfolding itself. Very interesting, thanks for this!

[@Bense8361]

I love you as a person. Your video rocks.

[@quinto34]

"If Hegel had written the whole of his logic and then said... that it was merely an experiment in thought... then he would certainly have been the greatest thinker who had ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic." I'm with Kierkegaard on this one 😁 Love your videos, subscribed!

[@44aske]

Nice and good you just explained Hegel better than himself.

[@Katalognummer]

I love this explanation. THANK YOU

[@antoineaboudaher1434]

Perfect explanation

[@blackpilledchad1927]

First time i hear somebody explaining Hegel to me with ease. Interesting.

[@hossameboudaghia1228]

Thank you for this insightful video! It helped me a lot deciphering some ideas by Hegel.

[@안강현-u2e]

Videos for G. W. F. Hegel! Great!

[@courtneydolly6538]

Hey your channel is so amazing, you are so good at taking the most complex concepts and making them concise and simple which I think takes even more skill and knowledge than making some high-falutin video, thanks for sharing!! Subscribed.

[@syedaleemuddin6804]

Ellie in India we call that Think globally work Locally..

[@hyperduality2838]

Teleology leads to the 4th law of thermodynamics:- Being is dual to non being creates becoming -- Plato's cat. Alive is dual to not alive -- the Schrodinger's cat superposition (duality). Thesis (alive, being) is dual to anti-thesis (not alive, non being) creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- Hegel's cat or Fichte's cat, the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Schrodinger's cat is based upon Hegel's cat and Hegel stole it from Plato (and Socrates). Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics! Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Brahman (creator god, thesis) is dual to Shiva (destroyer god, anti-thesis) synthesizes Vishnu (preserver god) -- Hinduism or the Hegelian dialectic. You can derive the Hegelian dialectic from the Hindu religion. Action is dual to reaction -- Sir Isaac Newton (the duality of force). Cause is dual to effect -- forces are correlated. Forces are a by product of conserving the duality or correlation of cause & effect. Attraction is dual to repulsion, push is dual to pull (forces and hence energy are dual). "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork. The Necker cube is a good visual example of duality and you should watch the spinning dancer:- www.medicaldaily.com/right-your-eyes-science-behind-famous-spinning-dancer-optical-illusion-336122 Bi-stability implies duality. Clockwise is dual to anti-clockwise. Master (lordship) is dual to slave (bondsman) -- the Hegelian dialectic. Left brain dominance is dual to right brain dominance -- brain hemispheres. Left or right brain dominance? Either way you have duality and Hegel becomes absolute truth! Forwards is dual to backwards -- which is way is the train moving?:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ6ykIKXjrx5epo Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein. Dark energy is dual to dark matter.

[@koftu]

First, although analytic philosophy seems to resonate more naturally with me, your introductions and explanations of continental philosophy have been giving me new perspective on that (not that I thought they were as far apart as frequently straw-personned in popular discussion). But this video with Hegel brought to mind some very interesting parallels with Buddhist philosophy: Particularly the idea of Inner Spirit (contrast with "Buddha Nature"). Thanks yet again for doing your part to bring public intellectualism back into vogue!

[@Un-TedxTalks]

1. Spirit through out the history is actualizing itself And getting more concrete 2.And put collective consciousness is spirit, and as we self actualize, we tend to get close to the FREEDOM 3.Idea of Hegel : synthesis of subjectivity and objectivity, matter and spirit, it need human activity, its not something hovering into Ether, 4. Idea and Human passion -> Freedom 5. Idea is totality of everything, Its anti-thesis is Passion(arbitrary, free, subjective will ) 6. I n trying to attain these desires we are helping spirit to actualise it self 7. Reason uses human passion in order to attain its own End

[@jonahanderson9101]

Wow this was a great explanation what a wonderful teacher

[@hyperduality2838]

Teleology leads to the 4th law of thermodynamics:- Being is dual to non being creates becoming -- Plato's cat. Alive is dual to not alive -- the Schrodinger's cat superposition (duality). Thesis (alive, being) is dual to anti-thesis (not alive, non being) creates the converging thesis or synthesis -- Hegel's cat or Fichte's cat, the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Schrodinger's cat is based upon Hegel's cat and Hegel stole it from Plato (and Socrates). Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics! Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. Brahman (creator god, thesis) is dual to Shiva (destroyer god, anti-thesis) synthesizes Vishnu (preserver god) -- Hinduism or the Hegelian dialectic. You can derive the Hegelian dialectic from the Hindu religion. Action is dual to reaction -- Sir Isaac Newton (the duality of force). Cause is dual to effect -- forces are correlated. Forces are a by product of conserving the duality or correlation of cause & effect. Attraction is dual to repulsion, push is dual to pull (forces and hence energy are dual). "Always two there are" -- Yoda. Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork. The Necker cube is a good visual example of duality and you should watch the spinning dancer:- www.medicaldaily.com/right-your-eyes-science-behind-famous-spinning-dancer-optical-illusion-336122 Bi-stability implies duality. Clockwise is dual to anti-clockwise. Master (lordship) is dual to slave (bondsman) -- the Hegelian dialectic. Left brain dominance is dual to right brain dominance -- brain hemispheres. Left or right brain dominance? Either way you have duality and Hegel becomes absolute truth! Forwards is dual to backwards -- which is way is the train moving?:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ6ykIKXjrx5epo Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein. Dark energy is dual to dark matter.

[@PetrusJosephus]

Thanks, this helps me to review for tomorrows final exam.

[@Isaac-we2ks]

Good primer thanks for this!! Trying to study for class and this vid was super helpful

[@carlospadinmartinez]

I came to this channel looking for resources for a project but I could never have thought that I would find gold. Top notch channel, bravo.

[@armandomoreno2284]

Holy Cow, I love this channel. Suscribing.

[@alexarobinson2850]

Yessssss someone that gets Hegel ❤ SNAPS🎉

[@MrJsourouh]

Thanks for the video! You say at 1:30 that "there's no permanent, unchanging truth, and then history is the way that unfolds chronologically, no." Yet, just afterwards you say that "history is teleological...history is driving things forward to one certain end." How can I reconcile this? Doesn't this notion of progress presuppose a truth that history is driving towards? And thus, that history is indeed unfolding towards the recognition of a permanent (yet previously unrecognized) truth?

[@syedaleemuddin6804]

This is your best of best presentation. Good job

[@magpieeuc4846]

Hegel is saying is that to change or become apart of world History, requires a State and for the state to become powerful enough to bring about World change and become History the people in the state require a strong spirit, it is this spirit that brings about the external manifestation of the will and freedom do so. It is the Philosophy that Fascism was founded on.

[@christopherteckyong]

I’d like to discuss Hegel with you and, incidentally, have coitus. Hegel’s philosophy of history owes very much to Heraclitus. At least by the sound of it.

[@hortonharry3492]

In her video at the 9:17 mark up until the 10:40 mark in consideration. She introduces the concept of Volksgeist, that is the spirit that inhabits the people. Such people who make up a state. I found the following quote from the book "The Easy Way", an Eckankar book. The quote is from page 70. Eckankar is a Tibetan philosophy known as the secret religion. The quote touches on a lot of the points the philosopher Hegel introduced in his thinking and what this professor is talking about. The quote: "Had the Lords of Karma given soul a greedy nature in its first incarnation, the forces of family and tribe begin to wear it down as he tried to take undo advantage of them. He would be like the coyote in Native American lore: a trickster caught by his own tricks. Thus primal karma is like the yeast that causes bread to rise, for it helps soul get involved in the play of life." The family and the tribe are essentially the state in regards to the greedy individual and soul. That is something of a Hegelian state, perhaps on a more rudimentary basis.The fact that members of the state, that is the members of the family and tribe start wearing down the negative attribute of greed in the greedy soul, this simultaneously propels the greedy soul to move forwards towards more developed and unfolded positive spiritual freedom and healthier divine spiritual state of being since the spiritual bondage of his greed is being diminished by the state. As in the case of the Eckankar example, such state is the tribe,. Along with the family. The old saying: "It takes a village to raise a child." It takes the spirit (Volksgeist) of the village (tribe) to steer the child towards spiritual and civic freedom.In this case the village acts like the state. Blending Hegel's way of thinking into the saying.The Eckankar book: The Easy Way is found in Eckankar's advanced spiritual learning course. Eckankar.org is their web site.

[@sergioguzman6722]

Why does we read Hegel in shcool ?. I'm smart bunt never achive to digest the clear and order oh this genuis . I mean not Hegel's whcih is for granted but the geniuoses Professor Ellie. Gracias por tu mini clase de monstruo de la dialéctica.

[@davidlee6720]

you are one of the best professors out there in clear exposition .Philosophers are not the best writers out there. They often make things turgid when there is no need, This is the prose they have always read I suppose as it is their own subject . I once read a book by Sir Ernest Gowers called 'The Complete Plain Words' .I think some of these learned characters should have been taught this when young. Bertrand Russell is a good example in how to make these philosophical subjects more digestible and understandable ( and yourself of course.).

[@marekr.9339]

Great! The clearest I have ever heard even it is not in my native language.

[@DjTahoun]

Thank you so much 🌷😇🌷