The Philosophy of Hegel

[@pibob7880]

It feels like these classical philosophy videos are criminally under watched.

[@die_schlechtere_Milch]

He is a teacher and he is doing a very good job pretending to have an audience when actually there is only the camera. Shows you how good of a teacher he is. Hopefully he can engage in more dialogical teaching again soon! Wish him all the best!

[@johnkaufman6605]

These videos are great! The current crop of his work has a clarity in audio, and visual that far surpasses his in class presentations. I additionally like the fact that we are not interrupted by exchanges with his in class students.

[@thafrodgod3434]

He is really good at getting this complex concepts across.

[@unclefrank2148]

When I was young I benefited enormously from the study of philosophy. It's good to see the ideas of these great minds being so clearly explained to a new generation of philosophy students.

[@VioletDeliriums]

what makes a mind "great"?

[@w0421006]

This is the clearest summery I have seen of the distinction between Kant and Hegel. Fantastic lecture.

[@electricityofmind6300]

The best synthesis of Hegel on the net. Thank you! Please keep making videos

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

Wow, thank you!

[@LuigiSimoncini]

@@PhiloofAlexandria absolutely, I watched so many of those I was almost convinced that Schopenhauer was right, the guy was a charlatan! But that didn't reconcile with the profound influence he had. Thanks for a great lesson!

[@sticlavoda5632]

​​​​@@PhiloofAlexandria I am struggling to understand. If Hegel believes there is no objective truth that fundamentally originates our perception of reality, and that there are no universal laws, is he denying the existance of multiple individuals? Is he denying that two people can look at something, because there is nothing in themselves to look at, and two cannot exist because our experience says nothing about the nature of other people, and so we cannot assert that other people bear nature? Is he then saying that any statement I make for example, is true, because there is no truth, so any perception I bear on reality is the changing truth of a singular subject, which is the Geist? Then is everything invented, every discovery? Did gravity not exist before it was asserted, was any assertation the truth by simply being asserted? If we all conceptualize that the universe functions in a particular way, then does the universe conform to that conceptualization, because there is no noumena by which it is bound? I don't see how he can posit a finality to the improvement of thought if there is only thought and it is the only thing to exist. Kant makes much more sense, that we process a reality based on something existing. All Hegelian philosophers or philosophers in light of Hegel's idealism are stating that if I was to have schizophrenia and see spiders running up and down my walls, those spiders would wholly exist, inasmuch as anything else exists. Everything that can be thought of exists. As someone with a recently developing passion for philosophy, how is it then that there are so many philosophers that deny the existance of God? Is philosophical atheism distinct from the atheism of the masses? Any assertions of any existance fundamentally asserts a principle of order, or of a will, or most importantly of any sort of unconditional claim. Those always correspond with God. What am I missing, and where do I need to look to understand atheism?

[@hypnos4754]

@@LuigiSimonciniI agree completely. Sadly many people in contemporary philosophy disagree. To me it is very clear that Schopenhauer accurately characterized Hegel. Hegel was deeply learned, and yet he never outlined his ontology despite the fact that his entire system of thought rests on fundamental questions of Being. I’ve read his works. I understand that he had things to say on these matters. However, he ultimately remains “on the fence” so to speak, in a semantic manner. I think he realized that he didn’t outline his views on being in a succinct manner, but decided to obfuscate his beliefs in this regard through “specialized language”. This is characteristic of a charlatan and, as Schopenhauer said: “a philosophaster”.

[@agrabowski]

Damn I was struggling to understand Hegelian thinking for quite some time now and you made it so clear. Thank you, sir.

[@arghyachakraborty]

I can't thank you enough for this, Sir.

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@MerkurioBua]

@@hyperduality2838 Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@hyperduality2838]

@@MerkurioBua Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork. Duality creates reality! "Always two there are" -- Yoda.

[@MerkurioBua]

@@hyperduality2838 Hume's fork -- Absolute truth is dual to relative truth. Always two there are! " Duality creates reality " -- Yoda.

[@cpnlsn88]

Great video, which helps in approaching Hegel. Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis is overemphasised as generally doesn't occur in Hegel in this way; it certainly is true that Hegel talks about something being negated and 'aufgehoben'/Aufhebung to reach a higher synthesis. This embodies how a concept is developed rather than in static propositions.

[@mileskeller5244]

Talking about Hegel is such an undertaking, thank you so much professor for summing it up so well.

[@aydnofastro-action1788]

I hope you will do more on Hegel. Bravo!

[@CoolZfromShenmue]

This is the most comprehensive video on hegel I’ve found so far, thank u for uploading habibi

[@Xcalator35]

Your teaching habilities are absolutely astonishing!! Thanks!

[@MikeWiest]

Thank you! Until now my only exposure to Hegel has been the merciless constant roasting of Hegel in Schopenhauer…I’m trying to get a more balanced view. Your reference to potentially causeless events in QM was really on point.

[@dylanmcgowan3737]

Very informative and well presented, thank you for making this video.

[@emale03]

Great clarification of Hegel and Kant--Thanks for the lecture, Dr. Bonevac

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@nathanschab4796]

Only in moving on to Hegel did I then get a more solid grasp of Kant. Excellent video!

[@sgtdrpeppers]

Thank you for this. Hegel has never clicked for me until this video.

[@A_Rider_On_The_Storm]

This is the best introduction to Hegel I have seen on KZbin

[@AlloAnder]

A really nice video about Hegel! As a German I am really impressed by your pronunciation of German words used by Hegel

[@maryellen1952]

One of the best videos explaining the complicated world of Hegel.

[@canisronis2753]

This new format is terrific, thank you, very useful!

[@Thing-vc2qm]

All those videos are just straight up awesome.

[@martinolsson9643]

This is one damn good lecture on Hegel, for which we give our most heartfelt thanks.

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@hyperduality2838]

@Evan Hodge The conservation of duality (energy) will be known as the 5th law of thermodynamics, energy is duality, duality is energy. Gravitation is equivalent or dual to acceleration -- Einstein's happiest thought, the principle of equivalence (duality). Potential energy is dual to kinetic energy, gravitational energy is dual. Apples fall to the ground because they are conserving duality. Action is dual to reaction -- Sir Isaac Newton. Hegelian, Platonic philosophy is completely compatible with modern physics. Questions are dual to answers.

[@ryannation3044]

This is super helpful and engaging. Thanks so much for making this available!

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

You're so welcome!

[@Bijou_248]

New to 'Hegel's teaching ~ have been doing some research of my own on 'abstract idealism' and beautifully stumbled upon this channel. Thank you so very much. 🌼

[@davidwood7817]

I cannot express in words how grateful I am for your channel. This video blew my mind and finally made sense of Hegel for me. You are a masterful instructor - please keep up the incredible work!

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@johnstevenalejandro3034]

I loved listening to your discussion, those little jokes really helped liven the lesson. Thank you for this.

[@Leandro-cj8qb]

When Hegel talks about this expression of social cohesion in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right, he talks about the effect called Pobel. It is perfectly a result of this vicious feedback loop of transformation within itself. Nice lesson Professor Bonevac, as a student I would like to know if you could more in the future get into the topic that Quine aborts in The Roots of Reference, when he relates a notion in Berkeley about a two-dimensional dynamism and an answer present in Gestalt Psychology. Greetings from Brazil.

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@davidwaggoner3157]

A few current continental philosophers that I know of (for the life of me I can't think of any of their names at the moment 😃) say that Hegel believed that "contradiction" is the ultimate root of everything: every affirmation contains contradictions that give rise to negation, on and on pretty much forever...aka the heart of the Universe itself is contradiction. They say the basic thesis-antithesis-synthesis system is a slight misreading of his work since he didn't affirm "progress" like a "Young Hegelian" like Marx did. What later people called synthesis, Hegel wouldn't necessarily have thought was progressively better. ( Hegel was apparently a "bad" writer even though he was a great thinker, and his lack of clarity led to later people all reading something different into his work.) I dunno, but I find it all fascinating. Thanks for the video!

[@Javier-il1xi]

Todd McGowan, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic and Mladen Dolar come to mind :-)

[@stevebutler11]

@@Javier-il1xi Subject Lessons 2020

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@Javier-il1xi Those are some of the people belonging to the party that purports a left-leaning Immanent interpretation of Hegel.

[@J-Ton]

Very good video; thank you for your clear and honest portrayal of Hegel. I am surprised at how convincing his pseudo-intellectualism has been over the centuries.

[@postholocene]

the funny thing is, if you burnt every hegel book in existence, anybody could still recreate his logic just through the critique of kant. sorry kid, hegel is inevitable.

[@J-Ton]

@@postholocene Hegel happened, thus making "inevitability" a bit of a nonsequitur when discussing his ideas. On the other hand, calling his ideas "logic" does a great disservice to logicians everywhere.

[@casteretpollux]

Nice clear explanation. These processes are the same in the material world and the way it develops in all its aspects, our thinking reflecting it.

[@michaelpisciarino5348]

0:00 Hegel "One of The Last Great System Builders" (what does that mean?) 8:26 Get rid of the Thing-In-Itself 10:30 Eras of Existence Time Makes Differences

[@jeffpicklo525]

I just had a synthesis experience. Thank you. Great explanation.

[@ShawnCreer]

I had one as well. Cheers

[@mlittlitt]

Hello, I am interested in Hegels view of language. I can’t find anything on this topic. Can you recommend some sources? Thank you!

[@Jojothegodofrandom]

OH SNAP ITS YA BOY BONEVAC BACK AT IT AGAIN

[@gixx6783]

You are an amazing teacher! Keep it up

[@TheJayman213]

I got spiritual whiplash when he landed on the conclusion "Whatever is, is right!".

[@die_schlechtere_Milch]

you might be interested in the medieval theories of the transcendentals. there is an article on this on SEP.

[@wowjack8944]

So my understanding now is that in Hegel's view the ''noumena'' of Kant as being filtered through the categories themselves, and thus we cannot say anything about that at all. So does this not make Hegel a bit of a Solipsist, because if there is no reason to believe in the ''noumena'' than are we not only left with mind?

[@gerhitchman]

No -- Hegel's point is that the idea of noumena is a bad one (that there is no thing-in-itself), not that the noumena of Kant actually exist but are inaccessible.

[@raymondtalisic8292]

Well- explained and is very useful. Kodus sir!

[@faustolaporte9843]

my opinion on this video is constantly changing...

[@consumeentertainment9310]

What an amazing teacher!!! Thank you for your explanation☺☺

[@pavlovkuki6616]

Sir, really helpful. You teaching is clear and lucid. We need more videos from you on contemporary philosophers.. 🙏👍 From India.

[@ktheodor3968]

Thank you for making this available.

[@hassan-ali-]

Besides the part on T-A-S, this is the best explanation of Hegel on youtube. Good video for me to share around.

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

Thanks for sharing!

[@_schylag_137]

I tried studying this from my school textbook, understood a glimpse and knew i would fail at the test, so i watched this and i will attempt studying again, hopefully with better understanding which i think i got! After the test i'll update this comment with how it went maybe, but you sure have my gratitude

[@nathanhasegawa4937]

Where’s the update? I’m guessing it could have gone better?

[@_schylag_137]

@@nathanhasegawa4937 I FORGOT no it went really well, 9/10 in European marks, I wasn’t perfect with the notes and such, but the teacher saw that I understood the subject as a topic of thought and daily experience, which got me the good grade. I’m really glad I found videos like this

[@ayushdilodre1511]

Thankyou sir please keep it up

[@yousofk264]

An awesome explanation and transition from Kant to Hegel

[@maybefreeoneday906]

Nice video and I found it helpful thanks Prof. I wish you nice year 2021:)

[@a.leunghkg9919]

great introduction to hegel!! love the energy

[@hyperduality2838]

Potential energy is dual to kinetic energy, energy is duality, duality is energy! Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@krvr989]

@@hyperduality2838Ow

[@hyperduality2838]

@@krvr989 There is also a 5th law of thermodynamics:- The conservation of duality (energy), energy is duality, duality is energy. Electro is dual to magnetic -- Maxwell's equations. Photons, light are dual -- the colour black is dual to the colour white. Colour in physics is represented by differing frequencies of the same substance namely pure energy. Same is dual to different. The lack of colour, black is perceived as a colour, colour is dual and hence pure energy is dual. The 5th law is completely consistent with the Hegelian metaphysic. Duality creates reality!

[@sicariusbladehart9525]

Great and animated lecture!

[@LPArabia]

This reminds me of Wilfrid Sellars' work on the manifest image vs the scientific image

[@Confuzius]

great, very interesting thanks a lot sir!

[@martinvasek9331]

great video, thank you very much

[@666shadowblade666]

God, this is wonderful. Thank you.

[@arlieferguson7442]

I think his way of treating Kant’s categories might give a mistaken impression that they are much more easily dismissed than they actually are. I understand that he is attempting to have a simplified version for the purposes of an introductory discussion, but if you consider the categories themselves it’s hard to imagine that Egyptian or a medieval villager could have gotten along without them or could have done any of the things that they did. An easy target would be something like the notion of “substance.“ However, what can’t meant by substance was really just the notion of permanence, which is something that small children understand intuitively as part of manipulating objects in the world around themselves. Another would be the notion of cause-and-effect. But it is hard to imagine being able to get along in the world without some intuitive notion of one thing following another with an expected result. Kantian categories do not imply a very sophisticated philosophical repertoire of any kind. They really are an attempt to unearth some fundamental concepts that make any working knowledge of the world possible.

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

@@arlieferguson7442 I agree with you. I was trying to make Hegel’s objections make sense, but I’m on Kant’s side on this one.

[@ahmedmwhiskerhouse4424]

Would love to hear from @Daniel Bonevac why no one is interested in Schopenhauer, He has always been my first and last favorite philosopher, he introduced me to kant, hegel, and while I find the most relaxation in reading marx currently, I Still want to know why everyone is so Allergic to Arthur Schopnhauer ? :( . I value and appreciated this channel, and I think you're a great teacher and very explicative. Maybe a video coming soon ?

[@ahmedmwhiskerhouse4424]

This was a great introduction to hegel. I think that kant was epistimologically metaphysic and hegel metaphysically epistomological. I think that kant (the one ive read) proved his point on what we can know, say, and understand with certainty, very little. but hegel seems more like the existentialist type dealing with why what how of the way that he personally thinks of the world. I will dust off that copy of phenomology of spirit soon now that im interested.

[@compellingpeople]

Hegel denounces Kant's idealism but doesn't really offer an explanation of how the mind works. Can you point to literature where Hegel's attempts to explain the mind instead of just explaining how the environment changes the mind when interacting with it (which this video explained)?

[@emmanueloluga9770]

Research scholarly works on the science of logic and the Philosophy of Spirit.

[@YCW-j7b]

THE ABSOLUTE EXPLANATION!

[@okra7648]

What a great lecture, thank you!

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@heath3546]

Excellent job explaining very complex concepts

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ExperiPuer]

@@PhiloofAlexandria Hegel never mentioned Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis. Why are u trying to explain him with this concept?

[@jwu1950]

The absolute is change itself, Yin Yang. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

[@abiylakew3328]

Parmenides would like to have a word with you sir 😂😂

[@jwu1950]

@@abiylakew3328 Ask and you shall receive. Do it here. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us

[@ShawnCreer]

Thank you for this. Very useful.

[@carlosmorthera5504]

Many thanks & greetings from Cancún, México! CM.

[@mxrkxo]

thanks for your work.

[@zubariakhan2696]

Thanks for such a nice explanation.

[@Seal-hs5il]

Did Hegel actually use Thesis, Anthesis, Synthesis? I thought those were concepts from Fichte.

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

I think he uses them, but doesn't present them explicitly.

[@mikaleinonen8921]

@@PhiloofAlexandria He never uses them.

[@snusk741]

@@PhiloofAlexandria he never uses them. He even criticizes Kant for using them.

[@LuigiSimoncini]

@@snusk741then, for the love of God, why 99.9% of textbooks and philosophy videos attribute those concepts to Hegel?

[@deforeestwright2469]

This video presented a very lucid and coherent system which is ultimately my problem with it. Hegel had a an ambivalent relationship with the Law of Identity, and objected to attempts to treat logic as a set of formal operations devoid of conceptual content. As is often pointed out by Hegelophiles (to coin a term) the “thesis-antithesis-synthesis” formulation of dialectical logic seems to have been deliberately avoided by him since he never used those terms. . .which apparently come from Fichte. Is it any wonder then that most people simply don’t understand him and even people who make a deep study of him have different interpretations of his work? It is sad that Fichte and Schelling get glossed over in the mad rush to get from discussions of Kant to Hegel. Hegel built on a lot of ideas from them, and the transition from Kant to Fichte is a lot more natural than Kant to Hegel.

[@jpgo5]

20:36 is not actually a part of Hegel's system of thought. See The Hegel Myths and Legends, Chapter 20 (in part 6) The Hegel Legend of "Thesis-Antithesis Synthesis" by Gustav E. Mueller

[@nicknack191]

this was posted on my birthday ! epic

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

Happy birthday!

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@hyperduality2838]

@@PhiloofAlexandria Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@brilleargasm6499]

Daniel Bonevac is fukn legit. I aced my assignment 'cause of your video on Kant's Categories.

[@madonnainfurs]

brilliant video, i am confused about the conclusion made about norms of a specific time being the rational outcome of its historical background. why adapt the social norms when we can negate them to at least attempt to get closer to the absolute knowledge?

[@VioletDeliriums]

Excellent use of the blackboard to explain what Hegel found to be the bullshit (for lack of better word) in Kant! ... It is interesting that Foucault made essentially the same critique (that Hegel made of Kant) of Chomsky's proposal (in "Syntactic Structures") that there is some universal human nature, and in it the grammatical concepts common to all human languages are somehow embedded in the minds of all human beings. During the Foucault-Chomsky debate, Foucault made the point that when one defines human nature in some universal way, one runs the risk of doing so is to define it according to one's own culture at the expense of others. To this day, Chomsky seems to be incapable of anything more than throwing a few ad hominem at "postmodernists" as his defense. It's the same thing that Derrida (with the unconsciously assumed "centers" of "God, man, and so on...") did to Levi-Strauss's structuralist perspective...It is no wonder that some of your (perhaps universalist?) colleagues are afraid of Hegel, and probably hate Foucault and Derrida with a passion....The food fights within the high school cafeteria of academia fascinate me! :D

[@johngibson4882]

I havent finished the vidoe yet but at 12 mins in it sounds liks Kant and especially Hagel are dancing around the scientific concept of relativity.

[@mickeywood3012]

Philosophy is an opinion that lasts the test of time. Philosophers live through the lives of their teachers.

[@MikeWiest]

The idea of progress of the universal Geist reminds me of a similar vision of eventual “universal enlightenment” in Mahayana Buddhism, and also in the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, like The Phenomenon of Man.

[@tv-pp]

A better question is whether a theoretical entity could function in the universe with a totally different set of conceptions.

[@kushchopra4300]

Hey big fan here just one question, what is the difference between Berkeley and Hegels philosophy, i see no difference, they both say that there is no external input from the world and we construct and project everything in our mind.

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

There's a lot of similarity; both are idealists. But in Berkeley, God perceives everything all the time, giving everything a kind of objective existence, even if it isn't a material existence. In Hegel, there's a strong social and dynamic element. Geist, Spirit, unfolds over time, according to dynamic laws of thought, eventually attaining a state of absolute knowledge.

[@reasonsproduction]

This is a very simplistic view of Hegel, which is great for an introductory course, and I applaud you for making the effort to incorporate Hegel into a course such as this. Spent many pleasant hours with your "Deduction," by the way.

[@asbjrngammelgard9979]

Lovely treatment of the critique of Kant, but Hegel's method of immanent critique isn't the thesis-antithesis-synthesis triad.

[@leilakhademhosseini5412]

thank you so much, you are a great teacher

[@plastic2666]

SOOOOO GOOOD! thanks.

[@sergiusava9151]

@DanielBonevac. I would like to know what are your thoughts on what justifies the synthesis between thesis and antithesis. Presumably, we would eliminate any contradictions between them as we would aim at avoiding breaking other logical laws. However, if this enough for synthesis? When is a synthesis warranted? Thank you

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

That's an interesting and difficult question! I need to think about that.

[@itsv1p3r]

the concept of thesis antithesis synthesis is in itself a synthesis of logic and illogic. hegel's beliefs encourage the breakdown of reason and destruction of objectivity in favor of subjectivity.

[@samuelAbebaw-ve7gr]

isn't this fichte's idea?

[@ConstantIsolation]

maybe I just don't understand, but this seems to be a very simple concept conveyed in very complicated terms....

[@va1idname]

In no way whatsoever does Hegel claim that “whatever is, is right.” That is just egregiously wrong. Whatever outdated secondary source is being relied upon here is misinterpreting a claim for the Preface to the Elements of the Philosophy of Right that no one who has read the Logic would make and which, moreover, he directly addresses in the prefatory matter in the Encyclopedia: that which is actual [wirklich] is *definitionally* adequate to its rational concept (§6R). Not everything that just is [Dasein] or appears in existence [Existenz] is actual-much less right [Recht]. As much as I appreciate the effort to provide a sympathetic reading of Hegel, most of this is just plain wrong. An imperfect (of course) but highly accessible overview of Hegel’s thought is Stephen Houlgate’s Introduction to Hegel. Just in case anyone is interested. Terry Pinkard’s intellectual biography is also quite accessible to a general/undergraduate reader. (His interpretation is worse that Houlgate’s, but it’s still a fine place to start.)

[@michaelgabriel9797]

Implications of this philosophy in education please

[@MAX-tw3qz]

Is it not the case that there is something beyond understanding creating a paradox? Is this not a category ? If philosophy refuses to acknowledge this paradox it does truth a great disservice and leads to this sort of metaphysical speculation so necessary for many, precisely what Kant wanted to avoid and abolished through his critique of pure Reason. How the gods must laugh at Hegel, fathoming The System and knowing it all by rote! Good video, thanks.

[@timelston4260]

This is a good and helpful lecture, but I always cringe when people describe Hegel's dialectic in terms of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. That was Fichte's idea, not Hegel's. Hegel is much more profound than that. Hegel's dialectic is about sublation, not synthesis; that is, finding truth in how moments of thought reflect each other, how they both negate and preserve each other. The Stanford Encyclopedia article entitled "Hegel's Dialectic" does a good job of showing the problems with thinking about Hegel in terms of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

[@oldsachem]

What if the aufgehaben is wrong?

[@va1idname]

Wow. That is a weirdly psychological reading of the first Critique. (Not a lot of Kant scholars on board with that…) Also, massively wrong about Hegel. Hegel is not a relativist, nor is he a pluralist. And I would really reserve the term “historicist” for Herder, Humboldt, Dilthey, et al. Hegel’s philosophical histories - world history, art history, religion, philosophy - are systematic reconstructions in accordance with the logic of the concept [Begriff]. Perhaps most importantly, the dialectic of pure self-thinking thought - Aristotle’s nous, not any particular thinking individual - presented in the Logic is (or so he everywhere claims) ahistorical, eternal-the immanent unfolding of that which constantly, unavoidably asserts itself [die Sache]. This, in fact - and nothing else, nothing more - is the absolute: the entirely self-conditioned activity of self-knowing in art, religion, and logic.

[@SI-qp7cm]

13:39 I think we cannot have the view of quantum and slit experiments displacing cause and effect . This would result in absurd outcome . The correct position seems to be that quantum still correlated with cause and effect and we do not understand that phenomenon correctly . To state the view that this can mean a cause has no relationship to effect requires extraordinary evidence given the absurd nature of the outcome

[@yogiafricankumarsanu3181]

Thank you sir 🙏

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 34:42

[@Objectivityiskey]

So if concepts are constructed instead of observed, who makes valid concepts and by what standard? Kant never understood rationality and so all of the Individuals that studied Kant or Hegel never understood objectivity.

[@hyperduality2838]

Being is dual to non-being creates becoming -- Plato. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis creates converging thesis or synthesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic. Problem (thesis), reaction (anti-thesis), solution (synthesis) -- the time dependent Hegelian dialectic. Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes. Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant. The intellectual mind/soul (concepts) is dual to the sensory mind/soul (percepts) -- the mind duality of Thomas Aquinas. Mind duality is dual to matter duality. Matter duality: Bosons (waves) are dual to Fermions (particles) -- wave/particle or quantum duality. Active matter (life) is dual to passive matter (atoms, forces). Noumenal is dual to phenomenal -- Immanuel Kant. Hegel's cat: Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not-alive (anti-thesis, non-being) -- Schrodinger's or Plato's cat. The Einstein reality criterion:- "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of reality corresponding to that quantity." (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen 1935, p. 777) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:- www.iep.utm.edu/epr/ According to Einstein we predict or project reality into existence, this is a syntropic process! Thinking is a syntropic process, entropy or information is converted into mutual information to form predictions, projections. "Through imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight (prediction)" -- Spinoza describing syntropy. Predictions are used to track targets -- teleology. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Syntropy (prediction, projection) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

[@martinzarathustra8604]

Have you read the Critique? The categories of perception are a priori structures of the mind itself. So the mind makes concepts by its own categories. Our standard is the structure of our own minds, but in Kant the objects are observed, but mitigated by what the mind imposes on them. This is actually born out in most modern research: we do not see the world as it is. Hegel's ideas are super interesting, but I don't think he succeeds in overthrowing Kant on this. Hegel's dismissal of it is not as easy as Daniel covers here since this is just an introduction to Hegel.

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@martinzarathustra8604 First of all, this is youtube, so there is bound to be an objectivist that makes this far-reaching claim. Most of the time it goes nowhere. Secondly, Whether or not one sees Hegel to have overcome Kant's ill-fated limitation on human reason is a matter of many factors to be considered. However, reading the science of logic and the philosophy of spirit reveals the latter to more likely be true. The thing to note is Hegel replaces an abstract conception of things-in-themselves to a concrete notion of Things-of-and-for-themselves. In other words, Kant was mostly still operation using static concepts dressed under a blanket of dynamic notions as formulated in his 12 categories with the use of triadic logic, thus he mostly employed empirical/quasi-rationalistic explications that still upheld isolated entities. Hegel was the one to introduce true dynamic concepts (first started with Leibniz, even before Kant) and use them to form concrete notions of implicit and not explicit-isolated concepts.

[@thecjknows]

The appendix stores good bacteria for your gut/immune system. When the body senses infection and we get diarrhea, the body becomes void of good bacteria, which is stored by the appendix for such occurrences. In the ancient world, the appendix was a necessity because of how often we came into contact with diarrhea inducing foods, water, etc. In the clean modern world, where diarrhea is less frequent, the appendix is less useful and sometimes even bursts from being infected itself. Ignorance is more abundant that farther back we go in time, which is why ancient wisdoms seems so strange to us now. Knowing the Thing was very different in our recent and ancient past because nearly nothing made rational sense.

[@DamonD_Absences]

I very much wanted to enjoy this, and though I loved your enthusiasm, I ended up shaking my head at the “thesis-antithesis-synthesis” explanation of the dialectic. This is an interpretation that has LONG been discarded as a thorough misunderstanding of Hegel. It’s just philosophical centrism. For Hegel, it’s “antithesis” all the way down-that’s to say, identity presupposes non-identity, negativity, difference, etc. Identity is split within, not merely without. Further, this negativity does not sublate the “best parts” of it’s relative “positive” (a misleading word in this context) into itself so as to create a higher unity; rather, unity only exists in the coincidentia oppositorum-identity through contradicting antagonism. There is movement, but the movement is not a synthesis (I believe he even decried this interpretation himself); it is a continuous disruption of identity. Hopefully that helps to see why “synthesis” is inadequate as a name for this stage in his thinking, but if it isn’t, essentially what we’re saying here is that any positing of an identity is itself unstable from within, therefore the “higher synthesis” is self-sundering. It is simultaneously a question of the epistemology inherent in the grasping of abstract identity as filtered through human concepts, yes, and a question of ontology via negativity. Also, “absolute knowledge” is an incorrect phrasing, it is “absolute knowing”-the knowing of the process, not the full grasp of an unmediated Absolute devoid of contradicting antagonisms-the Absolute just is this negativity itself. Best wishes, and hope this help someone

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

I agree with much of what you say. I find the thesis/antithesis/synthesis worth teaching despite that, for several reasons. First, it brings out the dynamic aspect of Hegel's thought, something that marks an important difference from Kant and other earlier thinkers. Second, it does seem to me to capture something important about his understanding of the development of the self in the Phenomenology, where earlier stages are aufgehoben in unhappy consciousness, which is itself aufgehoben through mutual recognition-the recognition of recognition-allowing the formation of self-consciousness. Third, it plays a role in his understanding of history, and exerts significant influence on Marx and the pragmatists.

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@PhiloofAlexandria Thank you for your masterful presentation of complex topics. However, I am on the side of Damon. In subsequent expositions of Hegel, you should state explicitly that it was Fitche who explicitly used those terms that Hegel so decried as merely being abstract and not concrete. Yes, it works in helping to show the playing out of Knowledge in phenomenology, but only as a mere insufficient stage.

[@wrightmaiorquezico8909]

@@PhiloofAlexandria Excellent lesson from the teacher! Everyone knows that this "thesis-antithesis-synthesis" story is just a facilitator, which exposes the student that the Hegelian dialectic is not like the formal logic that we have always learned. I bet the "smart guys" who are criticizing have never read a book by Hegel.

[@colonelweird]

This objection makes sense to me (as far as I understand it), but is it possible to explain in a way that makes sense to beginners?

[@wowjack8944]

@@wrightmaiorquezico8909 Damon D has a lot of Hegel books in his video even from back in 2016, so i'm pretty sure this guy is well versed on Hegel.

[@oldsachem]

Apply Hegel's theory of dialectical change to gain of function in microbiology, the replication of life.

[@kamilkara2767]

It sounds the way sherlock holmes thinks in. It is very smilar way. If i havent misunderstanding

[@tcmackgeorges12]

Thesis -> antithesis -> synthesis is not Hegel

[@jakemckeown9459]

Hmmm… that’s not what Caesar told me…

[@itsv1p3r]

objective reality doesn't care about subjectivity and nor do i. align oneself with reality, instead of pretending to align reality with the self and perverting logic, reason, and understanding

[@admiralmurat2777]

We can never say empirically that all knowledge comes through sense data. There is no empirical way to establish the starting points and the same mental categories, per Kant.