PHILOSOPHY - Hegel

The German philosopher Hegel believed that strange and alien bits of history have much to teach us. He believed story and civilisation do not move in a straight line, so important ideas and attitudes get left behind.
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[@lllllllllarose]

I remember quietly tearing up in metro because I had spent the entire one-hour trip trying to make sense of one single paragraph

[@yerimie]

Same

[@lucreziapellanda9288]

Kanjani 8 this is me at the moment. Sigh.

[@MarceloVieirantr]

Put the blame on Kant and his followers

[@m-bronte]

you don't have to be crazy to understand him but I think it might help.

[@gerabadillo7889]

"Hegel put me off by his language, as arrogant as it was laborious; I regarded him with downright mistrust. He seemed to me like a man who was caged in the edifice of his own words and was pompously gesticulating in prison." Carl G. Jung My thoughts are that Hegel was full of shit and employed that tactic of not being clear to make of himself great, by pretending and creating a language that if nobody could understood it was because they weren't smart enough to understand and made himself into a riddle on purpose. And maybe that is the main influence some nasty intellectuals got from him, elements of deception. Besides some few useful concepts. That's just my theory based on the reflection I quoted.

[@ivynbean]

Hegel - "you actually thought I wanted you to understand me, charming"

[@hermessantos1343]

Lol

[@nils191]

There is nothing more intellectually dishonest than Marxism. Marx stole his work from the French Socialist, and Father of the Libertarian Socialist school, Joseph-Pierre proudhon. Marx took his works, and degenerated them into a self-destructive and self-loathing jealous ideology.

[@tarikfurtado5587]

+Matias Mingo don't think you got the joke here m8

[@kategoss5454]

@@nils191 Whoo that's a very passionate response. As much respect as I have for Proudhon, he was not 'the last philosopher' and never will be. While I personally believe Proudhon's 'anarchist' politics to be superior to the Communism that grew from Marxism-Leninism, that's no reason to discard the works of Marx, and all the wonderful work done in response to him.

[@sanderskovly7641]

@dʒeɪms Marx actually started at Berlin in Hegel's class like a month after Hegel passed away, lol. It was like the closest almost meeting ever. Reminds me of when Trotsky, Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Sigmund Freud and I think Josef Broz Tito (and of course Franz Josef and Franz Ferdinand) all were in Vienna in 1913.

[@essewaxegard9423]

My first language teacher described reading hegel as literary self harm behavior, and as it would seem this is an apt description

[@ewigerschuler3982]

There are those people actually reading Hegel and those dragging his name in the dirt.

[@joshuawalfenzao]

Ofc a teacher hates Hegel. Everything Hegel says is what Teachers stand against.

[@PerspectivePhilosophy]

It's a skill, once you understand the Vocab and style it's very rewarding. I have yet to find a richer thinker than Hegel.

[@DexterHaven]

Yeah, the president of my college said his own style of writing was influenced most by Hegel at one point. @@PerspectivePhilosophy

[@DexterHaven]

I wonder if you admire the German of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein as well, who also prided themselves on verbal economy. @@PerspectivePhilosophy

[@guit6452]

3:50 hey it's me from the future, 2020 has no balance, it's all extremes, thanks for your time

[@andreascabreira]

Dont you think its funny that the average agree with this?

[@host2131]

nah, 2020 was good

[@ismeza76]

@@host2131I mean it was good for me since I had no job, was in CC , found out I excel more with digital courses even if I enjoy in person so all A’s through that year and 2021 😂

[@host2131]

@@ismeza76 congratulations!

[@Nyxthebat04]

@@host2131 Objectively, it was kinda ass

[@ShadowMii14]

I'm going to die before I figure out how to make my interest in philosophy become a way of income.

[@ShadowMii14]

***** Inspired

[@MoonLightPhoenixLove]

how exactly have you cracked it? Where's this information you speak of?

[@NectroSpect]

+MoonLightPhoenixLove make youtube videos

[@pampstamp]

+Skippo If you're good at critical and creative thinking, then it comes easy. If you study philosophy just to study someone else's ideas, then it won't. You won't necessarily get rich off of it either way unless you cultivate above par communication and speaking skills.

[@ShadowMii14]

Mikael Evangale As long as I have a warm place and food I'm rich enough, haha.

[@eneanavis]

As a German I have to say, that Hegel´s language is pure beauty. It might tend to drown in its own complexity at first sight, but if you read it again and again it unfolds to a thunderstorm of both, lyrical depth and precision. You would lose that quality by simplifying it.

[@charlesfraunhofer7893]

It's a great philosophy and profound like any other philosophy and even has its own books, although 1% of the time the words that don't make sense are a bit odd, especially that part that feels normal but gives you a heightened feeling, which is odd.

[@joannebrown3846]

Shame he didn't write in English. Initials brown

[@Audio-qe7cs]

dont care + ratio + Sartre better

[@jdzentrist8711]

As an Amercan reader of the translations, I agree and lament I can't read the originals.

[@MM-KunstUndWahrheit]

I would urge any fan of philosophy to learn german, it might take a long time to reach the levels of depth that is presented in philosophical ststements, but it would be a major adavantage to comprehend those profound people in their own tongue, plus you can flex in german with complex literal terms which I do

[@infinebow7810]

"In 2020, we' might find a balance between the two extremes". Haha, sure.

[@seanhavern9864]

Both extremes just keep getting worse. two horrible, hateful tribes who think they’re different but they’re exactly the same

[@bravefastrabbit770]

@@seanhavern9864 Haha perfectly named the Hegelian Dialectic

[@stadtjer689]

🤠

[@shimnakt955]

@Arminda Surface damm is it that easy❓😨

[@Cellodore]

Actually, in a sense we have gotten this dialectic. It's just that the moderate democrats are synthesizing with ever-more extreme proto-fascists.

[@oipstx]

"it might only by 2020's that we'll find the right balance between extremes" 2020: really?

[@buildawall5803]

Perhaps

[@whiteduck5563]

WWIII is here for the balance

[@Nernbutt]

i just want to be down a few steps on this extreme, the 90s were a good balance i think

[@AbdallahTeach]

@@Nernbutt a good balance between what?

[@Nernbutt]

@@AbdallahTeach watch the video and read the comment I replied to. If you don't understand Hegel that's fine but I'm not explaining it in a youtube comment.

[@richardedward123]

I think the "Hegelian Dialectic" needs its own video. On this topic, this video leaves me still confused....

[@edpavez]

Satoshi Chomsky yeah, this video failed to explain the most important aspects of Hegel's philosophy.

[@jabeztomer]

Satoshi Chomsky his herrschaft und knechtschaft also needs its own video.

[@milascave2]

EduardoPavezGoye It's true. Marx made much use of this idea, but later he was taught as dogma and the idea of the dielectic was used but not understood well.

[@DominicGudgeon]

Satoshi Chomsky I was actually hoping for that. I want to become more familiar with Marxism and the modern Left, so I have gradually been working back. But to understand Marx, one must understand Hegel, and to understand Hegel one must understand Kant. The video is good, but I think a few minutes on contextualising Hegel would be better - to show where he sat among his contemporaries (or the tradition he was a part of) and his impact. It was a very short comment on his Dialectics, which is probably his greatest contribution to Western thought!

[@edpavez]

Dee Gee as a hegelian-marxist I think you don't really need to undertand Hegel to understand Marx. sure, it helps, but the problems and questions Hegel rises are totally different from the ones Marx was worried about. Marx is more an economist who happened to use certain elements from Hegel, but you can understand it pretty much reading him directly. Hegel is a different beast who takes years and years to tame and whose work has no practical use in "real life". ;)

[@Cthululz1]

>you will never own a pastry shop named, "Hegel's Bagels".

[@PRmoustache88]

+Cthululz1 Nor "Montaigne's Madeleines"

[@MikeGreenwood51]

As a creative person I created a little one. But it's kept closed as I have something against to many bagels in society.

[@keyboardcorrector2340]

Kek.

[@djundag9801]

"I could not understand the taste of this bread."

[@MikeGreenwood51]

It gets up your nose Shirley.

[@pandacoco273]

You are here because you don't want to be like the audience in Jordan Peterson vs Slovaj Zizek debate

[@OneMeInMyself]

precicely, haha 🙏

[@joelwest5541]

Accurate

[@ItsCronk]

The audience? More like Peterson himself.

[@ofirbenattar9508]

those who are here are the real learner

[@Bluzian74]

@@ItsCronk You obviously weren't there.

[@user-bn1yj2iw5u]

I really love how digestible and simplified school of life makes philosophy. Thank you very very much.

[@raptakula8469]

It is not a good way to seek digestability and simplicity.

[@OfficialOffsideBall]

Its a bad way to learn philosophy like this. Better read the books. This can be a starting point.

[@krinkle909]

And inaccurate

[@elenacosta1040]

School of Life: It might only be by the 2020s that we’ll find the right balance between extremes. Netflix in 2020: ‘Cuties’

[@Conn30Mtenor]

or when a 9 year-old boy dresses up like a drag queen and wears lipstick it's called "brave". I never imagined that the sexualization of children would be called that, but such are the times.

[@alaskaoalaska]

"the 1960s may have turned out to be too liberal" It's only gotten worse since then, wayyy worse.

[@dukemosby5552]

@@alaskaoalaska Nah dawg. We just have the internet now to broadcast the extremes more. The sixties were next level.

[@alaskaoalaska]

@@dukemosby5552 We have furries, dude. FURRIES.

[@kylevicory2688]

When this pendulum swings...how far will it go? That's the question

[@josephivernel2078]

The idea that I like the most in Hegel’s philosophy is about the relationships, when he says that a relationship is the projection of the self in the other that determine the relation. That idea had followed me ever since I read about it.

[@STM1066]

“It’s Hegelian dialectics, not personal animosity”-Caesar, Fallout New Vegas

[@fatfuck2384]

Ave, true to Caesar

[@femmemachete]

*"Degenerates like you belong on a cross."*

[@JohnTrustworthy]

*RETRIBUTION!!!*

[@John_Browns_body]

Watch yourself profligate

[@marloyorkrodriguez9975]

I know you’re NCR you profligate!

[@pattybert5890]

Lol “it may only be by the time we reach the 2020s that we find the right balance of extremes.” This aged very well. As an American, I can say that we have not reached a balance.

[@ibrahimmqami9006]

He died the following year. *lesson learned*

[@christopherbritton2677]

Ibrahim Mqami roll credits

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Died November 14 1831.

[@MagnumBullets47]

@@christopherbritton2677 plays "now the world don't move"

[@christopherbritton2677]

MagnumBullets47 don’t get it?

[@magnomaxx2010]

"Hegel, a banal, void, disgusting and ignorant charlatan who mixes insanity and nonsense with unprecedented arrogance, what his partisans convey as if it were immortal wisdom held to be true by idiots ... condemned to ruin a whole generation of intellectuals " - Schopenhauer

[@michallewandowski5706]

"It might be by the 2020's that we find the balance between the two extremes" ... that one hasn't aged quite so well

[@mrdjpalmer1]

Even though I know little about Hegel, I'm quite sure that one of the most valuable lessons that his work can teach you is the fact that we need each other to know what we are and develop our "true" self-consciousness. This video should have explained this as well.

[@Sascha____]

This sounds beautiful. Any videos relating to this ?

[@porteal8986]

yea I think this is one of the key ideas in the phonomenology

[@LucklessGun]

@@Sascha____ lol yeah, the christian bible.

[@LucklessGun]

hegel’s concept is literally just a perspective of dominance. “am i greater or lesser than [object/person]?” “how does it benefit me” “what is my relationship to it?” he makes it sound complicated largely because his writing is not clear or concise, a sign of midwittery.

[@porteal8986]

@@LucklessGun how the fuck did you get that from reading hegel?

[@user-ib4bg9kg5s]

My Google assistant is going crazy everytime "Hegel" is said in the video thinking it's "Hey Google"

[@femmemachete]

Hey, Gelgel.

[@francis3774]

OH SO THAT'S WHY!!!! IM GETTING ANNOYED IT POPS OUT OF NOWHERE

[@fankaar3160]

me too

[@daniabadeister1526]

Could you please put subtitles on your videos? For deaf or hearing-impared people, for non-native speakers who want to learn English with your lectures.

[@Josh-vg2lj]

+Loïs Jotry Just press the CC button next to settings and theater mode

[@daniabadeister1526]

Joshua Bechhoefer theatre mode?

[@Josh-vg2lj]

when you mouse over the video on the bottom bar

[@MohamadSafadieh]

+Joshua Bechhoefer The prom is that the subtitles are auto-generated. That's better than nothing but it's not entirely accurate.

[@TheBibleWithTina]

This is 2020 and we still haven't found the right balance between extremes. We'll revisit in 5 years time.

[@Mirrtamirrv]

Make it 10

[@TheBibleWithTina]

@@Mirrtamirrv Lol. 10 it is then.

[@juancruzlives]

2022 here, no signs of balance

[@hayteren]

I love this channel. Having Hegel who loved art, and John Locke, who thought it was pointless on the same channel shows there are all points of view

[@konoko1002k]

Hello from 2020. No, we're still not there yet.

[@larissawiratno4878]

instead what is sex nobody is etting any we're confined to our homes haha

[@jacobpetitta7038]

We are getting there tho, progress is slow and painful like said but it is progress

[@tvtitlechampion3238]

It might be an example of the boulder of Sisyphus, always doomed to roll back down the hill.

[@rossstephen7013]

This channel has opened my eyes to philosophy and I cannot thank you enough for the great content

[@clayroberts2951]

my coworker from Germany swore by Hegel and I wasn’t able to comprehend what he saw in his philosophy. Anyway after searching for a while I found this video to describe his philosophy (I could only remember his names started with an ‘H’). It’s still not easily comprehendable but it sounds like he is biting a little off of aristotle who said things have a mean. Anything in excess or lacking is not balanced and thus we have to find a balance in everything.

[@Niloneez]

I have been a long time lurker of this channel, I just wanted to comment and let yal kno how much I appreciate you guys and gals who work to put up these videos! It has helped coup better with my self and all that is around me! Philosophy is awesome!!

[@LordTrashcanRulez]

Based

[@richardwestwood8212]

An advice to everyone who wishes to read Hegel's greatest book The Phenomenology Of The Spirit; you should start first with his other book, Philosophy Of History, where he sees ancient empires as moments in the evolution of the Total Spirit, and this is the golden key to his imposing and magestic phenomenological conception. After reading his lectures on the history of Philosophy and his aesthetic theory, go straight to Logic part 1and 2. Don't be overwhelmed by the title, it's really a great read, in it he talks about great cultural events; empty logical categories have no meaning for Hegel. Wish you good luck sisters and brothers, read Hegel for he is the summit of western metaphysics.

[@rottensauerkraut6084]

absolute knowledge is by far one of the coolest parts of philosophy. his ideas about synthesis and analysis are very important to know when your trying to write or be creative.

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

I discovered that if I could identify and silence my reaction of annoyance and resistance at reading what appeared to be the same sentence only structured slightly differently over and over again, and then learned to not try so hard to keep all concepts from the start of a paragraph, in a place in my mind where I could consciously remember them all and follow the the links and associations that were being made, then suddenly, reading a page became like the written equivalent of a magic-eye picture of the kind that forms a 3d image when you disengage your standard focus reflex and allow the edges to blur... Not in a pictorial sense like using text characters to render an image but within my mind if the words moved at a steady pace and weren't held back then a blurring of meaning began to take place and I learned that it didn't matter if the concepts fell away into the back of my awareness as they would be contained in the next sentence too... the writing style was doing the job normally done by the 'working memory' or biological version of 'RAM' in the brain which, instead of doing that task as per usual, my conscious awareness had the image of some simple but definitely 3 dimensional geometric shapes forming. It was quite unlike any other book I read and I really wish I had not tried so hard to force it to make sense at every step in the standard way, when I first picked it up, because that was exhausting! If you follow my meaning..!

[@cd7002]

mu

[@nordfreiheit]

+Graham Loines This is excellent. People assume that Hegel was being cryptic on purpose. But I think his language speaks to us on a different level- one that requires a well-trained mind to read into. Just as I wouldn't dismiss Calculus because the average person who doesn't have a solid grasp on Algebra doesn't understand it, so too is it irrational to dismiss Hegel because many people have a hard time understanding him. He wrote of many different concepts that the video didn't touch on. Studying Hegel is an exercise of the mind and intellect. It teaches us that philosophy should be read carefully and analyzed critically, instead of mindlessly consumed.

[@KikomochiMendoza]

+Graham Loines Reading this is like listening to a one-sided conversation where one person rambles on delineating their ideas in a flowing manner and at the same time without pausing in order to form a single coherent thought but rather create an entire idea much like a painter brushing on a canvas without once lifting their hand to pause for a moment which is not to say an inherently bad thing rather it can be quite tedious to read as it challenges the reader to keep up with the pace with writer without stopping for a moments breath in order to ponder on the writer's soliloquy. [this is challenging to do, but fun. I should do this more often to piss off my professors]

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

KikomochiMendoza I have received similar feedback before! It's quite similar to criticism of Hegel's style... but also a potential hazard with attempts at posting conversationally in a KZbin comments section... I think! I'm not an academic and recognise that there are certain structural elements lacking which, would perhaps be habitually included by someone who is regularly submitting work for formal assessment. But... I do enjoy delineating in a flowing way when the mood takes me, especially if I'm ranting... long sentences, sparsely, perhaps incorrectly punctuated, to invite the reader to perform some mental agility in order to keep up, without letting up, relentlessly moving forward but implying that a pause is coming up only to fly right past the opportunity, just to see if the reader managed to keep up and then as I am recalibrating my sense of direction, so as to allow adjustments to my trajectory and slamming on the brakes if necessary (maybe too late... ) without warning... and sliding spectacularly close to the limit.... waiting for the next check-point to come into view (I might just make it after all.... it's gonna be close though...) and then hitting the accelerator as soon as I'm pointing in the right direction... and repeating the process until I have visited each checkpoint and I feel fully expressed! Sometimes it ends up making sense and other times it's just a mess... I can laugh at it either way, and as no grades are going to be affected, might as well write in the way that i like and all the better if it's unexpected! Perhaps I'll install Grammarly sometime in the near future if I am likely to write more regularly... Make it all a little easier on the reader... What do you think...? Good idea?... :)

[@Yochillitsthatserious]

Absolutely hilarious.

[@TheManifoldCuriosity]

Hegel's prose obviously didn't work for me. I gave it a try and, without understanding most of it, I came to think of him as just a metaphysical rambler. Interesting, but too dense for me to sift through casually. Anyway, this video clears things up nicely. Thanks! By the way, there's a fellow on KZbin called Dr Gregory Sadler who does a weekly series delving into The Phenomenology of Spirit. His videos are a little beyond me at the present moment but some of you may be interested in his in-depth reading.

[@saIvete]

The Manifold Curiosity To be honest with you and everyone, sure this video INTERPRETS his philosophy in a nice manner, but it doesn't -of course- begin to engulf its entirety at any good level. Hegel's philosophy goes way beyond this and in many ways diverges from the narrator's perspectives. With all respect to Alain (who is nonetheless a great speaker), this just falls into an interpretation of the thinker -and this applies to each philosopher and author they cover- and accommodates the thought into their convenience (with the 'optimist' philosophy they are trying to shove).

[@SDSen]

Read about Taoism must more interesting and real

[@esmolol4091]

Just take Schopenhauer instead and you will be happy. Schopenhauer is all about logical reasoning, Hegel is about magical thinking, which is NOT philosophical at all.

[@ObsidianMiner32]

Philosophy is purely about qualitative things, which you regard as “magic”

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@esmolol4091 THE FUCK! Have you even bothered to open "The science of Logic"? Damn it with all these overgeneralizations of one of the most rigorous people to ever walk the earth. That is what our society lacks today in non-analytical fields..RIGOUR

[@silvio25432]

To quote Gregory Sandler - “Frankly, I don’t even know if Hegel got Hegel.”

[@SeannyOg]

"It might only be by the 2020s that we'll find the right balance between extremes", HA!

[@purpandskizo]

Thank you SO much School of Life for making this video! Best channel on KZbin.

[@rishabhisthename]

A complete visual and intellectual treat, I admire your work, thank you for all your efforts 🙏

[@universallemon6631]

Its good to hear Hegel explained in a simple to understand way, hopefully this will encourage more interest in Hegels work, it did with me.

[@ewwwmoreewww7246]

if 2020 was a piece of writing, it would be of Hegel's

[@user-vs1qd1hu2i]

Based

[@guydeborde3222]

Hegelian taught us so much more. He taught us about systems and how to create and maintain those systems. He taught us about social media and trends before anyone else as well I believe. Especially with indespensable terms like Zeitgeist.

[@lol233333355555]

Nope! Try again, Schopenflower fanboy.

[@Eliu5564]

I recommend the Philosophy of History for newcomers; the writing here is significantly more accessible than his other works, such as Logic and the Phenomenology

[@morethan3756]

All I know is even Hegelian dialectics can't explain why the Kardashians are famous.

[@mileslc5925]

School of life: In the 2020’s we might find balance between the extremes 2020: We shall have extremes with no balance.

[@Alrisch]

I believe Hegel's prose is really hard to grasp. However, it is not unnecessary as some of you have argued. Hegel's work is way more than just a couple of points. He tried to critically overcome Kant's ideas in order to give us a new comprehension of the world around us. When Hegel argued about history, he doesn't believe exactly that it could be just "useful" to look back and remember something. For him, concepts and reality itself gain meaningful content through processes. In other words, things are now as they are because they were what they were. This idea is specially important for him, because points out that the study of history, in regards to the observer works as a play in a theater in which the observer already knows the end of it. Those who study history, while they do it, know what is going to happen. But the notion of knowing the resolution lets you see the intricate connection between two facts and the possibility of deeper relation between them. Through that, he proposes dialectics as a method of understanding that deeper connection between history and man as a result of history. Because he believed, against Kant assumption, that because things are not presented to us (humans) directly though our senses, it doesn't mean that we can't have access to that other side of reality (absolute). So, in his works, he tries to build reality through his method, in a way in which you can only understand the entirety by observing its entirety. Many readers and academics who work with Hegel will tell you that once you reach the last chapter of the Phenomonology of the Spirit, things just clicked, and a second reading is immediately necessary, for those things that did not make any sense suddenly are comprehensible. And that is not Hegel's prose fault, is is a particular circular way of presenting ideas at the same time than a method. A method that is not easy to understand, but is full of tools to better comprehend reality as an object which resides in society at the same time that society in reality. As Hegel said "philosophy can only be learned by doing philosophy." A last thing. Hegel was a Liberal who argued, during the french revolution, that the principle of Monarchy was the best way to care for liberty and individual rights. You can be in favor or against that idea, but Hegel thought of it because of the particularities of its time. He was profoundly Liberal. The stories say that when he was a Teacher, he used to gather at night with his students to hold conversations about liberty and the french revolution in a time when those practices were strongly prohibited. And one day, one of his students was caught and imprison for divulge Liberal ideas on a public space. As a result, Hegel and his students went on a boat, every other night, to speak to this student imprisoned to speak about Liberal ideas and the news regarding the french in latin (in order to avoid being caught).

[@Gguy061]

Alrisch I find this insight very interesting. I never thought of things as defined through process

[@naimepeci6827]

Sources?

[@erenozdemir5528]

He was a charlatan.

[@willferrous8677]

This is definitely worth the wait. Bravo!

[@edgarkretschmann4753]

You guys are on the top of a mountain, with an idea so fresh and in need as never before. I just hope that as many people as possible can enjoy and make good use of this condensed and well interpreted wisdom you sharing with the world. Good job good people, please go on informing :)

[@kritikajeffrine5274]

This is one clear piece of knowledge. I wish I could have seen in during my second semester. although, I got the idea but not with this clarity. It explains everything so clearly. I was just able to identify the wires with matching colours, and now it is connected. Thank u so much

[@MeganS1995]

I appreciate you guys for going through his writing and transforming it into everyday language. Major props.

[@spiritofmodernity9679]

It's terrible. Not Hegel at all

[@lionzion619]

If you are interested in Hegels view on history, I recommend you the tragedy of man by Imre Madách, a relatively short drama where Lucifer attempts to make Adam commit suicide by showing him the future of humanity. It has a bit bitter feeling because of the plot, but it is a good presentation of the thesis-antithesis-synthesis system.

[@azaichissi5980]

hi can you recommend other plays influenced by Hegel I"m really interested

[@stringtheoryguitars4952]

Fascinating premise; although Lucifer can't see the future. We fail to grasp the spiritual drama that took place in the garden, so people tend to fictionalize it.

[@motostarmx1777]

@@stringtheoryguitars4952 im not so sure about that..

[@stringtheoryguitars4952]

@@motostarmx1777 Not sure about what, Lucifer’s ability to see the future?

[@jameschristopher2540]

What bit?!

[@virginianolan9414]

I agree about him being difficult to read! Thank you for this very well presented 'Hegel in a nutshell'. I can see how our modern society is modelled on many of his ideas.

[@tullussulla6167]

ShoddyCast brought me here. And I like it, you sir just got a new Subb, I always do love history and vids like this.

[@M0repheus]

Great to have a video on Hegel here! But I think his ideas a worth for a deeper examination. His "Dialektik" and "System" are very inspiring and not only for the past generations of philosophers (Marx, Adorno, Luhmann) but also for challenges of nowdays phisophy. For further reading I'd recommend Slavoj Zizeks excellent "Less than nothing", Cathrine Malabous "The Future of Hegel" and Hegels own "Enzyklopädie" - search for the traces of Hegels thinking, they are everywhere!

[@sunilprajapati6377]

Me: *Watching this on 5th June 2020* Video: "it might only by 2020's that we'll find the right balance between extremes" 2020: *snorting cocaine*

[@takemytail2441]

Dang wtf lol

[@yoshireallyizbaddclark3423]

😭😭😭😭😭

[@emilianachateau]

Thank you very much for your Curriculum videos! The really helped me for my philosophy, economics and sociology BAC (France).

[@juliozano]

I would like to thank you for igniting my motivation to actually attempt to read philosophy! You make these ideas digestible and amusing in presentation which keeps me glued to my seat!

[@-_-5881]

I really agree with the second idea. We are really protective when it comes to our ideas so if we learn from things we dislike, we are more easily able to transition to the correct statement.

[@noobieexplorer4697]

Sadly tho consumer big techs have created an echo chamber for everyone

[@alauc]

I have read all comments and can say that in 7 minutes is not possible interpret his contribution. I have studied 45 years his books. He did help me to understand history. His Philosophy of history is the best one, because he did use four Aristotelian questions. He did give the best answers ( freedom is the purpose, volition and knowledge are means, the state is the form, etc)! Renegation ( negation of negation) is the best interpretation of nsturl and social processes. We need links that people

[@xiwang2129]

but 45 yrs is too much. one never knows how long will stay. I read and taught Hegel last semester and I understood him and my student were pleased...And now in middle of composing my own system of thought...wait!

[@wildanfirdausb6530]

How old are you?

[@i1bike]

Ante Lauc and how did u contributed to that coruptive country u have in your picture ?

[@DraganBakema]

Your first two sentences are so full of arrogance, you in-contributing nothing. Make your own channel and do it better than the school of life.. or help, but don't start with arrogance.

[@chiffmonkey]

YES! Point #3 is a concept I have been obsessed with for years, and I'm so glad to find I'm not just going crazy thinking about it in my "pendulum hypothesis" of human behaviour. So nice to find likeminded characters in history.

[@ewigerschuler3982]

"your" "pendulum hypothesis"? The hybris. Keep that to yourself next time, thanks.

[@chiffmonkey]

@@ewigerschuler3982 Did it ever occur to you that multiple people can stumble on an idea from different starting information? I came up with that idea independently based on personal experience BEFORE even knowing who Hegel was.

[@BlackRose369.]

​@@chiffmonkeyyou mean the zeitgeist thing ?

[@chiffmonkey]

@@BlackRose369. I mean the way everything with a human element flows as a dialectic. For instance - fashion.

[@BlackRose369.]

@@chiffmonkey I find it quite annoying when my choice of clothing or specific tastes in music suddenly get a popular surge.

[@justbrowsingtheweb7791]

I think I like Hegel. I'm going to read some of his books.

[@J0eman49p]

good luck

[@lol233333355555]

You should uhhh first read the ancient greek philosophy. Then you should read Descartes, Kant, and Martin Luther (yes, the guy who led the protestant reformation). Only then do you have a real basis to start reading Hegel.

[@justbrowsingtheweb7791]

Thanks, I borrowed the book History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell but I never finished it. Maybe I will return to that book before continuing, recently I've been into kierkegaard though

[@soulreaperichig0]

^his book is too fucking hard.

[@Asatru55]

Hegel isn't THAT hard to read. At least in german i guess. It's definetly convoluted and at times a bit frustrating but i like the sense of satisfaction i get when i think i understood his point finally.

[@jacobsaintjames]

Hegel's work is an attempt at scientific analysis of the eternal present moment. He treated consciousness as having evolved through a succession of primitive forms along with the human body, and saw our consciousness as defined by the archaic structures upon which it was built. The will to dominate was his particular displeasure of mankind, to which he proposed we raise our collective spirit with a will to morality, which he believed to be fundamental knowledge a-priori, possible in all humans possessing reason.

[@giovaniprodan3]

Neat.

[@alexd5884]

Thanks for that. That's pretty much what Hegel is about.

[@matthewjefferys1855]

Jake James Is this a quote from somewhere? KZbin won't let me copy it. Brilliant synopsis either way.

[@tvtitlechampion3238]

Oh, absolutely. The historical context of 'knowledge' is an evolving form built upon antecedent schools and conveyed through multiple conduits, including the Bible and scientific empiricism. The reference points in the content of our character started before literacy. Morality is the skeletal structure upon which the meat of discussion is placed.

[@MathOnlineWithBen]

Thank you for this video. I appreciate you are willing to speak directly to what is true in Hegel's work. It's a needed influence in our modern attempts to right the wrongs of history. A wise perspective for any era.

[@VarsavaBo-Hibf]

Brilliant! Thank you for the explaination, nothing is confusing me in this film. Maybe because I haven't touched the book labelled "Hegel" in my parents' library yet now :)

[@SameekshaRana]

Each philosopher has got their own ideas to impart.

I absolutely adore this channel! XD

[@Confucius_76]

Your voice is distractingly clear :) Thank you for this video! Hegel had some really good ideas! I agree with pretty much every point you summarized :) I wish more people could try to find the grains of truth in their enemies positions

[@alyssa01825]

thank you for explaining this in simple terms, I have a presentation on Hegel and I had no clue how to understand and address his philosophies

[@bomberharris8439]

I do like Hegel, but every time I've tried to continue reading his "Phenomenology of Spirit", I can't continue because of his writing style.

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

The shredder

[@liwaabeaini]

We learn from history that we don't learn from history - Hegel

[@blug2870]

Amazing.Should I say just amazing.A very comprehensive talk and/or writing and/or video.

[@almadelatierra5153]

I really want to pay attention but your voice is so smooth im just relaxing and keep falling asleep

[@rehmsmeyer]

Ahhhh, I see my boy Hegel finally gettin' some air time! Only one man understand him, and rumor has it that even he does not.

[@SPihlaja]

God, these are really good.

[@mattriarchal]

You can tell by the usually relaxing voiced narrator that the difficulty reading hegel really pissed him off

[@timber750]

All in all, a very good job on an often difficult but usually insightful philosopher. Hegel uniquely analyzes the relation of master and servant/slave. There is nothing like it in the history of philosophy, and if he had done nothing else, would have made his contribution immortal. Yet it is little enough understood or appreciated even today. He is worth the work.

[@MaryamPirzada]

2020 here. We haven’t found the balance between the two extremes.

[@trorisk]

"The owls of Minerva fly only at dusk."

[@jbidwell605]

I'm taking the History and Theory of Architecture at Harvardx and have absolutely NO IDEA what the prof is describing about Hegel. Thanks for this video; it clears a lot of things up for me.

[@user-qx1gq6zv5f]

THANK YOU. I MAY NOT STUDY PHILOSOPHY IN UNIVERSITY, BUT IT'S GREAT TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE OT THIS TOPIC FROM YOUR CHANNEL.

[@RoboJules]

Hagel's work was badly written brilliance that dealt with the truly undefinable greyness of morality and ideas. His prophetic work shows that progress is never really straight forward. I hope society more appreciates his work so that we can learn to steady ourselves within a utopia of logic and reason.

[@cris_yeager]

ITS 2020 AND FEELS MORE EXTREME

[@joebonyak9990]

And I thought it was my mental shortcomings not being able to understand Hegel. What a relief!

[@BaronessStrange]

"It might only be by 2020 that we might find the right balance between extremes". Oh dear. I miss 2015.

[@Guitarista1992]

I am surprised that the School of Life hasn't made a video on Ludwig Feuerbach yet.

[@danieldemarse8099]

every description in these videos is utilitarian. which is ok, but there was more to kant and hegel than practical applications. i understand that this channel is meant to popularize philosophy, so rarely does The School of Life get into the nitty gritty- attempting a rounded out general conception of the philosopher.. However, I still watch these videos if I need to take a breath above water and get to the core positions of these philosophers, and how they still influence us.

[@Tajhlikemahal]

Wow, this has given me a different perspective on Hegelian Dialectic. Definitely going to use SOME of what he suggested moving forward! Though I know there is a lot more to him and his philosophy than this video explained. People who watch this... Do more research, than just KZbin videos as well. But I appreciate the maker of the video.

[@user-rp1sw7qs2z]

I read currently Hegels " history of the philosophy, wich i find it very well written, very detailed and explanatory. He is mention and connect all the eras of philisophy from ancient Greece till to his days. On the contrary with what the video says in the begin about the difficulty to understand Hegels speach, Hegels speach is very academic, scholar, and "crystal" in my opinion..

[@paulandreigillesania5359]

Learn from those you disagree with and you'll learn things you nevernknew about, and maybe you'll find more reasons to disagree with [them] even more. So, win-win!

[@lisaonthemargins]

0:06 What an odd sound. This is someone's name you say?

[@boldswagon]

Great effort to summarise an otherwise greatly confusing thinker. 5 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@EliasVergsen]

"It might only be by 2020s that we'll find the balance between extremes." is hilarious

[@sihyuanwu5492]

I just noticed. This is pretty much one of the only channels on youtube that doesn't remind you to "LIKE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE!" at the end of the video.

[@noahlazarides941]

The last frame literally says SUBSCRIBE in bold letters

[@ticonimafia]

Any chance of doing David Hume? : 3

[@woderoll1486]

nah this channel is way too continental to consider someone logical tbh

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

I think they will... ;)

[@worganyos]

Oh really? :P

[@DJYungHoxha]

they did!

[@BCtruth]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foSYY3uVeNaNgqc David Hume

[@kevingruenofficial]

I needed this breath of fresh air.

[@sss58483]

Philosophy is the best thing humans have invented. Love you hegel from Saudi Arabia.

[@danielrosler3893]

He absolutely did not write horribly. I can't believe that characterization.

[@sebastianviruzab7986]

Heraclitus would have been proud of Hegel.

[@BharCode09]

According to Hegelian Dialectic, thank god it's 2018 and 2020 is just 2 years.. Eagerly awaiting...

[@tsunchoo]

Alain drops some bangers :D fascinating

[@richardbebewolf992]

I read The Philosophy of History and found it a quite delightful read.

[@matthewlaurence3121]

+Richard Wofford The work by Lord Bertrand Russell?

[@zdmsr]

+Matthew Laurence (Matternick-europhile) Funny because in the book Russell raises quite a few objections against Hegel.

[@joemurray2523]

+Zaid Mansuri and so he should.. I've seen scalene triangles less obtuse than Hegel

[@JakeShields09]

Just about to start it!

[@Le-cp9tr]

“It may only be by the 2020s that we fine the right balance” Greetings from the future: shit’s fucked

[@kojithegermanshepherd7056]

"Learn from what you dislike" touched me

[@nathanponce8752]

its crazy to see just how inspired marx was hegel

[@F_M_M]

"It might be only by 2020s that we'll find the righ balance between extremes." I rather go on a time machine to the 60s, but it was a good idea :)

[@ubaidbutt9709]

What is the balance? Elaborate on it