SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS - Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

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In this video we explore the chapter Self-Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In the chapter on Self-Consciousness Hegel first articulates the logic of the ego as a self-active universal which categorically synthesises external reality before recognizing negativity in its own lack of pragmatic self-mastery. In the second phase Hegel articulates the way the ego is grounded in social mechanisms of recognition that are internally polarized between lord/bondsman or master/slave competition. Finally, in the third phase the ego strives for spiritual development by mediating the lack of rational social ideality. In this context the job of the phenomenologist vis-a-vis self-consciousness is to deduce the logical procedure in the emotional becoming of self-consciousness.
First published in 1807 the foundation of philosophy was forever transformed after Hegel was capable of articulating a higher order understanding of the understanding as the becoming of spirit in history.
This video is based on a 1977 publication of Phenomenology of Spirit which was translated by A.V. Miller with a foreword by J.N. Findlay.
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[@blairhakamies4132]

Congratulations 👏

[@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel]

When I am given the chance to vote for you as the world's top lecturer on Hegel, I will do so.

[@grubernitsch]

I, that is, WE really appreciate the bondsman's efforts here !

[@brucekern7083]

@35:00 to about 37:00 I wanted to add that as a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps of AA are a program precisely for developing and improving spirituality, and steps 4 through 10 in particular are all about facing and owning our own flaws, or our shortcomings in life, much like Catholics do in confession but going beyond even that. These practices are intended to (and actually do) catalyze a chain of what CG Jung called "vital spiritual experiences."

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Very much appreciate your thoughts. Hegel's not easy and your video was helpful and relevant to my pursuits.

[@roshanakvahdani7357]

Great presentation Cadell...so relevant to our times but also to our psychology. I wonder if Freud read Hegel and was informed by him?

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Freud is actually quite infamously anti-philosophy, or probably better to say, anti-philosophers, at least as a serious intellectual exercise on the level of science. For Freud, he ended up more in the phase of undermining philosophers with the reason of the unconscious, as opposed to philosophers, which he saw as reason of the self conscious. However, he also speculated that Nietzsche discovered the unconscious intuitively or self-experimentally, and actually started to suspect that reading Nietzsche would bias his own research on the unconscious, since he would start to fit the unconscious into Nietzsche's philosophy, instead of letting the unconscious itself speak. In all I have read of Freud, I never see him reference Hegel directly. He does however reference Plato directly when introducing the death drive.

[@thenowchurch6419]

@@PhilosophyPortal Good points. On the other hand seeing that Hegel was prior to Freud and was a super famous philosopher, Freud could not have helped but absorbed some of his concepts. There are several points of commonality between them.

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Have you read through Sex and the Failed Absolute yet, Cadell?

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Yes, I have read through it once. Eventually I'd like to cover it as well as Absolute Recoil in as much depth as I have done with Less Than Nothing.