It Is Dangerous to Read HEGEL

[@metamorphosis_77]

“The human being is this night, this empty nothing, that contains everything in its simplicity."

[@mohamedelanzi6952]

Dont mind me,but this quote reminds me of the hindu definition of Brahma,the original everything and God from who the other deities in the pantheon emerge from.Maybe they realized that God existed,and in this day and age we realize that God is also in us.

[@11supplementfacts47]

It’s like it all opens up once you get a reality check am I wrong a deep and meaningful reality check please let me know if I’m interpreting this wrong

[@kylecurley4963]

There ya go , this guy is cool, and one of my favorites ! damn what planet are we from and how do we get back to there !!??

[@kyrosvavliaras5326]

Bro are you Greek?

[@chriswest8389]

Well said, Zen Master Hegal.

[@annfinnerty9800]

“Mind knowing itself in the shape of mind” that’s so powerful but humbling. It is true our potential is great. only when we can understand our limitations, real or perceived, can we move through them and step into greatness.

[@metamorphosis_77]

Kinda meta.

[@annfinnerty9800]

@@metamorphosis_77 yes yes

[@jaimes7966]

How about the mind which knows silence? What would be the bounds of that?

[@annfinnerty9800]

@@jaimes7966 Honestly I don't know, however, I would say even a mind that knows silence may not know peace. There is always something to continue to master. Thinking there would be a point where "the work" would be done in my belief is a misunderstanding of the depth and timelessness of the universe.

[@supremereader7614]

Very beautiful video. I appreciate that you did the research to understand what Hagel explored regarding China, India, Persia and later the Greeks. Very interesting.

[@metamorphosis_77]

I think he is one of the most important philosophers to understand. Thank you so much for the donation ❤️❤️❤️

[@mikapyhamaki]

Insightful and well produced video about philosopher Hegel, spirit, history, and human mind. Thanks Adrian. Maybe the best one I have seen from you yet. This definitely added to my thinking about freedom.

[@metamorphosis_77]

Thank you my brother!

[@motivemystic]

Wow, this video really captures the essence of Hegel's philosophy! It's amazing how he explores the relationship between history and the concept of freedom. I totally agree that the progress of consciousness, as Hegel suggests, is incredibly valuable to us as human beings. This video has helped me understand his ideas even better, and I feel more enlightened and free just from watching it. Thank you for sharing this insightful content!

[@cn6519]

Hegel is common sense to me. If you meditate and watch the world without stopping to voice your opinion on it, then it starts to add up.

[@metamorphosis_77]

that's beautiful

[@metamorphosis_77]

@A loved that

[@vascoespañol]

The way he talks is pleasant and the subject are great¡¡¡¡ Subscribed

[@fredwinslow744]

Your videos are the best I have found after 20 years on u tube as an actual accurate , salient , useful and in a short manner more than just a forgettable blinkest version of a topic , book ,idea or bio. It’s clearly not possible to be comprehensive in8-20 minutes however the topics and explanations are usefull and memorable enough to provide a beginning liberal educational insight like a chapter introduction into the topic with enough offer of insight and intriguing coverage to leave with an understanding of it or direction to learn more .

[@metamorphosis_77]

That's a hall of fame comment.

[@fredwinslow744]

@@metamorphosis_77 it’s deserved

[@louellabelle868]

After all of the searching, education, work, relationships and acquisition of things, Jung was right. Everything we are looking for is within. If we can work out that equation, we've done it.

[@metamorphosis_77]

this is the way

[@fredwinslow744]

Societal systems and culture are projections of the game we live in and they don’t limit consciousness of an individuals freedom for anyone at any time that already has this .. victor frankl is an example of this state in an individual. While information and technology may make our access and use of consciousness in more liberating ways it is likely that some of man/people has always had access to much of this regardless of the state of social systems progress towards the literal physical versions of “liberty “ that bring more of this opportunity to the most .

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Excellent ! The fact that he even tried to grasp the whole of History is just astonishing . What amazing minds we had in Europe at one time. Leibniz / Spinoza / Darwin / Marx... Giants of Thought !

[@metamorphosis_77]

giants of thought indeed

[@faneeee3716]

Just imagine you refer to Marx as a giant of thought, the man responsible for the biggest plague this world had ever seen, socialism ruled by communists.

[@Federicasjourney]

Great video. It makes you think!

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Hmm....a novel experience for the majority of KZbinrs ? They may not like it ...

[@Pawnlust]

I'm enjoying the video and I like the brain animation at 16. Where can I find it? Thanks!

[@alfonso8843]

The concept of thesis and anthesisis was carried over by Nietzsche by his dionysian and appollonian dissection of man. Very interesting seeing these diametrically opposing forces appear again.

[@stevenbollinger9776]

That was very good, thank you! Toward the end you say that Hegel influenced Nietzsche -- yes, probably. But did Nietzsche ever actually acknowledge this influence? I've read Nietzsche's works, and the closest I can recall to Nietzsche saying something positive about Hegel was in one of the later works, where he calls Schopenhauer and Hegel the two great brother-spirits of German philosophy, who were unfair to each other as only brothers can be. Nietzsche's overall opinion of Germany and Germany philosophy was very low, so this remark can't really be counted as a great compliment to either of them, but it does suggest that perhaps Nietzsche was freeing himself from Schopenhauer's utterly contemptuous dismissal of Hegel, that perhaps Nietzsche had seen something in Hegel which Schopenhauer had missed.

[@andresjoya7199]

So you just made me understand Hegel? Great. Thanks for feeding my curiosity.

[@derbucherwurm]

beautiful video on Hegels philosophy of Freedom.

[@metamorphosis_77]

:)

[@lulumoon6942]

Without physical books, such knowledge is at risk of being erased, ironically as a result of human thought.

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Maybe that happens sometimes, but there is art & knowledge I've seen lately that I truly love. I get scared they will be lost because something could happen to electronics & erase it all. Perhaps an advanced civilization in history suffered similar fate.

[@mello1016]

Incredible parallels between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Hegel. For both, the concept of freedom was the central philosophical problem. Hegel dealt with this concept in particular from the perspective of society and historical development, while Nietzsche dealt with it from the perspective of the individual and it's psychology (but made many analyses of society and history from other perspectives). In both philosophical systems it seems possible to find overlapping conclusions. Their examination from each other's perspective is interestingly complementary

[@metamorphosis_77]

Which one do you prefer to read though? Nietzsche right?

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 17:44

[@yamibbgc9150]

Hello there. I saw that you`re greek too! Can you tell me this, what are the best versions of science of logic and phenomenology in greek since I`m struggling to find the correct ones.

[@adrianpochec5298]

I actually thought this video would be a genuine critque of Hegel as the phrase "You might feel free when reading Hegel" would be a good maxim to encapsulate Kierkegaard's main argument against Hegel. That being - by keeping your view on such a high level, you might eventually fool yourself that you really have the absolute knowledge and this would lead to self-deception and dettachment from what's true for your own existence here and now.

[@vetiarvind]

How is Hegel's view different from the Hindu conception of the Atma experiencing Samsara/Maya? Seems like the same idea to me.

[@splumpy8469]

That’s cuz it is

[@lynchianfloydian451]

Hegel was highly influenced by some of hindu scriptures for sure. For example, Hegel's idea of understanding (verstand) and reason (vernunft) or abstract universality and concrete universality can be compared to the KENA UPANISHAD's Vidmah and Vijanimah.

[@jasonluong3862]

The only way you can have true freedom is to exist alone.

[@wslovsport]

Its not synthesis. Its sublation, Aufhebung. There is a huge difference and one does not begin to understand Hegel until he has understood absolute negation.

[@vaxrvaxr]

The idea that synthesis must result in more freedom is magical thinking.

[@metamorphosis_77]

it's inevitable

[@11supplementfacts47]

Switzerland has that down pack

[@andrebenoit283]

One might also ask himself when we will be free from Hegel.

[@kylehodgson2182]

Mind you I've not read hegel for very long. But I think people really overblow the difficulty of reading him. Although the sentences can drag on for too long, he actually approaches stuff pretty straightforwardly, and always seems to build up his argument consistently throughout. Not so bad lol

[@jeremyrockwell1287]

good video. what is the intro song called please?

[@metamorphosis_77]

Yehezkel Raz - Corals Under the Sun

[@MunawarAzaad2025]

Dear please inform which software you use to edit videos or transition of pics in your videos? Thank you

[@EdT.-xt6yv]

7:00 christianity ,evolving freedom from slave greek/persian,abstract/concrete freedom & historic events.

[@Psycheart]

I really like your animation style. How long do these videos take?

[@metamorphosis_77]

depends on my mood and on how productive I feel

[@Psycheart]

@@metamorphosis_77 My videos take me a week plus and watching your content, youre on a whole other level... Do you have a time range?

[@metamorphosis_77]

@@Psycheart I try to upload twice a month. I could do once a week but I don't have time because I am also studying filmmaking currently.

[@Rwcrypto409]

excellent content

[@metamorphosis_77]

thank you :)

[@a.tigerjr.6132]

Here is the angle with Hegel, it is Eurocentric in nature. Europeans have been consistently occupied with finding the right form of governance for longevity, only have empires lasting 3-400 years where as other civilizations have lived free at shortest times of 700 years without outside forces.

[@ronantes3866]

Just subscribed!

[@physicsteacher6633]

Interesting how someone's philosophy is shaped by his experience. Christianity is a move towards freedom...now tell that to the people the Christians enslaved or killed to work for them...tell that to them again!

[@shubhankarsingh4065]

Okayish introduction to hegel, people should try Wes cecil

[@metamorphosis_77]

Okayish comment

[@2msvalkyrie529]

@Shubhankar Singh Bertrand Russell would have disposed of him before breakfast ! I miss Bertrand . I only trust philosophers with tweed jackets and a pipe .!

[@farshads3367]

Persia, a religious Monarcy without individualism!!!? Well people who lack true knowledge about history and have this ego based on local "storians" rather than storians and a sense of ancient self importance, would make such claims. Btw, Greek city states and its socio-econamy found based slavary and the tyrany of the ownership never won any war against the Persians. In one or two minor battles the local army of the Persia led by local commanders didn't prevail. Tow minor setbacks which didn't change the inevitable outcome of the war which was Persian victory and fall of the tyrant oligarchs of the Athens. Greek city states had no significance to the great Persian (actually Iranian) Empire which was based on wisdom: the harmony of the essence of the univers aka the truth (Arta), and the progressive mindset which shoud drive it. Such a great chivalric, "individuative" and truthfully free society the anciently new leadership of it was founded by Cyrus the Great and the wisest. It's a shame when one hears such absurdities

[@sagheer.a4988]

Exactly ^ Hegel has some good points but to say that he invented the philosophy of freedom couldn't be far from truth.

[@theletterm5425]

Who was the person Hegel referred to in his last words?

[@metamorphosis_77]

Slavoj Žižek

[@theletterm5425]

@@metamorphosis_77 Not sure if this is supposed to be a joke? Hegel died over 100 years before Zizek was born. Were those actually Hegel's last words?

[@metamorphosis_77]

@@theletterm5425 Sorry my bad. I didn't understand the question. I thought you were referring to the last part of the video. He probably meant himself (the quote could also be fictional since it was found in the writings of Heinrich Heine who was Hegel's student in Berlin).

[@OckendenMkandawire]

I really like the accent

[@larianton1008]

I didnt get why it is dangerous to read hegel

[@widowsson8192]

Isnt zoroasrianism about i individuality??? Cyrus the great was the first to institutionalize individual freedoms. It seems that hagel didn’t know history very well.

[@sagheer.a4988]

I was thinking the same. Hegel had a very narrow world view. He lumps there great civilizations to single one,. Looks Like Hegel wasn't very well verse in history.

[@אדרששון]

so, you think hagel is like a mystic?

[@metamorphosis_77]

not really

[@2msvalkyrie529]

@metamorphosis 77 ? ? ? ? !

[@vascoespañol]

There is not one consciensce and does not evolve uniformly throughout the years or the day

[@RosaLichtenstein01]

It sure is dangerous. Reading Hegel can give you terminal migraine. Schopenahuer just about got that bumbling Christian and Hermetic mystic right (except he was being a little too nice for my liking): ------------------------------------- If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most outrageous misuse of language, putting in its place the hollowest, most senseless, thoughtless, and, as is confirmed by its success, most stupefying verbiage, I should be quite right. Further, if I were to say that this summus philosophus [...] scribbled nonsense quite unlike any mortal before him, so that whoever could read his most eulogized work, the so-called Phenomenology of the Mind, without feeling as if he were in a madhouse, would qualify as an inmate for Bedlam, I should be no less right.... At first Fichte and Schelling shine as the heroes of this epoch; to be followed by the man who is quite unworthy even of them, and greatly their inferior in point of talent -- I mean the stupid and clumsy charlatan Hegel.... "But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most barefaced general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument to German stupidity.... Fichte is the father of the sham philosophy, of the disingenuous method which, through ambiguity in the use of words, incomprehensible language, and sophistry, seeks to deceive, and tries, moreover, to make a deep impression by assuming an air of importance in a word, the philosophy which seeks to bamboozle and humbug those who desire to learn. After this method had been applied by Schelling, it reached its height, as everyone knows, in Hegel, in whose hands it developed into pure charlatanism.... In Germany it was possible to proclaim as the greatest philosopher of all ages Hegel, a repulsive, mindless charlatan, an unparalleled scribbler of nonsense.... If indeed I now chose to call to mind the way in which Hegel and his companions have abused such wide and empty abstractions, I should have to fear that both the reader and I myself would be ill; for the most nauseous tediousness hangs over the empty word-juggling of this loathsome philophaster.... It may be said in passing that one can see how important the choice of expressions in philosophy is from the fact that that inept expression condemned above, and the misunderstanding which arose from it, became the foundation of the whole Hegelian pseudo-philosophy, which has occupied the German public for twenty-five years. -------------------------------

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

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[@anthonykology1728]

try liberty....

[@ChristianSt97]

man you're late. why did it took so long for you to post a video on hegel after the news of 4000 unpublished pages of his?

[@metamorphosis_77]

Haha just saw that. Sick.

[@supesrebirth152]

You must be Greek, είμαι 101% σίγουρος

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Hegel . ' A monument to the stupidity of the German people ' According to Schopenhauer .

[@canti7951]

This video doesn't sit right with me at all. It's this interpretation of Hegel that is so "common sense" that it strips away the very essence of his ideas. Hegel is very much the philosopher who fought against so called wisdom in the form of aphorisms and sophistry so I very much doubt you even more when you say you've been a Hegelian at heart even without prior context of his works/influences. Why do I say this? From the title of your video, you say reading Hegel is dangerous and I thought that was intriguing, cause I agree. It's dangerous to *misread* Hegel. I'd even say that a grave misreading would lead to the development of reactionary and fascistic ideas that uphold nostalgia for traditional values. And it's not even that I'm saying you out right don't understand him since idk the full extent of your knowledge, it's just that you provided a very lacking video that allows viewers to profoundly misread his ideas, making the premise of the video very ironic. I don't think it's a good sign when your viewers start talking about Jung on a Hegel video. I think to really understand what Hegel did, you need to provide context on the development of German Idealism. There simply is no shortcut since you first have to dismantle this romantic idea that is so deeply rooted in our "common sense", namely transcending into the Absolute, discovering the Truth, going from low to High, etc. etc. Going way back to Plato's Allegory of the Cave where there exists a binary between illusion and reality, we have been so used to this type of reading of idealism that it's hard to really demonstrate how radical Hegel really is.

[@canti7951]

Additionally, Hegel as, supposedly, the philosopher of nothing and everything is, imo, problematic due to a major idea of his about false universalities. Perhaps the only all-encompassing idea we could learn from Hegel is that the mind is very treacherous when it comes to teaching you "everything". The very foundation of Hegel is that all existence is built from negation. To account for everything is imminently treacherous. Think of what Orwell said, all lives are equal and yet some are more equal than others. This insistence on everythingness is what blinds us to our inherent differences and leads us to be intolerant of those different to us. It is those who have insisted on their everythingness who could also lay claim to nothingness as to seamlessly hide the power they have. Yeah, perhaps he did philosophize about the concept of everything and nothing. But I think to really sell what he did, you have to say he radicalized our very conceptions of thinking about everything and nothing in the first place. He didn't examine the content, he examined the form in which everything and nothing makes itself known to our mind, i.e. how we even get to conceptualize such ideas to begin with.

[@tzakman8697]

Are you greek?

[@retardedphilosopher6097]

OMGG!!!!!!! THIS IS PERFECT

[@metamorphosis_77]

😎

[@Richard-1776]

Here’s my essay. “What ‘histoire’ Means to Me” History to me, means the same as the French “histoire” which is story, and not just a story, a bullshit story on a biblical level. That idea is quickly becoming a glaringly self evident fact. The official history, I can no longer believe. It’s officially fiction. It’s just a “story” passed off as reality, or more accurately a lie. Everything I thought was, wasn’t, and never was. I ask you this…There is NO reason to believe a person who is known to be a chronic liar…Why would you? There is no difference between an insignificant lying individual, and the individual who wears a golden crown and is beholden to the men who hold the keys to the chest of gold, except the gargantuan size, and deadly difference of their lies. I know the mouthpiece of the powers that be ( i.e., the media), lie. That is undeniable. I may not know the truth for certain, but I know a lie, and as a human, I know human nature. But what I never knew in regards to people, but that I know painfully well now, is just how suicidally stupid the bulk of humanity is. We are not becoming free, we live in cages, are chained and are muzzled ( I'll show you all the KZbin notices that my free speech is not allowed, and they will soon be shut down). We are not only losing freedom, if we ever really even had any, but we are also devolving intellectually. I see people in the 21’st Century as approaching the classification of “sub mammalian.” I say that because at least animals have their survival instincts…Humans, Westerners specifically, have been castrated of their instincts, the instincts nature gave them to survive. We’ll all be no more than slaves or at best serfs within 50-100 years, if we aren’t now. I think the last few years has crushed my 50-100 year prediction. It’s over brother. Of course, I’m just some dumbass on KZbin. Mine is not the finger of God writing providence in marble, so maybe there is hope…I doubt it though. Take this challenge...Take a damned good look at how stupid, non thinking, weak and gullible people are…Take a serious realistic look ( especially at Westerners - Caucasians), then place your bet on the truth or falsity of my words. There will be no “300” to beat back the beast for us my friend. We’re done. However, people are so stupid and blind they’ll never feel the pain before the water boils and cooks them alive, but I will… I do, and you will too, if you don’t feel it already.

[@seansmith1725]

Bad mindset, I see what you are saying. But its just a matter of time before things start changing. And it is changing at the very moment. It's just the last attempt of gaining total control for the "elites".

[@jameschristopher2540]

So a bullshit story on a biblical level.