The philosophy of Hegel (cultural literacy 10)

The famous German philosopher: EXPLAINED!

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[CrabRangoonSortaGuy]

Thesis synthesis and antithesis was an idea developed by Johann Fichte, one of Hegels contemporaries. Hegel spent a lot of energy writing about how that idea is incomplete but its a very common mistake to attribute it to Hegel.

[PrairieWolff]

"The only thing we learn from Hisory is that we learn nothing from History "
Hegel

[AlkalineandAcid]

JJ comparing Hegel scholars to the soyjack meme nahhh 💀

[JackStridh]

Hegel scholars currently FUMING in the comments because you used Fichte's Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis concept

[GeoDGeo]

Thesis: Hegel
Antithesis: Kegel
Synthesis: Both take discipline, but are rewarding when mastered.

[astrolonim]

These are amazing! I wish you would make full video versions of these. (Maybe like, cultural literacy: philosophers, and cover 4 or so over 20 minutes? Or monarchs, authors, musicians)

[lumppump]

really appreciate the wojack redraws in recent videos. theyre pretty interesting ways to get zoomers attention and using them as shorthand for teaching is an interesting way to convey things to young people

[telosbound]

The history of Hegelian scholarship and interpretation is both fascinating and hilarious. Todd McGowan points out in his book “Emancipation After Hegel” that he is probably the only philosopher to consistently be interpreted in not only distinct but literally opposite ways. The right Hegelians famously saw him as a conservative defender of constitutional monarchy, while the left Hegelians saw him as a defender of progressive development. Some modern Hegelians see him as a pantheistic idealist who thinks that all of reality exists within a single Mind/Spirit, while other modern Hegelians (the most famous of them being Slavoj Zizek) see Hegel as arguing that reality is incomplete, unable to be fully grasped by the mind, and ultimately materialist. It’s fascinating.

[sevrynthorndyke]

I think that simplification is the most logical explanation of hegelian dialectic I've ever heard. It actually makes sense instead of sounding like a contrived cultural calculus.

[tjenadonn]

Hegel is a bit like Kabbalah: if someone claims to understand it completely and to have figured it out once and for all and reached a definitive judgement on it you know for a fact they're talking straight nonsense.

[crimsonfury]

Fallout NV called and seemed interested on this guys work 😂

[grovermartin]

I was astonished to read his notes on his travels. It was as if he'd written his conclusions two weeks sgo!

[overthecounterbeanie]

JJ is just the best at condensing hours of reading into one minute videos!

[RareSeldas]

To be clear, the thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis idea actually came from Johann Gottlieb Fichte and not Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

I study philosophy professionally and for those interested in actual Hegel I recommend checking out Prof. Justin Burke's work or Antonio Wolf's intro to the 'dialectical method' it's very different than what you may expect because a) there is no dialectical method in Hegel and b) the actual method is known as immanent critique (also known as the speculative method in the old sense, which means to look at an idea, at it's inner-relationships, at its content and form, Hegel's method is the most basic form of analysis discovered).

Anyhow, yeah check out Antonio Wolf's series on Hegel for those interested in actual Hegel.

[willfakaroni]

Thank god these got continued unlike cultural object breakdown

[wildmanhistory]

Fun Fact;

Hegelian Dialectics played a MASSIVE role in the conflict of Fallout New Vegas as Edward Sallow (Caesar) uses the philosophy of Thesis vs. Antithesis to justify his conquest against the NCR & New Vegas itself. It makes for compelling dialogue.

[KingArthur]

Fun fact: There is a YouTube channel who explains Hegel's Phenomelogy of the Spirit by making 30 min on each paragraph. He has been doing it for 8 years and has 360 videos

[williamkarbala]

Literally the only time I’ve ever heard Hiegel come up is with regard to Hiegelian Marxists so learning about Hiegel from a conservative is breaking my brain right now

[neatoman]

The JJ wojak made me laugh, loving this mini series, keep it up!

[mind-of-neo]

i love these! i always felt like Hegel's basic ideas made a lot of sense