Kierkegaard vs. Hegel on Religion and Individuality

In this lecture series, Dr. Peter Kreeft examines key ideas in philosophy by comparing and contrasting two representative philosophers in each episode.

In lecture 8, Dr. Kreeft summarizes Hegel, who dropped the distinction between thought and being, denying the existence of anything outside of thought and embracing absolute idealism. Kierkegaard’s own philosophy asks not how thought progresses through stages, as Hegel does, but how an individual human being progresses through life.

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[gregkirk]

He explains this so easily and clearer than any one ive heard. He gives you concrete placeholders and mental bookmarks that help you hold it all together. He summarizes and contrasts so you understand where you are all the time. Hes like a tour guide talking you on a path back in time, pointing out the landmarks and explaining their relevance. All the sudden this is simple. Other teachers enjoy impressing you and demonstrating their own knowledge more than throwing you a real lifeline about all this. Thanks!!

[faysal]

Kierkegaard is without doubt one of the most authentic & one of my favorite philosophers ever ✊🏾

[antoniovittorio]

These lectures of Peter Kreeft are truly among the best and the rarest. The surroundings of his lectures, made of a tranquil and august ancient Greek scenery, his serene voice accompanied by the sound of the flowing water add to the music, the significance and the depth of his words. With these lectures we enter THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM.

[cristinamaiocco]

You can feel the passion and the fun that Dr. Kreeft has through these philosophy lectures. His delivery, humor and knowledge has made all the difference. Love this series immensely. ❤

[ryantang]

"Kant can't turn Kant into can" - I see that subtle smirk, and underrated humour. Brilliant!

[mayzide]

Thank you so much, Dr. Peter Kreeft, for all these wonderful lectures and for all that you have been doing for us! You are a light and sword in this world!

[tommore]

People live their lives stumbling around in philosophical quagmires. Peter Kreeft is a very reliable guide to actually understanding life as it is and where the nonsense we hear all around us comes from. And he knows that Christ is sanity. And more. There is little else one might do for another than help them to actually understand this life we are in. The church affirms our God given capacity to know and understand. Professor Kreeft is literally a Godsend. Thank you professor.

[heroicacts]

Again and again Dr. Peter Kreeft brings us the foundations of our (post) modern thought. When we think that we have new thoughts, we realize that we are just repeting a dead philosopher!

[artscience]

This is indeed a wonderful lecture. The best teachers, like Dr. Kreeft, manage to pull together the important points of the great thinkers and make them understandable and interesting. I love the thought of Kierkegaard, but I find him very challenging to read. Not that the thoughts are so difficult, but he states them (on purpose?) in extreme, provocative language. I find myself wrestling with his choice of words and approach more than the content of his thinking.

[commercialrealestatephilos]

These are so amazing. Should be played in high school.

[spacebuddy]

This was beautiful to listen to. I learned a lot

[popescott]

Emeth!! Yes, yes! Discovered the term in A Bread We Are Broken...so glad to hear it spoken. Amen and amen!!

[ledzepbrooklyn]

Thank you Dr. Kreeft you are the G.O.A.T

[michaelbergfeld]

Very dense, very understandable, very deep and thus inviting to more views, or pauses of meditation. The word Kreeft in dutch means lobster, indeed the Doctor has a (humoristic) pincing way to describe!

[guyfierifanclub]

Vibes are good with the water in the background

[migueliteux]

Since the pandemic I decided to read his whole system in his order, from phenomenology of spirit through the logic and encyclopedias etc. I’m just now at the end in the History of Philosophy. I’ve found that all his critics are misrepresenting his philosophy. If you take his maxim to heart, that the truth is in the whole, you’ll find that he has speculated on a grand view of creation, elevating the arts, religion, spirituality and freedom, and on the whole, he succeeds brilliantly.

[LordBlk]

Fits well with the New Discourses Podcast by James Lindsay
As a christian....I've dived into Hitler's Monsters book.
Turns out occult/paganism/pantheism was a pretty prominent thing for those enlightenment Germans and after

[timadamson]

Modern thought after Kant is largely, if unwittingly, confirmation of his basic insight that we are always contributing to the shaping of our own experiences. Kant was concerned only with our basic perceptual experience, but modern thought has expanded his insight into all levels of experience. We now see, like the prisoner in Plato's cave, that we are subject to all kinds of influences that become habits of experience, the very ways the world is meaningful to us. Like Kant, most modern philosophy and theory in general aims to uncover these habits of experience that are largely invisible to us..

[richardgalea]

Thank you for such an in-depth analysis of Christianity

[TheBlackopsDS]

Still have a long way to go but if anything this is me thinking out loud. 9:17 is the much more dignified version of "if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it's a duck"