Dr. Darren Staloff, Hegel's Philosophy of History

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[OnerousEthic]

Dr. Darren, may I just state for the record that you have our respect, you have our admiration, and you have our love! You are a bright light in a world of darkness. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Len]

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the setting of dusk!" I'm going to start slipping that into conversations in place of "hindsight is 20/20" and see if people notice.

[thattimestampguy]

G.W.F. Hegel
0:54 Father of Modern Historicism
2:06 Historical Change
3:16 Historicism: Each cultural has its own internal coherence (Every Culture is Contextual)

4:23 Hegel sees Intelligence, Cultural Ideas 💡

[brucekern]

One of my favorite authors has always been CG Jung. Up until recently, however, I didn't realize how much of Jung is actually retooled and repackaged Hegel, whether Jung knew it or not. I do realize Jung would have disdained my thesis here, but it seems to me that Jung's idea of the Collective Unconscious is just a new name stamped on the "World Spirit." Hegel also seems to have been the first "thinker" to articulate and express the idea of individuation.

[IvanTheHeathen]

Ah, yes... I've been waiting for this one. When I finally got around to reading Hegel (and many comments about his impenetrability and opaque writing style kept me from doing so for quite a while), I was especially impressed with his philosophical anthropology and his discussion of the centrality of religion in human culture. I'm especially curious to see what Professor Staloff's comments on recognition will be here.

[stephenwarren]

Fantastic!
Thank you Darren Staloff!

[oliverrodwell]

A great resource made freely available

[kylelarson]

Not only was Hegel a genious but also very generous.. His convoluted vocabulary has been keeping philosophers employed now for centuries. Allowing them to get paid for deciphering his theory to students and meanwhile have the time and money to create a little theory themselves.

[taylorjones]

His discussion of The Absolute for some reason brings to mind almost an inverse of Plato's Forms, in that the latter states "worldly" manifestations or instances of objects (art, etc. ) are merely representations of the perfect form, Hegel is saying that (good) art, for example, IS that "form, " i.e., perfect (absolute) instantiation -- not merely a derivative. (This is what makes good art "good, " it is genuinely new novel and "creative.")

[Mai-Gninwod]

Staloff's podcast on the american revolution is excellent as well.

[patrickkilroy]

Hegel: "The owl of Minerva flies at dusk".
Also Hegel: "I know what the Enlightenment means and I know what all of human history means"

[eagleswings]

My consolation to you for your friend’s death… May he rest in peace

[johncracker]

Thought you were gonna say Martin Luther king Jr.. phew… you said Martin Luther

[thecaliforniamaniac]

Firstly, wonderful lecture, and thank you for posting this. Secondly, after listening to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Marx it becomes apparent that most of their ideas are re-branded Plato; then they add a twist by removing any type of personal agency or conscious of the individual and replacing it with either some type of abstract poppycock such as the will to power, history, homo favor or some other conceptual abstraction. I do find some valuable observations that these philosophers have made, but the foundation of their philosophies seems flawed.

[OnerousEthic]

6:50 Hegel’s “Absolute Perspective” is nothing more than (Or, shall I say “simply“) a synonym for the Akashic record. It is affirmation of Advaita Vedanta, and, at the same time, condemnation of Trinitarianism.

Unfortunately, it seems that The Good Doctor Darren is not familiar with Advaita Vedanta, and does not include it in his gloss.

7:50 Like Heidegger, Hegel struggled with the semantic limitations of (his) Natural Language (German).

Dr. Darren declares Hegel’s Philosophy of History as impenetrable, but it seems pretty clear to me that is a problem for him because he knows not of the Akashic records and Advaita Vedanta…

[tankyjones]

Thesis antithesis and synthesis are not the moments of the Hegelian dialectic as these words were never uttered by Hegelian a single time. These are the erroneously attributed interpretations of Fichte and schelling on the Kantian system.

[bathcat]

It’s very obvious that certain philosophers are incredibly egotistical. If you have to use 9 commas in a sentence to get your point across, just start over. Inaccessible writing is a turn off for people of average intelligence to get into philosophy

[aesop]

Only Schopenhauer understood and built upon Kant. Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel are idiots. If you want good process philosophy which talks about the coincidence of opposites, read Whitehead and Hartshorne. Hegel thought the Prussian state and constitutional monarchy were the pinnacle of political theory. Kant's philosophy is better because he's responding to the serious intellectual challenge posed by Hume. Hegel is just asserting things. At best, you can see him as a historian like Thomas Carlyle, trying to understand themes in history. But does anyone seriously believe that national geists have ontological existence? Stirner would call Hegel's "metaphysics" a spook.

[ttacking_you]

The loss of certain liberties here is directly proportional to the amount of Catholics recently appointed to the Supreme Court. Hegelian principles are tautological in THAT regard.