Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit (Force and the Understanding, sec. 162-163)

In this sixty-fourth video in the new series on G.W.F. Hegel's great early work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, I read and comment on paragraphs 162 and 163 of the text, nearing the end of our study of the third portion of the section "Consciousness," i.e "Force and the Understanding: Appearance and the Supersensible World".

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In this video series, I will be working through the entire Phenomenology, paragraph by paragraph -- for each one, first reading the paragraph, and then commenting on what Hegel is doing, referencing, discussing, etc. in that paragraph.

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[GregoryBSadler]

Believe it or not, after this video, we are one more video installation away from having finished Force and the Understanding -- and with that the first portion of the main body of the Phenomenology of Spirit.  64 videos in so far!

[ligottifan]

For some reason I find that last sentence on section 163 beautiful. "The reason why 'explaining' affords so much self-satisfaction is just because in it consciousness is, so to speak, communing directly with itself, enjoying only itself; although it seems to be busy with something else, it is in fact occupied only with itself."

[rosarl]

Thank you for this series. You have really opened up Hegel for me. He was being such a frustrating guy. Great work!

[EsjjiobaCommunism]

sweet. I've been playing with different emphasis lately, powerful value. talking to yourself is like replicating DNA, the move involves the usual chance to better it.

[professorrshaldjianmorriso]

great lecture；thank you once again； one question：was Hegel the first to talk about "self-consciousness" to this extent in Western philosophy? Or were there others, classical or modern, for whom the concept is as important? My subject is Japanese literature of the 1920s/1930s； self-consciousness (Jpn: ji-ishiki) is probably the most important term of this period；I'm wondering if this comes directly from Hegel (who was widely read/translated in Japan in the

[dialaskisel]

Wittgenstein may want to let the fly out of the bottle, but Hegel will inevitably drive me to the bottle.

[jedediahhovey]

Still behind on these videos. Anyhow, in hearing your explanation of 162 I realized a connection to Spinoza's ideas. What I mean by this is that when Hegel is speaking of a self-identical totality and the supersession of all differences is a lot like Spinoza's substance (self-identical totality) and how all differences perceived by humans are merely different modes of substance either under the attribute of extension or thought. Hegel goes beyond this in the section, but you can still hear echoes of his thought in how it is structured.