Hegel’s Dialectical Process

What effect do ideas have on the way civilizations develop and history unfolds? In this brief clip, R.C. Sproul explores G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy of “the dialectic,” which continues to influence how many people interpret the progress of history today.

[Philiopantheon]

Thesis, antithesis and synthesis is not Hegelian dialectic, in fact Hegel in preface to phenomenology criticize the triadic method in the first place, plus it originally belongs to Fichte, Hegel never explicitly mentioned dialectic like the way Professor explained.

[doctrinalwatchdogwatchmano]

Brother Sproul, you were always such an excellent source of Doctrine.

[newyorknight]

I love the way RC takes the time to explain things.
He is missed greatly.
Timeless teaching from the Bible teacher, who looked like a police detective.

[aaaa-xkld]

Honestly, this is the best video to explain hegel's dialectical process. I would have loved to be in the class with this kind of professor.

[robinmansions]

I didn't even know this gentleman was a religious teacher. I was just here for the great explanation of Hegel

[martiangaming]

I’ve spent hours watching & listening to RC Sproul and Will continue. It never gets old and I continue to learn each time.

[lunalinda]

Once you understand this, the division and chaos around us makes so much more sense🙏🏼

[chrishorner]

This isn't, though, how Hegelian Dialectic works. The thesis/antithesis/synthesis thing was never mentioned by Hegel.

[SeanFlaherty]

Instead of a series of triangles, I like the image of a cyclical spiral reaching upwards.

[SethMoodyinersphobia]

The problem with this isn't just that it's wrong. In Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel spends a lot of time warning the reader of the danger of exactly the experience that commenters on this video are describing: the feeling of understanding in the absence of having first struggled to understand. They are praising this person for making the complex seem simple. But he is doing that but moving around intuitive and simple notions. No struggle -> no learning. It's a trap. You're worse for having felt the false epiphany.

[STARRANISE-cvqt]

This man stimulates my mind like very few can. He was extremely intelligent and respected God immensely.
RIP BROTHER. Look forward to conversations with you in heaven.

[Jimothy-]

big brain "everything is being."
huge brain "everything is becoming"
galaxy brain "everything is being, and becoming."

[jessyjonas]

" we have the mind of Christ."
1 Corinthians 2: 16✝️

Believers by the Holy Spirit have the understanding of the Spirit.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus... Philippians 2:5

[stevenshoemake]

Great breakdown of complex ideas, thank you

[yoshkebenstadapandora]

I miss this man. He was a giant in theology.

[ttmag]

I will say this because the various mistranslations drive me up a tree: "aufgehoben" does not mean elevated. it 's best translated as "canceled out". In a different context it also means something like "to safekeep", though I realize that's not a word but it retains the original meaning of "keep safe for later use" . But that's not what Hegel meant.

[madjack]

Who else has learned this but from Fallout New Vegas?? It’s kind of ironic because the character talking about it is named Caesar 🤣

I prefer hearing Sproul teach it though.

[SuperTotoro]

Well explained. More succinct using accessible language, than the other explanations I've found.

[toributler]

This was really helpful. This concept was mentioned in a book I am currently reading and I remembered the name Hegel from some reading in college but I did not really have an understanding of the Hegelian dialectic. To be honest the online definitions were confusing.

[PETERJOHN]

The view that the dialectic process is beneficially expansive (socially or scientifically evolutionary) is also a thesis. Therefore, the antithetical of this approach is that it is nothing more than a form of intellectualized schizophrenia.

Synthesize that.