Intro to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

What was Hegel talking about? Watch and try to find out!

[TeacherOfPhilosophy]

I hope this video is helpful to some people as a very basic Hegel intro, but GREGORY SADLER is the place to go on YouTube if you really want to learn Hegel. (Stick with me for Confucius, Augustine, Anselm, Thomas Reid, William James, John Dewey, and Allama Iqbal!)

[marusiakiseleva]

Thank you for such a clear explanation of so sophisticated things! Love your videos 😊

[orenthiadillard]

Consider this: The Master knows that he needs the slave so much so that he comes to control the very means of (re)production.

[gothamsdarkknight]

Hello sir, thanks for your explanation, can you recommend a reader's guide to Hagel's phenomenology of spirit please? Thank you.

[leandrohumanidades]

Teacher sorry for changing the subject. But can we know if the idea of perfection in our minds is perfect by itself? Because for me, the explication of God's existence by Descartes it's pretty solid and I didn't found any argument against that theory yet. My teacher only speak about Hume when I came with this doubt, but perfection is something that we can't feel or see, so I think it isn't a good argument. Thank you anyway and hi from Brazil!

[Firmus]

So Hegel is basically the modern Heraclitus?

[jmjiphone]

I look forward to future videos. Good luck.

Questions I ponder after listening.

Do you think Hegel thought “Do you think we will destroy ourselves before we understand ourselves enough to become divine?” That the spirit of the culture would never emerge/evolve itself enough to ever become, “divine”?

Do we ever reach a “Final Synthesis” or is it always only ever strives for? Is the Hegelian master/slave class a type of pre-Freudian, societal “Id, Ego, SuperEgo”?

Nice job on the video.

[pawelwysocki]

It seems strange that Hegel should think that the higher spiritual being emergent at the end of history could actually be God. No amount of effort can change that which is finite into any sort of infinity.

Then again Hegel's ideas tend to have surprising realisations later on in history, like the master-slave dialectic realising itself in the tragic rise of communism. I'm not blaming Hegel for it, of course.