People who share knowledge on KZfaq are the unappreciated hero's of our day; education is the pathway to liberation, I hope to be like you one day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart

Glad you liked it. You know, I have shorter ones (10-30 minutes) as well -- called "Core Concept" videos, arranged into a playlist. I think there's around 60 of them now

I really appreciate your breadth of knowledge, not concerning solely philosophy, but other academic subjects and domains of life. It helps to give your lectures a more grounded, human feel.

I love your lectures I'm becoming a wise stoner

Some of the best KZfaq philosophy lectures here, Dr. Sadler :)

finished up our all-too-brief study of Hegel this week

Yes, Hegel remains a tough read, even after more than a decade on my part of reading him! There's a lot of very interesting and useful stuff in his work, that's for certain

You are doing a great service to the education and uploading such lectures is phenomenal! It takes lot of time and effort You are absolutely fantastic!!

Well, as someone who did quite a bit of self-teaching in the course of my own formation and career, I can say from my own experience that there are times when it's very useful to have some step by step instruction.

We love you, Professor! We love you! Thank you for being there for us. Please keep making more lectures on philosophers!

Thank you very much for making your lectures accessible to people around the world. They helped me immensely in beginning to understand and appreciate Hegel's philosophy.

Thank you for your videos and your classes. This was really helpful to me. From a philosophy student from Brazil :)

It still remains a challenging work for me, after years of studying Hegel -- and when I was a grad student leading reading groups and even taking my "special thinker" prelim exam specifically on Hegel's Phenomenology.

Very happy to have came across this channel, you can't learn too much about philosophy, Great lecture sir!

Thank you for these great videos!!! A lot of things made sense upon watching the Hegel videos. You are a GREAT professor, your teaching style is highly effective. Love it! Keep doing what you do.

This is a great help!! You have very lucid explanations and a relaxed style of teaching. Thank you!

Thank you very much for giving such great help to me as a student. Thanks to all people adding great videos , they are a perfect complement to my own lectures and books.

This really gave me an epiphany on Hegel, I feel like I not only understand the Master Slave dialectic better but I understand the whole phenomenology of spirit significantly more after struggling for so long. Thank you

This was absolutely informative and entertaining. Thank you, kindly for posting this!

Absolutely amazing lectures. Entertaining and to the point, you are a great teacher. Thank you!

Glad it was helpful for you -- tough to boil Hegel down for non-major undergrads, so I'm particularly happy to know that it's also helpful for grad students

excellent lecture. Very easy to understand and relate to. Great and knowledgeable prof.

There is somebody in that class that has bronchitis.

Great lecture! I wish I had more time to view your impressive videos...

I doubt you’ll see this but I really appreciate this content. I love education but just can’t afford and don’t have time for formal schooling right now. This really helps me and people like me more than you could know!

thank you so much for this.you laid this out so well.

Very interesting and nicely presented!

This is a very good lecture. You made what could be a very dull subject interesting. I wish that I had professors like you when I was doing my minor in political philosophy.

thanks a lot, i really appreciate you upload your clases!

Brilliant teaching. Thank you!!

"the sage on the stage" he he I liked that. Thanks again for a very useful lecture. I like Hegel I think there's a lot in there that's very interesting. I'm reading quite a bit of him currently. I need it to properly understand thinkers that he's influenced too, I believe. He doesn't write in an accessible manner though, talk about hard work. Without supplementary material like yours I'd be at it forever.

Glad you like them. No, I haven't got syllabi from my recent classes posted. Why do you ask? A syllabus really doesn't tell you a lot about a class

Well, I suppose that's from undergoing the Hegelian "labor of the negative" -- in other words, it's been a long, rough life-ride! So, I would guess that helps a bit. Glad you enjoy the lectures

I love thinking about the concept of recognition.....actually, my fave novel is Gaddis's "The Recognitions"......I hope to learn a lot more about this, thanks!

I've never heard of it -- then again, there's lots of secondary lit on Hegel out there

nice lecture! i am using Hegel's dialectics for my dissertation. i'm just curious, what are your thoughts on this text? Hegel's Undiscovered Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Dialectics: What Only Marx and Tillich Understood, by Wheat

Did someone in the class at the 30 minute mark just suggest that Reptiles don't care about Oxygen?

I suppose our experiences and reflections upon them must be vastly different. It's not rarely. And, if you feel these videos are basically just spoon-feeding, I suggest you 1. create your own, or 2. find someone else's that fit your desires. I'm going to continue with the "petagogy", as you call it

A fantastic lecture filled with so many great metaphors. I am planning to read the works of Hegel in the near future as I am interested in learning more about Hegel version of the dialectic , I have to finish Descartes discourse first before moving on to another man of letters. Which one of Hegel books do you think would be the best to start of with for someone who has never studied philosophy in college apart from watching your lectures on Hegel. Thanks again and HAPPY NEW YEAR.

In the realm of this theoretical math that is called Analytic 'philosophy', it's excellent to see Hegel in an intro to philosophy class! Where I go to school Hegel isn't even generally taught in the third or fourth years.

3:55 That hit right home. I have WAY too many 'professors' (I study engineering) who I perceive as being this way, especially in project-based courses.

Sir, some of us want, crave, need to serve! I am one of them, and only want to serve someone like you! Real servitude, not a fantasy, but just want to serve!

This was so clear and concise, its really incredible.I was really struck by how these Hegelian ideas still go to the heart of what it means to be a social human being in today's world. Did Nietzsche take up this Master Slave idea or are they both pulling from a third source?

This was really good

Perhaps down the line, but I've got a lot of other topics and thinkers to get to

Thanks for the great lectures. I had a general question about Hegel. Is Hegel simply talking about societies or is he talking about some type of universal mind (geist?). Would Hegel's analyses extend beyond human societies into the natural world... nature itself?

Thx! I'm researching Marx's theory of alienation and this video has been massively helpful for the process :)

what books would you recommend for people getting into Hegel? Something that still goes into relative detail would be nice. Amazing lecture!

This would obviously not be stand alone work, great introduction for those out of the know in his works, and great overview for those looking to get feel or secondary confirmation. I enjoy your use of instance, very active compared to most teachers with your students. I do wish for more of internalized example as same came be true studying cognitive dissonance I think alluding to this is natural conflict. Truly self knowledge goes beyond any correspondent relation. I personal term that it takes lifetime to learn how to commune or communicate with others let alone you self, some it may never be enough. There correlation in emergent property and self recognition that would add to the discourse, may be thats there just not within realms of this occasion. It's type of material student does need, keep it up, been utilizing you material for some time, in addition to other such as Maslow or Flow concept.

Dear Dr. Sadler: Thank you, first, for uploading this lecture. In reading through the section on Consciousness in the Phenomenology of Mind(/Spirit), I'm having some challenge reconciling with Hegel's choice of terminology. If we come to know ourselves through our engagement with the world, or what he calls mediation, then how can we be "self-conscious" until and unless we enter into that process with "objects", with the "other"? Wouldn't it be more accurate to label "self-consciousness" as merely "a consciousness", one that later arrives at a stage of knowing itself through the other? Isn't this what Hegel refers to as in-and-for-itself? Thank you again for your time.

Have you ever done a video on top misreadings of Hegel with riposte?? Have you ever done a video on difficult authors like hegel Derrida heidegger etc and how to approach??

Well, rather than posting a syllabus, much of which is boiler-plate, how about I say these: 1) we read Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Anselm. Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, and will finish with Marx. 2) the unifying theme was "dialogue and dialectic" 3) students write 14 1-1.5 page reflection papers, 3 3-5 page close reading papers, take a midterm and final, and write a short self and class evaluation report 4) I use the class site to provide them with lots of resources

Being more hopeful than hopeless, I thought I would leave a little feed back just to be social of why I am watching this xP ...(I'll see if I can try and do it in four lines to avoid "read more"). Just here from Olly Thorne of "Philosophy Tube" who has a 30 min Hegel vid coming out this Friday. I was getting onto Hegel anyway so for once I am doing some homework. I am only seriously-ish looking at philosophy this last year or so - but not as a flight of fancy, rather it's helping me through serious shit. Thanks :)

Thanks prof dude!

Well, this is only a piece of the Hegelian dialectic -- it gets taken by many thinkers as a more central part than it perhaps deserves to be -- there's a lot more covered, including economic life and relations, in the rest of the Phenomenology

THANK YOU!

Can you tell me which philosopher (if any) has described some sort of non master/slave paradigm please? Examples in modern society - flat management structures, some of the philosophy underlying Steiner Education where kids use first names towards teachers and can leave the classroom and sit outside if/when the subject isn't of interest, the language you use "facilitating' education, as opposed to being the "sage on the stage" - Thanks

As far as teaching it is common now for teachers to call what they do as pedagogy which for me they should call it petagogy. Were the teachers are instructing you with step by step instructional learning. It is like teaching a robot. Rather then for you to learn on your own initiative which is called heutagogy. Delphi method is a vastly updated version of Hegelian Dialectic. You can program a computer with cause and effect with it. It works for forecasting but has many drawbacks.

really helps me tnx

My teacher said that the slave chooses to serve the master in order to survive. She was also using the story in the context of pre-consciousness, where the independent and dependent consciousness comes into self consciousness..

Thank you for uploading this videos! I have a, maybe slightly stupid question, but it keeps ghosting around in my mind: Are consciousness and self-consciousness the same thing?

What happened to the session on Marx?

the fifth grade library teacher--mean as a monster until her dress snagged on the door one day and my cousin made sure the whole school knew. took her down a notch.

I'm not a big Hegel guy, but my friend is working on his masters degree in genocide studies and I recommended this video to him and he says you sold him on Hegel.

Isn't the shift from Cartesian object-less Cogito to embodiment all too quick? In the way Zizek insists, isn't it possible to think of a pathological object that designates the self-relating of the subject? And isn't the Lacanian object a basically this? Embodiment, for me, comes too close to a Spinozan position, where we possibly lose negativity.

What does Hegel feel about hermits?

According to Donald Phillip Verene, we must acknowledge some terminology issues here. He says the following: "Hegel’s title is “Herrschaft und Knechtschaft.” The Herr is the “sir,” the “master”; “-schaft” is “-ship,” thus “mastership” or “lordship.” The Knecht is the “servant,” the one in servitude to another. The Knecht is not a slave (der Sklave)." It is important to see that Hegel is not talking about the slave as a property, like those in ancient Greece, but about servitude which is philosophically much more interesting position.

True but rarely.

Well, I think it's become one of those "sexy" topics philosophers and other people like to talk about. There's the fact that it has an underdog story -- the slave develops, but the master doesn't. It seems like it can apply to all sorts of relationships (though, perhaps not). Focusing exclusively on this also has the benefit -- one Hegel would be totally against! -- that it lets you just read a short little bit of Hegel. I totally agree: there are other sections far more interesting

I once had a teacher tell me that "aphorisms" and "fables" were not a literary form, and recommended I submit poetry instead... I researched aphorisms and fables further in my own time and discovered they are the oldest literary forms... sigh

Is Critical Thinking required in Philosophy?

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Greetings, mr Sadler! I wanted to thank you for sharing your lecture with us, this way. It was a very generous thing to do and I can honestly tell you I am amazed by your lecture! Is this what university is going to be like?

surprised you didn't highlight the master slave, parent child, society individual master slave relationship driving most people into these manufactories. But I liked your presentation.

What are your thoughts on sexism, racism, imperialism?

oxygen lol (insider) great lecture professor

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someone made the point the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion is basically this, though they never site hegel by name.

Fascinating stuff! I have a feeling that I'm going to spend a lot of time absorbing the wealth of information on your channel, especially to return to Hegel after learning more about the schools of thought that precede him. Not that Kierkegaard precedes Hegel, but (coincidentally) that is how I've stumbled across your channel -- looking for supplementary material for a course on Kierkegaard on Coursera. In talking about the distinction between reptiles and mammals, empathy was mentioned and, more specifically, play. I figured the following National Geographic video might be interesting in light of that discussion -- sort of, the extent of reptiles' consciousness. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f52Wjb2Gy9zcYKc.html

White Russian and Philosophy. Very edible. Am happy to have search-stumbled on the channel.

What an elegant tought this is ! Too bad that Hegel was wrong ! No one wants to turn into slaves the ones who can recognize you. You want to be recognized by people who are just like you or, even better, people you admire. That's why the so-called "master" would love to be loved by another master and will do anything to improve the life of others. And that's how human progress and human community is possible. It is just completely false that humans are made to fight each other, even if this is tempting to think that in our perveted capitalist world.