00:00 📚 Hegel, a prominent philosopher, is known for his influential but complex ideas, often misunderstood due to oversimplifications and translations of his work. 03:21 🌍 Hegel's philosophy represents a historical turn in Western thought, emphasizing dynamic and evolving truths, contrasting the timeless concepts of earlier philosophy. 05:24 😕 Hegel's ideas have been polarizing, with some considering him a brilliant mind and others finding his work incomprehensible, often influenced by their own political ideologies. 09:18 🤝 Nietzsche, while not explicitly anti-Hegelian, can be seen as operating from premises that oppose Hegel's ideas, especially concerning history and morality. 13:01 🤯 Hegel's phenomenology challenges the concept of the "thing in itself," emphasizing that qualities exist as effects or sensations dependent on perception and recognition. 21:21 🔄 Hegel's philosophy introduces the idea that all being is premised on negation, challenging the law of non-contradiction and highlighting how we define things through negation. 22:16 🧠 Negation serves as a fundamental aspect of human understanding, as it separates and connects things by differentiating them from each other. 23:28 🗺 Giving directions or descriptions relies on negation, distinguishing the target location from others by excluding them. 25:30 💡 Negation is essential for defining things, and everything in the world is connected through negation, forming a totality of relationships. 26:14 🔍 Hegel asserts that becoming reflects being, which reconciles the views of those who see reality as change and those who see it as unchanging. 27:21 🌟 Existence is defined by its negative relationship with non-being, as we understand the presence of something by imagining its absence. 30:07 🔄 The Hegelian dialectic proceeds via negation, a process similar to sublation, which challenges the Aristotelian concept of being. 31:29 🧙‍♂ Hegel's dialectic aims to raise consciousness, moving beyond mere perception to self-awareness and understanding of absolute truth. 34:03 🤖 The Master-Slave dialectic represents a psychological myth illustrating how self-consciousness emerges as humans interact and negate external forces. 35:40 🌐 The Master-Slave dialectic isn't a historical event but a dramatization of how humans come to know self-consciousness by encountering and recognizing it in others. 41:56 🤔 The certainty of one's own self-consciousness requires recognition and validation from another self-conscious being to establish a true sense of identity. 43:20 🤖 Hegel asserts that the possibility of another consciousness arises through struggle, essential for true self-awareness. 44:00 💼 To truly know oneself as a free consciousness, one must be unafraid of death and engage in life-and-death struggles to declare their freedom. 46:34 🤯 In the Master-Slave dialectic, one party usually yields to the other out of fear of death, leading to the submissive becoming the slave and the dominant becoming the master. 49:19 🏆 The master initially achieves a sense of independence and power through mastery over the world, while the slave becomes a means to the master's desires. 51:25 👥 The master-slave relationship shapes the subjective world of both parties, with the master's self-consciousness being mediated through the slave. 55:33 🔄 The master becomes passive, relying on the slave's labor, while the slave gains awareness of self-existence and independence. 01:00:09 🛠 The slave's labor allows them to cancel the independence of objects, leading to self-awareness and a sense of independence. 01:02:57 👎 The master's self-consciousness becomes dependent on the slave, causing dissatisfaction, while the slave achieves a sense of independent self-existence. 01:05:17 🧠 Hegel sees the slave as a driving force in history, gaining self-awareness through labor, leading to the goal of mutual recognition. 01:06:11 🌐 The Master-Slave dialectic initiates the process of history, culminating in total Mutual recognition, symbolized by the state at the end of history. 01:07:48 👥 The state at the end of history recognizes the common humanity and dignity of all, transcending race and nationality. 01:09:49 😳 Hegel's concept of mutual recognition resonates with the importance of how others perceive us, shaping our self-image and driving our desires. 01:10:56 🔄 History unfolds as each state of affairs negates itself, driven by the pursuit of mutual recognition, leading to continuous societal change. 01:14:57 🔄 Hegel's dialectical movement of self-awareness through negation leads from unhappy consciousness to happy consciousness via mutual recognition. 01:16:30 🌅 The Master-Slave dialectic serves as the foundation of Hegel's understanding of self-consciousness and its evolution, part of a larger historical process towards freedom.

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I remember saying "Screw Hegel!" in a drunken rage. Now I say it soberly.

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so you are doing deleuzes reading of nietzsche, i am happy to hear!

The Hegelian Dialectic just sounds like the Alchemical idea of the Unity of Opposites. Great stuff

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Thank you for your interpretations. So helpful in tracing different aspects of the enlightenment history

Bravo 👏 a great podcast on a difficult philosophy to articulate. You are a natural teacher, with all the dribble on the internet you elevate this medium too it's highest purpose of both entertainment and increasing our understanding.

Excellent and the most enlightening presentation on the master slave dialectic that I have seen and I’ve seen quite a few. Thankyou

Brilliant exposition!

These videos have single-handedly increased my attention span by two hours. Not only that, but through them, I have found many ideas to think and contemplate. Some of the concepts in your videos I've considered before, though not as articulately and scholarly as you or Nietzsche. It helps a lot when someone more educated in this regard explains these ideas so clearly. There's a concept I've seen mentioned, called Nietzsche's aristocratic radicalism or something similar. I would love to hear your explanation as my searches led me to scholarly articles, which I either don't have time for or am too lazy to read (mostly too lazy). If you've covered this concept in your videos, I would appreciate it if you could direct me to the relevant content.

Thank you for attempting to understand and comprehend Hegel so I don't have to.

Hegel is trippy. I can't help but love shopenhaurs loathing of him. It's just fun to read his straightforward, scathing reviews of the man. But I'm interested in learning more of his thought, even if it's just to " bro down" more with shopenhaur. Lol

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This was well articulated and will provide many thought-meals for me. It is in my playlist-Library on YT for future reference

I read Hegel the same way I watch films by David Lynch. When I stop trying to understand it logically, then I understand it. When I try to grasp it with just logic, it’s ungraspable. But that isn’t to say that it’s illogical - it’s meaningful.

I was just searching if you made a video on hegel last week.

The problem with master-slave dialectic is that before both sides recognize their "self consciousness" there must be an intention to enslave someone and this requires a self-consciousness ahead - "I want you to be my servant because I recognize we are not the same". . The left does not negate right, I recognize my left hand not because I negate my right hand, but because I negate the position of the right hand in place where left hand belongs. So in master-slave dialectic the place for masters is not for the slaves, the slave is not negated here and there is no moving forward, no synthesis at all. The slaves never want to kill or negate the masters because it negates themselves either, so each sides are essential for each other and no side want to negate or win anything. Masters also never treats slaves as an object, because they know that the slave is a subject who have a possibility to overthrow the master. thet is why they need constant proves of recognition of their own mastery over the slaves, in case of object there is no such thing in consciousness of the owner. In pure independent freedom there is nothing, no self-awareness and no self-definition at all and both sides got access to this freedom all the time when they occupy a private time during a rest.

This was good. I really enjoyed this. Love him or hate him, his thought continues to animate the world we live in. Shake a strange political tree long enough and a right Hegelian or left Hegelian will fall out of it.

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Hegel took the notion of negation from Spinoza and ran wild with it. He appreciated Spinoza very much and said that there is no philosophy without him. Spinoza thought that the only negation is differentiating some thing or object from the oneness of substance. So Hegel took Spinoza's negation and substance and skewed them to fit his own "logic". This angle is important for understanding what Deleuze thinks is wrong with Hegelian dialectics, namely the false movement of negation. (about Hegel's misuse of Spinoza see Pierre Macherey: Hegel or Spinoza) Concerning the master/slave dialectic, Klossowski in his Vicious Circle writes (p.12 of English trans.): "Nietzsche, out of his own ignorance, will attack the Hegelian dialectic at its roots. In his analysis of the unhappy consciousness, Hegel distorts the 'initial Desire' (the will to power): the autonomous consciousness (of the Master) despairs of ever having its autonomy recognized by another autonomous being, since it is necessarily constituted by a dependent consciousness - that of the Slave. In Nietzsche, there is no such need for reciprocity (this is his 'ignorance' of this passage of the Dialectic). On the contrary, given his own idiosyncracy - the sovereignty of an incommunicable emotion - the very idea of a 'consciousness for itself mediated by another consciousness' remains foreign to Nietzsche. " And in a footnote: " It was the intimidating genius of Georges Bataille (in Inner Experience) that emphasized his ignorance in the Genealogy of Morals" Zucker kommt zuletzt, Hegel's circular epistemology: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qphzlpSYtcqynnk.html

You did a PHENOMENOLOGICAL job

Timely... I just started into 'the phenomenology.. ' last night and this morning. We shall see

"what we learn from history is that we don't learn from history" - one of his best quotes and indeed one of the best quotes ever.

Thank you for this

This thumbnail is incredible

Hey Keegan, you have my favourite philosophy-podcast! Would love to hear you talk about Heidegger, and discuss how Heidegger saw Nietzsche!

Goethe's wife contemplating about the fact that Hegel might be the most brilliant men who ever lived is such a statment to her husband 😂

At first blush listening to the 1st 30 minutes... it seems to me that it is impossible to negate Non Contradiction without entailing the existence of a Thing Itself, because everyday time & space perception & Understanding entails Non Contradiction; that is, an external object is what it is the moment it is perceived & represented. So, it seems to me... that knowledge of the changeability of ( cause ) external things perceived and represented, and within ourselves as subjects... doesn't change the fact that they/we are what they/we are as represented in time & space... and cannot be anything other than what they/we are as represented. I am very amenable to the prospect of getting rid of the notion of a thing in itself as " humbugery, " however. Thing Itself conjecture, to me, leads to the errors of religion... which proposes the external existence of places & beings that evade the synthetic process (sense stimulation & Intellect ) of how we perceive then know of things external of us. Theology... in the western sense... should be renamed Extra Sensory Perception, in my view, because much of it says that the Intellect itself can know of beings & places external of our intellect without the use of our sense organs... and this is, of course, nonsense.

Small quibble: Hegel was born in the Duchy of Württemberg, a state in the Holy Roman Empire in 1770. He later taught at a Prussian university.

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In the intro, you covered that there are more popular myths, second-hand interpretations, and falsifying summaries about Hegel floating around than there is helpful input by those who have studied and understood him. Then you end your summary by repeating one of the most persistent and popular myths, that he was a Prussian apologist, but you admittedly can't explain exactly how. To amend your introduction, Hegel's greatest falsifiers are not his detractors/deniers. The "critics" often plagiarize parts of Hegel (like Deleuze, Heidegger, and so many more) or ignore him whole sale as a "dead dog" or use polemic (Popper, Russell, Moore, essentially all analytics up until Sellars). It's the so-called "Hegelian" followers who provide their interpretations before fully appropriating Hegel through their studies who then pass on this type of misinformation and myth. More damage has been done to the popular conception of Hegel's system by those who purport to be capable of delivering a digestible summary than those attempting to criticize. The vulgar summarizes instead deliver ready-made straw-men to be "criticized" so that students can believe themselves to have gone beyond Hegel without gaining an understanding of him whatsoever (instead, often without reading him /at all/). Although this video is "necessary" to bridge Nietzsche and Deleuze in your presentation, it makes clear just how necessary Hegel is to explain those same philosophers who took after him.

Great job on Hegel. Impressive.

If all of Western thought is a "footnote to Plato", then all metaphysical thought everywhere ultimately ends up back in Vedanta, Hegel being no exception.

You have a good voice, so glad to hear a video that is not using a Ai robot voice & annoying music

the thing i think a lot of people miss about hegel is that due to his method of continuously negating himself, he actually has a lot of different concepts and i think even allows for the negation of his own ideas by others, including himself. He recognizes his own negation. Hegel is already the anti-hegel, at least one version of it. So my reading of hegel is more as a philosopher of reinvention. what A lot of people who try to “go after” hegel i think often miss is that they’re actually doing something very Hegelian in that process of negating hegel. For me anyway, hegel doesn’t actually have any “key concepts” other than negation itself, it’s more about the movement in the thought. It is possible to pick examples such as the “recognition” concept and deconstruct them but the trouble is I think doing that is still hegelian, he accounts for it in his philosophy. So what happens a lot of the time is philosophers who aren’t as willing to completely negate themselves will project static, unchanging notions onto Hegel and deconstruct those…delueze may be guilty of that for example. anyways, it’s also possible i’m the one negating hegel more than he negated himself. either way, great video! thank you for making it

Oh man we need a follow up with Heidegger and Dasein

my dude you need to do a video on the weimar republic

I have a question, the evolution of consciousness/self consciousness from rudimentary to advanced state requires him to accept others being self conscious as he is. But if we follow this up, don't we have to accept the consciousness of others, say even of the rocks? Presence of one conscious being in the world is rudimentary, two becomes advanced, if that keeps up, doesn't that mean we finally have to accept that the whole world is one consciousness and there was no division to begin with?

You have a great voice for KZfaq mine sounds like a ferret getting squashed under a detuned guitar running feedback.

What happens when a master meets another master? do they see each other as one in the same, as equal consciences, or as potential rivals who are not yet in a state of war with each other? Likewise, what happens when two slaves meet do they view each other as equals who ought work for each other together to survive their condition? Does Hegel explore the master/master dialectic?

My friend and old roommate Karl was Hegel's paternal great...grandson. Karl has passed now but he had an IQ in the 160's and he was quite brilliant but he also had an irrational hatred toward Christians. Ironically, his atheist best friend stated that Karl's demons eventually got the better of him before he passed.

Hegel (ca. 1830) was the most complex philosopher who ever wrote. This is because Hegel brilliantly and thoroughly summarized all of the 2,200 years of Western History that went before him. It is frankly impossible to fully understand Hegel without a working grasp of the whole history of Western Philosophy, including (in chronological order) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Anselm, Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Fichte and Schelling.

is it ok to say Fred when referring to Nietzsche? or Freddy? His name is so difficult to spell.

The answer has to be in the frequencies. We see light and hear sound in frequencies. We sleep and there’s different frequencies. We evolved to create all these devices that rely on invisible frequencies. Our society is propped up by frequencies. Our consciousness has to be a frequency that is connected to our biology via the computer (brain). And the brains goal is to make sense of the world over a deep period of time and eventually create artificial intelligence. We are conduits for a long process of creating a super being.

aufhaben is another word for the alchemical maxim "Solve et coagula"

Absolutely marvelous, thank you! I might be very off the mark here, but "to own", although not a good literary translation (since I'm referring to a slang meaning of the word), but might be a good common-sense translation for "aufheben"? It can mean keeping and preserving _as well_ as abolishing, destroying and overcoming (someone got "owned"), especially if used in relation to another person - has a clear connotation of destroying that persons "self". Probably "possess" might also fit it, given the juxtaposition of possessing an item and being possessed by something. Although I'm not sure if any of those will make sense in a sentence as much as sublate or negate does.

I bet I can use this knowledge in the master studies of sociology

I think this is very good

"In the name of ceaser"😂

This idea of negation seems similar to the physical phenomenon of the convex lens and the way we tactically experience the world upside down. More over when we dissect Hegels root language (Latin)we can see many of the base ideas rearranged in such a way as to discern them backwards as well. It really seems right to the very base of our experience the world is presented to us in this convex shape.

Reminds me of the middle aged man skit on snl

Михаил Ефремов удивлен своим появлением в рассказе про Гегеля

Just brief exposure to the subject matter, but if Hegel was at Jena in 1806 he witnessed sone traumatic stuff and if born 1770 makes him 36 and at this point the HRE is gone, the institutions and paths and social order gone and replaced in total or in part. So....he must have been affected and sorted out the ups and downs perhaps his word use reflects all of this upheaval. Within eyesight and earshot of Napoleon's Grand Armee would assist in crafting his ideas no doubt. Napoleon would have presented the dialectic as he marched ....perhaps. Napoleon negated the HRE, the more you explain H the more I am convinced Napoleon just chuked a world order out the window fundamentally, Napoleon must have caused or enhanced wealthy folks going insane.

This man f'ed things up so bad.

Even listening to someone else breakdown Hegel makes my brain feel like pudding.

Waiting for someone to mention Caesar

15:00 Kan'''t!

GPS too gives references, just like the example you used. It is not different in this regard. It shows your position among other things it also locates in relation to your position and to each other.

Ah yes, Heigoll and Deiloos ❤

Presence here requires absence there. -- Sri Baba Ganoush

I guess I will read Hagel just to see what he really said and why.

Just reading his name makes me hurt.

Heavy 🥲

The world is just one big compromise kid

The ancient Africans originated the concept of the Fundamental Unity of Opposites. It was part of pre European invasion Mystery System. The Chinese would later call the concept Tai Chi ( fusion of Yin/Yang).

I think that’s why when humans psychologically process death (our state of nothing) we create and become deeper in our thoughts and self consciousness and enhance our world with empty substance. Aka religion. And religion is the coping mechanism of our perceived limited existence.

For some reason this made me think of the norwegian writer Agnar Mykles posthumously published essay "The world is an asshole", in which he gives the following aforism: "The asshole is as necessery, and therefore as beautiful as the mouth". In this perhaps the deeper meaning of the word of Christ that one should love ones enemy is revealed. This however should be misunderstood as is now commonly the case, that one should become homosexual, offcourse. That would be rather juvenile, according to te great sage Osho. If one is neither left wing or right wing, but have ones both wings intact, one can fly high and get a birds overview, and see the totalitypicture. Thus one could create a "Pseudoscience of Totality", which could lead to the closest man can get to the viewpoint of eternity, recognizing offcourse that all science of man in pseudoscience, and God is the only true scientist. The ultimate master slave dialectic is between God and man, to create a being that can fully and freely recognize and understand the nature of God and love it, and hence which can be fully loved back. That would be the definition of grokking in fullness, perhaps.

It's telling that out of all the dialectical reasoning in the Phenomenology, it's only Master/Slave that anyone uses as an example -- everything else is pretty unintelligible.

Hegel did what one Kant do

Why does everyone go straight to Marx but never mention how Hegel's philosophy is central to Fascism too? Gentile makes this very clear.

Hegel Middle High German hac 'hedge enclosure' 😂

Good comparisons and explanations . The Germans have a name for their elusive higher consciousness . It’s called “ Totally Unt -Conscious .

Difference in slavery today and in the past that slaves can choose or change their masters.

you said his name wrong hahaha its not "von" friedrich hegel, friedrich is his 3rd name and hegel his last name... how did you even come up with that. the "von" in the european names (sometimes also "van" like in van beethoven or van hellsing) referes to a decendence of a royal family or a decendence of a specific town or community, which his family indeed isnt, it was more like a family of christians clergys and priests and so on.

I dont understand any of this confusing shit but thank you anyway.

Never understood what people see in Hegel. It really comes across as a bundle of all the worst excesses of German philosophy. But if you take his conclusions at face value and ignore the insane train of logic it took to get there, it does sound pretty cool. Especially to Prussian students, who are told they're at the fore of a grand mystical transformation of history. It's really a bunch of nonsense.

Um, what does this have to do with dialectic? I've always heard this described as the master-slave duality.

Did you know that hegel by doing the thinking for us, actually made humanity less Self-Conscious ?

Greatest philosopher of all time

This would be much easier if you guys knew math. just say "complex system" and move on as if you understood. Does this mean I have to punch Heraclitus for inventing derivatives? This is just 'When a white horse is not a horse' ? 54:00 I had noticed this by watching people that just speaks but never do any of the work. When you work you notice so many intricacies that by not working but desiring it, you become stupid. But for me this is just a function on how our animal brain works. Movement plays a greater role, so much that there is work on AI to watch videos and learn by them (at Meta). By not moving and not watch the movment happen (not to learn the game that is played) you essencialy is denying a fundamental aspect of your brain. Dare I say of inteligence itself. You will not learn how the symbols should be organized, how will you run any program? That is a turing machine reference.

Hegel .. Hegel .. Hegel

The narrator sounds like Dale Tuggy. Monarchial Trinitarian, but listen to what unitarians and other prottys have to say

I have heard Hagel cannot be translated into German, let alone any other language

Truth changes? Some truths never change, such as God and Math. Others do, as what we can do as a result of available technology.

He got down in the weeds, and fell down a deep 🐰rabbit hole, 🕳️ and brought us on a guided tour.

This is not insane at all! - I never really liked the classic idealists so much, and having Hegel explaining the appearance of the world feels very liberating to me. He made it justice. To me, it's like he knew what I needed from all the previous philosophers without me even being born yet. - Like a unity of spirit, metaphorically meant. Thanks for this great content!

Hegel can't see the forest through the trees

A wrecker. Even Kant wouldn't go here.

The machine has been suggesting I check you out for some time, and now I find out your like doom metal. Where is the doom metal? Show me the doom metal!

Who would have imagined that Britney Spears was expressing Hegelian tendencies with her enduring classic "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman"

Well, he merely modified Kant and Herder, obviously.

A very convoluted way of saying in my meme im the chad and youre the soyjack

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