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Warning: This comment is meant to feed the algorithm that drives this platform as part of my addiction to good philosophical content. Greetings from the University of Bonn! I can confirm German Idealism is still going strong in the curriculum :)

Just want to give a shoutout to Greg Sadler who is a philosophy professor on KZfaq that does a video explaining Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit paragraph by paragraph. It's a great resource if you're working your way through the book.

Hegel launched a spiritual revolution under the guise of a state sanctioned philosophy professor. He is a genius and a saint of Cosmic spirituality.

It's amazing how intuitive Hegel is when you understand what he's saying.

A passionate, accessible and demanding invitation to Hegel. The next episodes will be hugely welcome.

Moeller is so easy going and well spoken. Good man and very helpful.

One of the more accessible bits on Hegel I've seen that actually dives right into the dialectic instead of the defanged, neat, tidy, reductive thesis+antithesis=synthesis (= I haven't read a word of Hegel) nonsense you usually see on KZfaq. Great work, as usual, glad to see your profile's building an audience.

What surprses about this guy is he starts by saying that that he is not an expert in Hegel but I have for years tried to understand Hegel but no one ever explained so that I could understand. In fifty minutes, this guy has done what I could not grasp in years. Hopefully from here now, I will be able to read phenomenology of spirit which I bought a long time ago but found it impenetrable. Thank you sir.

I love your pairing of deep and nuanced exegesis with tasteless and tawdry corporate clipart. Halfway through the book! Keep the insight coming!

At 1:00 the picture shown is a thumbnail from a channel called "Jonas Ceîka CCK philosophy". The video is called " Learning about Marx with Jordan Peterson" and is a great video in which Jonas points out what Peterson gets wrong about Marx in his debate with Zîzek.

The embryo quote is getting into the "psychedelic" - and at the same time seems like a bombshell waiting to explode a new perspective into the pro-life vs pro-choice debate. Your quiet lucidity, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Man, I wish you were my philosophy professor in school. You have such an excellent way of expressing your ideas with clarity, and they have even help inform my sociological understanding of the world.

best philosphy channel I've seen

Hegel related to Nietzsche and post-modernism is going to be great!

you are an amazing teacher

What Hegel seems to describe really makes me think of my layman's understanding of what an observer is in physics. For all intents and purposes an observer is that which interacts with a particular phenomenon when that interaction is a measurement. The subject or consciousness here is the observer, while the objective quality gathered about the observed object is the measurement.

Sir, you had a very serious and authentic presentation of Hegel’s system of thought. Your discussion of Hegel’s philosophical system as a SCIENTIFIC system of CONCEPT which is INTEGRATED and DYNAMIC and also as a system of hierarchical levels of CONSCIOUSNESS and also as system of EXPERIENCE of CONSCOUSNESS was brilliant. Your discussion of the meaning of APPEARANCE was very illuminating. Touching on the meaning of dialectical movement was authentic and refreshing. I am glad that you did not get into the ridiculous and useless formulation of “Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis” which is falsely claimed to define the meaning of Hegelian dialectics. Here is my litmus test for identifying a bad student of Hegel: If someone talks about “Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis” then he is a bad student. Sir, you are a good student of Hegel and an authentic one and I enjoyed your whole presentation. Good Job. I Thank you.

Love it! Can’t wait for the coming video!

Absolutely loved it!!

thank you for this video ! I have been hoping you would do a video on Hegel. looking forward to part two!

This was great! Can’t wait for part 2

Great video, I'm excited for the next three!

Awesome stuff as always. Looking foreward to the fallow up!

This was great. Love the work you are doing. Keep it up!

Looking forward to the next video, thank you for the time and effort you both invested.

Glad to be this early. This is my favorite channel right now. I would love if the professor recommended some more books to read.

Thank you very much for this. Keeping the scope small and the descriptions simple really goes a long way into properly introducing these ideas. This is so much cleaner than 10 minutes of "learn everything" stuff, do keep it coming!

Fantastic video, I’m really glad and happy you decided to do Hegel!! Looking forward to the other vids :)

I am truly looking forward to watching your next video on Hegel. Thanks for putting out such high quality videos!

Great video! Keep up with the amazing work!

Such inspiring work! Please keep on doing this Hegelian series. It is so helpful to GRASP the meanings of words in the original work. I just finish the first view of the video, will rewatch it again soon! Thanks a ton!

Thank you very much professor!

I really like the specific explorations of the original German terms, esp science of the experience of consciousness and the active connotation of "making an experience" rather than having one.

Thank you for this. Very clear, very useful.

You're blowing my mind, I tried to read the phenomenology of spirit and I found it quite difficult to parse but as it's laid out here, it makes a ton of sense!

I enjoyed this video very much and it helped me make a little bit more sense of Hegel. I'm looking forward to part two!

Nice job with the pre-roll and post-roll warnings. Spot on.

This is a wonderful video introducing Hegel. Thanks.

Just a fantastic introduction to some of the most central concepts in Hegel. These kinds of introductory videos would have been of tremendous help when I set out to unravel what that genius mad-man actually meant... Outstanding work as always.

Loved that warning

I am so happy to have come across your channel. This is the brain food I've been starving for. Your video on Peterson, and identification of his philosophy with a form of individualism, has made the most sense to me of any critique. Thank you for putting your thoughts out.

Excelent video, very clear explanation, keep this amazing work! Surely I will keep following your channel.

Great video! Can't wait for the next Hegel video!

Thank you for making an introductory video on Hegel. Hope your hobby leads you to make more videos on him. I am not a philosophy student but I have been wanting to get into Hegel for the longest time. Thank You Professor.

Thank you for a sincere yet not overwhelming approach to a great thinker! I treasure this video 📹

Amazing! One of the best philosophy channels in KZfaq.

Thanks for this tour of Hegel's 'Phenomenology' very clear and informative,

These type of videos are fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to prepare them. You could pick any philosopher from the western cannon (Plato, Aristotle, all the way through to Lyotard, Agamben etc) and I’d watch.

I love the warning. It's honestly the fastest any video has made me both laugh and subscribe to a channel.

Ngl I had to take a couple of snack breaks throughout the video 😪, thank you so much for your breakdown of hegel and super excited for the other videos in the series. LET'S GOOOOO 😤 😤

Nice video! I love spotting "Blame!" in the middle of the usual wall of philosophy books behind the lecturer lol.

awesome; looking forward to it

Thank you for this.

I've been working slowly through the "Half Hour Hegel" series here on KZfaq by Dr Gregory Sadler. It goes through the Phenomenology a few paragraphs at a time in extreme detail. I remember how lost I felt stumbling through those first few sections of the book. And I continue feeling lost in each new section. But it's really cool to get a review of stuff from the early sections and realize that I actually have internalized those concepts, because everything you said made perfect sense to me from what I already knew. And a few of your insights on the German words clarified things for me, so thanks for your video!

Your videos complement how I learn so nicely. I would call them a "gift," but they disabuse that notion with the first frame of every video (also appreciated!) Thank you to you and your crew.

Thanks Hans!

I'm a chemist; so, I found your water analogy very immediate and accessible. Thank you. I also appreciated your distinguishing of a concept-driven science versus a data-driven science. I feel pushed more so recently to approach problems by amassing a data sets and somehow training an algorithm to extract understanding from data. I wish some of my projects would have better concept development.

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Looking forward to the future video on how Hegel relates to Nietzsche and Postmodernism. Feel as though the relationship between Hegel and Nietzsche is particularly interesting and deserves more attention. I think people often assume that the relationship between their philosophies are the same or similar to Schopenhauers relationship to Hegel, so a more nuanced view would be interesting.

wow im early :D.. keep it up good and much needed videos.

Thank you!

This was so enjoyable ~ can’t wait to listen to the further lectures😎

brilliant! my favorite so far. surprised to feel a bit of common ground between Hegel and Jung. thank you very much for these!

Beautifully presented

Ive read the phenomenology and a few commentaries and I still found this very helpful, I learned something! This channel or something like it is needed on KZfaq imo, this is great stuff. I just wanted to note that on sense certainty I prefer J M Bernstein’s reading (and Hyppolite maybe) in which that shape of consciousness is not primitive or basic but only possible as some kind of philosophical achievement. Or it takes philosophical work to reach such an abstract viewpoint.

Thank you for doing these videos and not using superficial eloquence to get your point across. Hegel is very dense and difficult to understand and someone with your knowledge helping to explain his philosophy makes it more accessible to somewhat grasp his ideas. I was wondering if you’d be willing to do a video on Schopenhauer or German Idealism, in the future. Everything you’ve done on Kant has been great and an exciting learning experience. If there’s anything else that you might be able to fit in about the Noumenal realm and separately, how Husserl’s Phenomenology: ‘Back to the Things Themselves’, relates to Kant’s, A Thing in Itself. Thank you again. You do a wonderful job at this.

I really enjoyed this kinda linguistic approach to Hegel's concepts explaining the various meanings and translations of words and sometimes their ethymology. You could say your elaboration of his "Begriffe" helped me in the process of "Begreifen".

lets gooooo!!! post modernist talk and more jordan peterson take down?? i’m so ready for next video!

Lucky day! I was about to head to bed saw this on my feed, Love this channel's content

This was extremely informative for me. A few years ago I tried to read phenomenology of spirit after reading the critique of pure reason. I couldn't make heads or tails of it and quickly dropped it. Although the concepts are still hard, I think I now understand what Hegel is trying to say for consciousness as it relates to objects. Because of this video, I'm willing to give the book another try (although with Stanford Encyclopedia on hand :P ). Also, I very recently started reading Marx so I'm looking forward to your next video :)

I cannot wait for the video on Hegel and Nietzsche! I always felt that between thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Freud there was a strong connection and an interesting development of mind and spirit that ties beautifully with things like 20th century existentialism, 20th century political though (be it Frankfurt School or post-structural interpretations of society, power and politics) or just „postmodern” „(hau)ontology”.

this is one of the best introductions to hegel i've veer seen on youtube! all of the fundamental concepts are addressed and explained in such a robust and straight way, while at the same time showing how each one of those concepts work in the whole of the system this vid is pure gold

Now I reach a realization that u r cracking on with a philosophy 101 series( Kant,Hegel,Marx,........) What a CONTRIBUTION to the starters!

great videos!!! learnt a lot

Watching this video was the first time I've ever felt like I was actually understanding something of Hegel. He's unlikely to become my favorite philosopher, but it is something of a relief to see that his writings can make some - any - sense to me.

VERY GOOD EXPLANATION. THANK YOU!

very enjoyable style of explaining

Not only does this video enhance my appreciation of Hegel, it makes me want to know more about the hieroglyphic properties of German words to convey multiple pictographic concepts in German philosophical writing.

So right bestie!!! With machine learning and all the breakthroughs happening recently with AIs and stuff, it's basically empirical proof of Hegel's dialectical phenomenology. Kinda. But being able to replicate the building of consciousness using computers!!! Dude this is so awesome this gives words to what I have been thinking thank you. Dude your videos are so awesome finally I'm getting deep into like Kant and Hegel and they're all so right!!!! Omg this is so much fun cannont wait to watch more videos and give you more money and thus feed into the system of KZfaq but that's fine it's cool what is life if not participating in systems that are designed to get your attention!!!

I love that Hegel has a philosophy around why his writing is incomprehensible.

I love the reference to Jonas Ceîka CCK philosophy video about Jordan Peterson at 1:00

Great stuff! Just a small thing (brought by my own experience of this work read) to note here: we understand the appearance as it is when it's "nullified", it's essence is to be unessential, to be nothing. The same could be said about the work of concept in general: it neutralizes the sense certainty, nullifies it, and, by this nullification, actualizes it. So in a way we may say, that this negative aspect (to nullify just to make it actual) encompasses the whole of spirit's development.

I see the happiness in you when you started this video.

I’m reading the phenomenology for a literature seminar this year!! We’re also reading Kojeve’s introduction, which should be pretty cool!

Just like Lucretius' writings foreshadowed our modern classical understanding of atoms and Newtonian physics, Hegel's thoughts foreshadow some ideas that are at the heart of modern neuroscience and quantum physics. Very interesting, I never thought about it like that.

I don't think this video mentions explicitly about the common "thesis/antithesis/synthesis" but watching this made me understand them so much more. Thank you professor for explaining these profound topics with such accessible language. And i look forward to more videos on Hegel! Have a wonderful day. :)

First, the time I understand hegal.

Excellent stuff. I am not an expert either but I am a huge fan. For someone who thought that philosophy does without images and is purely notional he had an awesome philosophical imagination. 'Death, if that is what we want to call this non-actuality, is of all things the most dreadful, and to hold fast what is dead requires the greatest strength. Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself. It is this power, not as something positive, which closes its eyes to the negative, as when we say of something that it is nothing or is false, and then, having done with it, turn away and pass onto something else; on the contrary, Spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and tarrying with it. This tarrying with the negative is the magical power that converts it into being. This power is identical with what we earlier called the Subject, which by giving determinateness an existence in its own element supersedes abstract immediacy, i.e. the immediacy which barely is, and thus is authentic substance: that being or immediacy whose mediation is not outside of it but which is this mediation itself'. - Hegel, 'Phenomenology of Spirit', 1807.

Really looking forward to more videos on Hegel and Marx! I'm also wondering what's the reception of Terry Pinkard and other Anglophone Hegelian scholars like Robert Pippin within the German scholarship?

This was great. Well done - and thanks. As a meditator and buddhist, all of this makes complete sense. I would say that most people’s conscious engagement with the world is initially governed by concern with personal advantage. Many never really go beyond that. It would not really be right to say that such a consciousness is either irrational or false, which I understand you as saying is also Hegel’s view. But it can be infuriating, and leads to much suffering. These are the worldly winds of pleasure - pain, loss - gain, praise - blame, fame and disrepute. But in the Buddhist scheme they are built on a misconception of the ego which Buddhists seek to transcend, and move to an other related and incorporating, boundary changing, consciousness of the world. Crucially this is an active process, using meditation and engagement with the world. So I find the Hegelian scheme you have outlined here very similar to a Buddhist scheme. It would be said though by most Buddhists, that the development of consciousness is very difficult without and effective meditation process. This is really only a skill of looking and acting on the results (mindfulness). Whether Buddhist or otherwise it seems that all those who develop in this way have some such technique. There can be a debate about the words “development” which has an implication of accumulation or building, and simplifying, which has an implication of stripping away or renunciation.

"By making this experience the mind grows- the mind develops- it does not stay the same." ✍️

Excellent presentation. Would you please consider making a video on The Phenomenology Of Perception, contrasting and comparing it to the philosophy and science from which Merleau-Ponty took his cue, breaking ground in this most extraordinary book -- from Descartes, thru Kant, Hegel, Husserl (?) Heidegger and gestalt psychology etc? Listening to your explanations in this video has thrown some light on my understanding of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Thank you.

Excellent. Enjoy or you videos.

The way to go ! A great indroduction to Hegel . look forward to your discusion of Marx's relationship to Hegel.

Edifying , Hegel school of thought well explicated.

More, please.

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Great video! Thanks, Dr Moeller! Side note: it's funny how as recently as in the 19-th century philosophers (not just Hegel) called what they did "science"... Nowadays it's unthinkable, thanks to the advances of materialistic teachings like positivism, postpositivism and the specific "sciences"

I used Hegel’s concept of zeitgeist in my dissertation’s analysis on the rave culture in the North East region of England, where I’m from, and his take on aesthetics and artistic expressionism seemed beyond the consensus reality