Happy Reformation Day. Dr Cooper

Your videos are wonderful. Your humility in presenting Hegel is unwarranted; you have so much clarity and organization on this dense topic. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom.

I think we need a lecture on Hume and Locke based on your frequent referencing of them.

Dr. Cooper, do you plan on covering Kierkegaard in this series?

I love this series!

You do good work. I really appreciate your defense and promotion of orthodox lutheranism. Your pronunciation of Tübingen, on the other hand, is highly suspect🙂 Your videos are great, and greatly informative. As a man of education in the natural sciences, I still find you very clear, precise and understandable. Keep it up!😃

Your delivery is relaxing :)

Thanks for the video. I think the reading is too focused on (a certain understanding of) the notion of Geist from the Phenomenology. But Hegel developed a mature system where the Phen. (and specifically the overly 'historical' elements which you find questionable) plays a way less central role (in can either be seen as the 'introduction' to the system, the manner in how one must think in order to do philosophy, or as one of the episodes of subjective mind). In contrast, Hegel grounds his mature philosophy in the Science of Logic, which is supposed to be concerned with a pure, atemporal, formal thought in its pure, atemporal self-developing movement. Hegel even describes this Logic as 'the exposition of God as he is in his eternal essence before the creation of nature and a finite mind'. It is very significant that this is the groundwork for all of Hegel's mature philosophy: it tells us that it is not historical or material reality that is true (or the measure of the truth) but whatever is true in 'empirical reality', Hegel would say, is true in virtue of its expressive display of what he (quite Platonistically, i.e. 'anti-nominalistically') referrs to as the Idea, which is the culminating moment of the Logic. (Simplifying a lot) Of course maybe one could say it does not matter what Hegel's system is actually about, but (for the purposes of conceiving him as a 'maker of the modern world') how his ideas were taken up and developed in history. But that sounds like it could likewise be said about Luther....

this is Amazing, thank you. I'm so excited to explore your channel. Is it possible to find your PPTs online?

These lectures are great!

Hope you do a video on theology of john locke and Hume. Video on the counter reformation theologians/lutheran scholastics/reformed scholastics and the Lutheran/Roman polemic wouod be great too.

Max Weber and Sigmund Freud, and George Frazer (golden bough) would be helpful too. The book" 7 theories of religion," covers them well. Your series has helped connect the dots on the influence of Kant and Hegel. I do wish you had more tine for critique after taking the time to describe the philosophy and its history.

43:37 so does Hobbes. I hated reading him in college, he was so full of himself. But I guess he wasn't totally wrong either? Lol. Thanks for the great content Dr. Cooper. Not sure I would dig into Hegel myself, so this is very helpful!

Hi Doctor Cooper, Great presentation. I was very much impressed with your presentation of the relationship between Logic, Nature and Geist. That is the best definition and explanation of Geist I have ever heard in such a clear explanation. Thank you. As far as explanation of Dialectic is concerned, to my humble opinion and with all due respect, any mention of Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis is already a distortion of Hegelian Dialectic and honestly it does not explain anything substantial about the subject matter. Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis rips Dialectic of its revolutionary content and it successfully renders Dialectic as the most useless thing. I wished you would have explained dialectic in terms of “being-in-itself”, “being-for-another”, “being-in-and-for-itself” and “returning-back-to-itself” notions which Hegel himself uses extensively in his Science of Logic book. I enjoyed your presentation.

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Francis Parker's book "The Story of Western Philosophy" ends with Hegel due to exactly what you describe around minute 44. His successors do not try to explain all of reality. In Parker's view, philosophy fractalizes after Hegel.

The greatest Lutheran of all time

Problem reaction solution @dr Jordan Cooper Another enlighten content once again 🙏

1:26 "Give you some Kant-ext"

Am I noticing a bit of Francis Shaeffer in your work? ;) Also, I would suggest examining Georges Sorel, to whom both Gramsci and Mussolini look...

45:15 the plot of 'edge of tomorrow' :-P

Would the English word 'ethos' be a better translation of Hegel's 'geist' than 'spirit'? Ethos tends to have an impersonal character, but is something that has general effect, as in 'the ethos of the age', or 'a good work ethos'?

I know you don't like John Frame but I was reading about his immanence/trancendence structure he has about God's Inmutability. Maybe some future lecture about all this dinamic Inmutability theologial contra a more classical approach?

Hello Dr. Cooper. I was curious. I made a suggestion you look at the philosophers of much of modern western government. Do you plan to talk about any of them like you did for many of the Marxists? Ie: John Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau

Would be interested to hear your take on Heidegger, particularly as I am writing a PhD thesis on him with reference to theological concerns.

Any plans for Derrida?

You mentioned how many of these thinkers in your series are Lutheran. Perhaps nothing more than a curiosity for me, but do you believe there is a causal connection, for good and / or ill: that something in Lutheran thought / theology / philosophy has given birth to the ideas that have come forth from these makers of the modern world?

can some1 please explaint to me, why fascism should be cathegorized as far right? as far as i know, right = less and less goverment untill the point of anarchy, which is the extreme of right. Fascism is just a huge state power + corp duo. Or is this some US version of left / right?