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A few clips of Gadamer giving a very introductory overview of a few elements of Hegel’s thought. In this first part, he touches on Hegel’s view that consciousness presupposes self-consciousness, and that there cannot be a consciousness of self without other conscious selves that can acknowledge and give one the recognition of being a self. But insofar as this relation is an asymmetrical one involving domination and servitude, it is defective and thus must collapse, as shown by Hegel’s famous master-slave dialectic, because asymmetric recognition always falls short of the needed recognition and thus of achieving genuine self-consciousness (roughly speaking, because recognition doesn’t mean much unless it comes from an equal, someone who is worth recognizing and gaining recognition from).
In part two, Gadamer touches on Hegel’s notions of subjective spirit, objective spirit, and absolute spirit, particularly in connection to art. Then he discusses aspects of Hegel’s view of reason as a historical notion, and that there is reason in history, that history itself progresses, being driven by constant conflict and struggle for freedom, which is its ultimate endpoint . Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb-Q6uacvvI
This is apparently from a television series on the history of philosophy from the year 2000 that was put together by Rüdiger Safranski. I don’t know much else about it, but you can find the clips on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xW_h-dd24
More on Hegel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SUYhdivn0& and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cubchhqCQs
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This man has a magical way of talking. I want him to visit my room every night and tell me bedtime stories about Hegel and consciousness.
Looks like he is holding a cigar
interesting how the hermeneutic reading of hegel has fed into the liberal reading of hegel (brandom et al) with it's focus on society and recognition. i feel gadamer passes over too quickly (!) from the master-slave relation to a skilled community. maybe it is all the heidegger talking, but this shift from dominating others to dominating the world with (technological) others is a narrative of mastery that is missing some crucial steps
Why does he say there's no pedagogical method which can both recognize one's mistakes and admit them? What did he mean by this
EDIT: I watched it again, I think he means that teachers attain self-consciousness through work but they also risk becoming arrogant in the process, which leads to unwillingness to admit mistakes
Thanks so much! I've recently begun reading Hegel's writings and this is very helpful.
This channel is really helpful. Thank you for another great one!
Very ..slow ..speaker .but not automatically so a wiseman. Hegel unfortunately solely responsible for trucks and truckloads of so called mental pollution that is foggy vision created through wild uncontrollable abstraction that’s constantly getting more out of hand . And here we have a perfect case on such uber clear display excellent! thanks overdose 🙏
Gadamer as a philosopher speaks very clear and plain explaining Hegel's very abstract ideas. Reading Hegel's POS has a polar opposite effect lol.
Education as a human right to develop one´s humanity. So that creativity, and your mental faculties along with it, may develop. If the latter is denied the destruction of your very own humanity is what they are after. It can be deduced from Kant as well.
Yeah, the issue of outsourcing the self-consciusness to the slave. So the slave may also do the thinking for them. Expressive of the degree of alienation.
So, that would be one of the functions of language. Why language has a communal dimension to it. It is not simply to express one´s subjective thoughts, but as Hegel pointed out thought must objectify itself in the world. This might have been the background for Wittgenstein's argument about the limits of a private language.
Self-awareness signals the distance you have from yourself, the inner split from yourself, and then from the world. How to be mortal is to be alienated from the world in a sense. So, mortality may be seen as an ontological ground for the instauration of the taboo against incest connecting it to the reality principle.
I see. So concrete self-consciousness is the awareness of a set of antagonisms, that is to say, all the different ways in which you are mortal.
Brilliant – thank you for posting this.
This puts into perspective the dialectic that’s inherent in us growing up
Pretty sure quite a few animal studies on consciousness indicate that just because there is some level of consciousness (e.g. a phenomenal level but not a reflective level) it does not mean there is self-awareness. So it seems Hegel was wrong about that.
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