Thanks so much for all your lectures. I appreciate your accessible style. Its casual, practical, and still dense with ideas. Almost reminiscent of will durant.

The absolute madman just published it

@frederick3467

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, I agree with you but we can't say it out loud.

quote is by foucault and is as follows: “[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.”

@lowrydan111

3 жыл бұрын

Foucault what a poor excuse for a teacher

@bihone4750

3 жыл бұрын

@@lowrydan111 what makes ya say that

@Goethe-von-Voltaire

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know Foucault was that legit! Well, now I know.

@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, you are a gentleman and a scholar

@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858

11 ай бұрын

@@Goethe-von-Voltaire He is the most cited thinker -- by far -- of the 20th century.

I really like Wes's introduction of thinkers' childhood, educational and general social background for their philosophical developments. Really put in new perspectives to understand their thinkings that are rarely seen in streamlined academic texts. Great Job!

Fantastic biography of his life and relation to his thought, really well structured

Great lecture, also l really like that you didn't mention thesis anti-thesis synthesis. Edit: haha you mentioned it at the end only to dismiss it. Good on ya! And l believe it came from Fichte.

Another reason you want to go back and punch Kant! LOL. There are enough reasons already but this IS a good one…

Now relevant more than ever.

Interesting lecture!

Thank you Hegel :)

Excellent stuff.

THE MADLAD DID IT

I love his individualism.

I was wondering when you would get to Hegel!

THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

Good stuff 👍!

I've been wanting to see your take on Hegel for years. Can Foucault perhaps happen in the near future? Thanks a lot, professor!

@lowrydan111

3 жыл бұрын

Please not foucault. Not worth study

Thanks.

Ohhh la la! Girl! Hegel is cool! Viva la Evolution!

Dear Wes. I enjoy your lectures and I refer my students to you. Excited to hear you're doing Schopenhauer. I wonder if you have any plans to cover Lacan?

He calls it spirit because that's how you understand it

The. Benevolent Leviathans-is accurate

One thing I think that drives many people away from philosophy is the difficult writing so to purposely make your writing difficult is a big mistake in philosophy. Was it Einstein that said, "as simple as possible but no simpler". Of course that doesn't mean that it will be simple...

The Nobility went no where but underground

In your future lectures, will you talk about Marx and Nietzsche again?

Very curious to know what H thought of American Independence...???

@emmanueloluga9770

2 жыл бұрын

He approved the aspect of it that asserted and upheld human freedom and actualization

god he is heady.

It seems like there is room for individual triumph of the will, like modern totalitarianism in Hegel's ideas. Maybe I am wrong.

@divinuminfernum

Жыл бұрын

well i dont think it mattered too much to hegel who would be running society but just that it was allowing for people to freely develop themselves within its structure - totalitarianism imposes alot of restrictions on what people can do within the structure, which seems tobe just what hegel disagreed with about the prussian state, so i dont see a direct line from hegel to totalitarianism at all, and probably less so than say the work of Nietzsche who people also misunderstood.

If I took this instead of 17th and 18th century I might still be a phil. major.

@Dayglodaydreams

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind.

21:13 this is very similar to nondual concept of consciousness. Hindu, Buddhism, stoicism, GI Gurdjieff.

You can see how Hegel's phil. of history influenced Marx.

@bihone4750

3 жыл бұрын

Hegel influenced Marx in sooo many different ways. It's very interesting to have knowledge abt Marx, then going back to read Hegel. You can see so much of how Hegel influenced Marx more than virtually any other thinker!

39:10

Inherited Power

Liberty biberty

28k views and 6OO responses does not add up

Isolate world

Again the paradox rears its ugly head. Yes you should be the best version of yourself. This is a life long process that many people do not do. But yes the roads need to be built and the hospitals staffed. One must combine the practical with the artistic as they live. But the most important thing is to have the artistic aspect of ourselves as the captain of our lives.

Dear Wes, why do you doubt Kants claim to be religious, in the metaphysics of morality he says to be religious is a duty of man against himself. That’s quite a statement to my mind. Same goes for Hegel, he loved the trinity because it is the symbolic representation that the spirit is dynamic. His philosophy of history is drawn from the trinitarian idea that the spirit incarnates and returns to itself but in a purified way. Ich liebe Ihre Vorlesungen, aber ihr Verständnis von Religion ist unterkomplex :-) Bitte, bitte traktieren Sie Schleiermacher! At least once! All the best from Germany Martin

Dear Lord. When this guy says "it was not that crazy when Napoleon crowns himself emperor". Seriously? Who can take whatever else he says seriously after that??

@franzsperginand113

2 жыл бұрын

Who said that?

@RafaelSilvaLivroDorri

2 жыл бұрын

Wesley Cecil. The only person speaking from beginning to end of this video.

@franzsperginand113

2 жыл бұрын

@@RafaelSilvaLivroDorri Then surely you heard him say "...in Napoleon's mind..." right before he said that.

@RafaelSilvaLivroDorri

2 жыл бұрын

@@franzsperginand113 Nope. You are probably not watching the video, that's why you are speaking so much nonsense. What comes right before that is: "In Napoleon's mind, the best way (...) was to lead the existent police structure." Then the speaker states "this is not crazy". One of the most ludicrous statements I have ever seen anyone ever make in a lecture.

@franzsperginand113

2 жыл бұрын

@@RafaelSilvaLivroDorri Even if you are correct, "this is not crazy" would then refer to the notion of trying to negotiate and meet the form of the existing power structure.

The velocity of light is the same and equal for all observers, it is independent of the observer's perspective or 'position' it therefore conforms to a principle of objective democracy. The laws of physics are the same for all observers everywhere, this puts all observers in the same state and bosons are entities that like to be in the same state. This unbiased state is the definition of an objective democracy, a target state, teleology.

@hyperduality2838

4 жыл бұрын

@French Frys Collectivism is dual to individualism. The multiverse is dual to the universe. Everything (infinity) is dual to nothing (zero). "All for one and one for all" -- The 3 musketeers The observer is dual to the observed, to get something from nothing requires a second observer. Gravitation is equivalent or dual to acceleration -- Einstein's happiest thought Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein Space is dual to time -- Einstein Certainty is dual to uncertainty -- The Heisenberg certainty/uncertainty principle. The concept of a multiverse is derived from the concept of a universe, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Duality creates reality that is what Hegel is claiming, the Hegelian dialectic.

Understand, "Ourselves," means Europeans and not Africans. I hope that in the future Mr. Cecil will not speak in a manner that distorts the actual racism of the text. I enjoy this information very much.

Indentured Indoctrination

Hegel seems like an influencers of progressivism.

When "outside looking in" of the "Philosophers" of the all the ages, one learn about the profundity of superficialism to fit the millenials of structured ignorance to produce a world of GODLESS gullibles.

Shut the door please i can hear the lecture going on next door and it is very distracting..someone shut the door for gods sake

Kind of Hagel took Kant's thought and rephrased it, that's all.

@inersphobia

3 ай бұрын

Not even close. Hegel did not believe we are born with these twelve categories, a priori. He developed (more in line with Fichte) a process philosophy.

The Hegelian Dialectic:- Thesis and its dual anti-thesis produce synthesis Thesis is dual to anti-thesis Prediction is dual to Entropy

Leave Napoleon out as his history is inaccurate

Boring!

@maxstirner8717

4 жыл бұрын

Boring, all too boring.

@alisonleejones3109

4 жыл бұрын

The delivery

@vueltaa_43

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting enough for me: maybe you just find Hegel boring.

@alisonleejones3109

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonny1982py What a clever boy you are! 🙄

@charbam9506

2 жыл бұрын

@@alisonleejones3109 I respectfully disagree. I suspect your impression is based on very limited exposure to other philosophy lectures...because the vast majority are most obviously nothing like this. The differences are so distinct - which I would love to detail, but a comment reply is not the forum- so just encourage you to check out other lectures/channels...you'll quickly miss what we are all privileged enough to receive here!