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Not School This March: Hobbes, Nietzsche, Dennett, Plato, Hegel

March 3, 2016 by Brian Wilson 1 Comment

Something for the Ubermensch in all of us: Hobbes, Nietszche, Dennett, some Intro to Philosophy readings starting with Plato, and don’t forget the Aftershow on Hegel! Get in on Not School’s offerings for March!

Episode 134: Hegel on Thought & World (or “Logic”)

February 29, 2016 by Mark Linsenmayer 12 Comments

On G.F.W. Hegel’s The Science of Logic (1812–1816), §1–§129 and The Encyclopaedia Logic (1817) §1–§25. “Logic” for Hegel isn’t about symbolic logic; it’s about how thought interacts with the world. Our thoughts about fundamental metaphysical categories bear the same relations to each other as the the categories themselves do. Just take Hegel’s many, many words for it! With guest Amogh Sahu.

End song: “Procrastination” by Steve Petrinko from The MayTricks’ Happy Songs Will Bring You Down (1994). Hear Mark interview Steve on Nakedly Examined Music.

Episode 134: Hegel on Thought & World (or “Logic”) (Citizen Edition)

February 28, 2016 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

On G.F.W. Hegel’s The Science of Logic (1812–1816), §1–§129 and The Encyclopaedia Logic (1817) §1–§25. “Logic” for Hegel isn’t about symbolic logic; it’s about how thought interacts with the world. Our thoughts about fundamental metaphysical categories bear the same relations to each other as the the categories themselves do. Just take Hegel’s many, many words for it! This is the first of two discussions on the Logic. With guest Amogh Sahu.

End song: “Procrastination” by Steve Petrinko from The MayTricks’ Happy Songs Will Bring You Down (1994). Hear Mark interview Steve on Nakedly Examined Music.

Philosophy of History Part VIII: Hegel’s Dialectic of History

September 3, 2015 by Daniel Halverson 4 Comments

“Pure Reason, incapable of any limitation, is the Deity itself.” –Hegel

Reading ‘Antigone’ with Hegel

July 3, 2015 by Erik Weissengruber 1 Comment

Listeners to the PEL Antigone episodes who want to dig deeper into the meaning of the play can benefit from Mark W. Roche’s overview of Hegel’s remarks on tragedy, put forth in his essay “Introduction to Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy.” Roche specifies four Hegelian questions audiences might ask of any tragedy in an attempt to understand its characters and their interactions, and the ultimate outcomes.

The Truth (and some lies) About Art

August 15, 2013 by David Buchanan 13 Comments

“A bad work of art is an oxymoron,” Patrick Doorly says, “like bad skill.” He thinks there’s no such thing as bad art because the term does not refer to a class of objects or a category of activity. Art simply refers to excellence or to any “high-quality endeavor,” a phrase he borrows from Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art Continue Reading …

Episode 70: Marx on the Human Condition (Citizens Only)

January 30, 2013 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Karl Marx

On Karl Marx’s The German Ideology, Part I, an early, unpublished work from 1846. What is human nature? What drives history? How can we improve our situation? Marx thought that fundamentally, you are what you do: you are your job, your means of subsistence. All the rest, this culture, this religion, this philosophy, is just a thin layer over our basic situation. Ideas are not primarily what changes the world; it’s economics.

End song: “Job” by Mark Lint and the Fake from So Whaddaya Think? (2000).

PREVIEW-Episode 70: Marx on the Human Condition

January 30, 2013 by Mark Linsenmayer 90 Comments

Karl Marx

On Karl Marx’s The German Ideology, Part I, an early, unpublished work from 1846. What is human nature? What drives history? How can we improve our situation? Marx thought that fundamentally, you are what you do: you are your job, your means of subsistence. All the rest, this culture, this religion, this philosophy, is just a thin layer over our basic situation. Ideas are not primarily what changes the world; it’s economics.

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Topic for #70: Karl Marx’s “German Ideology”

January 16, 2013 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

On 1/13 we recorded a discussion of an early work of Karl Marx, from about 20 years before the publication of his famous Das Capital, The German Ideology. Listen to the episode. We read just part 1 of the work, which was written in 1845-6 but not published until 1932 (with some portions of it coming out earlier in the Continue Reading …

The Negation of the Negation or Detecting the Truth

August 5, 2012 by Douglas Lain 5 Comments

[From Douglas Lain – see biographical note below for more details about Doug!] In Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit there is a procedure to which Hegel subjects every positive proposition called dissolution.  This process or procedure of dissolution doesn’t belong to Hegel alone.  In fact, the Phenomenology seems to be Hegel’s attempt to demonstrate how all the philosophers who came before him Continue Reading …

How Did We Get Here?: Fukuyama on The Origins of Political Order

December 11, 2011 by Tom McDonald 4 Comments

In his new book The Origins of Political Order,Francis Fukuyama tackles the history of the idea and its reality “from prehuman times to the French Revolution.” Fukuyama works under the contemporary name of political science, but he is really one of the few people we have today intellectually able to go beyond the narrow confines of academic specialization and to Continue Reading …

More Analytic vs. Continental: What is the “Situation of Reason”?

August 14, 2011 by Tom McDonald 4 Comments

The disciplinary identity of philosophy is in question. So says John McCumber in “Reshaping Reason”, where he makes a serious argument with evidence of trends pointing toward a sort of Hegelian synthesis in American philosophy to overcome the “Fantasy Island” of analytic thought and the “Subversive Struggle” of continental thought. “Fantasy Island” and “Subversive Struggle” are McCumber’s well-reasoned nicknames for Continue Reading …

Robert C. Solomon on Husserl’s Phenomenology

April 27, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 6 Comments

I couldn’t find any Solomon lectures on Hegel, but here’s one introducing Edmund Husserl, which I think is apt now that we’ve covered Hegel’s “phenomenology,” so you can reflect on the difference: Listen on youtube. Maybe the only reference to Hegel here is the discussion of Husserl’s rejection of historicism, though I think it should be clear that “historicist” is Continue Reading …

Robert C. Solomon on Husserl’s Phenomenology

April 27, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

I couldn’t find any Solomon lectures on Hegel, but here’s one introducing Edmund Husserl, which I think is apt now that we’ve covered Hegel’s “phenomenology,” so you can reflect on the difference: Listen on youtube. Maybe the only reference to Hegel here is the discussion of Husserl’s rejection of historicism, though I think it should be clear that “historicist” is Continue Reading …

Rick Roderick on Hegel on History

April 16, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Just to remind you, the recent Hegel episodes are not our first: we covered Hegel on history (the later, in some ways less radical Hegel) last year, shortly before I started posting videos related to our episodes. So here’s a video addressing that aspect of him. Watch on youtube. Rick Roderick, talking in 1990, stresses Hegel’s view of freedom (as Continue Reading …

Hegel vs. Eliminative Materialism in Neuroscience

April 14, 2011 by Tom McDonald 24 Comments

Paul and Patricia Churchland are researchers and advocates of eliminative materialism in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Eliminative materialism claims that everyday concepts such as the beliefs, feelings, and desires we attribute to each other are illusions of what we should refer to as “folk psychology.” They believe not only that these concepts are destined to be eliminated by a Continue Reading …

Episode 36: More Hegel on Self-Consciousness (Citizens Only)

April 10, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Part 2 of our discussion of G.F.W. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, covering sections 178-230 within section B, “Self-Consciousness.”

First, Hegel’s famous “master and slave” parable, whereby we only become fully self-conscious by meeting up with another person, who (at least in primordial times, or maybe this happens to everyone as they grow up, or maybe this is all just happening in one person’s head… who the hell knows given the wacky way Hegel talks)? Then the story leads into stoicism, skepticism, and the “unhappy consciousness” (i.e. Christianity).

End song: “I Die Desire,” by Mark Lint and the Fake from the album So Whaddaya Think? (2000).

PREVIEW-Episode 36: More Hegel on Self-Consciousness

April 10, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 21 Comments

Part 2 of our discussion of G.F.W. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, covering sections 178-230 within section B, “Self-Consciousness.”

First, Hegel’s famous “master and slave” parable, whereby we only become fully self-conscious by meeting up with another person, who (at least in primordial times, or maybe this happens to everyone as they grow up, or maybe this is all just happening in one person’s head… who the hell knows given the wacky way Hegel talks)? Then the story leads into stoicism, skepticism, and the “unhappy consciousness” (i.e. Christianity).

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Kojève on Hegel: “The Concept” is Time itself

April 10, 2011 by Tom McDonald 5 Comments

Having read many commentaries on and interpretations of Hegel’s Phenomenology, I’ve found Alexandre Kojève’s Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spiritto be the best written and most helpful. The language is terse, direct, powerful, fresh, and compelling. It’s always struck me as an example of how philosophy ought to be articulated, and I return to Continue Reading …

Žižek on Hegel on Identity

April 8, 2011 by Daniel Horne 18 Comments

One public intellectual who has made much hay of Hegel’s continued relevance is Slavoj Žižek, who begins one of his jazz-session-like lectures on Hegel’s concept of identity here: Watch on youtube. It’s not clear to me whether Žižek is properly interpreting Hegel, mostly because I find both Žižek and early Hegel incomprehensible. Z’s been accused of mis-reading Hegel, and of Continue Reading …

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