Public Hegel Q&A and Discussion Later Today

This afternoon - from 4-5 PM Central Time - I'll be hosting our monthly online Half Hour Hegel Q&A and Discussion session.  If you'd like to participate, we use FreeConferenceCall as our videoconferencing platform - here's the link that you'll need to use to get into the session.

We discuss whatever Hegel-related matters people want to bring up, often straying a good distance from Hegel himself into other topics!  But I do make sure to give priority to anyone who wants to bring up or ask about something focused on Hegel's thought.

So, if you've got the time to spare, and the inclination to join us, feel free - this session is for everyone, not just the Patreon supporters of this project.  Of course, it is the monetary support by my Patreon supporters that makes this sort of work viable for me to engage in and continue, so if you're interested in chipping in a bit to underwrite this crowdfunded project, here's my page.

Three More Videos in Culture and Actuality

We've got a lot of catching up to do, in order to get the publicly released videos in this series even close in number to those my Patreon supporters currently have at their disposal!  Right now, by my count - since I just finished shooting the last video on paragraphs in this section today - there are about ten or so videos I'll need to release publicly in the next two weeks or so.

At any rate, we're now getting into some really interesting material in this section.  Paragraph 508 in particular introduces a number of considerations bearing upon language, and that theme is going to continue on as important all the way into paragraph 512, where the issue is one of "flattery", something that serves an important social and even historical role here. . .

Here's the next three videos in this section:

• Lecture 210 - paragraphs 508
• Lecture 211 - paragraphs 509-510
• Lecture 212 - paragraphs 511-512

Another Three Videos in Culture and the Realm of Actuality

We continue to make steady progress through this long section of Culture and the Realm of Actuality.  And now we're starting to see the different dynamics and distinctions Hegel is making in this sections starting to sort themselves out.

One of the key ideas that he introduces in paragraph 500 - or perhaps better put (since he's already started to discuss the various attitudes that consciousness can adopt towards State Power or Wealth), now clarifies, is that of the Noble and the Ignoble (or Base) Consciousness.

It is primarily the Noble Consciousness that he will be following in these coming paragraphs, but keep an eye out for the Ignoble one as well - you'll him popping up quite a bit by the end of this section!

Here are those three new videos:

• Lecture 207 - paragraphs 500-502
• Lecture 208 - paragraphs 503-505
• Lecture 209 - paragraphs 506-507

Next Three Videos in Culture and the Realm of Actuality

We're continuing on through this rather long, but very interesting sub-section of the Phenomenology.  Right now, as I write this, Patreon supporters are actually about eight full videos ahead of what I've released publicly - so we'll have to remedy that in the coming weeks by releasing the videos I've produced a bit more quickly.

At any rate, with the addition of these three new videos we're now well into this section that focuses on the dynamic interplays between two main ethical forces - State Power and Wealth - and the two ways self-consciousness can orient itself in relation to those forces - the Noble and the Base Consciousnesses.

Here are those three new videos - more to come soon!

Lecture 204 - paragraphs 494-495
Lecture 205 - paragraphs 496-497
Lecture 206 - paragraphs 498-499