Finishing Up Culture and the Realm of Actuality

With these three videos, we finish up this long sub-section in the middle of the Spirit portion of the work, Culture and the Realm of Actuality.

Going through the dialectic of culture required 18 lectures - there's a lot of material there - but we're now ready to move past culture or Bildung, an actuality in the world, and to focus on what Hegel depicts as a realm of "pure thought", the dialectic of Faith and Insight.

Here are the three lectures with which we end the study of this part of the work, and get ready to move right into the next, much shorter part.

• Lecture 216 - paragraphs 521-522
• Lecture 217 - paragraphs 523-524
• Lecture 218 - paragraphs 525-526

December Hegel Public Q&A and Discussion Session Later Today

As we get close to finishing out the year, it is time for another monthly online Half Hour Hegel Q&A and Discussion session.  We'll be holding it this evening - from 5-6 PM Central Time.

This session is open to anyone who would like to participate, not just the Patreon supporters of this project.  We discuss whatever Hegel-related matters people want to bring up, often straying a good distance from Hegel himself into other topics.  I do make sure to give priority to anyone who wants to bring up or ask about something focused on Hegel's thought.

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.

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Three New Videos in Culture and The Realm of Actuality

We're starting to get close to the end of this long section, "Culture and The Realm of Actuality".  After these three videos, we have another three more, and then we move into the much shorter "Faith and Pure Insight" section of Spirit. 

In these three videos (and the 8 paragraphs they cover), we're now finally starting to see the second of what Hegel had called the two main spiritual powers - the two social forces that people orient their consciousness and action by - getting a bit more discussion in the development of the dialectic.  That's Wealth (Reichtum), and it is going to exert some interesting effects upon the "noble consciousness", as you'll soon see.

Here are those three next videos in the series:

• Lecture 213 - paragraphs 513-515
• Lecture 214 - paragraphs 516-518
• Lecture 215 - paragraphs 519-520