Hegel's Views on Stoicism (part 1)

Last fall - October to be precise - after finishing up the Master-Slave dialectic, we transitioned over into the last section of Self-Consciousness, the fascinating sequence of Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness.  Not all that long after we started making our way through the Stoicism material, I took a pause for international Stoic Week, releasing my customary seven videos (focusing that year mainly on Cicero).  Then, shortly afterwards, I taught an online 4-week course on the great Stoic philosopher, Epictetus.

I kicked around the idea in some of our Q&A hangouts of writing a bit on Hegel's own views on Stoicism.  I was getting some queries about that, asking some important questions - What is Hegel's take on Stoicism?  Why does he view it the way he does?  Why does it comes at that point in the Phenomenology?  Is his interpretation fair to the Stoics or not?  I suppose that some of my regular viewers and readers were likely wondering how I could be rather enthusiastically interpreting both Hegelian philosophy and Stoic philosophy at the same time! (That might be a good topic to discuss in a different time and place. . . )

Long having wanted to do some writing about Hegel's views on Stoicism, and never quite finding the time for it, I decided to clear enough to at least get started on an initial entry, in hopes of writing a follow-up next month when (at least by my calendar) I'm not quite so busied by other matters.  So, here it is. . . or at least the first portion of it.