Hegel Q&A and Discussion Coming Up Today

Each month, for a number of years now, I've been hosting online Hegel video-conferencing sessions, in which participants get to ask questions, get my best attempts at answers, and discuss Hegel-related matters.

We started these using Google Hangouts - hence the image you see here - and then for a long time were using a different videoconferencing platform, FreeConferenceCall.  We've now switched to Zoom as the main platform for these monthly sessions.

We're holding this month's session at 5 PM Central Time today.  If you'd like to attend and participate, here is the Zoom link for the session.  I hope to see some of you there, and look forward to a great conversation!

September Half Hour Hegel Q&A

It's hard to believe that it's already time for the next monthly Public Q&A session - the weeks are slipping by quickly!

So, if you want to talk, listen, or ask questions about anything Hegel-related, today is the day - 5-6 PM Central (i.e. Chicago) Time, I'll be holding the session via Google Hangouts.

This session is totally free for anybody who wants to come (I also hold another one each month exclusively for my Patreon supporters).

I'll be posting the link for the Hangout once it's opened in several locations - my Patreon page, my Facebook author page, in Google+, and in Twitter.  So, if you want in, you'll want to check at least one of those around the time the Hangout started.

August Half Hour Hegel Q&A Session

It's time for the next monthly Public Q&A session about anything Hegel-related, so later today, from 5-6 PM Central (i.e. Chicago) Time, I'll be holding one via Google Hangouts.

This session is totally free for anyone who wants to attend (I also hold another one each month just for my Patreon supporters).

I'll be posting the link for the Hangout once it's opened in several locations - my Patreon page, my Facebook author page, in Google+, and in Twitter.  So, if you want in, you'll want to check at least one of those around the time the Hangout started

If you've got any Hegel-related questions, or matters you'd like cleared up, or if you just like to listen to other people puzzle out stuff pertaining to Hegel, join the hangout - I'll be glad to have you there!

Answer to a Good Question: Sartre and Hegel

One of the most productive aspects of holding monthly online Q&A sessions as a perk for my Patreon supporters of this project is getting asked questions that really do need to be asked and answered, given that the main purpose of the video series (and the associated activities) is to help people productively study and learn Hegel's Phenomenology.

It's occurred to me that I ought to start writing down the responses that I give, for two main reasons.  First, they're not being recorded in these sessions, and every once in a while, I surprise myself by coming up with an interesting response or explanation.  Second, and more importantly, with quite a few of the questions, if one person is asking them, they're likely to bear upon issues that many other people wonder about as well.

This first one was asked by Thao Nguyen -- and it's a question I've addressed before in a different setting (in one of my 10 Short Clips videos) -- about the relation between Jean-Paul Sartre's and G.W.F. Hegel's use of the same terminology, specifically the "in-itself" and "for-itself".  Are both philosophers in effect meaning the same thing when they use these terms in the course of their magna opera, Being and Nothingness and the Phenomenology of Spirit?