Public Q&A Session Later Today

Later on today, from 5-6 PM Central (i.e. Chicago) Time, I'll be holding another monthly Public Q&A session via Google Hangouts.

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've got some Hegel-related questions, or matters you'd like cleared up (perhaps - or possibly made even more complicated), or if you just like to listen to other people puzzle out stuff pertaining to Hegel, join the hangout!

Four More Observing Reason Videos

Progress continues through this long (54 paragraphs) initial section in Observing Reason - Observation of Nature.

Four more video commentaries are completed, covering paragraphs 272-284, getting us closer to the end of this section, and a resolution that will lead us into some more complex (and from my perspective, more interesting) dialectical developments later on in the other Observing Reason sections, not to mention the other portions of Reason (and don't even get my started on the Spirit and Religion parts of the work!)

So, here are the four new video lectures - it looks like with another 4-5 videos we'll finish up this sub-section, moving next into Observation of Self-Consciousness in mid-June.

• Lecture 110 - paragraphs 272-275
• Lecture 111 - paragraphs 276-278
• Lecture 112 - paragraphs 279-281
• Lecture 113 - paragraphs 282-284

More Videos in Observing Reason

At this point, we've made some real headway into the first substantive portion of the Reason section of the Phenomenology.  I'd wager that we're now at the halfway point, and should be finished with that section, "Observation of Nature" sometime in May.

With these video lectures - and in these paragraphs - Hegel is leading us through some of the common conceptions of the natural science of his time, as applied to organisms, i.e. beings whose end lies in themselves, in continuing and augmenting their own being through their own action.

Here are the next three videos in this section:

• Lecture 107 - paragraphs 262-265
• Lecture 108 - paragraphs 266-269
• Lecture 109 - paragraphs 270-271

Public Q&A Session Open Now

Swamped with various work projects, I jut noticed that I've neglected to post about the upcoming Half Hour Hegel Q&A session - carried out through Google Hangouts.

Well, it's not actually upcoming now -- I've just opened the Hangout.  So if you're interested, come on in.  Here's the link.  Come join us for some conversation about Hegel!

Continuing Through Observation of Nature

We're now six video lecture installments into this lengthy, and first substantive, portion of the Reason section of the work.  Since the section extends all the way to paragraph 297, we haven't yet made it to the halfway point of "Observation of Nature."  Quite likely, working through that entire portion of the work will require around 20 or so videos.

Already at this point, Hegel has led us into an integrated sequence of perspectives as a phenomenologist who is observing the dialectical development of reason in its observational activity: law, physical phenomena, ends, organisms, and teleological relations. We're not done with any of them, though, at this point. . .

Here are the next three videos in this section:

• Lecture 104 - paragraphs 252-255
• Lecture 105 - paragraphs 256-258
• Lecture 106 - paragraphs 259-261