Public Q&A Session for March!

We're holding the next Half Hour Hegel public Q&A session a bit later on this week - Wednesday from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM Central Time.

This is a public service that I offer as a way of giving back to the online intellectual community.  It's effectively underwritten by my Patreon supporters (and I do offer a second, exclusive session later on in the month for them).

If you've got any Hegel-related questions - and if you're reading Hegel, you likely do! - then by all means, join in and ask your questions, and I'll do my best to answer them.  You can access the online session at our ReasonIO meeting site.  Hopefully, I'll see you there!

Continuing On Through the Spiritual Animal Kingdom

We're continuing on through this sub-portion of the final portion of the massive (200+ paragraph) Reason section of the Phenomenology.  What's particularly interesting about this part, I would say, is the analysis that Hegel gives to human action, to the practical as centrally important for self-consciousness.

Can a person discover who - or what - he or she is through their action, through losing and finding him or herself in a "matter in hand" (Sache selbst)?  That's what this part of the work is working away at.

Here are the next three videos in the Spiritual Animal Kingdom section

• Lecture 160 - paragraphs 405
• Lecture 161 - paragraphs 406-408
• Lecture 162 - paragraphs 409-410

Starting The Third Sub-Section Of Reason

We're now starting a new - and final - portion of the quite-long Reason section of the Phenomenology, "Individuality Which Takes Itself To Be Real In and For Itself".  We're picking up where rational self-consciousness left off at the end of the second portion.

Here is the video for the introductory three paragraphs of Individuality Real In and For Itself:

• Lecture 156 - paragraphs 394-396

Here are the first three paragraphs of the Spiritual Animal Kingdom portion:

• Lecture 157 - paragraphs 397-400
• Lecture 158 - paragraphs 401
• Lecture 159 - paragraphs 402-404

Two Videos of Interest

Some time back, I created a video that walked viewers through the process of creating the videos in the Half Hour Hegel series.  Much more recently, I shot another Hegel-related video in a different series, in which I talk about my own philosophical developments, commitments, and interests.

Both of those might be of interest to readers of this blog and to people interested in the Half Hour Hegel series specifically.  So, for those who would like to view them, here are those two videos:

• How Half Hour Hegel Videos Are Created
• My Interest in G.W.F. Hegel's Philosophy

Last Three Videos on Virtue and the Way of the World

Earlier today, I publicly posted the 155th video in the Half Hour Hegel series, finishing up the video commentary on the "Virtue and the Way of the World" portion of the text.  This also marks the end of the second main portion of this massive Reason section of the Phenomenology.

As with the earlier two dialectical developments in this part - "Pleasure and Necessity" and "The Law of the Heart and The Frenzy of Self-Conceit" - what we see is a shift of initiative away from the first term and towards the second term.  Virtue - and by this Hegel clarifies that he means a modern conception of virtue - definitely takes a drubbing from the Way of the World.

I'll do a bit of writing here about what goes on in these three shapes of consciousness, hopefully later this month (if not, then in early February).  For now, here are those last three videos:

• Lecture 153 - paragraphs 387-389
• Lecture 154 - paragraphs 390
• Lecture 155 - paragraphs 391-393