Another Three Videos in Culture and the Realm of Actuality

We continue to make steady progress through this long section of Culture and the Realm of Actuality.  And now we're starting to see the different dynamics and distinctions Hegel is making in this sections starting to sort themselves out.

One of the key ideas that he introduces in paragraph 500 - or perhaps better put (since he's already started to discuss the various attitudes that consciousness can adopt towards State Power or Wealth), now clarifies, is that of the Noble and the Ignoble (or Base) Consciousness.

It is primarily the Noble Consciousness that he will be following in these coming paragraphs, but keep an eye out for the Ignoble one as well - you'll him popping up quite a bit by the end of this section!

Here are those three new videos:

• Lecture 207 - paragraphs 500-502
• Lecture 208 - paragraphs 503-505
• Lecture 209 - paragraphs 506-507

Next Three Videos in Culture and the Realm of Actuality

We're continuing on through this rather long, but very interesting sub-section of the Phenomenology.  Right now, as I write this, Patreon supporters are actually about eight full videos ahead of what I've released publicly - so we'll have to remedy that in the coming weeks by releasing the videos I've produced a bit more quickly.

At any rate, with the addition of these three new videos we're now well into this section that focuses on the dynamic interplays between two main ethical forces - State Power and Wealth - and the two ways self-consciousness can orient itself in relation to those forces - the Noble and the Base Consciousnesses.

Here are those three new videos - more to come soon!

Lecture 204 - paragraphs 494-495
Lecture 205 - paragraphs 496-497
Lecture 206 - paragraphs 498-499

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First Three Videos in Culture and The World of Actuality

We are now moving into one of my favorite sections of the Phenomenology, "Culture and the Realm of Actuality" - where Hegel explores a dialectic, once again, between two ethical powers or principles, State Power and Wealth.  He will also introduce consciousness' own orientation towards these two actualizations of the ethical substance.

One possibility for the individual person is what he terms the "Noble Consciousness".  The other is the "Base" or "Ignoble Consciousness".  This is a very rich interplay that we're just seeing the start of in these first three videos, covering the initial six paragraphs in this section.  It has some definite historical connections - not always quite so easy to see in Hegel's narrative! - and it connects back up at multiple points with previous dialectical developments from the first three main parts of the work (and from earlier parts of Spirit).

Here are those first three videos:

• Lecture 201 - paragraphs 488-489
• Lecture 202 - paragraphs 490-491
• Lecture 203 - paragraphs 492-493

First Three Videos in New Sub-Section: Culture

We've started a new sub-section of Hegel's Phenomenology, with three new videos.  This new section is organized a bit differently - when you get down to the sub-structures - than the previous sections have been.

This first one, Culture, has to do with Spirit that has arrived at the state of being "self-alienated", estranged from itself.  We start out with the general introduction, spanning just three paragraphs.  Then, there is one single paragraph introducing the next subsection "The World of Self-Alienated Spirit.".  After that, we'll be launching into the "Culture and its Realm of Actuality" section, which is fairly long and definitely substantive.

Here are these next three videos:

• Lecture 198 - paragraphs 484-485
• Lecture 199 - paragraphs 486
• Lecture 200 - paragraphs 487