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3 days ago · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [a] (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy.
3 days ago · I begin by defending Heinrich Gustav Hotho’s foundational edition of the Lectures on Aesthetics (LA) contra Gethmann-Siebert and others who argue for a non-systematic view of Hegel’s aesthetics generally and music specifically. I defend Hegel against the common conceit that his comprehension of music was somehow deficient and introduce the Hegelian idea of absolute agency as performative ...
These problems were heavily discussed, debated, and considered by Islamic philosophers starting in the 4th century AH. Islamic philosophical thought is much more robust in this regard and nowhere near as fragile. As a result, the idea that, "oh traditionalists just assume Islamic philosophy to be true" is a misnomer.
1 day ago · The text of Martin Heidegger’s 1930-1931 lecture course on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit contains some of Heidegger’s most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. Within the context of Heidegger’s project of reinterpreting Western thought through its central figures ...
Historical Theories of an Invisible Reality that Permeates all of Existence. Question for a future episode: Were Shopenhauer, Kant and Hegel initiated into an occult order? Having read them, albeit years ago, their work strikes me more as philosophies of metaphysics or metaphysics-adjacent rather than initiated lore.
5 days ago · Hegel often uses the example of a flower in explaining the significance of philosophy. A flower is, of course, a finite existence and therefore not a proper object of philosophy, but it does serve as a ready example to illustrate its principles.
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3 days ago · Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit was a pivotal work of German absolute idealism. G. W. F. Hegel also defended a dynamic absolute idealism that sees existence as an all-inclusive whole. However, his system differs from his predecessors' in that it is not grounded on some initial subject, mind, or "I" and tries to move beyond all bifurcation ...
