Posts Tagged philosophy of history
Rick Roderick on Hegel on History
Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in Things to Watch on April 16, 2011
Just to remind you, the recent Hegel episodes are not our first: we covered Hegel on history (the later, in some ways less radical Hegel) last year, shortly before I started posting videos related to our episodes. So here’s a video addressing that aspect of him.
Rick Roderick, talking in 1990, stresses Hegel’s view of freedom (as Tom did) and discusses Hegel’s relation to then-current politics. His reflections on communism are most interesting to me looking back on what the world was like as of 1990, not as much what he has to say about Hegel.
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Debating Individual vs. Environmental Forces in History (or, Lord Bragg Loses his Bearing!)
Posted by Daniel Horne in Other (i.e. Lesser) Podcasts on December 28, 2010
Among my favorite podcasts is the BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time. IOT is usually a genteel forum dedicated to discussing “the history of ideas.” Topics and tone range from Oxbridge middlebrow to Oxbridge highbrow, but I always walk away learning something. I almost swerved the car, however, when tempers flared on last week’s episode. IOT’s host, Lord Melvyn Bragg, just about lost it when one of his guests declared “nationalistic” and “racist” his suggestion that British inventors played a non-trivial role in the Industrial Revolution. Who was more (in)correct is almost beside the point – academics yelling is great radio!
Episode 15: Hegel on History
Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in Podcast Episodes on February 24, 2010
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Discussing G.W.F Hegel’s Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Though he didn’t actually write a book with this name, notes on his lectures on this topic were published after his death, and the first chunk of that serves as a good entrance point to Hegel’s very strange system.
How should a philosopher approach the study of history? Is history just a bunch of random happenings, or is it a purposive force manipulating us to fulfill its hidden ends? If you have asked yourself this question in this way, then you, like Hegel, are mighty strange.
Here we talk about the unfolding of the world-historical spirit, world-historical individuals (hint: not you), dialectic, his alternative to the social contract, the formation of the self based on what others label you, the geist of America, why a constitutional monarchy is obviously the best form of government, and heaps more.
Read with us: Pages 14-128 of this online version or buy the book with only the part we’re concerned with.
End Song: “Cold,” by Madison Lint (2004), described in my music blog.
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