Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Professor John E. Smith
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Professor John E. Smith
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Author: Professor John E. Smith

Narrator: Charlton Heston

Unabridged: 2 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2006


Synopsis

Hegel created a vast speculative and idealistic philosophy, where truth is found not in the part but in the whole. Nature is an organic whole shot through with rationality akin to the reason in ourselves. Hegel's famous "dialectic" is an organic process of growth and development in three stages: beginning, advance and resolution. It has two sides: the rational patterns that determine all growth in the world and the logical form of reason. Each person is both a one and a many, a coexistence of opposites (unity and diversity). Selfconsciousness (the self as subject knowing the self as object) requires mutuality social interaction with others. And our minds have two functions: the understanding distinguishes between things, and reason synthesizes them. There are three stages of mind: subjective (concerned with the individual), objective (including customs and beliefs of communities), and absolute (Spirit expressing itself through art, religion, and philosophy). All phases of the dialectical process are brought together in the final unity of Absolute mind. For Hegel, history is a dynamic succession of novel and creative events, the gradual unfolding of reason. In Hegel's words, "what is rational is actual (real), and what is actual (real) is rational." Great men express the spirit of their age. And God is an absolute and living knower who apprehends the truth of all actuality.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Giorgio on January 10, 2019

Besides Hegel being the "most difficult philosopher", some parts of the audiobook are spoken with a GERMAN ACCENT... mimicking Hegel. So, I am reviewing the AUDIOBOOK and giving two stars because they did an awful decision in narration. Instead of clarifying Hegel (at least a little), they just turned......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on November 29, 2020

thought provoking/stimulating......more

Goodreads review by AttackGirl on September 06, 2021

Imagine there is no science, no way to think scientifically then to discuss a topic without a rational way to express those thoughts, then imagine no way to organize the way you think then let’s add the concept of God and can we imagine a God, what about time and the passage of time and development......more