Robbert Veen's Hegel Podcast
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The Family - Encyclopedia #518-522
January 04, 2021 13:46 - 27 minutes - 38.6 MBWhen Hegel speaks about the family, he has a very specific form of family life in mind. We call that the petty bourgeois family. In our time we can no longer consider the family essential as an economic entity, nor the larger community of blood relatives. The organization of economic life has limited the various functions that the family can fulfill. This has meant, for example, that in the family the personal relationship of a sexual and affective nature has become the most important. With...
Transition to Social Ethics - Encyclopedia #511 & 512
January 10, 2020 14:31 - 57 minutes - 106 MBDiscussion of the two paragraphs that mark the transition between Morality and Social Ethics (Sittlichkeit).
The particularity of good actions - par. 508 Encyclopedia
November 08, 2019 11:11 - 19 minutes - 35.3 MB508 But though the good is the universal of will - a universal determined in itself - and thus including in it particularity - still so far as this particularity is in the first instance still abstract, there is no principle at hand to determine it. Such determination therefore starts up also outside that universal; and as heteronomy or determinance of a will which is free and has rights of its own, there awakes here the deepest contradiction. (a) In consequence of the indeterminate determin...
What is the (universal) Good? - Par. 507 Encyclopedia
November 08, 2019 11:11 - 11 minutes - 20.9 MB507 The truth of these particularities and the concrete unity of their formalism is the content of the universal, essential and actual, will - the law and underlying essence of every phase of volition, the essential and actual good. It is thus the absolute final aim of the world, and duty for the agent who ought to have insight into the good, make it his intention and bring it about by his activity.
Purpose and wellbeing - #505 and 506 Hegel's Encyclopedia
August 27, 2019 14:32 - 39 minutes - 72.5 MBDiscussion of both the German text and the English translation. The full video version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPvJ_Ihkris
Encyclopedia #504 - Understanding Abstract Morality - Intent and Responsibility
July 30, 2019 18:39 - 49 minutes - 90.7 MBA fascinating topic: what are the ordinary presuppositions of our moral life? And what are the limitations or illusions of those presuppositions? Hegel's analysis shows clearly that we find it self evident that we are only responsible for our actions, in so far as our intentions go. There are however unforeseen consequences of our actions. So how do we deal with that?
The Reality of our Moral Freedom - Encyclopedia # 503
June 14, 2019 13:30 - 34 minutes - 64.2 MBYou can find the video version here: https://youtu.be/i1Cwe-PWfQk. Besides a link to the video you will find a handout, the German text and an English translation at the newly started Hegelcourses.nl website: https://hegelcourses.nl/2019/06/14/morality-encyclopedia-503/
The Concept of Morality Enc. par. 502
June 06, 2019 10:13 - 19 minutes - 35 MB# 502 A distinction has thus emerged between the law (right) and the subjective will. The 'reality' of right, which the personal will in the first instance gives itself in immediate wise, is seen to be due to the instrumentality of the subjective will − whose influence as on one hand it gives existence to the essential right, so may on the other cut itself off from and oppose itself to it. Conversely, the claim of the subjective will to be in this abstraction a power over the ...
The Character of Punishment Enc. par. 501
June 06, 2019 10:12 - 23 minutes - 43.1 MB# 501 The instrumentality by which authority is given to intrinsic right is () that a particular will, that of the judge, being conformable to the right, has an interest to turn against the crime (which in the first instance, in revenge, is a matter of chance), and () that an executive power (also in the first instance casual) negates the negation of right that was created by the criminal. This negation of right has its existence in the will of the criminal; and consequently ...
The Necessity of Punishment - Enc. par. 500
June 06, 2019 09:58 - 21 minutes - 40.2 MB¤ 500 As a violation of right, such an action is essentially and actually null. In it the agent, as a volitional and intelligent being, sets up a law − a law, however, which is formal and recognized by him only − a universal which has validity for him, and under which he has at the same time subsumed himself by his action. To display the nullity of such an act, to carry out simultaneously this formal law and the intrinsic right, in the first instance by means of a subjective ...
Degrees of Injustice - Encyclopedia #497-499
May 29, 2019 10:53 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBAnalysis of three paragraphs in section c. Right vs. Wrong, in Hegel's Encyclopedia. ¤ 497 Now so long as (compared against this show) the one intrinsically right, still presumed identical with the several titles, is affirmed, willed, and recognized, the only diversity lies in this, that the special thing is subsumed under the one law or right by the particular will of these several persons. This is naive, non−malicious wrong. Such wrong in the several claimants is a simple negative ...
Right versus wrong - par 495 & 496 Encyclopedia
May 23, 2019 07:59 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MB495 The contract, as an agreement which has a voluntary origin and deals with a casual commodity, involves at the same time the giving to this 'accidental' will a positive fixity. This will may just as well not be conformable to law (right), and, in that case, produces a wrong: by which, however, the absolute law (right) is not superseded, but only a relationship originated of right to wrong. (c) RIGHT versus WRONG 496 Law (right) considered as the realization of liberty in externals,...
Summary of Property - Encyclopedia #488 - 492
October 25, 2018 01:37 - 17 minutes - 13.8 MB¤ 488 Mind, in the immediacy of its self−secured liberty, is an individual, but one that knows its individuality as an absolutely free will: it is a person, in whom the inward sense of this freedom, as in itself still abstract and empty, has its particularity and fulfilment not yet on its own part, but on an external thing. This thing, as something devoid of will, has no rights against the subjectivity of intelligence and volition, and is by that subjectivity made adjectival to it, the extern...
Discussion of par 44 and 45 PhR with Ivana Turudic
October 18, 2018 16:54 - 1 hour - 152 MBJust a conversation about property, but on the basis of Hegel's philosophy!
Abstract Right #2 - Personality and Property - par 44 PhR
October 04, 2018 10:12 - 36 minutes - 31.5 MBDiscussion of Par 44 gets us to the great question why it is property that defines our freedom. Par. 44 explains the entitlement to acquire property, where property is the ownership of natural things that have no self-consciousness nor free will. The absolute chasm between subjective freedom and objective, natural things is also a contradiction., To make something "mine" involves changing the thing that UI acquire. There is no such thing as as a "thing-in-itself" that would remain whatever it...
Hegel on Personality and Abstract Right - PhR #35-39
September 03, 2018 12:39 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBWhat is a "person"? Not in a psychological, but in a philosophical sense. Hegel uses that word to express the existing free wil, the subject of freedom and liberty. But a "person" is in his language just an abstract individual. And just as abstract is the main category of personality: property. In Hegel's text there is a discussion going on with the tradition of "natural law" (Naturrecht) that defined freedom only negatively. But up to a point their approach is valid, Hegel says. On the level...
Recap of the Concept of Freedom
August 24, 2018 05:50 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBSummary of Hegel's teachings on the concept of the free will from the introduction to the Philosophy of Right. In preparation of dealing with the section on property and possession.
Hegelcourses live Q&A on WiZiQ - July 29th 2018 - 2/2
August 01, 2018 06:57 - 14 minutes - 18.5 MBSecond fragment of the live Q&A session on WiZiQ dealing with hegel's concept of freedom.
Recording of live Q&A at WiZiQ - July 29th 2018 - part 1/2
August 01, 2018 06:53 - 17 minutes - 20.4 MBDiscussing Hegel's notion of freedom.
Freedom and Liberty part 3 (of 3)
July 18, 2018 09:20 - 30 minutes - 42 MBRecording of the third part (of 3) of the WiZiQ lecture on the concepts of freedom and liberty - reading Hegel's Philosophy of Right, the introduction # 4-9.
Freedom and Liberty - (2/3)
July 18, 2018 09:11 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBRecording of the second part (of 3) of the WiZiQ lecture on the concepts of freedom and liberty - reading Hegel's Philosophy of Right, the introduction # 4-9.
Freedom and Liberty (1/3)
July 18, 2018 09:08 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBRecording of the first part (of 3) of the WiZiQ lecture on the comncfepts of freedom and liberty - reading Hegel's Philosophy of Right, the introduction # 4-9.
Why Study Hegel? #2
July 13, 2018 06:14 - 12 minutes - 21.1 MBLatest episode of Robbert Veen's Podcast
Why Study Hegel? #1
July 13, 2018 06:12 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBLatest episode of Robbert Veen's Podcast
Hegeliana with Ivana - discussing the Philosophy of Right
July 05, 2018 16:15 - 1 hour - 52 MBBut, due to a technical difficulty Ivana's voice was not recorded. What we have left are fragments of a conversation, but I hope you can still make some sense of it.
Analysis of Hegel's Encyclopedia par. 484
July 04, 2018 08:18 - 11 minutes - 11 MBFree will by its nature strives to become real, that is realized not only by achieving what it wants, but to create a world in which this freedom is secured and mweaningfull. This, to Hegel, is the basis drive that produces our organized, modern society. It's institutions safeguard freedom as much as it (seems to) limit them.
Analysis of Hegel's Encyclopedia par. 483
June 20, 2018 07:52 - 17 minutes - 13.3 MBWe're talking about Enc. 483, that deals with the transition from the free will in the philosophical psychology to the Philosophy of Right proper, dealing with ownership. See www.hegelcourses.wordpress.com for further material on this issue. Also you can join me on Facebook on my Hegelcourses page: https://www.facebook.com/Hegelcourses/