The Family - Encyclopedia #518-522
When 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 econom...
4 Jan 202127min
Transition to Social Ethics - Encyclopedia #511 & 512
Discussion of the two paragraphs that mark the transition between Morality and Social Ethics (Sittlichkeit).
10 Jan 202057min
The particularity of good actions - par. 508 Encyclopedia
508 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 abstrac...
8 Nov 201919min
What is the (universal) Good? - Par. 507 Encyclopedia
507 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...
8 Nov 201911min
Purpose and wellbeing - #505 and 506 Hegel's Encyclopedia
Discussion 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
27 Aug 201939min
Encyclopedia #504 - Understanding Abstract Morality - Intent and Responsibility
A 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 ev...
30 Jul 201949min
The Reality of our Moral Freedom - Encyclopedia # 503
You 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...
14 Jun 201934min
The Concept of Morality Enc. par. 502
# 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 ...
6 Jun 201919min
