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Professor, I agree with your thoughtful premise, but you know as well as anyone that this would take a complete cognitive reframing of the population and its governmental patterns. Education, planning, investment, tightening down on monetary waste, and obviously the cooperation of everyone affected would have to take place, and, most importantly, patience, for the years it would take for this.... transformation. In most cases. Western Civilization has never in the history of the world had it so good as we have today, no matter what our petty grievances. The middle class, yes struggles, but not as in past centuries or decades. I've known people, ruff around the edges, so to speak, who were truly excited about visiting the Mediterranean on a cruise ship. Ok, not my style, not yours. But going to these places gave them... (some) sense of history and another culture. Will they prime themselves on Plato or the history of the area prior to leaving? No. .........You get my point? The Greek, Spanish, French, or whichever governments and city planners are the ones to talk to, and they tend to economically take the path of least resistance, especially when it comes to budgets and development. Good god, Spain is literally running out of water and its still... build build build. Its my view that children from the age of 5 should be taught how to reconize reality from appearances; therefore these kinds of extremes wouldnt happen. At least... would be somewhat preventable. Lastly. I visited British Columbia/Alberta for abouta month recently. Got in some absolutly beautiful hiking. Banff has been turned into an outdoor mall. Packed with people. And I mean packed. We stayed on day there and bolted. ThankfullIy we didnt have reservation placed in advance. It was better for us to wing it. The rest of the trip was much better. My best to you professor. Keep plowing ahead!

Ah, the non-utilitarian jouissance.

The account of God’s return to himself became one of the sources of the modern belief that history is the story of the progress of humankind. Flowing through German religion, Erigena’s vision moulded German philosophy. Transmitted through Christian mystics such as Angelus Silesius and Jakob Böhme, the notion that God created humankind in order to become more fully aware of his own nature morphed into Hegel’s philosophy of the world spirit and Karl Marx’s humanism.

To me, it's just a philosophical method of circumventing the law of identity. It's pure metaphysics without content, an epistemological error which leads to erroneous metaphysical conclusions. It's perfect for academia, because it could go on ad infinitum without the burden of ever having to say anything about reality. But I'm just some uneducated, foolish troglodyte. You can take what I say with a grain of salt. 😄

Thanks so much for this. It drives me crazy the way people throw it around in memes etc 😅

this is an explanation of only one of the laws of dialectics, namely the law of double negation. Dialectic as a science basically seeks harmony between thinking and being, and dialectic as logic seeks harmony between formal logic and transcendental logic. And, of course, Hegel's mistake was that he only considered conscious will to be a real movement, i.e. a category of concreteness, since he considered nature to be an immobile abstraction

Wonderfully succinct saying!

This was a very enriching and well developed course. I will continue to digest it for a long while. Thank you for sharing it with us, Thomas. And thank you to everyone in the class. Our discussions really made the material come alive throughout the course.

Cool antiquarian style

Houlgate fails to realize that rights, which are only found in democracy, includes the right to participate. Democracy is also an ethical ideal in terms of the attitudes which individuals display to one another. Hegel had no solution to the rabble which accompanied his notion of state and society.

Calling Nick Land Christian or his philosophy eschatological is absurd to me. I’m curious about this course, I suppose it’s long passed.

Fantastic

This reminds me of melon playground

Wonderful interview and dialogue. Kudos Johannes🎉

You made this video quite enjoyable! Saying so because I see you have liked recent comments.. I heard about Berkeley in a video explaining different theories of quantum mechanics, immortality, and bio/neo-briocentrism. Would you say the work of Berkeley, especially since you refer to him as a dogmatic idealist, is irrelevant to those ideas/ discussions? Or just another perspective?

So Houlgate came to realise that N didnt really understand philosophy/ metaphysics and turned to Hegel

Tourists contribute their money, and not little of it given their brief stay, which can be exchanged for goods and services, or used to build infrastructure, fund the health sector, etc. Perhaps you were thinking of mass immigration?

So... 'idleness with dignity' is just idleness without idleness. Why is play and creation more dignified than simply sitting still

anregende Diskussion, danke!

But Johannes, ive frequently seen you on videos in Paris, Germany, London, Greece etc. Is that not tourism also? Or do you make exceptions for yourself.

What a brilliant mind! Plenty thanks 🙏🏼 Minor quibble, is that the “rational state” also imposed on people? Historically it was one section of the citizenry imposing its well on the rest. So why not attempt to do the same if the conditions are favorable to other countries?

Layman here, really enjoyed this even though I only understood about 60% of it! I really need to get on to reading philosophy. Nietschze seems highly regarded in terms of his prose, might start there =) Cheers.

We live in an unforgiving society - not to help alleviate issues that people face Thinking as indeterminate. Thinking is being as barebone starting point of thinking. There is an immediacy to it Nothing has immediacy too, again indeterminate just without being. Being can vanish into nothing and then leading being again (names that as becoming and then from there you get being determined into categories through this becoming (vanishing between being and nothing) Dialectic: the opposite plays out from its own positive/negative. (Self undermining within in itself) (Freedom in neobliberallism leading to alienation/poverty) not leading to neutrality but it's actually diametric opposite Philosophy of history as process leading to more freedom Liberalism - critical of putting individuals as starting point for freedom in state. Free market/neoliberal - corporations can do what they want. Failure of localities? We identify as democracy and rule of law (they sre counter because democracy is tyranny of majority). Protection of rights/rule of law/mutual respect come before democracy as argued. People need rights before democracy.

Mass Tourism is a result of capitalism

53:10 Bookmarking Logic does not "exist" "before" Nature.

I believe mass tourism is also causing mass sickness! I don’t remember people ever getting sick this much during the summer.

This video could not have arrived at a more apposite time in my life. As a humble and flawed student of history and philosophy, I have saved some money for a brief trip to four cities of my interest: Athens, Rome, Paris, and Vienna. Before going, I made it a point to study their histories, tempers, citizenry, religions, waves of migration, current states, and so on (this has been a project for years). This is not to say *at all* that I now _know_ these cities. Far from it. The more I read, the more I realize how vulgar it would be to claim definitive knowledge, let alone wisdom, of the European realm. Even more so when I listen to you in this video. But reading Hesiod before heading to Greece, pre- and post- revolutionary France, Durant on Rome and Austria, so on - this gives me a little bit of ground to stand on while I gaze at the cities. I agree with you; I am a guest in these big and small towns. I do not arrive with commercial expectations. Only a temporary guest who has made an effort to understand what Europe means (still under process, perhaps always will be) and what it will mean under so much precarity. Your video also reminded me of how northern Pakistan, home to the second highest mountains in the world, is increasingly become a central point for mountaineering mass tourism. As someone with family in that sylvan and severely beautiful northern region, I have felt quiet bitterness at how little the tourist makes an effort to understand the nature surrounding man. Evola speaks of mountains and summits, why we gaze at nature and find ourselves filling up with sublime love and terror. "To feel alone," he wrote, "in a free, merciless world with only one’s strength to rely on; engaged in intimate dialogue with the deepest and most mysterious forces of one’s being; awakened to pure, harsh dimensions that almost enable us to partake of that same transcendence over and indifference toward the human domain that in the majestic and shining peaks seem to find their best symbolic representation." I don't get that awareness when I ask why a tourist came to see northern Pakistan. I imagine I am not too different than that tourist when I stand before Acropolis. I also agree with that you said about the simulacrum that precedes the city and undoubtedly shapes (and distorts) one's sense of the city he is visiting. What you said reminds me of what W. Percy wrote regarding the loss of spiritual sovereignty as a product of mass consumerism. "Seeing the canyon under approved circumstances is seeing the symbolic complex head on. The thing is no longer the thing as it confronted the Spaniard; it is rather that which has already been formulated-by picture postcard, geography book, tourist folders, and the words Grand Canyon." As for these temples remaining religious temples, that would require a much broader conversation with Europa. With all the faults Muslims have, myself included, we ensure that the sacred domain retains sacrality. This requires making enemies, stipulating what is and isn't better, etc. But even that is changing. Today Medina and Mecca gradually open themselves to the syncretic eye. Modernity seems to spare no one, on the surface at least. Thank you for your thoughtful channel. You compelled me to think and rethink. Maybe we will cross paths in Athens come fall.

Always amusing to the ‘light’, ‘individualistic’ qua democratic interpretations of Nietzsche

The Nicomachean Ethics was my final philosophy module in university for this term. There certainly was much beyond what the instructor articulated and wished to present. It is amusing to see that the ‘professionals’ see so little and recycle and profess the lowly ‘derivations’ of texts and thinkers who are so much more than what the ‘professionals’ portray.

European countries have been inviting Bollywood movies to shoot films in exotic locations for almost 3 decades precisely to promote tourism.

Him saying Hegel spoke more directly than Kant is devious work 😭

51:40 Bookmarking Thought as Nature.

Really excellent. Who were you referring to when you spoke about the ordering of drives/master drive?

Absolutely loved the entire dialogue, thank you so much. So clear. Particularly appreciate the final question and the response to it, (especially as a citizen of one of those nations).

didnt he say in man and technics that he even lost the little hope he used to have for the future? xD

what comes after caesarism?

Der kosmopolitische Klumpen der Konsumenten.

Wonderful discussion - Hegel not making life more easy (to cite Johannes), but to make it imminently better. Many thanks!

Read professor Houlgate's introduction to Science of Logic and also your book on Heidegger, Dr. Niederhauser. Remarkable Europeans! Made Hegel and Heidegger more meaningful for non-Germans.

Marvelous interview! Thank you for taking the initiative to interview one of our leading intellectual lights.

He is damn right about Turkey

Rather ironic to bring up the rioters in the context of recognition. Labelled 'far right' by the media, a lazy way of dehumanizing them and dismissing their concerns. Why 'far right'? Were they brandishing swastikas? What about their ideas is so deplorable? That they feel their country is being stolen from them? That the great unwashed have been ignored for decades? An example of being deprived of recognition par excellence. And nonsense heavy prison sentences for posting on the internet .. a clear message .. get back in your boxes and shut the f***up! I am doing a PhD in Hegel and Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' at the moment. I might bring current events into it. Why is there such anti-Semitism in Ireland where there are hardly any Jews? What have the Jews done that warrants their being so hated the world over? Any answers?

This unfortunately won't happen. Even if the government does something they will cater to the local and more global mafia with capital. Real estate gets buy out from poor owners just to build more tourist real estate...

Americans should be banned for sure, other Europeans ok.

Zarathustra, 'On the Gift Giving Virtue', where he speaks about the lonely becoming a people out of which will emerge 'the overman'. He refers to a future community.

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Descartes, the monstrous dead end of Western thought, is responsible for all this. Any discussion of Nothing, or presuppositionless thought is an absurdity, pure fancy and self-deception.

I think this is the absolute worst Hegel's work, a display of prejudices and a mechanical (and flawed) application of his concepts where they don't fit. A proper ironist sees the gap between the real and the ideal and recognizes it as inescapable, a proper ironist is a greater idealist than all the idealists combined. Also, art has its own science, as any trained artist will attest, and it's much more rigorous than any philosopher may invent on their own.

Immigration must end

Inspiring conversation; thank you for sharing Johannes!