Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.795

   Philosophical reflection does not set the end against the middle and the beginning in this way, but rather takes all three as integrating moments of a unitary total development.” The Preface to the second volume, on Mythical Thought (1925), invokes Hegel in the same vein, while also indicating Cassirer’s remaining fundamental disagreement with him. For Hegel [Hegel (GW 9, 23)]: “Science for its part demands that self-consciousness raise itself into this ether, in order that it may live with and for science. Conversely, the individual has the right to demand that science shall at least provide …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/ernst-cassirer.md

2. 02 · blog0.784

   Hegelian conceptual self-reflection or “the self-reflection of thought” ( der Begriff als Selbstbesinnung des Denkens , ibid., 32), acknowledges the self-conscious spontaneous activity of thought, an essential element of autonomy. In the “Preface” Horkheimer and Adorno emphasize their reliance on these potentials within thought: “if enlightenment does not assimilate reflection on this regressive moment [in rationality], it seals its own fate” (ibid., xvi); “intellect’s true concern is a negation of reification” and “the necessity for enlightenment to reflect on itself if humanity is not to be …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/theodor-w-adorno.md

3. 03 · blog0.777

   In the Phenomenology of Spirit , which presents Hegel’s epistemology or philosophy of knowledge, the “opposing sides” are different definitions of consciousness and of the object that consciousness is aware of or claims to know. As in Plato’s dialogues, a contradictory process between “opposing sides” in Hegel’s dialectics leads to a linear evolution or development from less sophisticated definitions or views to more sophisticated ones later. The dialectical process thus constitutes Hegel’s method for arguing against the earlier, less sophisticated definitions or views and for the more sophist…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/hegel-s-dialectics.md

4. 04 · yt0.776

   And when we say sublating, I mean that's one of Hegel's favorite terms. This is a translation from Offheeong, which is not a very it's not a very direct translation. We don't really have a word for it in English, but sublating means cancelelling the previous concept. In fact, cancelelling the whole dialectic while at the same time preserving that dialectic by lifting it to a higher level of analysis. So intellect's true concern is the negation of reification. To reify is to make real. Reification in this context refers to the rigidification of conceptual frameworks. Right? So the the power of …

   yt/jAAA11vEwiI-what-they-didn-t-tell-you-about-critical-theory-horkheimer-a/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.771

   In that sense, Adorno's inversion aversion of Hegel might be specific also given the other cases and case studies you have treated already in this 1313 series and it might be maybe the most complex, but it might be also the most radical because in Adorno you find an inversion and Umkehrung of Hegel that is keeping Hegel, but is still inverting him, standing him on his head. And this is extremely fascinating because it includes on the one hand a complete loyalty to almost all the topoi important in Hegelianism, but at the same time an ultra severe and serious rejection rejection of some of its …

   yt/OCTgcESeCMM-adorno-hegel-and-negative-dialectics-prof-martin-saar-frankf/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.769

   The English verb “to sublate” translates Hegel’s technical use of the German verb aufheben , which is a crucial concept in his dialectical method. Hegel says that aufheben has a doubled meaning: it means both to cancel (or negate) and to preserve at the same time (PhG §113; SL-M 107; SL-dG 81–2; cf. EL the Addition to §95). The moment of understanding sublates itself because its own character or nature—its one-sidedness or restrictedness—destabilizes its definition and leads it to pass into its opposite. The dialectical moment thus involves a process of self -sublation, or a process in which t…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/hegel-s-dialectics.md

7. 07 · blog0.769

   Bauer claimed that the consequences of Hegel’s system were the overthrow of church and state; and that Hegel’s conservative critics were right to see him as the most dangerous adversary of the Restoration. Written ironically as pietistic denunciations, Bauer’s two texts attributed to Hegel a theory of infinite self-consciousness, in which the concept of substance and a transcendent absolute were necessary but self-annulling illusions. Recapitulating the issue in his own voice in 1845, Bauer identified a tension in Hegel’s thought between Spinoza and Fichte, between inert, undifferentiated subs…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/bruno-bauer.md

8. 08 · blog0.766

   Hegel “unwittingly is proceeding in terms of the proposition” but is caught up with the illusory attempt to establish an overarching truth (“that whereby a true proposition can be true”), instead of the task of establishing true propositions ( JAA , Lectures on William James, 1935). The same criticism of Hegel seems to be made by Brandom in the service of his very different expressionist project (Brandom 2000). But for Anderson, Hegel’s doctrine of outlooks “rests on an inability to grasp the independence of truths” ( EMP , 81). On the other hand, we need only reject Hegel’s doctrine of expres…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/john-anderson.md

9. 09 · yt0.764

   In that sense, Adorno's inversion aversion of Hegel might be specific, also given the other cases and case studies you have treated already in this 1313 series, and it might be maybe the most complex, but it might be also the most radical because in Adorno you find an inversion and Umkehrung of Hegel that is keeping Hegel, but is still inverting him, standing him on his head. And this is extremely fascinating because it includes on the one hand a complete loyalty to almost all the topoi important in Hegelianism, but at the same time an ultra-severe and serious rejection rejection of some of it…

   yt/l1Qt3tznA78-adorno-hegel-and-negative-dialectics-professor-martin-saar-f/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.764

    Hegel says in the encyclopedia, the difference between us The only the real difference between us and the animals is animals have purposes just like we do. But we have purposes as purposes. We entertain them in that kind of way. In that way we have political projects which say the animals will not have in this case. So, I think that there's one of the features of Hegel is that he is in fact uh right in fact trying to overcome the materialism idealism or the naturalism idealism kind of dichotomy here with a much more nuanced view about what it means to be a self-conscious life you know, that's …

    yt/3deVNo03awg-slavoj-zizek-vs-terry-pinkard-how-to-read-hegel/transcript.txt