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Episode 15: Hegel on History

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Universality of Concepts

The world of ideas is in some way objective and maybe even more real than the gross matter that is around us. The key is that there's a connection between what we might call a human consciousness, or the part of us that actually does conceptual reates concepts about the world. And so hegel has to rely on that same connection. I mean, he's that definition of spirit as being a unity in itself that relies only on itself for its own existence. He spins into a form of self consciousness. But it's not self conscious. It's not spirit in the sense of self conscious, right? A woult, they all reflect each other, and they're all ultimately part of

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