Ep. 276: Hegel on Perception (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), ch. 1 "Sense Certainty" and ch. 2 "Perception."

We walk through the first step in considering Hegel's dialectical analysis of theories of knowledge. Sense-certainty claims that we have direct access to sensory particulars which can act as foundational. But can we really refer or point to a particular thing without bringing some universal concepts to bear, like "this" (which can refer to any number of things), as well as "here", "now" and even "I"?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Parts of the Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys where at one point
0:11.1	sat on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.
0:14.3	Our question for episode 276 is something like what is perception?
0:18.5	And we read chapters one and two under the overall heading consciousness of Georg Wilhelm
0:24.0	Friedrich Hagle's phenomenology of Spirit, 1807.
0:27.7	For more information, please visit Parts of the Exam in Life.com.
0:31.1	This is Mark Lensomire, totally deep because I'm like folded back on myself in Madison,
0:35.2	Wisconsin.
0:36.2	This is Seth Pascon.
0:38.0	This here now in Austin, Texas.
0:44.4	This is Wes Allewan in myself by virtue of being for another in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:51.4	This is Dylan Casey, conditioned by the sensuous, but afflicted with opposition in Midland, Michigan.
0:57.2	It goes all sound to various degrees pornographic.
1:02.5	I'm only what I am when I display myself to you.
1:06.2	Hmm.
1:07.2	I guess that's like a podcast or thing, too.
1:09.4	If you're podcasted enough, you start to feel like that.
1:11.6	Let me put it that way.
1:12.6	Mm-hmm.
1:13.6	I mean, one man's relatedness is another man's...
1:16.8	...crenography.
1:19.2	So this is a continuation kind of from our last one, 275.
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