You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 389 is something like, how do wealth and power affect people? And we're continuing our

treatment of the spirit chapter of Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, now covering sections

511 through 537 in that subsection called self-alienated spirit period and culture period.

We'll be finishing up the subsection within that called

culture and its realm of actuality. For more information about the text and the podcast, please

see partially examined life.com. This is Mark Linsomeyer, happy to give the monarch my name,

if he can spell it, in Madison, Wisconsin. This is Seth Paskin, a vagabond parasite in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes All one, outwardly the reverse of what I am for myself in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

All right, so our last episode, when we were already talking about culture, we had sort of gotten the idea that when you emerge as an eye, as a recognized

person, well, what are you? How do people recognize that you are a person? Culture offers these roles

that you can step into. And toward the end of that, we are getting into the distinction between

power. So, you know, the power of the, we are getting into the distinction between power.

So, you know, the power of the state.

So you could identify by, you know, per our group psychology episodes, by sort of putting

your selfhood into saying, I'm a Trumpy.

I'm doing service for your, so I'm a good citizen.

That's one way of

asserting power by sort of giving up your personal power to share in this group power,

or you could emphasize wealth, right? How much do I personally have my self-interest and that

these things are kind of at war as dueling ideals in the state.

Yeah, so what's the next step here if we want to summarize?

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