Episode 135: Hegel on the Logic of Basic Metaphysical Concepts
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
A whole second discussion on G.F.W. Hegel's Encyclopedia Logic, hitting sections 78–99 on the dialectic and Understanding vs. Reason. Hegel thinks we can use Reason to objectively come up with basic metaphysical categories, but can we really? With guest Amogh Sahu.
This continues ep. 134. PEL Citizens can listen to the Aftershow.
End song: "Flow" by Gary Lucas and Mark Lint. Listen to Gary interviewed about this instrumental on Nakedly Examined Music #7.
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| 0:56.4 | read one point said on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 1:00.4 | Our question for episode 135 is something like, how are our basic metaphysical concepts |
| 1:05.8 | like being nothingness, becoming quality and quantity related? |
| 1:09.3 | If you're continuing last episode's discussion by reading more of GFW HIGGLE's logic, in |
| 1:15.5 | this case the encyclopedia logic or lesser logic, sections 79 to 99 that's from 1817. |
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