Intro to German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, & Hegel

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🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Matthew Segall is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He joins Breht to discuss the philosophical movement known as German Idealism, its major figures, its historical context, its legacy, and its continued relevance.

Learn more about Matthew and his work: https://footnotes2plato.com/

Listen to Matt's previous appearance on Rev Left here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/whitehead

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode I have back on the
0:10.3	show Matt Segal, the professor of philosophy, was actually on our episode a few months back
0:16.4	with Alfred about Alfred North Whitehead and process philosophy. Really loved that episode.
0:21.3	I know a lot of our audience loved that episode so I knew right away I wanted to have him back.
0:25.2	One of his other areas of expertise and specialization is on German idealism. Obviously German
0:32.0	idealism culminates in Hegel, leads to Marxism and I thought it would be wonderful to explore
0:37.6	that premarks German idealist, hot house of ideas from Kant through Fickda and Shelling all the way
0:45.5	up to Hegel. That's what we do. We focus on what is German idealism, who are the main thinkers
0:50.9	and what were their contributions, what in Kant's work started the German idealist's sort of
0:57.3	reaction to Kant's work and caring forward of certain Kantian ideas. And then like what the
1:03.3	ultimate legacy of German idealism has been not only within philosophy but even more broadly
1:09.6	into the political and social world. And what these ideas can still teach us today, why they're
1:14.5	still relevant today. So we kind of run the entire gamut on this topic and it's absolutely
1:20.0	fascinating and I could not have asked for a single better guest to walk us through the rather
1:24.8	complex world of German idealism and all the specific philosophers within it didn't matter.
1:30.8	Whether you are completely oblivious as to what even German idealism is or you're somebody who
1:36.2	has actually studied it pretty extensively, I'm confident that you'll get something out of this
1:40.9	episode. And that's kind of the goal of this show is to create episodes on topics that are
1:47.7	both accessible to the amateur or the layperson as well as invigorating or interesting to the
1:54.5	more seasoned veteran. And I think we accomplished that with this episode today. So without further
1:59.4	ado, here is my discussion with Professor Matt Siegel on German idealism. Enjoy.
2:07.2	Yeah, I'm Matt Siegel. I am a Pi-Day, a system professor at California Institute of
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