PREMIUM-Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of Physics (Part Two)

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🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Continuing on The Phenomenology of Spirit, ch. 3, "Force and the Understanding."

We start off by considering the players in force: the thing exerting the force and the thing receiving. By arguing that these are not so different, Hegel moves to arguing that knowledge and the world are likewise not sharply distinguished.

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0:00.0	The partially examined life philosophy podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained,
0:12.8	fully satisfying experiences in themselves.
0:15.6	But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind
0:20.0	our various paywalls to folks that pitch in to help us make this show.
0:24.1	What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, and hope you
0:27.7	enjoy it.
0:28.7	Hey, this is episode 277 Part 2, our last treatment for the moment of Hagle's phenomenology
0:36.2	of spirit talking about force and the understanding.
0:39.0	Let's go.
0:40.0	So in 137, we begin by positing forces a substance or as a one.
0:44.5	We get back to the same sort of dynamic that we've had in the other sections of the one
0:48.5	versus the many problem.
0:50.7	And in this case, it turns out that Hagle argues that the matters or the properties in a way
0:56.2	must be inside of the force rather than outside it, because they are what, in a way, solicits
1:04.2	the force to express itself.
1:06.8	I don't know how to put that in an example.
1:09.2	Isn't this a little bit just the action reaction kind of thing?
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	A collision, right?
1:14.6	When the billiard ball hits the rail, then it solicits a reaction from the rail against
1:22.0	it.
1:23.0	Back to the situation of what we were discussing a little bit before, where we're tempted to
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