Adrian Johnston
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Jan 2020
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And that, I think, is really his pitch, right?
And it's also, this makes sense of the fact that in the same period when he's teaching the philosophy of right in Berlin, he also is teaching what were then his very popular courses on the philosophy of world history.
And toward the end of that, Hegel in his lectures on world history, when talking about the French Revolution, that is perhaps the most
like lyrical, rhapsodic, you know, just intoxicated, enthusiastic language that he uses to talk about the French Revolution as this glorious new mental dawn in which all rational minds rejoice, etc.
And, you know, it's clear that he thought that was going to overpower, you know, these resistances to it that, you know, we're seeing, for instance, in those parts of the former Holy Roman Empire that were fighting to, again, turn back the clock to before 1789.
Well, when I was thinking about this line of questioning,
What I feel would perhaps be most important is more than anything else is for me to pan back to a bigger picture level.
Of course, as you know, in The New German Idealism, in the book itself, I walk readers through all the nitty gritty textual details in this part of- We
no.
I actually think that there's something very important in this line of questioning that I want to make sure to speak to.
And it takes us back to where we started really in terms of struggles over Hegel's legacy, interpretive fights over what the proper name Hegel even stands for.
And one of the typical pictures, really caricatures of Hegel that is commonplace and that again, someone like Charles Taylor has recourse to, but that has long been
part of the less sympathetic reception of him is that, you know, Hegel is often taken to be in a way, something along the lines of a kind of post-Conti enliveness.
And by this, I mean, you know, a thinker who, you know, who proposes that at the most fundamental of metaphysical levels, there is a kind of underlying metaphysical reality that governs, you know, everything that, you know, we,
count as existing and as part of the world that we live in, including ourselves, and that this underlying metaphysical reality that runs the show, that we are really just
you know, the playthings of, is something along the lines of an all-powerful God that dictates a certain necessary course to the, you know, how reality shows up and how it unfolds.
You know, in this, you know, enlivenance, you know, you have this
You know, this strong teleological theodicy, you know, you have this idea of, you know, this world is exactly as it is and cannot be otherwise, you know, based on God's perfection and having created the optimally good, best of all possible worlds.
And that the course of events, even when these events seem to involve things going horribly awry.
ultimately are part of this, you know, prearranged, orchestrated in advance, you know, dictated as a matter of necessity ahead of time, you know, metaphysical framework that, you know, guarantees that, you know, this indeed is the Leibniz who was justifiably lampooned as Dr. Pangloss in, you know, Voltaire's Candide.
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