Ep. 24 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Hegel

In this episode of "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis," Dr. John Vervaeke delves into the philosophical lineage from Kant to Hegel, emphasizing Hegel's profound influence on the political and cultural landscape surrounding the meaning crisis. He elucidates Hegel's critique of Kant's "thing in itself," and explains Hegel's concept of "Geist" as a living system of intelligibility patterns that structure reality. Vervaeke explores Hegel's dialectical process of differentiation and integration, exemplified by the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis model, and illustrates how Hegel secularizes the Hebraic-Christian idea of God through a philosophical understanding of history. The episode concludes by examining the critiques of Hegel by Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Marx, setting the stage for further analysis of the ramifications of these ideas in Germany and their impact on the meaning crisis.