At the beginning of the class, Ben went over our first external writing assignment. We received the handout which can also be found in the e-mail he sent us yesterday. The rough draft is due a week from tomorrow in a hard copy, and the final paper (e-mail) is due Thursday the 7th.
We also played context boggle. Some interesting facts about Hegel where that…
-He was one of the creators of German Idealism, which was a motive thought coming out of the enlightenment. Meaning the world is moving towards an ideal.
-He had a son with the land lady. His son, Charles Hegel, introduced the book “The Philosophy of History.”
-He only published four books in his lifetime.
-He also saw Napoleon once and called him, “the world spirit on horseback.”
-He was fluent in Latin and German.
-He developed the concept of mind and spirit.
- Majorly influenced Marx.
-His book was a composition of his students lecture notes.
After context boggle we got into four different groups and discussed some key words from the reading.
Group 1- Focused on the idea that everyone is going in their own separate direction, but everyone is “controlled” by a higher world-spirit.
-Movement in many different directions, opposed to just one arrow. The arrows represented Hegel's ideas/thought process.
Group A-They talked about Heroic men (Alexander, Napoleon, and Caesar) and the idea that the world spirit influences these men. They used the quote, "Must trample on many an innocent flower" to describe the idea that great men don’t care who they have to hurt in order to get where they are going.
Great N- The main idea was that we are moving towards the present/Universal history. They also had the idea that the world is moving in one direction and at the end of history is freedom and truth.
Some other important notes…
-Truth plays itself out through history.
-Ben ended the class talking about the “invisible hand.” This concept was developed by Adam Smith. It deals with modern capitalism and the idea that human beings are led by an invisible hand.
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