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The 11th Commandment: Be Yourself
Our culture lives in a paradox. We celebrate freedom and authenticity, yet we are crushed by the pressure to prove ourselves. This episode explores how postmodernism and neoliberalism shaped our…
Eight Thinkers On Sovereignty
Eught different philosophies of Sovereignty, from Hobbes to Agamben,Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-philosophy-channel--4573240/support."Dare to use your own…
Two Moral Worlds: Talmud and Augustine
The Talmud and Augustine offer two very different ways of thinking about God and the human person within the shared world of Scripture.The Talmud speaks through many voices, its ideas emerging from…
What Does Hegel Mean By "Consciousness"?
In this episode, we explore the opening movement of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, where the journey of consciousness—das Bewusstsein—begins. Hegel starts with the idea that consciousness simply…
The Death of God: Hegel and Nietzsche
This episode explores the striking idea that “God is dead” — not only in Nietzsche’s philosophy, but already in Hegel’s early work Faith and Knowledge. For Hegel, the “death of God” is not an atheist…
Slavoj Žižek and Jean Hyppolite: Opposite Readings of Hegel
This episode explores the very beginning of Hegel’s Science of Logic: the concept of pure being. Hegel asks us not to think about concepts, not to analyze how concepts are used, but to think the…
S1E1 Lecture 1: Why Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Matters
In this opening lecture, we begin our journey into Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, a book that isn’t a textbook or a treatise, but a dramatic story of consciousness learning what truth really is.…
The Experience of Wonder - Philosophy as Conversation Chapter 3
Wonder is the fundamental experience of philosophy insofar as it is a will to truth. We want to understand and know the world as it is in itself—kath'auto—and not merely as it appears to us in our…
Does Levinasian Ethics Shatter Hegelian Totality?
In this episode, we dive into one of the sharpest confrontations in modern philosophy: the clash between Emmanuel Levinas and G.W.F. Hegel. The debate centers on one essential question: can ethics…
Philosophy Between Hegel and Nietzsche - Philosophy as Conversation chapter 2
The title of the second chapter of Philosophy as Conversation is "Between Hegel and Nietzsche." This theme was already announced in the first chapter: we need to understand the fundamental issues…
Thinking as a Way of Serving God - Maimonides
The relationship between religion and philosophy reaches an intensity and complexity in Maimonides' work that has hardly any precedent within the Jewish tradition. His thinking stands at the…
S1E2 Philosophy After the Crisis - Philosophy as Conversation chapter 1
In this episode, I discuss the first chapter of my book Philosophy as Conversation (1994). I explore why modern philosophy is often described as being “in crisis” and place that crisis in the context…
Filosofie na de Crisis - hoofdstuk 1 van Filosofie als Gesprek
Ik geef in deze aflevering een samenvatting en uitleg van het eerste hoofdstuk van mijn in 1994 verschenen boek "Filosofie als Gesprek." Tegenover het afscheid van de filosofie in haar klassieke vorm…
Beyond Hegel in Palestine with Arendt, Levinas and Rawls
In this episode, we explore a big philosophical question behind the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: what actually makes a political community legitimate?We start with Hegel, who argues that a true…
S1E1 Philosophy as Dialogue -EN - part 1
In this reflection, I look back on my book Philosophy as Conversation, published more than thirty years ago. At the time, I felt both proud and uncertain — proud that Het Spectrum published it, and…
S1E1 Filosofie als Gesprek - deel 1
In 1994 verscheen mijn boek "Filosofie als Gesprek" in de Aula-reeks van Het Spectrum. Het was een poging mijn gedachten over de aard van de filosofie samen te vatten in een boek dat ook praktische…
All Out War in Defense of the Ethical Substance: Three Modern Examples
This episode explores how states respond to traumatic attacks through the lens of Hegel’s political philosophy.For Hegel, the state is not just a political structure but the living reality of ethical…
Russia's Conflict with Ukraine
There are moments in history when the language of treaties and borders suddenly reveals its fragility—when the promises states make to one another are tested not on paper but in the lives of real…
Hegel’s Framework: The Ethical Life and Statehood of Ukraine
In this episode, we explore Ukraine’s struggle through a Hegelian lens, not as a distant geopolitical crisis but as a profound contest over the very meaning of political life. What happens when a…
The Meaning of Reflection-in-itself
Hegel’s concept of reflection-in-itself is the key to understanding how Essence differs from mere Being. While Being is immediate and fleeting, Essence is self-mediating—it negates immediacy, repels…
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