He presents Hegel's Geist as the spirit or shared force that gives space and time, responds to human action, and lets multiple people inhabit the same reality.
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Hegel
He presents Hegel's Geist as the spirit or shared force that gives space and time, responds to human action, and lets multiple people inhabit the same reality.
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Jiang uses Geist as a name for the universe and glosses it through ghost, gist, and geyser: underlying presence, essence, and eruptive becoming.
Jiang argues that intellect severed from culture, nation, and people cannot produce great ideas because ideas emerge from belonging and community.
Jiang adopts a bicameral/right-left brain model in which the right hemisphere receives vibrations or the noumenal universe and the left hemisphere translates them into everyday reality.
He uses Hegel's Geist as the answer: the noumenon is spirit world, time and space come from one source, and shared reality is possible because the same source structures experience.
Hegel's Geist is introduced as the answer to Kant's three problems: what reality is, who gives humans filters, and how people perceive the same world.
Jiang says Geist answers Kant's problems by making the real world spiritual rather than material, giving humans filters, and aligning human perceptions through a shared source.
Jiang defines Putin as a possible Hegelian world-historical figure and Nietzschean Ubermensch: a man who steps outside history to control and redirect it.
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"...creating the same reality? Okay? And so, to solve this problem, Hegel proposes this. Okay? The phenomena is the Geist, a spirit. Okay? And..."
"Okay. So, this is a bit confusing, so let's look at what the Greeks say. Okay? The Greeks have a metaphor for this. Okay?..."
"...Okay? So, there are different names for the universe. Okay? So, Hegel, the German philosopher, used the term Geist. Geist. Okay? What is Geist?..."
"Okay? Geiser is an eruption. Okay? Ghost is the underlying thing. And the Gist, the essence. Okay? Okay? And that's what the Geist is...."
"Okay, keep on going. The author, the artist, the man of science. His friends never appealed to him in vain. Often he anticipated their..."
"...how great Jews are. Jews are intellectual. But you know what, Hegel, Friedrich Hegel, will say is that, well, culture, there can be no..."
"Okay and that's the beauty and power of the Iliad. It is the most shocking ending ever. It's the most beautiful, the most poignant,..."
"...a filter time and space in order to perceive things okay Hegel says that this Nomana is the Geist okay the universe and as..."
"...these are the three problems. And so what happens is that Hegel comes up with the idea that reality is a subjective experience. Hegel..."
"...of the world align together okay so Kant creates these problems Hegel who comes after Kant Frederick Hegel by the way he proposes a..."
"Hegel is saying is that the spirit world is what creates the material world we are just a shell what really matters is the..."
"gist just just means the essence of things the core things okay so the real truth in the world is the geist not what..."
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