Michael’s inquiry into mystical doctrines continues with an in-depth look at the central precepts of German, British and Irish Idealism. How has the philosophy of Idealism been systematically misrepresented by Materialists? Do Idealists believe the world doesn’t exist? Is the world only in our heads and nowhere else? What is Hegel’s so-called “Dialectic?” Do the latest discoveries in quantum physics and neuroscience finally confirm the principles of Idealism, and what is the Establishment covering up to save face? Other subjects include the fraud of Materialism, the existence of God, the reason for dualism, the hemispheres of the brain, dreams, subject versus object, the nature of nature, identity, time and consciousness. Michael explains the ideas of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Berkeley, Blake, Steiner, Barfield, Whitehead, in clear uncomplicated language.
Program References
German Idealism
British Idealism
Walter Kaufmann
Rudolf Steiner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jacob Bohme
William Blake
Owen Barfield
George Berkeley
Nicolas Malebranche
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A. N. Whitehead
S. Radhakrishnan
Religious Naturalism
Naturalistic Pantheism
Materialism
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
J. L. Austiin
Karl Popper
Isaiah Berlin
A. J. Ayer
Herbert Marcuse
Martin Heidegger
Soren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arthur Schopenhauer
Process Philosophy
Occasionalism
Dialectical Monism
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
Hegel’s Dialectic (?)
Teleology
Geist/Spirit/Mind
Related Presentations
Mysticism: Truth or Falsity
The Posthuman World
Talking Heidegger
Cards of Darkness 1
Cards of Darkness 2
The World in Your Head
Related Reading
Mysticism: Truth or Falsity
Light, Magic, Masonry
Hegel Myths & their Method
Hegel Myths & Legends
Hegel: A Short Introduction
Schellingzone (Site)
Disciples of the Mysterium (Site)
Hegel’s Dialectic (?)
Fichte introduced into German philosophy the three-step of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, using these three terms. Schelling took up this terminology. Hegel did not. He never once used these three terms together to designate three stages in an argument or account in any of his books. And they do not help us understand his Phenomenology, his Logic, or his philosophy of history; they impede any open-minded comprehension of what he does by forcing it into a scheme which was available to him and which he deliberately spurned…The mechanical formalism…Hegel derides expressly and at some length in the preface to the Phenomenology – Walter Kaufmann
