Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831 · Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
Where the lectures set Hegel and Nietzsche side by side, as Marci Shore presents them: 4 links between their claims. Of these, 3 break with it, 1 is Shore's own comparison. In every case Nietzsche is the later thinker, answering Hegel.
Each entry shows the earlier claim and the later one that answers it. The handwriting names the link. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
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HegelHistory's end, for Hegel, is a mystical point where all oppositions (freedom and necessity, is and ought, subject and object) dissolve into synthesis; nobody has ever witnessed it. L4 · 41:30
NietzscheSooner or later everyone concludes that the harmonious world where contradictions resolve, Hegel's end of history, is never coming. Unity cannot be found: life is nothing but difference. L6 · 45:04
Declares Hegel's reconciling telos gone: the harmonious whole is not coming and life does not come together.
HegelHistory's end, for Hegel, is a mystical point where all oppositions (freedom and necessity, is and ought, subject and object) dissolve into synthesis; nobody has ever witnessed it. L4 · 41:30
NietzscheHegel's philosophy, by crowning the belated present as the goal of all history, deifies history and sets it, as "the sole sovereign power," in place of art and religion. L6 · 29:53
Treats the world-process philosophy as making history a god, justifying the present as its necessary result and paralyzing culture.
HegelWith Hegel, History acquires a capital H: in the Hegelian sense it is a phenomenon of its own, with a dialectical forward motion. L5 · 12:57
NietzscheHegel's philosophy, by crowning the belated present as the goal of all history, deifies history and sets it, as "the sole sovereign power," in place of art and religion. L6 · 29:53
Hegel turned History into a god that rules over art and religion
HegelDialectics is Hegel's name for what contradictions do when they meet: a position turns out unstable, its negation displaces it, and such clashes drive history forward in jolts. L4 · 32:56
NietzscheThe revered virtues may owe their worth to being "insidiously related, tied to, and involved with" their wicked opposites, perhaps even sharing one essence with them: good and wicked, true and false, come together. L6 · 31:36
Shore finds something very dialectical in Nietzsche despite his anti-Hegelianism: the same coming together of good and wicked that Hegel is always doing.