Dear Professor(s) Sedgwick, (Simmons, Berker, and Nyasha Bovell),
Thanks for your response regarding the question I asked after your talk and Q&A regarding reading commentary in German about Hegel. Here's my question again:
And I think this further is an answer to my question, in part ...
Der Deutsche Idealismus Und Die Rationalisten / German Idealism and the Rationalists
Dina Emundts & Sally Sedgwick (eds.)
De Gruyter (2019)
This question headed in the direction of language- or linguistic- relativity in sense, perhaps loosely as a philosophy of language question, and regarding too creating CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in all ~200 countries, in their official and main languages, and also in all 7,139 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning (see, too the beginning Philosophy or Language wiki subject re above, with just a few MIT OCW courses). MIT OCW is currently in 4 languages, and Wikipedia is in 300 languages. WUaS, as I've communicated with Nyasha, seeks to eventually hire philosophy instructors at WUaS in all countries' languages, potentially. How might philosophy - western analytic, if you will (and other philosophy) - emerge in all 200 countries' main and official languages, and comparatively generatively especially?
As a follow up question, Sally, and regarding your mentioning Hegel's views on reason, subject and object, and consciousness, and your interests also, Alison, in the philosophy of mind and consciousness and computing ethics, I'm curious how to explore related questions further in building out a single realistic virtual earth (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click), a realistic virtual earth for languages (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click), - and a realistic virtual earth for philosophy (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, Tensorflow AI, Translate, with even avatar bots that are realistic like Samsung Neons, and in an iterating, group-buildable infrastructure or platform). How best might we explore this further - and perhaps to explore, brainstorming-wise, Hegel's conceptions of a priori, the development of world history, and toward the actual" or the rational?
"In this chapter, I identify key features of Hegel’s philosophic method and suggest how that method can help us demystify some of his most curious pronouncements, for example, that the purpose of history can be known and realized by us, and that the “actual” is “rational.”"
So, my translation - "... für Hegel ist das Wirkliche die Vernunft" ???? - and could we begin to "see""the purpose of history" using his examples and narratives, even, - way beyond text - in an emerging Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital realistic virtual earth (even with text-in-the-sidebar of Google Street View, conceptually).
And so in what ways could w best explore for example creating a realistic virtual Hegel too, as avatar bot, with whom to come into conversation with, - by reading his texts into chat bot artificial intelligence, machine learning software, such that we could come into conversation with Hegel in an iterating way (not unlike talking with an historical pilgrim actor at Plimoth Plantation in the 1620s - but might this be one beginning idea)?
Selim, Sally, Alison - ethical and epistemological questions would abound in the process (and one approach I'm exploring in facilitating this I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, a social science and STEM method and theory I'm seeking to develop further - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy). At the end of the UC Berkeley Anthropology talk I gave on Friday, December 18, 2020 -
I conclude with an animation of Max Ehrmann 'speaking' his Desiderata poem which could be another beginning model for this. With regard to this talk, I wonder if it would be possible even to come into conversation with Sunheart, a kind of Harbin Hot Springs' philosopher (New Age of a sort), and my main ethnographic informant, who passed away this past autumn 2020. (This could involve adding the interviews I made of him to AI chat bot software to make conversational avatar bots iteratively). You can visit the beginnings of virtual Harbin Hot Springs in Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ but where the little peg man avatar hasn't yet grown into Samsung Neon realistic humanoid avatars. You can "walk" about a "mile" down the "road" here toward Middletown, CA, 4 miles away, but we can't time slide back to 1839 to hear what Hegel has to say in person (and in place) yet, that I know of - and even ask him questions. Thanks to you Sally for your skillful exegesis in these regards. (And did you by any chance ever visit Harbin when you studied at UC Santa Cruz, or lived in California, by any chance?:)
Thank you for your excellent and fascinating presentation "Hegel's "Philosophic" Approach to World History" and I look forward to learning more about Hegel and Kant in subsequent talks of yours. Thank you.
Sincerely, Scott
Some related resources -
Sally Sedgwick on Kant and Hegel 2014
https://shows.acast.com/elucidations/episodes/57b49a2f0b5f3f772a760062
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1333002433878867969?s=19 - and in this Tweet -
People? Re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital you & I with #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth? #FilmTo3D into #GooglePoly for #WUaSAvatarBots #ArtificialHumans #SamsungNeons #RealisticVirtualEarthForAvatarBots for 1< >1
#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics~
Philosophy - Hegel
Chapter 3.3: Hegel, the logic of history
Hegel's history - HarvardX Prof Michael Hayes
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Hi Scott GK MacLeod,
Thank you for registering for "3/26: Harvard University Department of Philosophy Colloquium Lecture: Sally Sedgwick (Boston University)".
PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO ACCESS PROF. SEDGWICK'S PAPER 'Hegel's "Philosophic" Approach to World History':
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k760jzxy8cbflya/Sedg%2C%20Hegel%20on%20Philosophic%20History.pdf?dl=0
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Talk Abstract:
Hegel’s “Philosophic” Approach to World History
In the first paragraphs of his Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Hegel flags the fact that his “philosophic” approach to world history is neither purely empirical nor purely a priori but somehow a hybrid of both. As he notes, the philosophic historian sets out to satisfy what seem to be incompatible demands: the demand to objectively describe the historical facts without the distorting influence of interpretation, and the demand to avoid the naïveté of assuming that our access to the facts is unmediated. In this chapter, I identify key features of Hegel’s philosophic method and suggest how that method can help us demystify some of his most curious pronouncements, for example, that the purpose of history can be known and realized by us, and that the “actual” is “rational”.
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