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Hegel: the first cultural-Hegel: the first cultural-historical Psychologisthistorical Psychologist
A 30 minute talk by Andy Blunden for the Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition, December 2007.
Hegel’s concern was Hegel’s concern was how Germany could how Germany could
modernise and give its modernise and give its people freedompeople freedom
Hegel introduced theHegel introduced theCultural-Historical SubjectCultural-Historical Subject
Descartes Hume Kant Fichte
Consciousness arises in Gap Consciousness arises in Gap between Needs and their between Needs and their
SatisfactionSatisfaction
Intuition and Concept
Labour
Activity with artefacts Activity with artefacts reproduces the universals reproduces the universals
apprehended in apprehended in consciousnessconsciousness
History is driven by History is driven by vulnerability to vulnerability to Immanent Immanent
CritiqueCritique
Relation of the individual to the universal (the whole society)
The The LogicLogic spells out spells out thethe
inner dynamicsinner dynamicsof a of a GestaltGestalt
BeingBeing EssencEssencee
NotionNotion
The structure of the Subject The structure of the Subject is: Individual, Universal & is: Individual, Universal &
ParticularParticular
Hegel’s Hegel’s LogicalLogical presentation implies an presentation implies an
OntologyOntology of Spirit of SpiritIndividual psyche
Collaborative activity/institution
Material culture/ideals
Despite all this, Hegel’s antiquity Despite all this, Hegel’s antiquity entailed certain limitationsentailed certain limitations
Hegel still offers the best Hegel still offers the best concept of “Extended concept of “Extended
Mind”Mind”
Hegel did not have a dichotomy between the individual and society
But Hegel was an Idealist!!