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250 years after the birth of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Yves Bossart asks Hegel expert Dina Emundts: Who was this Hegel? What did he want with dialectics? And why do we still need his theories today? 🔔 Subscribe now to SRF Kultur Sternstunden on YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/srfkulturster... World history is a process of progress driven by contradictions. The goal: the realization of reason and freedom. That is how the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel saw it. The only question is: is society already here? What remains of Hegel, 250 years after his birth? How would he conceptualize the present? Specifically: How would he feel about the lockdown during the corona pandemic? Hegel was no friend of restrictions, says philosopher and Hegel expert Dina Emundts. But there is a second point in Hegel, namely that these individual freedoms can ultimately only be realized, and ultimately only endure, if they are embedded in a system or in a state that has the common good in mind. So the purpose of the state is also the common good and to preserve it, because that is a condition for maintaining individual freedom. For this reason, Hegel would probably have approved of the restrictions during the corona pandemic. Sternstunde Philosophie from June 8, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More culture on YouTube 🔔 https://www.youtube.com/srfkultur?sub... More culture on Facebook 👥 / srfkultur More culture on Twitter 🐦 / srfkultur More culture on srf.ch 👉 https://www.srf.ch/kultur ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Sternstunde Philosophie" cultivates the in-depth and critical exchange of ideas and gets to the bottom of the burning questions of our time. The "Sternstunde Philosophie" draws a broad arc from socio-political current affairs to the fundamental questions of philosophy: who is responsible for what, what does human freedom consist of, what determines our meaning in life? Guests include personalities from science, culture, politics and business - voices that stimulate thought and reflect on and classify our current events. ______ Social Media Netiquette from SRF: ► https://www.srf.ch/social-netiquette #SRFCulture #SRFSternstunde #Philosophy #Hegel #GeorgeHegel #Dialectics #SRF #Culture