Hegel: the first cultural-historical Psychologist

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Hegel the first cultural-historical Psychologist
A 30 minute talk by Andy Blunden for the
Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition,
December 2007. Press button to start the talk
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Hegels concern was how Germany could modernise
and give its people freedom
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Hegel introduced theCultural-Historical Subject
Descartes
Hume
Kant
Fichte
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Consciousness arises in Gap between Needs and
their Satisfaction
Labour
Intuition and Concept
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Activity with artefacts reproduces the universals
apprehended in consciousness
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History is driven by vulnerability to Immanent
Critique
Relation of the individual to the universal (the
whole society)
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The Logic spells out theinner dynamicsof a
Gestalt
Being
Essence
Notion
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The structure of the Subject is Individual,
Universal Particular
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Hegels Logical presentation implies an Ontology
of Spirit
Individual psyche
Collaborative activity/institution
Material culture/ideals
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Despite all this, Hegels antiquity entailed
certain limitations
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Hegel still offers the best concept of Extended
Mind
Hegel did not have a dichotomy between the
individual and society
But Hegel was an Idealist!!