The Philosophy of Johann Gottfried von Herder

fantastic and fascinating, what a modern mind. idealistic of course, but very sensitive and perceptive, and rather prescient in a number of things. as you say convincingly, an incredibly important figure within german romanticism. more "enlightening" arguments for how western culture has lost its way, its spirit, and chosen the damning path of materialism. the world needs to resurrect its soul. another outstanding video, thank you

Good to read this

Brilliant video. Could you do a video on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi? Would be very interesting I think. Thanks for your work!

Bravo. Long live Herder.

The 19th century German Constitution didnt in any way intend to protect the particular regional people's identity. The fact that the particular regional powers were recognized within the constitution was purely a matter of power politics. In fact the Prussian king would have prefered having more power and prestige assigned to himself only, if that would not have endangered the very prospect of German unification itself.
Also, the strong emphasis on certain words in the video gives off a rather suspicious political image.

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Herder is so immensely important.

Thank you Paul for your work. I've been wanting to know about Kant and post-Kantians for a long time but just could not find the time to read them all directly. Your video is the acceptable length for my purpose of having an introduction. I've repeated this video and the other post-Kantians quite a few times. It is thanks to the videos being around 30 minutes my attention span could accept the repetition. I've seen philosophical subjects presented in videos of 1 hour, 1.5 hour long videos, which would not do the same for me. Conciseness is key to introduction and Philosophy needs it to be accessible.

What stood out for me in Herder's ideas, as presented in this video, is his insight about people's "roots", or language/culture. In contrast, economical oriented ideas such as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nation, would focus on people's "fruit", or productivity. I cannot speak for all modern cities, but in the North American ones which I had been, there is a bias towards "fruit"/productivity, especially in large corporations which are pillars of urban life. Whatever cultural background people came from, they would follow a homogenous corportate legalistical framework, and wear the same suites, speak of the same topics. What matters to most corporations are the "fruits", the "yield", the productive power. But how can a plant produce fruits if the roots are weak? A "fruit-oriented", corporate heavy urban culture therefore in the long run, just produce good workers that are weak people, whose inner lives are often deprived which require lots of material consumptions to fill the emptiness. In the city I live, Cannibis was legalized and it rapidly filled the market. I think what people really wished for might be the Leben-Geist, Heder had addressed, not the Cannibis-Geist, but they lack the option.

This dude should get the credit for racism instead of nietzsche

Deliberately-imposed mass immigration has destroyed the white western European culture and race.

Joel Davis sent me here

On the beam!
Thanks much.

Yap Hitler party had similar concepts about volk and race.

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History has one aim: extinction of all particular cultures. Herder, like all romatics, is a fool. The truth is that the white man has been eclipsed, physically by the African, intellectually by the Jew. Just ask the Germanic women.

the two WW were not started by Germany, but by Britain and its allies.

I have discovered my true destiny, embracing my Germanness through working and necessarily living in the British Isles for a few years. That was the real value I have found there.

I would disagree with Herder. What right has one group of people to fasten culture within borders. What evidence is there to support this idea that it is GOOD to embrace culture at all. Attachment to ephemeral things even friends or the want of anything itself as bad. Herder’s philosophy is one of power. It is not humane.

Interesting, but can we call this philosophy?

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