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A few clips of Gadamer giving a very introductory overview of a few elements of Hegel's thought. He begins by touching on Hegel's view that consciousness presupposes self-consciousness, and that there cannot be a consciousness of self without other conscious selves that can acknowledge and give one the recognition of being a self. But insofar as this relation is an asymmetrical one involving domination and servitude, it is defective and thus must collapse, as shown by Hegel's famous master-slave dialectic, because asymmetric recognition always falls short of the needed recognition and thus of achieving genuine self-consciousness (roughly speaking, because recognition doesn't mean much unless it comes from an equal, someone who is worth recognizing and gaining recognition from). Gadamer also touches on Hegel's notions of subjective spirit, objective spirit, and absolute spirit, particularly in connection to art. Finally, he discusses aspects of Hegel's view of reason as a historical notion, and that there is reason in history, that history itself progresses, being driven by constant conflict and struggle for freedom, which is its ultimate endpoint (My Description).
Note, the translation should be taken to be somewhat rough. It certainly isn't as good as it could be.
This is apparently from a television series on the history of philosophy from the year 2000 that was put together by Rüdiger Safranski. I don't know much else about it, but you can find the clips on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xW_h-dd24
More on Hegel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SUYhdivn0& and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cubchhqCQs
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