Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx with Bryan Magee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjnG1X510A

• while Kant believed that man is halfway between ape and angel, Hegel points to the Greeks as a way of pointing to the future
• Hegel looked at all historical concepts as embedded in changing human society
• the antithesis of greek society is individual conscious risen to its highest in protestant Europe 
• Every situation contains conflicting elements 
• ALIENATION: something which is part of us seems foreign 
• an unhappy soul demeans himself praying to a god into whom he projects all of his good qualities