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Hi there, do you do online therapy? Thanks

Gracias por el video, estuvo muy interesante y por los libros recomendados. Saludos de Peru

Absolutely agree with you. The film shies away from deepening into his character and leaves it with the same shallowness that characterizes the characters themselves.

Thank you for another thoughtful and hopeful, (and helpful) video!

There's always a critic: @nigelralphmurphy2852

Study some of the many criticisms of Frankl by other Holocaust survivors as well as Holocaust scholars, psychologists, and philosophers. Start with Lawrence Langer.

Surviving the Nazi concentration camps had nothing to do with finding meaning, it was due to pure blind luck and animal cunning. 90% of people who went to Auschwitz were dead within a couple of hours and those who were spared to become slave labour were dead within three months due to cold, starvation, and over work. Most did not overcome the psychic shock of being in such a hellish place. The only way to survive was to get a job that shielded you from the type of work that would kill you as sure as night is night and day is day. Finding meaning would no more help you than trying to stop a bullet with your hand. Frankl did a great disservice by suggesting his unique case was somehow universal. He is implying only the strong and the brave survived, and deserved to survive, and the 99.9% who died were weak and deserved to die. Disgusting! In any case Frankl was in Auschwitz for only a few days and was not even registered. He spent most of his time in a sub-camp of the Dachau camp in Germany which, while no picnic, was tremendously more survivable than the camps in Poland. Anyway, meaning is all in your head. Man searches for meaning, but since meaning is a human concept, we have to create it ourselves. So, go create it yourself!

Thank you for this outstanding introduction to The Sickness Unto Death. I am just getting started with it and looking for some basic help. Your overview was beautifully and clearly written, and expressively recorded. Thank you for all the time and work you put into preparing this video. We need more women in philosophy!

Excellent analysis. The concept of the banality of evil is apt, of course, but I really appreciated your use and application of the achievement society. It fits so well. I also appreciated your point of Rudolph’s character being less developed than Hedwig’s. One thing I thought of in regard to this is how infrequently we see him out of uniform or Nazi-related attire. I don’t know if this was purposeful to be used as symbolism that his humanity is often overwritten by his position and achievements within the regime-in the end, his very name is used as a code name for an extermination operation, after all. This feels related to another analysis I saw here on RUclips that Rudolph consistently flees to the light onscreen. There is so much darkness in the house but he doesn’t appear comfortable in it. And the final shots of him descending into the dark feels very connected. None of these are fully formed thoughts, just speculation brought about by your fantastic video essay. Thank you so much for making and posting it.

searching for meaning is such a nasty disease. I genuinely have this habit of destroying my friendships because at some point I just start asking "why does this friendship matter?" and then it just starts going to shit because I start acting like a deranged maniac. Instead of acting normal I just start prodding their reactions search of some ~deeper meaning~ and it makes things go sour. but you know, questioning things feels really good. Sometimes you have these seemingly big problems that keep tormenting your life, and then you question then for a bit and realize that they never really mattered in the greater scheme of things. And the moment you do so it feels like such a huge belief. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's this very weird balance between just living your life and pretending that everything is ok, and questioning things so that you can be very clear about the bullshit that you don't need to care about. Being skeptical is a great way to stop caring about life's bullshit (and there is a lot of it), but it also rather destabilizing so you have to be careful about how you do it.

love this video! Thank you <3

Love this video, you're so well spoken❤

Apologies, you probably get lots of recommendation already. But if you enjoy him I think you will enjoy Lev Shestov. His book All things are possible and his commentary on Kierkegaard

I've read a Dutch reading of Kierkegaard's passage on the Self in The Sickness Unto Death, but your video has made it so much more clear to me. Thank you, I'm glad to have found your channel. Bless you

Nicely put. I may got around.d to reading it finally now. Alas right now I'm on the hill of foucault ... stuck stranded

The videos algorithm recommends to me when I’m high af 😂. That Kierkegaard paraphrasing had like me. Wait whaaaaaat 🫨

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I'm someone who values freedom above all and a few years ago, I began to notice that I felt...ungrounded, untethered....in a way that made me sad and insecure more than happy and light. I wondered whether other ppl around me would even care if I died because they didn't need me or I, them. And I realized that I wanted to give up some of that freedom to feel needed and cherished by others. I'm much happier now✨

Very thought provoking, thanks for sharing!

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to it's selfs." LOL, Chaung Tzu would have a great laugh at that! please consider covering Eastern material. You are beautiful and intelligent! Thank you so much.

Thank you for your very good and understandable explanation of Kirkegaard's notion of self and despair. I will be digesting these concepts for a long time, I think.

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Very cool perspective. The gap between necessity and possibility really is hard to navigate. Due do societal indoctrination there's this very strong pressure to conform to standards which have nothing to do with what we really are, and in doing so, feel alienated from life because we see all this infinitude or potential within ourselves that's not being realized. And of course the opposite can be just as true, as in, we can get overwhelmed with possibilities and fail to integrate ourselves in society, which is part of the necessary. That said, I feel like this form of self conceptualization can also lead to false dichotomies. The main thing that comes mind is that there seems to be an overemphasis on the external, or to simply put it, our actions as opposed to our internal state. I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly (if I'm not please correct me!), but it seems that to Kierkegaard self realization is about leaving a mark in the societal world through acting in deeply individual manner, and while that is probably a good thing, on a more practical level I don't think that self realization requires that degree of commitment. I'm more sympathetic towards eastern perspectives of self realization. Here's a zen perspective that I really like: "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water"-- what this hints at is that in life what you do doesn't really matter, but rather the place that you do it from. If you feel a deep sense of peace within yourself, then anything you do automatically has a different quality to it. This basically means that even a very conventional life, which doesn't have much of a "self realization" smell to it, can be done in a self realized manner. also completely unrelated, but I think you look pretty!

Love your videos!

Great video. I couldn't help but think how this moral apathy is perpetuated in Israel-Palestine and the ethical cleansing of Palestinians just so Israelis can live in peace and prosperity.

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very nice video, while watching the movie I thought of many of these philosophical ideas like how some of the ideas anxiety was doing was actually good for riley

I love your talk!

Amazing

Oh my god im so happy the algorithm blessed me with you today🙌🙌🙌

love these videos!

This is true. To be aware is also the capacity to be in despair. I think that if the brain can perceive its own existence it can become sad. If we were more shallow, we wouldn’t care as much. Ignorance is bliss. It’s a paradox

Wow you’re really hitting alot of points

This is good ❤

You have my subscribe, and my respect, madam.

So well said & put together 👍😊

Great presentation. Aesthetic and content both excellent. Thanks for sharing. I just did a Kierkegaard tour of memorials and his grave this year in Denmark.

How refreshing to see someone approach Kierkegaard faithfully, rather than portraying him as some volatile proponent of an arbitrary leap of volition!

Outstanding. You earned a new subscriber. Thank you

Keep up with your great work ✨

I’m amazed at how less discovered this is. Was thinking about it since a while and I’m surprised how accurate this title is to my thought.

"I argue that one direct consequence of living in such an achievement-oriented society, is a deterioration of our relationship with ourselves" - This really stuck with me as a great one sentence summary of today's world - the majority of 'evil' stemming from very mundane ambitions despite our expectation that evil people are DRAMATICALLY evil. This is such an amazing video, and great analysis of the film! I learned a great deal about Arendt's book on Eichmann as well, thank you :)

I read that book several years ago, still think about it from time to time. Strangely haunting story. But yes, absolutely true. You might be "free", but the cost is that nothing, or no one, matters, nothing is meaningful. The main character from Albert Camus' "The Stranger" has a similar feel. Thanks for your work.

yes, I also prefer having my glass filled with wine over water ...

Thanks, identifying the premise and the greatest fear (and thus the leap in logic) helps a lot

The writing activity is nice. The things you think you are supposed to be end up sounding ridiculous. Although sadly it is what people expect. You should pronounce burnout as burn↑out↓; I might not have got it immediately without the subtitle.

this feels so deeply familiar with how we have turned out backs before during the holocaust to busy ourselves with our helplessness and reliance on wishful thinking to change tragedies, and how it is repeated now during the gaza genocide, its very very unsettling and painful to swallow. Thank you for this essay, your elaboration and organization of your points were so digestible, it wasn’t too difficult to follow! appreciate it sm ❤ and im interested in reading arrendt’s works now. I was discouraged to read her work by a close friend in college, but I’m realizing now it’s due to arrendt’s opposition to communist ideology.