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Brand Blanshard Reacts to “Oh Millersville!”
A hilarious recording of the American Idealist philosopher, Brand Blanshard. The clip is taken from his 1963 lecture “The Sane and the Eccentric in Present Thought.”
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A Critique of Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness
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Here is a link to my essay (and my replies to possible objections): thepessimisticidealist.blogspot.com/2023/08/keith-frankishs-defense-of-illusionism.html Illusionism is the view that sensory-qualities do not, in fact, exist as features of anything in the world. Nothing-whether it be an object or an experience-has sensory-qualities. If an object (or experience) seems to have sensory-qualities,...
The Metaphysics of Liminal Space
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The “liminal space” has developed into a relatively popular region of internet subculture. Unfortunately, this growth in popularity has resulted in the phenomenon becoming a parody of itself. I’m currently writing an article (and will be recording a video) that approaches the phenomenon of “liminal spaces” from a Metaphysical standpoint. #backrooms #liminalspace #dreamcore
Internal and External Relations | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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This is a recording of Edmund H. Hollands’ essay, “The Externality of Relations.” Hollands read the essay before the Western Philosophical Association in Chicago, on April 9th, 1914. The work was later published in “The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods,” on August 13th, 1914. Hollands’ article is a brief and decisive dismantling of Neo-Realism’s “refutation" of the “inte...
Immortality | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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This is a recording of the first part of John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart’s 1916 philosophical work, “Human Immortality and Pre-Existence.” McTaggart published the book in the midst of WWI with the hope that bereaved families suffering from the loss of loved ones could take comfort in the possibility of seeing them again. The first section, entitled “Human Immortality,” undermines common objectio...
H.H. Joachim’s “Psychical Process” | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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This is a recording of H.H. Joachim’s 1906 essay, “Psychical Process.” In this essay, Joachim (1) attacks recent Neo-Realist conceptions of mind and mental processes, (2) demonstrates the self-undermining character of Neo-Realism’s “act-object” distinction, (3) exposes the paradoxes of representationalism, (4) notes the dangers of Cartesian dualism and subjective idealism, and (5) sketches an o...
Mind and Its Objects | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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This is a recording of Bernard Bosanquet's 1913 Adamson Lecture of the same name. In the lecture, Bosanquet critically examines the New Realism's conception of Mind. Dissatisfied with the New Realism's analysis of Mind, Bosanquet goes on to argue for his own Idealistic conception of Mind. "Speaking of fact as I find it, I should compare my consciousness to an atmosphere, not to a thing at all. ...
Why Materialism Cannot Explain Experience
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Materialism stands or falls with its ability to explain Experience. Now, rather than treating Experience as the principle of explanation and discovery, the Materialist, “from defect of nature or of education, or probably both,” is led by an untutored instinct to explain the fact of Experience in terms of the abstract and unreal. Let us follow the Materialist along this dreary path and see how h...
British Idealism and the Possibility of Metaphysics
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This video is a mirror of Absolute Philosophy’s video (ruclips.net/video/jS3QViatqQQ/видео.html) where we discuss the background of F.H. Bradley’s 1893 magnum opus, “Appearance and Reality,” Bradley’s “Introduction” to the work, and Bradley’s views as to the possibility of metaphysical inquiry. A recording (and explanation) of the “Introduction” here: ruclips.net/video/5uaUnV9nJDs/видео.html. V...
Neo-Realism | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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This is a recording of Edmund H. Hollands’ “Neo-Realism and Idealism.” The article was delivered as an address to the American Philosophical Association on December 27th, 1907 at Cornell University. Hollands was an Objective Idealist who gallantly defended Idealism from the attacks of the British and American Neo-Realists. Here is a link to the article: www.jstor.org/stable/2177213 I have suppl...
Mind as Development | The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
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This is a reading of the fourth chapter from Giovanni Gentile's "The Theory of Mind as Pure Act." Here is a copy of “Theory of Mind as Pure Act:” www.google.com/books/edition/The_theory_of_mind_as_pure_act/FzxRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
The Unity of Mind and the Multiplicity of Things | The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
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The Unity of Mind and the Multiplicity of Things | The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
Spiritual Reality | The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
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Spiritual Reality | The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part VI)
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G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part VI)
Why the Mind Seems to Be, and Yet Cannot Be, Produced by the Brain
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Why the Mind Seems to Be, and Yet Cannot Be, Produced by the Brain
G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part V)
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G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part V)
G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part IV)
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G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part IV)
G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part III)
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G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part III)
G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part II)
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G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part II)
G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part I)
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G.F. Stout’s Refutation of Materialism (Part I)
Fichte’s Idealism | German Idealist Philosophy
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Fichte’s Idealism | German Idealist Philosophy
British Idealism | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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British Idealism | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
F.H. Bradley | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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F.H. Bradley | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
J.M.E. McTaggart’s “Introduction to the Study of Philosophy” | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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J.M.E. McTaggart’s “Introduction to the Study of Philosophy” | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
J.M.E. McTaggart’s Idealism | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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J.M.E. McTaggart’s Idealism | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
Neo-Hegelian Arguments For Absolute Idealism (Part I)
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Neo-Hegelian Arguments For Absolute Idealism (Part I)
An Idealistic Argument for the Existence of God
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An Idealistic Argument for the Existence of God
Royce and Absolute Experience | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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Royce and Absolute Experience | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
Royce and Realism | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
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Royce and Realism | Absolute Idealist Philosophy
The Subjectivity of the Real | The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
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The Subjectivity of the Real | The Theory of Mind as Pure Act
Thank you for this 🙏🏻❤️
What are your thoughts on CD broads response to mctaggarts philosophy
Welcome beck, professor.
I love McTaggart's clarity and wide grasp of the history of metaphysics. Do you know if there is a published collection of the lectures he gave during the period you indicated? Thanks.
@@xenocrates2559 Thank you for your comment. As far as I know, there are no surviving copies of his lecture notes. However, there is a surviving copy of the syllabus (which contains brief summaries/topics/arguments that McTaggart covered during his lectures).
But, Berkeley noted that, being so detailed and consistent, the world could not exist in our thoughts: therefore, God. What does Bradley do with this objection?
Thanks for uploading this! I have stumbled upon this paper some months before finding your video and since then i have been reading it (i think i have read it five or six times now), and i was going mad trying to decipher what the author says. Now i think i have come closer to his idea but i still am not sure. I am currently spreading this paper to various contemporary philosophers of mind, to see what they think of it. It would be interesting to know also your take on it. It seems to me that H. Wilson Carr, by writing this, had not as his aim that of establishing a dualism in the cartesian sense (i mean, his goal was not to demonstrate that there is a soul), but just that the mind is not produced by the brain.
Thanks so much for your comment! I’ll respond in greater detail in a bit.
Good to know this shit is even more backwards than Spinoza's idealism
But can the (any) mind exist without space? I do agree that matter has no meaning without mind, but the reverse seems equally true, that there is no mind without matter (or matter, or extension).
The only time I ever found eliminative materialism even slightly plausible was when I read Dennett's argument for the incoherence of the folk notion of pain, - and I think he really does have a point. You even see mystics, who access this truth more introspectively, that there is something unreal and paradoxical about the supposed determinateness of our everyday phenomenal experience. The buddhist would take this unreality to its radical conclusion in the doctrine of "emptiness," but, to distinguish them from eliminative materialists, would not eliminate all particulate mental phenomena to physical matter. I guess my point being, don't write off eliminativism just yet. I mean, go ahead and wrek eliminative *materialism* all day everyday. But eliminativism more broadly still has a kernel of paradoxical truth to it.
And then realism is back!
metaphysics sucks
When will it be released?
Not sure yet :)
Fuck you RUclips
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Hi PI. Thanks for the response! I really appreciate it. That is really interesting that McTaggart was an atheist. This is because I remember him not just for his denial of the reality of time, but also his belief in the immortality of the soul. I am wondering though was Schopenhauer an actual metaphysical idealist (I have heard some people claim that he was a dual-aspect monist)? I know he was highly critical of materialism, but he was also critical of his affiliated German Idealists. I believe that his philosophy begins with his adoption of Kant’s transcendental idealism. This view is an epistemological idealism because phenomena (such as space and time) can only be made intelligible with our minds, but the world as it is “in-of-itself” (noumena) can never be known, and it is therefore not necessarily mental (mere epistemological idealism does not entail metaphysical idealism). I guess it all comes down to what was the fundamental nature of this Schopenhauerian “Will”, which for Schopenhauer - was eternal, singular, non-spatial, non-temporal and irrational (this would serve as justification for his philosophical pessimism). If I am wrong about Schopenhauer being a real idealist, then I apologize. I am also wondering whether or not we can conclude that F.H. Bradley himself was a non-theistic idealist. Since he was a committed monistic idealist, it was definitely the case that he believed in a singular supreme reality (or ultimate principle) which he referred to as “the Absolute,” however, if I remember from reading online entries about him, he thought this philosophers absolute idea was not the classical omni-God of theism (or associated with certain religions). Essentially, is it not the case that “the Absolute” ground of reality for Bradley is not a supreme personal being associated with theism (he essentially distinguishes the concept of the Absolute from God, thereby showing its not a necessary equivocation). If this is the case, would it therefore be appropriate to label Bradley as a type of non-theistic idealist? I will also make sure to watch all of your videos! 😃
Hi PI. For some reason, RUclips is not showing my most recent reply to you 🤔. I don’t know why that is
Hi! It should be showing now :)
Hi Pessimistic Idealism 👋. As far as I currently understand, you are one of the biggest defenders of idealism on YT. I have become very interested recently in both idealism and panpsychism. However, at the moment, I am an atheist, and it appears that most historical idealists (such as Berkeley and Hegel) have been theists of some kind (or belonging to some religious faith or tradition). I was therefore wondering do you think it is possible to affirm both idealism and atheism (or non-theism, in-general) together? Would it be possible to have an ‘atheistic’ or ‘non-theistic’ idealistic metaphysical system for either a stricter all-encompassing 'monistic idealism' or a more ontologically diverse 'pluralistic idealism' (the same could apply to forms of 'objective idealism' and 'subjective idealism')? Essentially, can you have an “atheistic idealism” or “non-theistic idealist metaphysics?” Have there also been any prominent philosophical idealists (either today or in the past) who have affirmed both idealism and atheism/non-theism simultaneously? Thanks.
Hello there! Thank you so much for your comment. I really appreciate it. In answer to your question regarding the possibility of combining idealism and non-theism (or atheism), I would say that it can certainly be done. Indeed, Arthur Schopenhauer and J.M.E. McTaggart are two historical examples of idealists that were adamant atheists. Both of which even held to a form of immortality (in some way or another). In fact, the works of Schopenhauer and McTaggart have had a profound influence on my own intellectual development. On my channel, I have a few videos concerning McTaggart’s work: a video entitled “Immortality,” another entitled “J.M.E. McTaggart’s Introduction to the Study of Philosophy,” and another entitled “J.M.E. McTaggart’s Idealism.”
@@PessimisticIdealism Hi PI. Thanks for the response! I really appreciate it. That is really interesting that McTaggart was an atheist. This is because I remember him not just for his denial of the reality of time, but also his belief in the immortality of the soul. I am wondering though was Schopenhauer an actual metaphysical idealist (I have heard some people claim that he was a dual-aspect monist)? I know he was highly critical of materialism, but he was also critical of his affiliated German Idealists. I believe that his philosophy begins with his adoption of Kant’s transcendental idealism. This view is an epistemological idealism because phenomena (such as space and time) can only be made intelligible with our minds, but the world as it is “in-of-itself” (noumena) can never be known, and it is therefore not necessarily mental (mere epistemological idealism does not entail metaphysical idealism). I guess it all comes down to what was the fundamental nature of this Schopenhauerian “Will”, which for Schopenhauer - was eternal, singular, non-spatial, non-temporal and irrational (this would serve as justification for his philosophical pessimism). If I am wrong about Schopenhauer being a real idealist, then I apologize. I am also wondering whether or not we can conclude that F.H. Bradley himself was a non-theistic idealist. Since he was a committed monistic idealist, it was definitely the case that he believed in a singular supreme reality (or ultimate principle) which he referred to as “the Absolute,” however, if I remember from reading online entries about him, he thought this philosophers absolute idea was not the classical omni-God of theism (or associated with certain religions). Essentially, is it not the case that “the Absolute” ground of reality for Bradley is not a supreme personal being associated with theism (he essentially distinguishes the concept of the Absolute from God, thereby showing its not a necessary equivocation). If this is the case, would it therefore be appropriate to label Bradley as a type of non-theistic idealist? I will also make sure to watch all of your videos! 😃
It's annoying how Europe has been able to duslistically turn the entire topic into idealism vs physicalism where each try to Cram subjective properties into the other and all you end up with is the same debate or dialogue which clearly this isn't the case. Subjective Hamiltonian oscillating waves correlated with idealized time is an objective measure very sensible but not physical. 1st position Newton 2nd Einstein 3rd hiesenberg approach its yoo hoo woo = uncertainty. Clearly nature tells us oreintation and direction matters. Sam's with Mass displacement of space by product of gravity manifolds its not idealism not physicalism. But each will argue till they're blue in the face its one or the other. Even our pragmatic common sense American heritage often gets pushed into the idealism camp when I'd say it's more realized in a ( mri machine ) that yes form ,thru by = reorientation is mandatory. Now you sir bacon or even get platonic about definable matter. But it doesn't exclude vacuum energy, greater system at large emerging energetic actors whatever this subjective properties are its definitely 1st position.
After comprehending Kant... I was immediately thrown down to earth as one that reflects. I can no longer take anyone seriously whom does not blend experience & intellect. The amount of bullshit out there that proposes the external existence of beings, places & ideal things... that cannot be shown to exist outside of the mind of the one that proposes the external existence of these things is astounding! I think that I am coming to the conclusion that everything that we label Metaphysical or Transcendent... are nothing but what I call... Inverted Transpositions... of the synthetic understanding of earthly experience (external objects. ) That is to say... there is no such thing as the Metaphysical or Transcendent as understood in the west, and we are actually taking the intellect that works on the representations of perception (external objects ), and, to paraphrase Kant, giving it a separate unbounded room that forgets that its conceptions are based on the synthetic understanding of earthly representations (external objects,) which cause it to conclude that its conceptions aren't derived from its understanding of earthly representations ( external objects, ) and that its conceptions are actually windows into external objects beyond the synthetic earthly representations ( external objects ) that gave rise to these metaphysical conceptions in the first place... Precisely... it takes the physically derived synthetic understanding of earthly representations (external objects ) & inverts them into their opposite... " metaphysical " objects SOMEHOW accessed, which, of course, gives them hierarchical superiority - an Inverted Transposition of the understanding & meaning given to the representations of external objects. Yes... we conceive that which transcends sense representations, but these conceptions are derived from synthetic understanding, not from access to another realm of existence. Derived from experience & applied to experience give us the intuitions of knowledge that are for the purpose of surviving in the world of time, space & contingency. Simply... a screen doesn't pop up in our vision & give us calculations when we, for instance, see things in motion, the intellect is applied to the representation. I don't need to know the Law of Motion, however, to play pool, do I? Nor do I need to know the Law of Gravity to know that I shouldn't walk under a bricklayer's scaffolding! By my nature as a human... I intuitively understand & thus KNOW & thus do not need to explicate the math to actually KNOW... So, it seems that this kind of knowledge ... is only beneficial for the scientist & is dangerous in the hands of the " metaphysician, " whom is likely to turn such into a dogmatic & nonsensical politico - religious ideology ( Platonism, Christianity, Islam, Hegelianism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism etc., etc. ) meant to harm people! I am extremely hesitant to use the words transcendent & metaphysical given their connotations in our Platonic & Christian based culture of thought. In the end... seems to me that Kant is ignored so that rank speculation & twaddle ( Platonic & Christian thought etc. ...) can continue to deceive the masses. PS: I can forgive Kant's Thing Itself which undermines his entire project, due to the strength of his focus on our experience being a product of synthetic understanding.
Late to the party, but I must say: the beauty of this leaves me convinced that philosophy is its own kind of art.
Thank you so much. McTaggart is an elegant and compelling writer.
2:10 Gentile henceforth seems to be appraising actualization and actuality.
mctaggart's nature of existence is written in pure analytic style but is every bit as spiritual as his contemporaries in the movement.
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Thank you so much ❤❤
Great video
Thank you!
Great video
Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Well done. Your patient, meticulous, and clear analysis is a fine example of philosophy at work. Thanks.
Thank you. I really appreciate it.
I’ve recently made a few substantial changes and additions to the actual written work too. Feel free to check that out as well. The written version is better argued and is more detailed. I also think I do a better job explaining the point at issue and address possible objections
Great, great work.
Thank you!
enough detail to invoke a striking personal rootedness in the space without enough context to provide a meaningful sense of Dasein. Do all "liminal spaces", sharing in their disconnected nature, thus exist in the same shared liminal space?
Interesting. I feel like this issue is resolved by a communal ontology of participation. No "Now" exists in and by itself, because being is communion. What do you think about this? Anyway, I feel motivated to read Bradley myself now. Thanks! ^^
Chapter XXXVIII at minute 2.02 titled "Idealism" from which work comes from?
McTaggart’s “The Nature of Existence” (Vol. II). Here is a link to it drive.google.com/file/d/1qLP1awecCdIsU39UpPnHI8zyAtsiDE0q/view?usp=drivesdk
Great to see a youthful idealist movement in Anglophone philosophy, I hope to soon contribute. Looking forward to your essay.
Eagerly waiting for the text!
I'm interested to see if there is any generational aspect to your analysis. I think this aesthetic phenomenon captures something special for millenials in particular. Maybe individuals right on the millennial/zoomer line most specifically.
don’t mind me i’m just leaving a comment for the algorithm
man, 4 seconds shorter and you could have uploaded this as a short, I'm willing to bet it would have at least 4/5 times more engagement at this point! I'm not a huge fan of short form content but it's definitely the way to go when promoting future projects
Thanks for the tip! I actually uploaded a the video as a “short” too; however, it seems that this regular video is gaining much more traction.
hear me out green carpets are fucking weird to me, they give a feeling, Not nostalgia or fear. but maybe smth else
my grammie's house had a green carpet, its super nostalgia adjacent for me, but with a lot more sadness
From the second this started I knew it was The Caretaker
Is this the shining
It’s my house.
Getting David Lynch vibes from #2 and #3
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Literally me...
And me.
Was studying the origins of fascism and landed on Giovanni Gentile.....he'd be very popular today, especially in the field of gender ideology!
I don't understand, what do you mean that he would be popular in gender ideology?
I don't think there's a single sentence in this that made sense to me
I’m not surprised.
In all seriousness, most of the language and terminology that I use is older (it hasn’t been in vogue for at least 80 years). Likewise, the way in which I describe the structure and content of Experience is radically at odds with the “what-it’s-likeness” talk that is popular today. My terminology has its source in Hegel’s “Philosophy of Mind,” F.H. Bradley’s “Essays on Truth and Reality” and his unfinished work “Relations,” Brand Blanshard’s “The Nature of Thought,” J.B. Baillie’s “The Idealistic Construction of Experience,” and H.H. Joachim’s “Logical Studies,” among others.
I think they just like being opaque so they feel smart and special
Thank you for these videos. I'm a Roman Catholic and have been interested in learning about fascist philosophy for some time. I have some questions, if you could answer. 1) What is meant by "subjectivity"? 2) Is there a unity of minds that exist within the mind of God? 3) Does this unity form the basis for the idea of the State in fascism?
1. Subjectivity is supposed to refer to the site of conscious self-awareness and thinking 2. This is a bit of a difficult question to answer as it requires unpacking but Gentile would state that human minds do indeed subsist/exist within the Mind of God although there is a dialectical relation which Gentile explicates which requires some unpacking so as to prevent confusion but the short answer is yes 3. Not exactly, the State and God are not the same in Fascism if that’s what you intend to mean. The State is conceived of as a concrete, political expression and manifestation of a collective group of human minds which identify themselves dialectically as One nation and thus, one in-group identity in distinction from out-group identities
Hello great channel and website! I'm Pedro and I'm Portuguese, I study history and philosophy at the university of Coimbra. I discovered the channel recently and I really like the posts and videos. I would like to ask a question, I sympathize a lot with idealism but in my university many professors refer that "Russell and Moore refuted idealism", could someone recommend me some article of response to the criticism of these authors to the British idealism? Or to Moore's critique that all idealism is based on the idea that "to be is to be perceived"? Thank you very much and great work!
Thanks, this is brilliant
Thank you. You are very welcome.