Existentialism

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @PolarSky
    @PolarSky 7 лет назад +192

    I like how so many are complaining over a squeaky chair; even though they're getting a free university lecture!

    • @ZombieLincoln666
      @ZombieLincoln666 3 года назад +4

      I used to carry a little can of WD40 with me to lectures for this reason lol

    • @louie9373
      @louie9373 3 года назад

      You like that or academia has trained you to understate all of your negative opinions so as to save face while allowing you to partake in a small release of misery?

    • @MauricioACB
      @MauricioACB 3 года назад +3

      It seems squeaky chair beats philosophy lecture, who would have known...

    • @mrloop1530
      @mrloop1530 2 года назад +8

      I'm in Denmark. All university lectures are free here.

    • @graemelaubach3106
      @graemelaubach3106 2 года назад

      Yeah for sure, but did you notice that squeaky chair tho??

  • @TheCupCakeMaker6
    @TheCupCakeMaker6 8 лет назад +171

    This man is great! He is passionate about his lectures and trying to explain it in a way that students who don't really care for the class can relate to and understand.

    • @asaadalabody6444
      @asaadalabody6444 6 лет назад +1

      lbaca222 Can we say existentialism is a movement called for peace and justice ?

    • @jkgkjgkijk
      @jkgkjgkijk 5 лет назад +1

      Go back to sleep

    • @koroglurustem1722
      @koroglurustem1722 3 года назад

      I can relate to that, baby, what's your name ?

    • @gerardo49078
      @gerardo49078 3 года назад +2

      @@koroglurustem1722 Keep it in your pants, man

    • @edplunk600
      @edplunk600 3 года назад

      If you don't care for class then flip burgers

  • @nickk.9111
    @nickk.9111 Год назад +9

    The way in which Daniel Bonevac explains Albert Camus' philosophy is so powerful, clear and inspiring. Thank you for sharing these ideas in such a crystal clear and passionate fashion.

  • @krister6160
    @krister6160 3 года назад +21

    You're the professor I am deprived of meeting in my entire university life. Glad to hear you on RUclips. Thanks!

  • @tonyyounan9013
    @tonyyounan9013 9 лет назад +121

    Great professor, great lecture.

  • @ytrichardsenior
    @ytrichardsenior 3 года назад +7

    Alienation is something you either do or do not feel 'existentially'.
    It's unlikely a university professor will feel alienation, they spend their time amongst people very like them.
    But what if one day a university philosophy professor finds himself living amongst ordinary high school dropouts and working at McDonalds.
    People do not really become aware that life is absurd until the absurdity of life becomes impossible to ignore, often because of circumstance.

  • @mattetherington6210
    @mattetherington6210 4 года назад +11

    I know I already made a comment, but that was part-way into the lecture. I've now finished it, and I have to say it's the clearest, most understandable coverage of existentialism that I've ever seen. And delivered with such obvious passion! Bravo, Prof. Bonevac! I'm a teacher myself, and I could have listened to you delivering a lecture 3x longer. Have a subscription :)

  • @NoZAutonomy
    @NoZAutonomy 9 лет назад +47

    Wow, you are a great teacher/professor, thanks for the free lecture

  • @JohnE2B
    @JohnE2B Год назад +2

    I enjoy Bonevac’s lectures very much. They are some of my favorites right now on youtube, and there are so many 👍🏻

  • @simonsjoquist6862
    @simonsjoquist6862 7 лет назад +8

    Halfway through and I just have to say how fantastic I think this is. A proffessor with such passion for what he does. Would be awesome to have a teacher like that. Thanks, this inspired me.

  • @samychingon
    @samychingon 4 года назад +26

    Oh captain my captain!
    I've been watching these videos since Quarantine started.

  • @gepisar
    @gepisar 8 лет назад +17

    The stages listed in The Stranger are similar to the stages of loss: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. Just noticed that!

  • @marineloosthuizen9295
    @marineloosthuizen9295 2 года назад +5

    This presentation had me fascinated from start to finish. Your enthusiasm for philosophy and your sense of humor is admirable. Thank you for sharing.

  • @elijahmadar645
    @elijahmadar645 10 лет назад +23

    Daniel Bonevac is a great teacher and a great speaker I really enjoyed this speech

  • @swampy1234
    @swampy1234 2 года назад +3

    I Really appreciate how the lecturer went straight to the point with the definition, right off the bat. Love it

  • @schaturvedi729
    @schaturvedi729 4 года назад +5

    I loved the lucidity, the very simple way a profound subject was explained and of course the intermittent humour! Thank you, Sir.

  • @mattetherington6210
    @mattetherington6210 4 года назад +2

    I've read and watched plenty about existentialism, and this is the first time ever that someone has defined "essence" in a way that makes sense - intrinsic function. Humans have biological and perhaps psychological characteristics, but we have no intrinsic function *in the world*. This is why we must choose our own function. Thankyou, professor, for finally clarifying this!

  • @covalentbros
    @covalentbros 10 лет назад +6

    This was an amazing lecture. I'm currently working on a research project based on Existentialism, and this lecture gave me a massive insight as to what Existentialism is as well as the important figures who played a role in the movement. Thank you very much for this magnificent video!

  • @curtcarpenter2677
    @curtcarpenter2677 2 года назад +1

    Existentialism is primarily a reaction (in my view) to the loss of certainty which began with the Copernican revolution -- and a broad recognition of the necessity of choice as the price each of us must pay for our short-term lease on existence. You are radically free, but the freedom is not unlimited: there is no escape, for example, from the need to make choices -- to love, to hate, to establish the "brotherhood of man" as an axiom to live by in a world of uncertainty and value pluralism. Let this good lecture be a starting point, not an ending, of your _own_ journey.

  • @tanmaybanerjee2773
    @tanmaybanerjee2773 3 года назад +1

    "Next monday no class. Wednesday we come back and talk. "
    That was deep.

  • @apostalote
    @apostalote 6 лет назад +2

    Kierkegaard and Nietzsche do affirm that we have no essence and that it is up to the individual to affirm themselves through pathos. For Kierkegaard this is Christianity, for Nietzsche this is artistic self expression. You could maybe call Kant or Hegel a proto-existentialist, but Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are certainly focused on the question of existence and the intrinsic meaning of existence

  • @invisibleguest770
    @invisibleguest770 8 лет назад +9

    this is surely so helpful, I must say. Thank you for posting this....... :)

  • @sinisamajetic
    @sinisamajetic 8 лет назад +214

    Students squeaking w chairs on purpose, they're like: "we paid so much money to listen to this and you f'ing youtubers want for free"

    • @michaelsteven1090
      @michaelsteven1090 7 лет назад +3

      wow, real great, helpful comment..your supposed to listen to the lecture f'ing moron.

    • @deeplorable8988
      @deeplorable8988 4 года назад +14

      @@michaelsteven1090 It was a great comment, punk...

    • @hendynz6358
      @hendynz6358 4 года назад

      excellent lecture but the noise is extremely distracting

    • @llallogan
      @llallogan 4 года назад +9

      Having taken classes in this room back in the day, the chairs are made so if you just barely move it squeaks lol it is annoying even in the room

    • @Tsuruthargay
      @Tsuruthargay 4 года назад

      Lol

  • @susannec659
    @susannec659 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you for this I've always grappled with the meaning of existentialism when really the word exist is in it. I can remember in French class we learned about this and it went over our heads

  • @cidthekid4532
    @cidthekid4532 10 лет назад +7

    Really enjoyed your lecture. I'm studying for my Psych GRE Subject Test and was trying to better understand existentialism. You really helped. THANKS! :D

    • @rohxn6988
      @rohxn6988 4 года назад

      did u finish it?

  • @JoshuaJohnson777
    @JoshuaJohnson777 9 лет назад +4

    Amazing! I recently went through a series of life changing events and stumbled upon your lectures at a very unique time. Thank you for sharing!

  • @NobleAristotelian
    @NobleAristotelian 6 лет назад +2

    I wish my professor were like this guy he teaches so great! My philosophy professor used to be a cop in Jersey. He’s a very militant guy screams most of the time, super strict, and it feels like philosophy boot camp in the literal sense almost haha.

  • @akhileshm.s7888
    @akhileshm.s7888 Год назад +6

    Moral of the story - please be more like Analytic Philosophers, see what there is, then think about it and figure things out but don't forget to that it is a _theory_ and be open to changes to it. Don't instead start with preconceived ideas and expectations and then become Existentialists when the world turns out different to the extent of seeming cruelly indifferent and very baffling.

  • @fustian
    @fustian 8 лет назад

    Thanks for the lectures, Dr. Bonevac.
    For me, alienation to the circumstances of one's life as a result of being thrown into existence in a particular time and place is a consequence of knowing that the attachment that we feel to our circumstances is reflexive and not deliberate, since if we had been thrown into an utterly different time and place, we would reflexively feel an attachment to those circumstances as well.
    This part of existentialism to me seems to follow directly from the scientific image you like to start your lectures with, an image where earth is just another planet among many, sol another star among many, and my consciousness another consciousness among many, with no special status for me to appreciate intellectually and then find reasons to endorse.
    The fact of alienation in existentialism seems to me to be a requisite idea for understanding why existence is said by many existentialist philosophers to be absurd.

  • @sharmashiva6217
    @sharmashiva6217 6 лет назад +2

    Thank you so much sir for this really fascinating presentation, indeed its very organized and comprehending

  • @emilysmallwood3803
    @emilysmallwood3803 9 лет назад +8

    that was absolutely fabulous!

  • @cscott192
    @cscott192 10 лет назад +125

    Those damn chairs......

    • @AizwellOfficial
      @AizwellOfficial 9 лет назад +13

      Emptier than my essenceless soul.

    • @TheReaMrBurntSausage
      @TheReaMrBurntSausage 9 лет назад +3

      +Ha Kou well at least this video managed to add 40 000 more people sitting in those chairs

    • @canadiannuclearman
      @canadiannuclearman 7 лет назад +1

      cscott Greas the chairs

    • @julioenergy
      @julioenergy 6 лет назад

      unwatchable because of all the shuffling around sounds. FACK!

    • @williamsawyer9894
      @williamsawyer9894 5 лет назад +1

      @@julioenergy If a pin dropped during this lecture and no one heard it, would it really exist?

  • @harshdhillon356
    @harshdhillon356 8 лет назад +1

    Loving these videos. So much knowledge u have shared. Thanks :)

  • @michellefrempong1496
    @michellefrempong1496 3 года назад +1

    Oh my God ..Such a great deliver 💕💕..I am in love with his choices of words and his delivery 😫🥺💕..Thanks a lot professor

  • @sangitabiswas2224
    @sangitabiswas2224 6 лет назад +1

    Wow .It was so helpful .You made it so easy .Thank you sir.You are my new favourite professor.

  • @madmaxbocka
    @madmaxbocka 10 лет назад +35

    Thanks for posting this for free

  • @waynemoss8145
    @waynemoss8145 7 лет назад

    This guy is a great orator. And that's a good thing, because I had to watch this 4 times to understand what he;s saying.
    Now I want to hear him talk about free-will.

  • @drvn8
    @drvn8 Год назад +1

    Fantastic lecture, very clear and engaging!

  • @philip8908
    @philip8908 7 лет назад +4

    The squeaky chairs have no intrinsic meaning, only the meaning you give them. Sisyphus smiled while carrying the rock.

  • @K-gp3mz
    @K-gp3mz 3 года назад +1

    Very nice video, thankyou for this

  • @AnAwesomeHobbit
    @AnAwesomeHobbit 4 года назад +2

    Got a Jordan Peterson video recommended under this, which is really sad considering how many leagues are between the two professors understanding of philosophers and philosophical concepts. Wish the 700k views on that video went here instead.

    • @gerardo49078
      @gerardo49078 3 года назад

      Existentialism also exist in the manner of psychology, which is where Peterson excels. However, philosophical and psychological existentialism do not really differ greatly. The roots remain the same

  • @Alaknanda2007
    @Alaknanda2007 10 лет назад +1

    Loved this lecture and very excited to discover your channel.

  • @AbhiBass96
    @AbhiBass96 4 года назад +4

    I wouldn't even miss a day of your lecture if I was enrolled there :D
    Love all your videos :D

    • @PhiloofAlexandria
      @PhiloofAlexandria  4 года назад +2

      Wow, thank you!

    • @AbhiBass96
      @AbhiBass96 4 года назад

      @@PhiloofAlexandria Most welcome, sir!
      Your lectures are very inspiring. Can't wait to watch more of them during my Christmas break :)

  • @abhi4000
    @abhi4000 3 года назад

    Lol. That student who sighed "Everyday" when the professor said something about how we all feel like "I don't want to this anymore" or something like that. I can relate. x')

  • @vloraboy2019
    @vloraboy2019 8 лет назад +39

    If I was in that lecture, I would feel like clapping in the end.

  • @susannec659
    @susannec659 5 лет назад +1

    We all struggle with the conflict between expansion and contraction meaning we are all one but then we have to have our boundaries for survival.

  • @nietzschescodes
    @nietzschescodes 2 года назад +1

    wow, i didn't know that channel Henri le Chat Noir. I have just watched some. I love it! thanks for the suggestion!
    (You said it was a cat with a French accent? The videos that I just saw were actually all in French with an English accent)

  • @santillanmusic
    @santillanmusic 2 года назад +1

    If I only had these types of Teachers as a kid...

  • @zainullahkhan3574
    @zainullahkhan3574 3 года назад +3

    great teacher,

  • @Jaguadarte__
    @Jaguadarte__ 6 лет назад +1

    Such a great lecture! Cheers from Brazil

  • @BodhiPodcasts
    @BodhiPodcasts 4 года назад +1

    You are a great professor... making the concept easy to understand.. I would love to be in your class for a day...

  • @user-us1wg7zo8c
    @user-us1wg7zo8c 6 лет назад +1

    I really enjoyed the lecture. Many thanks

  • @ev4757
    @ev4757 Год назад +1

    great video but I have to ask, is it sped up or is he on speed?

  • @alfredhitchcock45
    @alfredhitchcock45 2 года назад +1

    What life means
    What it’s all about
    What is the point of existing
    Alienation from the world as a whole
    Stranger in the world
    Absurdity
    Lack of meaning
    It has whatever meaning you give
    Humans are radically free
    Existence precedes essence

  • @freedomworks3976
    @freedomworks3976 4 года назад +2

    One of the best talks on existencialism I've heard. Short quick right to the point.

  • @overrooftops
    @overrooftops 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great lecture. Annoying squeaking desk. So may times I was getting into what you said, there's this squeaking desk(chair?)! Get rid of that thing... or are all the desks that way?

  • @liammurphy2725
    @liammurphy2725 3 года назад +1

    The chair cries out in pain, as it listens again and again.

    • @ryue65
      @ryue65 8 месяцев назад

      Excellent.

  • @johnnyroycerichardsoniii3273
    @johnnyroycerichardsoniii3273 3 года назад +1

    Excellent lecture! Great professor!

  • @stephansmith7630
    @stephansmith7630 9 лет назад

    You explained Camus' call to revolt against the absurd beautifully. I didn't quite understand what he meant by that before.

  • @fixedhint796
    @fixedhint796 3 года назад

    Honestly I think Aristotle view on existentialism is smarter. OK, we are free to define our lives and give it whatever meaning we want, but what happens when we fail (our plans fail)? Some existentialists might be frustrated and commit suicide. But most of them don't. And here is Aristotle's essence: we might have failed very bad, but we might choose to continue because we seek something else, way inferior to our initial plan - we failed to accomplish the great things but i still want to taste that BigMc at Mc'Donalds or see that movie or football match etc. And this is the essence we see in all people, no matter if existentialists or not. Is always there, in every human. And it is the thing that prevents the majority of existentialists of commiting suicide after a big fail. Many many thanks for your videos!

  • @TheDHCBO2
    @TheDHCBO2 4 года назад +1

    His hand movements actually help keep up with his longer points.

  • @Alimousa271
    @Alimousa271 3 года назад +1

    Thank you, really simple and clean lecture

  • @ahmadrezaeiii
    @ahmadrezaeiii 4 года назад

    Wow, such a great presentation. Thank You so much :)

  • @kencarey3477
    @kencarey3477 7 лет назад +1

    i am. let go. just observe this moment with no judgement. act from your heart not your ego driven mind. totale freedom

  • @bro_truth
    @bro_truth 9 лет назад +6

    Them damn chairs!!!

  • @forestpepper3621
    @forestpepper3621 4 года назад +1

    Normal people cannot assign a meaning of their choosing to Life (as Camus argues), because biology overrides our wishes. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you can try to say to yourself: "This is exactly what I wanted, and it gives me great joy." In reality, you will feel intense pain in your shattered thumb, and no amount of philosophy will change the fact that you just want the pain to stop. Some people have a genetic defect so that they feel no physical pain; but I would think they can still experience emotional pain, like grief or fear, and the same argument would apply to such people. It is unrealistic to think that a person can just "choose" to be happy with whatever circumstances he must endure.

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 10 лет назад +1

    The TAO is a a principal of Moderation and Temperance. Aristotle talks of the "Golden Mean" in judgement. Quality is the measure of all things.

  • @maxmusti8101
    @maxmusti8101 4 года назад

    12:30
    Feeling alienated is nothing one can decide. "Why should..?" could thus only mean for what purpose. It is for the purpose of making situations important. One thinks about them more often.

  • @Paul-js6iw
    @Paul-js6iw 2 месяца назад +1

    This man has found his purpose!

  • @TheTaoofEternalWar
    @TheTaoofEternalWar 4 года назад +1

    Heraclitus, the stoics and Epicurus all offered individual freedom as an alternative to superstitious adherence to an imaginary absolute enforced by personified deities. Epicurus in particular suggested a morality grounded in common sense and self preservation rather than in blindly following tradition or living in fear of the Gods. I like Sartre a lot, but there wasn't anything particularly original about him. Every generation wants to try to come up with something new, and Sartre seems to have convinced many that he had. Good for him.

  • @machinamonsterproductions9230
    @machinamonsterproductions9230 8 лет назад +2

    Didn't Camus himself say he wasn't an existentialist? I was always thought that he believed life is inherently devoid of any meaning, and trying to give it meaning would fail, and that the existentialists thought that meaning in life had to be assigned by the self, not any outside entity.

  • @shaggystone6397
    @shaggystone6397 3 года назад +2

    Reading thru Heidegger's " being & time" u will realize that Sartre's " being & nothingness" is almost at certain points direct plagiarism of ideas. Sartre however adds an awsome level when he talks about the social dimension with " the look" & hell is other people. The other defines us & steals my freedom so i make the other realise themselves as being defined by me. All social relationships are based in conflict. Especially love. Thia professor is cool & it would be fun to go thru being & nothingness line by line to get a really good understanding of this. He only gets to skim the surface with this lecture but its still fun tho.

  • @simeon24
    @simeon24 9 лет назад +6

    Great lecture, thanks for posting!
    Those chair squeaks though... :[

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 10 лет назад

    The knowledge of Good and Evil takes us out of the world, the relinking to life puts us back. "Let us tend to our garden." from Voltaire's Candide.

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 10 лет назад +1

    The meaning of life is to stay alive. In Nietzsche there is the will to power over your native powers. Then in Aristotle first you become a specialist then you become a Liberal artist. In the Hellenistic age of Empire the later Stoics found meaning in an Ideal city, and an Ideal Man.

  • @Joelitonherdeadpetz
    @Joelitonherdeadpetz 5 дней назад

    Aqui estão 70 substantivos em alemão com seus respectivos artigos e traduções, focando em terminologias filosóficas e históricas:
    1. der Mensch - o ser humano
    2. die Freiheit - a liberdade
    3. der Glaube - a crença
    4. die Vernunft - a razão
    5. die Wahrheit - a verdade
    6. die Ethik - a ética
    7. die Metaphysik - a metafísica
    8. der Geist - o espírito
    9. die Theorie - a teoria
    10. der Staat - o Estado
    11. die Philosophie - a filosofia
    12. der Sinn - o sentido
    13. die Moral - a moral
    14. die Erkenntnis - o conhecimento
    15. die Wissenschaft - a ciência
    16. die Geschichte - a história
    17. der Diskurs - o discurso
    18. die Logik - a lógica
    19. der Zweck - o propósito
    20. die Existenz - a existência
    21. der Rationalismus - o racionalismo
    22. die Freiheit des Willens - a liberdade de vontade
    23. die Utopie - a utopia
    24. die Dialektik - a dialética
    25. der Idealismus - o idealismo
    26. die Erfahrung - a experiência
    27. der Nihilismus - o niilismo
    28. die Demokratie - a democracia
    29. die Gerechtigkeit - a justiça
    30. die Gesellschaft - a sociedade
    31. die Religion - a religião
    32. der Atheismus - o ateísmo
    33. die Tugend - a virtude
    34. der Kapitalismus - o capitalismo
    35. die Theorie der Evolution - a teoria da evolução
    36. der Materialismus - o materialismo
    37. die Freiheit der Meinung - a liberdade de expressão
    38. die Autorität - a autoridade
    39. der Individualismus - o individualismo
    40. die Unterdrückung - a opressão
    41. die Revolution - a revolução
    42. der Fortschritt - o progresso
    43. die Macht - o poder
    44. der Humanismus - o humanismo
    45. die Solidarität - a solidariedade
    46. die Klassengesellschaft - a sociedade de classes
    47. der Existenzialismus - o existencialismo
    48. die Unterdrückung der Freiheit - a supressão da liberdade
    49. der Herrschaft - o domínio
    50. die Philosophie der Geschichte - a filosofia da história
    51. die Wahrheitssuche - a busca pela verdade
    52. die Toleranz - a tolerância
    53. der Skeptizismus - o ceticismo
    54. die Selbstbestimmung - a autodeterminação
    55. die Verantwortung - a responsabilidade
    56. der Rationalismus - o racionalismo
    57. der Relativismus - o relativismo
    58. die Intuition - a intuição
    59. der Positivismus - o positivismo
    60. die Philosophie des Geistes - a filosofia da mente
    61. der Determinismus - o determinismo
    62. die Indoktrinierung - a doutrinação
    63. die Erleuchtung - a iluminação
    64. die Weisheit - a sabedoria
    65. der Determinismus - o determinismo
    66. die Auseinandersetzung - a discussão
    67. die Überzeugung - a convicção
    68. die Versklavung - a escravidão
    69. die Kultur - a cultura
    70. die Ideologie - a ideologia
    Essas palavras são comumente usadas em filosofia e história, e têm grande importância no contexto de várias correntes de pensamento e eventos históricos.

  • @upchhaya
    @upchhaya 2 года назад

    After reading the 'Idiot', i have reached to the previous lacture after some googling and then to here. Very useful to make head and tail of Dostoevsky and some of my personal questions regarding being and nothingness.

  • @doyourealise
    @doyourealise 5 лет назад +1

    have you ever been to NEPAL? amazing talk!

  • @hussamshamma3319
    @hussamshamma3319 9 лет назад +1

    !It was an honor to meet your Passion for who you really are

  • @CheeseDota
    @CheeseDota 11 лет назад +5

    Thanks a lot for the lecture! ^^

  • @3dprintertrainer204
    @3dprintertrainer204 7 лет назад

    Brilliant Daniek Truly Talented speaker!! However the existential crisis in the room is the chair squeeking does it show that others aren't aware truly of their free will and that humans are unconscious beings squeaking in an auditorium, surely if not we they would be aware of the impact of their self awareness to be present and SIT bloody still!! Who am I really I am a squeaker!!!

  • @ipdavid1043
    @ipdavid1043 7 лет назад +1

    Thank you so much Professor...wonderful lecture...and funny (banana)

  • @denizcokugras158
    @denizcokugras158 3 года назад +1

    He's just a simply amazing professor. Too bad when you're 20 you're too full of yourself to appreciate this kind of a lecture. I would have loved to hear the parts he skipped in detail as well. Totally brilliant!

    • @LD-kz3ms
      @LD-kz3ms 3 года назад

      "when I was 20 I was too full of myself to appreciate this kind of a lecture"
      Fixed that for you

    • @denizcokugras158
      @denizcokugras158 3 года назад

      @@LD-kz3ms i was actually talking about the students who were playing with their chairs throughout the lecture but why not jump on an opportunity to criticize someone online when you have the chance, right? too bad there's no age limit for being a douchebag. there, i fixed it for both of us. :)

    • @mikeoglen6848
      @mikeoglen6848 2 года назад

      Yes, I found irt irritating that he skips some slides. Why does he do that, I wonder?

  • @BobbySidhu101
    @BobbySidhu101 7 лет назад +1

    Great video. If Sartre and Camus felt that the right response to a meaningless world was to create our own meaning, avoid ‘bad faith’, and do as we please, does this not run the risk of
    individuals engaging in immoral behaviour? There was talk of Camus’ love letters and his desire for several women for example, but of course this is not good behaviour. If we create our own
    meaning in life, where does morality stand, and what did Camus/Sartre say? I have tried reading Sartre and struggle to understand him. Camus I don’t think morality is mentioned in The Myth Of Sisyphus.

  • @paladinsorcerer67
    @paladinsorcerer67 Год назад

    Do we have the ability to define our own essence, if we don't have free will? I had a dream when I was young that before I was born, I was given the choice of the person I would be born as, so that my life has meaning because I must have choosen this particular life for a reason, which counters what Heidigger is saying. I think that we feel alienated existentially when we haven't yet chosen the meaning of our life, or when we feel lonely.

  • @skrieni
    @skrieni 4 года назад

    The Lecturer seems to happy to be a philosopher

  • @meghachoudhary5016
    @meghachoudhary5016 4 года назад

    Indebted to you professor..amazing lectures. Thank you so much!

  • @teestaghosh9935
    @teestaghosh9935 6 лет назад

    Sir, YOU are a great inspiration..Regards at YOUR feet

  • @kallianpublico7517
    @kallianpublico7517 3 года назад

    Physicists have a term called "initial conditions". Given the initial conditions of an object one can calculate the motion of the object using a formula based on the external forces acting on the object. One can "predict" the object's path or trajectory.
    Existentialism seems to me the realization that only living beings can contemplate. The realization of being free to choose against or apart from the external forces acting upon it. Such choice is petrifying. To contemplate any sort of doing is to put one's life in mortal and moral peril. Why? Because there is no guide beside one's own judgement: there is no comfort of external corroboration of right. No comfort in the fruition of one's effort. One can never know if one's choice will ever bear fruit or lead to failure and futility. If one's choice was right.
    Existentialism is this confrontation with futility; and the decision on what to do next is Absurdism, Sieze the Day, will to power, becoming a robot like Sisyphus: joining the "rat race", becoming a worthless, unknown, failed, artist, and so on.
    The strategy of following the prodding of the external forces of gravity and wind speed and direction has a final state that is predictable and comforting. Leaving gravity and wind behind has no comfortable and predictable fate. This fear is like stepping into deep water, one may not be physically or mentally fit to survive.

  • @bigdoggs6629
    @bigdoggs6629 3 года назад +1

    Great Great job

  • @jamieryan4666
    @jamieryan4666 4 года назад

    Love your passion for this!

  • @emmereffing
    @emmereffing 4 года назад +1

    How can this man think reading Heidegger is torture but have read so much Sellars? How I ask you?!

    • @PhiloofAlexandria
      @PhiloofAlexandria  4 года назад

      :). Actually, since I gave this lecture I've read a lot of Heidegger, and I enjoyed it. Sellars was good preparation.

  • @dearservice1998
    @dearservice1998 11 месяцев назад

    "Nobody else is going to put any chains on me!" 👀 The rental market

  • @MrMarktrumble
    @MrMarktrumble 10 лет назад +3

    Ironically, I passionately choose rationalism, behaviouristically act rationally, train for logic with litanies of examples, and, acting like a pretentious French waiter become a stoic and a contemplative, creating the essence that Aristotle would assert was given before I was born as my final end. Good lecture. Thank you.

  • @mrloop1530
    @mrloop1530 3 года назад +1

    Great lecture and lecturer. Only disappointment was that there wasn't quite enough squeaking of that student's chair.

  • @saramoon4517
    @saramoon4517 4 года назад

    Could you talk about the book Gender in modernism by a women writer, plz it is very difficult to handle it

  • @queenethedoziem5473
    @queenethedoziem5473 Год назад

    Can anyone suggest a good journal or book where I can research on this existentialism for my final research work?

  • @xDemonTech
    @xDemonTech 9 лет назад

    Thanks! You're a fun teacher.

  • @casiandsouza7031
    @casiandsouza7031 4 года назад

    Freedom doesn't result from the absence of God. Freedom can only be in a vacuum or in thought. Only an abstraction. We have the freedom of choice within options. Whatever we choose must be an option.

  • @ivi0nk3y36
    @ivi0nk3y36 7 лет назад

    no class monday was the best thing i heard
    and it was a good lecture