PHILOSOPHY - Heidegger

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  • Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2024

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  • @garrethkoslowski9703
    @garrethkoslowski9703 9 лет назад +2857

    I had to point this out: as a German person, I appreciate the effort and emphasis you put into the German words. You don't ridicule and overemphasize them like every other person. Thumbs up!

    • @garrethkoslowski9703
      @garrethkoslowski9703 9 лет назад +95

      That's rude

    • @TheCHEESE333
      @TheCHEESE333 8 лет назад +96

      +Justice Rule first racist comment i've read under a school of life video, congratulation. i hope you find a cure for your hatred

    • @TheCHEESE333
      @TheCHEESE333 8 лет назад +26

      +Garreth Koslowski ich will mich nur solidarisieren. ist nicht schön sowas zu lesen

    • @garrethkoslowski9703
      @garrethkoslowski9703 8 лет назад +27

      +TheCHEESE333 Es gibt immer solche Leute im Internet... Sowas rutscht mir den Rücken runter :)

    • @stefandesu
      @stefandesu 8 лет назад +27

      +Garreth Koslowski Also, even though I'm German as well, I found their translations very helpful in understanding what Heidegger actually meant.

  • @smol_chilli_pepper
    @smol_chilli_pepper 8 лет назад +732

    I kept trying to rub the spot off of my screen only to realise it was just the video. *face palms*

    • @bassem_saad
      @bassem_saad 8 лет назад +21

      +1210Nique specifically looked at the comments to find someone who did the same.

    • @danielcoimbra8642
      @danielcoimbra8642 8 лет назад +14

      +1210Nique I only noticed it now that you mentioned it. My brain totally ignored it! It's totally something I'd fall for. I have literally tried to scare flies away from my screen by moving my cursor close to them.

    • @invanorm
      @invanorm 8 лет назад +1

      +Daniel Coimbra And it never seems to work.

    • @UserName-ii1ce
      @UserName-ii1ce 7 лет назад +1

      1210Nique I actually have a spot on my screen that i cant remove and this really fucked with me

    • @Blueeeberrry
      @Blueeeberrry 7 лет назад +1

      Haha... me too... I just realised from your comment. :D

  • @FIERCETiBi
    @FIERCETiBi 4 года назад +587

    I love how he immediately changes to an angry voice when he pronounces German words. XD I'm German btw

    • @georgplaz
      @georgplaz 4 года назад +10

      @@homan2223 so?

    • @alicepractice9473
      @alicepractice9473 4 года назад +4

      Con fucking gratulations

    • @johannesbreuer4390
      @johannesbreuer4390 4 года назад +1

      I hate it

    • @Dasckolar
      @Dasckolar 4 года назад

      How’s his accent

    • @5herwood
      @5herwood 4 года назад +10

      When you aren't German and you try very hard to pronounce correctly it's impossible to keep the stress out of your voice. I know from experience. Try speaking German without being German if you don't believe me.

  • @JimJWalker
    @JimJWalker 8 лет назад +371

    I, humbly, suggest everyone sacrifice three months of there lives and a loose-leaf note book to "Being in Time". Read each paragraph as you would a complete book. Take notes and form your own conclusions and insights. Agree, or disagree Heidegger's work is worthy of the effort. Be "Ready of hand".

    • @Nuclearcx
      @Nuclearcx 7 лет назад +58

      And ignore this video. The narration is garbage and explain practically nothing about Heidegger or his ideas. It's an embarrassment. The video brought up the names of some of his concepts without understanding them at all. Watching this video will give you a totally mistaken idea of Heidegger - not even the simplified version.

    • @Life_Of_Mine_
      @Life_Of_Mine_ 7 лет назад +2

      as a person who haven't read much on philosophy do you still recommend it to me? Will I be able to grasp the ideas of the book?

    • @janushomer9111
      @janushomer9111 7 лет назад +20

      @Nuclearcx at least he is trying. Could you contribute anything better before criticizing?

    • @cryptidxcreature
      @cryptidxcreature 7 лет назад +2

      it all reads like math to me, if you're bad at math (like me) have someone who understands this shit hold your hand lol i have that and i'm still like...what ht efuck

    • @fraserlaunchbury3667
      @fraserlaunchbury3667 6 лет назад +4

      I don't think you've grasped what it is for something to be ready-at-hand

  • @fuchsiafreud
    @fuchsiafreud 8 лет назад +493

    Stop giving up the lion's share of our life to impress people who never really liked us in the first place.

    • @alexanderkucheryuk4722
      @alexanderkucheryuk4722 7 лет назад +6

      Reminds you Fight Club, doesn't it?

    • @jingchaoye
      @jingchaoye 6 лет назад +1

      :)

    • @wungabunga
      @wungabunga 6 лет назад +10

      As Morrissey sang 'why do I give valuable time, to people who don't care if I live or die?'

    • @johnhannon8034
      @johnhannon8034 6 лет назад +1

      wungabunga
      and I’d much rather kick in the eye.

    • @grungepants
      @grungepants 4 года назад +4

      @@wungabunga Never go to them, Let them come to you, Just like I do, Just like I do.

  • @ICKFEARLESS
    @ICKFEARLESS 8 лет назад +317

    that freaking dot that looks like a stain on my screen was driving me crazy

  • @SpacemanXC
    @SpacemanXC 9 лет назад +452

    How do these videos not have more views? This channel is fucking fantastic.
    Thanks for all your hard work!

    • @GrothendiecksWish
      @GrothendiecksWish 7 лет назад +17

      SpaceManDawn because the masses are allergic to any intellectual activity.

    • @iohboladefogo604
      @iohboladefogo604 7 лет назад +4

      Fernando Reyes Masses are allergic to any intellectual idiot.

    • @GrothendiecksWish
      @GrothendiecksWish 7 лет назад

      Ioh, o Filho do Pescador poor devils, they are headed to the crematory

    • @camerondowse668
      @camerondowse668 7 лет назад +1

      RUclips views and analytics are meaningless, yet also utterly meaningful

    • @amitshandilya1
      @amitshandilya1 4 года назад +2

      Because not everyone is interested in finding the meaning of life or is privileged to do so as they're busy surviving.

  • @ONeirda
    @ONeirda 8 лет назад +101

    The Zürich newspaper "Tages Anzeiger" has led me here. It praised the eloquency of these videos, that they would manage to portray in a concise nutshell the most important ideas of some of the most important philosophers. I am deligthed to see that it definitely is so. Oh, how great an art reasoning can be ! Thank you for translating these huge and voluminous concepts into the media of our current fast and frenetic time. Very great work!

    • @ONeirda
      @ONeirda 8 лет назад

      +The School of Life
      Ooops... "opening a branch in Zürich" - are you a religious sect? Scientology?
      No, excuse me, I don't want to be prejudiced. But: What is your motivation? What is your financial foundation? Who is financing you with what goal?

    • @franzeror
      @franzeror 8 лет назад +1

      +ONeirda I, I, I think they might be a school

  • @frejadzougov7091
    @frejadzougov7091 8 лет назад +492

    It is rather impressive how this channel manages to make even Heidegger into a self-help-course. Funny as a New Age phenomenon, but doubt Heidegger would have been glad about it.

    • @frejadzougov7091
      @frejadzougov7091 8 лет назад +56

      Like he was not depressed enough already. Nietzsche was also rather exceptional at stating his points in provocative ways that can easily be misinterpreted. “God is dead” works almost better when you do not understand his definition of God. There Heidegger’s hardly understandable and untranslatable terminology have saved him from most pop-culturalization. Without studying, quotes like “Die welt weltet” are almost equally impossible to understand and misunderstand.

    • @frejadzougov7091
      @frejadzougov7091 8 лет назад +103

      So true. Just that way in which Heidegger's nazi-tendencies are dismissed as a shortlived mistake by this video. His thought was throughout his life deeply engaged with the metaphysical part of National Socialism.
      But instead of understanding Heidegger within his intellectual time, he is morally cleansed by being pulled into the 21st century’s life-improving-ethics. Even though he did not write ethics and therefore had no need for moral rescue in the first place. All of which is ironically antiheideggerian.

    • @_SmiIe_
      @_SmiIe_ 8 лет назад +106

      I'm enjoying watching you two agree with each other

    • @lexi6081
      @lexi6081 8 лет назад +40

      Almost all literature comes from a standpoint of self-help. He didn't write his words for no reason, he wanted to invite people to live more authentic lives.

    • @18da18
      @18da18 8 лет назад +1

      Wouldn't Heidegger simply view it as his work going in to shadow? :)

  • @cesar_145
    @cesar_145 5 лет назад +16

    As an Archaeologist with a BA in Fine Arts and a master in Architecture and have been studying the concept of space and being, Heidegger is simply incredible. He was a genius.

    • @dannysze8183
      @dannysze8183 3 года назад

      me too. heidegger is amazing. heidegger makes me think of miles van der rohe.

    • @somnathghoshal103
      @somnathghoshal103 10 месяцев назад

      And a nazi sadly, so he wasn't as clever as one would like to think

  • @polyopulis
    @polyopulis 8 лет назад +198

    This is heavily skewed towards his existentialism, and away from his phenomenology

    • @Guz579N
      @Guz579N 3 года назад +19

      Existentialism is a way more popular branch of philosophy, moreover it is aimed more at wider audiences, whilst phenomenology would be more useful to examine being a scientist or philosopher yourself

    • @lovisericachii4503
      @lovisericachii4503 3 года назад +1

      ya one of reasons why husserl said dat martin betrayed him LOL

    • @mariog1490
      @mariog1490 2 года назад

      Im pretty sure Heidegger denies existentialism.

    • @George-jd6fz
      @George-jd6fz 6 месяцев назад

      @@mariog1490 Evola considers him an existentialist

    • @mariog1490
      @mariog1490 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@George-jd6fz it’s usually pretty bad though when someone denies the label himself. As he said, if Sartre is an existentialist, I’m out! 😂

  • @ElasticGiraffe
    @ElasticGiraffe 10 лет назад +344

    1. Hegel is less comprehensible than Heidegger.
    2. Heidegger never renounced Nazism.

    • @turdfergeson8641
      @turdfergeson8641 5 лет назад +34

      @@dreamdiction there was bound to be one of you idiots in this comment section

    • @poisonsquid37
      @poisonsquid37 5 лет назад +45

      @@turdfergeson8641 I hate people like you who think they're smart but are actually stupid.

    • @urbanitecrusher5709
      @urbanitecrusher5709 5 лет назад +5

      @@dreamdiction o/

    • @turdfergeson8641
      @turdfergeson8641 5 лет назад +30

      @@poisonsquid37 calling a Nazi an idiot is not a very pretentious thing to say...

    • @turdfergeson8641
      @turdfergeson8641 5 лет назад +11

      @ for someone who likely considers themselves the "master race" that was a pretty low iq comment mate

  • @RatherGeekyStuff
    @RatherGeekyStuff 8 лет назад +357

    Martin Heidegger (and his wife) never "saw the error of [their] ways" in regard to Nazism, as far as we know. They remained defenders of nazism until their death. I don't understand why you would claim otherwise? - that aside, he is, nevertheless, one of the greatest modern philosophers in my oppinion. Sein und Zeit is a masterpiece although his language is a bit tedious.

    • @RenatusChristoph
      @RenatusChristoph 7 лет назад +33

      Yes, Heideggers contribution to philosophy is often overwhelmed by the fact that he was a member of the Nazi party and did not denounce his involvement. Regarding the significance of a philosopher's biography he said in 1924 at a lecture on Aristotle referring to what Plato says in "The Sophist" (Stephanus, 246d): "Bei der Persönlichkeit eines Philosophen hat nur das Interesse: Er wurde dann und dann geboren, er arbeitete und starb," which would translate as follows: "The only topic of interest in the life of a philosopher is the fact the he was born and worked and died." And the point is clear: it seems fair to look into the mind of the philosopher by examining what he says and thinks disregarding his circumstances of his political involvement - rather than to make prejudiced opinions FOR or AGAINST his philosophy without even having read and understood his thought.

    • @Not2BadFIFA
      @Not2BadFIFA 7 лет назад +88

      I've noticed many try to make philosophers more politically correct than they truly were to rationalize it to normies. Sad.

    • @georgiana1754
      @georgiana1754 7 лет назад +32

      The man preached about how to take control over the influence that our context has on us. The fact that he couldn't resist being polluted by the context of his time despite living in a remote area makes me lose credibility in his philosophy.
      Fortunately Sartre integrated this philosophy in every aspect of his life thus showing the effects it has on one's personal, sexual, professional and civic life. That's inspiring!
      There is already a great separation between thoughts and actions and it's hard enough to bridge to provide a good filter of thoughts.

    • @DressyCrooner
      @DressyCrooner 7 лет назад +28

      Privately he called it the most stupid mistake of his life.

    • @rhrh9012
      @rhrh9012 7 лет назад +5

      Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell where do you get that from?

  • @baronvonbeandip
    @baronvonbeandip 5 лет назад +8

    I remember reading Heidegger with the intent to grasp phenomenology and it was like getting beat to death with words. Sein und Zeit is easily the most difficult thing I have ever read. It is also one of the most useful.

  • @leokastor
    @leokastor 6 лет назад +25

    I love Heidegger, his philosophy is so practical in many ways, yet deep, sometimes very confusing, but based on very grounded fundamentals of existence. I feel like the world is a totally different place after exploring his ideas. Great job on this video.

  • @centennial13
    @centennial13 10 лет назад +43

    Indeed, 42 is the meaning of life. That one made me chuckle.

    • @yashagrawal88
      @yashagrawal88 3 года назад

      And this comment has 42 likes. 😂
      Why is there 42 though in the video?

    • @elliottsmiles170
      @elliottsmiles170 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@yashagrawal88it’s a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There’s a part in it that says 42 is “the answer to everything”, kind of as a random gag. People held onto it

  • @HumanbeingonfloatingEarth
    @HumanbeingonfloatingEarth 3 года назад +5

    Just found Heidegger.
    Philosophy just gets better and better 💗
    Thank u S of L.

  • @KrcIIXpalm
    @KrcIIXpalm Год назад +36

    Also: it should be noted that Heidegger unfortunately never actually "saw the error of his ways" regarding his involvement with Nazism. His values shifted in the post-war era, but he never renounced his involvement in the Nazi party before he died.

    • @Mr-fy6zb
      @Mr-fy6zb Год назад

      At least not publicly; and his shift did change a bit sooner than the post-war era. Nonetheless he is definitely not completely free from antisemitism and nazism

    • @ashtonmilkyway
      @ashtonmilkyway Год назад

      ⁠@@Mr-fy6zbAnd for good reason, national socialism did present a solution to the increasing globalization that was taking place in the modern world, and misplacing Germans from their true authentic self. German soil and Volk had to be protected from all parasites that threatened its being.

  • @drappers98
    @drappers98 10 лет назад +7

    This channel is honestly becoming one of my favorites. Your videos are golden!

    • @Nasir_3.
      @Nasir_3. 3 месяца назад

      Not anymore

  • @prevarikator
    @prevarikator 3 года назад +2

    I appreciate this focused, and no-nonsense Heidegger summary. I think it is valuable to people at any stage of study.

  • @TheJaredtheJaredlong
    @TheJaredtheJaredlong 9 лет назад +4

    He also wrote quite a bit about architecture and how our built world affects how we live, I particularly like his writings about "dwelling"; that existing within house is not the same as _living_ in a house. To dwell is to develop a personal relationship with your house: the house should help you personally feel alive.

  • @OmarDrake
    @OmarDrake 9 лет назад +18

    I wish my high-school-aged-self had been introduced to Heidegger for two reason: 1) I probably would have spared my later self much heart ache, suffering, and wasted time and 2) I would have taken my more advanced German classes (4 & 5) much more seriously.

  • @prestoX
    @prestoX 7 лет назад +536

    Germany has most number of coolest philosophers.

    • @ablejack3
      @ablejack3 7 лет назад +79

      Maybe Germany has more cool philosophers in number, but the very coolest were French.

    • @wwbenee
      @wwbenee 6 лет назад +82

      Philosophers, engineers, architects, scientists, artists, poets, writers, musicians etc. - the Aryans! Come to think about it, may be some truth to the whole 'superiority thing' after all, may there not?

    • @WillemV203
      @WillemV203 5 лет назад +1

      Ablejack Courtney came to say just this!

    • @bhramitaatma6026
      @bhramitaatma6026 5 лет назад +25

      I GUESS YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT INDIAN PHILOSOPHERS

    • @saadrizvi6630
      @saadrizvi6630 5 лет назад +5

      German thinkers also admired Islam, the greatest poet of Germany was a Muslim (goethe)

  • @HKMV9
    @HKMV9 8 лет назад +15

    4:36
    "The best books are the ones that tell us what we already know."
    I'm inclined to agree.

  • @spikyfurball
    @spikyfurball 9 лет назад +10

    I love how the number 42 showed up when it was talking about the meaning of our lives.

    • @daleo79
      @daleo79 3 месяца назад

      Arthur Dent has entered the chat

  • @mayaramsharma3424
    @mayaramsharma3424 4 года назад +5

    This video was uploaded in 2014. I used to understand philosophy in an intellectual way. 2020 I'm living it. Living for myself. Giving myself so much love so I can love others. An empty stomach can not feed others 🙏❤

  • @nathanmethusalem862
    @nathanmethusalem862 9 лет назад +17

    "Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts ? Das ist die Frage."- "Why is there´Seiendes´instead of nothing? That is the question.- Martin Heidegger- (""Seiendes"= a term of the Heideggerian Terminology. "Sein" is the infinitive of "to be" and is thus translated as the verbal substantive "being" in English. "Seiendes" is a participial substantive meaning "beings-in-general" or"beings-at-all". Compare also with the ancient greek terms οὐσία , πᾶσα ἡ οὐσία and γένεσις .)

  • @patrickschult7838
    @patrickschult7838 3 года назад +1

    Kudos to the speaker for the best non-native German pronunciation I've heard so far.

  • @farquharce
    @farquharce 6 лет назад +34

    As someone coming to Heidegger for the first time I feel like he is re-articulating Taoism.

    • @Jason918114
      @Jason918114 2 года назад

      I've said the same thing but comparing stoicism to taoism... yet even existentialism from heidegger and the like seems to overlap that venn diagram of philosophy.

    • @cartergomez5390
      @cartergomez5390 2 года назад +5

      My wish is to date and eventually marry a bisexual philosophical and spiritual woman.

    • @dartney
      @dartney Год назад

      @@cartergomez5390 Amen

    • @gabrielfynsk
      @gabrielfynsk Год назад +3

      Heidegger had a lot of admiration for Suzuki and in fact, on his work “On the way to Language”, he referenced the Dao by name as the best translation of his notion for “Way”. So you are not far off with this feeling!

  • @TheYabbyman
    @TheYabbyman 10 лет назад +44

    He never refrained from Nazism thou...

  • @InnerJesooz
    @InnerJesooz 7 лет назад +72

    Can you make a video about Hannah Arendt? 😁

    • @Yaheleven
      @Yaheleven 5 лет назад

      Punk
      They were in a sexual relationship ?

    • @Yaheleven
      @Yaheleven 5 лет назад +2

      Long Nards
      She actually looked like a man and older than him I noticed in the pics.

  • @TheBrandDept
    @TheBrandDept 10 лет назад +4

    Have so enjoyed the series introducing the great philosophers on the Philosophers' Mail and love the RUclips channel. Keep it coming!

    • @janabakunina2300
      @janabakunina2300 10 лет назад

      Alain de Botton I don't know how much work went into creating these videos but they are brilliant, this one especially. Your creativity really has no limits. Enough Gerede, I just wanted to say thank you!

  • @Aezur20
    @Aezur20 9 лет назад +40

    "Why we're here rather than there!"
    This made me smile.

  • @Adrian_999
    @Adrian_999 4 года назад +8

    You got the pronounciation of the german words on point like a native tongue! Big ups!!

    • @IIII2IIII
      @IIII2IIII 3 года назад +2

      I would think he does as Alain de Botton is Swiss born and speaks both French and German fluently.

  • @RenatusChristoph
    @RenatusChristoph 7 лет назад +4

    Martin Heidegger is one of the greatest intellectual capacities of the 20th century - whose contribution to philosophy is often overwhelmed by the fact that he was a member of the Nazi party and did not denounce his involvement. BUT to the significance of a philosopher's biography he said in 1924 at a lecture on Aristotle referring to what Plato says in "The Sophist" (Stephanus, 246d): "Bei der Persönlichkeit eines Philosophen hat nur das Interesse: Er wurde dann und dann geboren, er arbeitete und starb," which would translate as follows: "The only topic of interest in the life of a philosopher is the fact the he was born and worked and died." And the point is clear: it seems fair to look into the mind of the philosopher by examining what he says and thinks disregarding his circumstances of his political involvement - rather than to make prejudiced opinions FOR or AGAINST his philosophy without even having read and understood his thought.

  • @SV-uv9rm
    @SV-uv9rm 3 месяца назад

    Got introduced to Heidegger in one of the most thought provoking videos I've ever seen. Kudos to the makers and speaker! Yes, the ancient scriptures too say that death is always holding us by our pony tails and may pull us up into "das nichts" any time. As such we should focus on our 'being' and the reason for it. Hindus believe in repeated births or Geworfenheit as a way towards soul cleansing until it becomes eligible for going back to where it came from, the Almighty. Thank you for reading through!

  • @j0nnyism
    @j0nnyism 7 лет назад +5

    Heidegger is one philosopher whose ideas we can sometimes resolve without ever hearing his name

  • @ArjunKumar-rw8qd
    @ArjunKumar-rw8qd 9 лет назад +2

    of all the subscriptions i have yours enlighten me the most, every time. I really like this channel. Thanks from India

  • @Wolf.88
    @Wolf.88 8 лет назад +12

    My favorite philosopher

  • @oatmilk1741
    @oatmilk1741 3 года назад +1

    After hours of research this is probably the best "snapshot" of Martin's philosophy

  • @albert23199
    @albert23199 2 года назад +10

    "Martin Heidegger is without doubt the most incomprehensible german philosopher that ever lived"
    Hegel: "Am I a joke to you?"

    • @loganleatherman7647
      @loganleatherman7647 11 часов назад

      This is probably referring to his ideas more so than his writing style. Hegel takes the cake on the latter, but I think Heidegger has the former.

  • @dominikh7237
    @dominikh7237 9 лет назад +1

    THIS IS one of the most usefull chanell for young people and not so young people too on youtube :)
    thank you :)

  • @gabrielfynsk
    @gabrielfynsk 4 года назад +4

    To everyone who wishes to understand Heidegger at his core, my father, Christopher Fynsk, put out one of the most cohesive and important works on Heidegger's philosophy to date: "Thought and Historicity". Derrida himself commended (and ripped from) his ability to insert the human being back into Being in his understanding of Heidegger's approach his later works such as "Letter on humanism". Zizek called it "The most deliberate and authentic work on Heidegger to date"

    • @nevermind0143
      @nevermind0143 Год назад

      Very cool. With this background, what’s your take on the summary here?

    • @gabrielfynsk
      @gabrielfynsk Год назад +1

      @@nevermind0143​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠As with most School of Life videos (and most RUclips videos on philosophy), this video is an extremely simplified version of what can only be properly represented by the work itself or something even more extensive than the source material. In the case of Heidegger, this could not be more true. It is very evident that the creator of this video has not actually read Heidegger before. What he has provided are the first two chapters of Being and Time - albeit, and as always, an extremely simplified version of it. I am quite suspicious that he picked most of this up from Wikipedia, which consequently very evidently picked most of its material of from an American theorist named Hubert Dreyfus, who famously never read the second half of Being and Time (the part on Time…) because he felt it was irrelevant. Besides, Heidegger wrote far more than Being and Time - it is not even his greatest work, despite being so popular. So much of what is said in Being and Time (an early work of his) is refuted by his later and sometimes greater works - for instance, his work on Parmenides. He begins to step beyond a metaphysics of subjectivity. And THAT is the true complexity of Heidegger. Of course, I would strongly recommend Being and Time, not only to those interested in Heidegger, but to all interested in Philosophy whatsoever! I’d be happy to help with any questions you might have.

  • @JamesLee-qi3dn
    @JamesLee-qi3dn 2 года назад +1

    Mindfulness of death is a Buddhist meditation remembering death can come at anytime. The same as the Orthodox Christian practice of the “remembrance of death”
    I too love this channel.

  • @AlexanderLayko
    @AlexanderLayko Год назад +6

    I loved this guy in Final Fantasy VII.

  • @arcadedomination8006
    @arcadedomination8006 5 лет назад

    These kind of philosophy never ceases to make me appreciate life.

  • @purpandskizo
    @purpandskizo 9 лет назад +32

    The School of Life: A video on Maurice Merleau Ponty please!

  • @지혜의빛
    @지혜의빛 3 года назад +1

    Being and time are long and complicated books, but they can be counted as the most important books in the history of Western philosophy.

  • @silversocket
    @silversocket 10 лет назад +14

    It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.. Ecc. 7:2

    • @unappropadope
      @unappropadope 10 лет назад +3

      ***** and yet. You're as powerless as fiction

    • @meowtwobeens
      @meowtwobeens 10 лет назад +1

      unappropadope Fiction is not powerless, so...

    • @unappropadope
      @unappropadope 10 лет назад +1

      Sasa Aguila Hercules can fight me and show me I'm wrong

    • @dylanobrien1547
      @dylanobrien1547 10 лет назад +1

      How is this discussion even slightly relevant to the video? Why do we get fundamentalist trolls and fundamentalist atheists preaching their theology wherever there is a discussion of "ideas"?
      Philosophy and theology are two different fields, people! And that doesn't mean philosophers are a bunch of "fence-sitting agnostics" either! In the same way you wouldn't want your physician playing Halo on the computer he uses to write your prescriptions, it doesn't make sense to discuss theology in the context of Philosophy.

    • @timmmyyb
      @timmmyyb 10 лет назад +1

      Dylan O'Brien
      "fundamentalist atheists" hahahahahaha you're a joke.

  • @frankfeldman6657
    @frankfeldman6657 4 года назад +1

    This is pretty terrific-you've really hit the important stuff and saved readers months/ years of mystification.

    • @gedde5703
      @gedde5703 4 года назад

      I would say that they left out some rather important stuff and depriving readers of profound insight.

  • @yukithewanderer6980
    @yukithewanderer6980 4 года назад +8

    Wtf. Heidegger is amazing. He's so profound that makes me wanna dive into his mind.

  • @TheBCMilnov
    @TheBCMilnov 10 лет назад +1

    Though I don't know him, I believe I have all of Alain's published materials, and IMO this is one of the most useful and inspiring short summaries he's done to date, of meaningful content of an historical wake-up-now philosopher, practical and applying to this very day, right now: yes you can escape, and here's how to do it. Alain is so helpful as a current day philosopher because of his subtracting useful content from books and paragraphs of theoretical bafflegab with its presumed profundity. Recall that Carl Sagan was dissed as a popularizer, yet time has shown that those who dissed him deserved it most as being the worthless ones who brought no value to the culture.

  • @progftw
    @progftw 10 лет назад +45

    I constantly feel the strangeness and oneness of everything. It's very disorienting and gives me anxiety. I don't feel particularly enlightened. Not sure why this is happening, as I've never done drugs. I seem to have just thought myself into it.

    • @nealkelly9757
      @nealkelly9757 10 лет назад +8

      One cannot control their own thoughts, don't feel bad about it

    • @AravahStar
      @AravahStar 10 лет назад +1

      That's very interesting ;)

    • @GortLovesKlaatu
      @GortLovesKlaatu 10 лет назад +20

      what you are experiencing is the reality underpinning the inauthenticity of your own life. It feels strange to you because you are a conditioned being, like the majority, when you strip away the ego shell and its false selves you can see the world around you as it really is, dont run away from it, embrace it, its the truth, the conditioned existence most people live is a lie which they only discover as they approach death and the ego can no longer maintain its struggle to control who you are. The more of these videos I watch the more apparent to me it is that all western philosophy is based in eastern ideas. Try reading the Vedanta, Baghavad Gita, the upanishads and the dhamapada, continue to unconditon yourself and you wil find complete freedom. The secret of the golden flower is an excellent book (thomas cleary version) listen to some alan watts who gives a relatable western picture of zen. You can free yourself from the mind and all its anxieties, depressions, moods, you just need to practice. Remember you are not your mind, nor the contents of it.

    • @AravahStar
      @AravahStar 10 лет назад +4

      Gort Roxx Alan Watts...agreed. Easily digestible if you're already in the vicinity.

    • @MrAlterior
      @MrAlterior 10 лет назад +6

      I see the strangeness and am constantly struck by the perplexity of being. It fill my eyes with tears of joy. The width and seemingly infinite depth of the lake of being, makes my heart feel as though it will burst through my chest. I love it. I feel enlightened.

  • @tangerinesarebetterthanora7060
    @tangerinesarebetterthanora7060 3 года назад +2

    Heidegger's philosophy clicks with me more than any other does.

  • @PeterOwens1006
    @PeterOwens1006 Год назад +3

    This is a really solid video, especially in terms of condensing a lot of really difficult concepts into a short but substantive video. But I think it’s important to note that this is a VERY second wave reading - which isn’t to say it is WRONG, but it is one school of interpretation of his oeuvre, and one that tends to apply a moralizing stance to his concepts in B&T. Again, not necessarily bad! But if you’re interested, there are alternative interpretations.

  • @janakathalu
    @janakathalu 4 года назад

    I've been bingewatching these videos because I've really gotten into philosophy again and what else am I gonna do in quarantine and I just want to say: your German pronunciation is really good! And thanks for these videos, they do kind of keep me sane.

  • @Sekei..
    @Sekei.. 10 лет назад +5

    Hey, it's the guy who gave you shit for your German pronunciation on the video on Nietzsche. It's actually pretty fantastic on this one! As is the video, as it always is actually.

  • @Nerdamania
    @Nerdamania 9 лет назад +2

    I have Never understood Heidegger. This little summary might be my best bet.

  • @Cinqmil
    @Cinqmil 9 лет назад +223

    Saw the error of his ways? He never did...

    • @EdwardLeeWilliam
      @EdwardLeeWilliam 9 лет назад +54

      Cinqmil Yeah, exactly. He was a nazi until death and never renounced his affiliation.

    • @Cinqmil
      @Cinqmil 9 лет назад +13

      +Illya Van Hoof
      _I don't believe there is any inherent value or meaning to existence_ I could prove you wrong in your assertions, but that would mean we have to meet and I have to bring my chainsaw with me. It won't take that long to prove my point, I am sure of it. Unfortunately I'm more of an introvert, and I"d rather be on my own. I would definitely decline. You could off course decide to slit your own wrists, maybe you come to the same conclusions and gain enlightenment that way.
      _What's wrong with nazism???_ Are you goddamn kidding me??? Only a person without any imagination would ask this. "The nazis are ok, because they never hurt me." Fuck off.

    • @peterjackson2937
      @peterjackson2937 9 лет назад +8

      +Illya Van Hoof I like ontological nihilism, don't get me wrong. But I think Cinqmil's point is that, regardless of a priori wonder about 'inherent meaning' and other plagues of the narcissistic human mind, we have mechanisms built into us called instincts that make us want to reiterate our existence, ya know, survival instincts. Our consciousness is what nihilism is really calling out. And so, it doesn't prove value or meaning, but proves inherent intention, which, you could argue, humanity mistook as meaning. I guess the point I'm making is that, of course there is no value or meaning, but that certainly doesn't imply a reason to stop existing. Which would make people, such as the Nazis, who stopped people from existing 'bad'.

    • @cigolsimons1768
      @cigolsimons1768 9 лет назад +10

      +Cinqmil I was just about to post this comment. Heidegger never openly regretted his affiliation with the Nazi party.

    • @GiI11
      @GiI11 5 лет назад +10

      Not this shit again.

  • @discosecret6363
    @discosecret6363 8 лет назад +4

    Would love to see a video on Levinas.

  • @shygirl7782
    @shygirl7782 5 лет назад +1

    This video helped me immensely in my metaphysics exam.
    Thank u so much.

  • @MrUltraLulZz
    @MrUltraLulZz 8 лет назад +3

    Should do a video on Max Stirner next

  • @GregoryJWalters
    @GregoryJWalters 3 года назад

    Absolutely well done... and further to Garreth Koslowski's comments for those of us who have an appreciation, for example, Volga Deutsche, for the emphasis you put into the German words. Super!

  • @Dmicroluv
    @Dmicroluv 3 года назад +9

    sorry what kind of mushrooms did he liked to pick?

  • @ViralYoutubeHits
    @ViralYoutubeHits 5 лет назад +2

    ''Life is merely nothing more than a trip, and our destination be that will be heaven'' - Mohaimin Nadeem philosopher.

  • @cirosuperiore
    @cirosuperiore 10 лет назад +23

    Excellent. Now, I'm an expert on Heideggerian Existentialism

    • @wanderingdude777
      @wanderingdude777 9 лет назад +1

      Ehhh, you're an expert on a summary of Heideggerian Existentialism. There's a lot this video didn't cover, then again, hard not to be vague when you're condensing Being and Time and other life works in not even 5:23. An example of this is the video's explanation of Dasein - its not just being, but its being, AND the processes in which that being goes about the world. To better explain what that means.... would take a long while and a mastery of Heideggerian terms I don't have. Go to your local college and talk to a philosophy professor. Enjoy the headache and newfound mid-life crisis.

    • @cirosuperiore
      @cirosuperiore 9 лет назад +19

      wanderingdude777 did you ever hear of sarcasm?

    • @wanderingdude777
      @wanderingdude777 9 лет назад +8

      Uncle Theodor Its the internet! Anyone can be serious about anything!

  • @domwyatt3239
    @domwyatt3239 4 месяца назад +1

    Fucking love Heidegger, truly emphasises the importance of self enlightenment and authentic Being.

  • @michaelsvoboda1024
    @michaelsvoboda1024 5 лет назад +3

    I want to live for myself; how is that overcoming egoism? Egoism ain't narcissism.

  • @expatistaj4184
    @expatistaj4184 10 лет назад +1

    I LOVED THIS. The art direction was genius - germane but funny image choices - hats off!
    Connecting with a philosopher's work is a little like falling in love with them, and Heidegger is one of my all time biggest crushes - thanks for creating this piece.
    Please consider Wittgenstein next... surely one would struggle to find a thinker more relevant for the age of 140 characters or fewer than the man who said "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world!"

  • @xenoblad
    @xenoblad 5 лет назад +6

    Its kind of nuts that the guy concerned with not following the crowd then followed the Nazi's.

  • @alirazanawaz16
    @alirazanawaz16 5 лет назад

    No better explaination of Existentialism found anywhere but here.
    Thank you very much. Much appreciated

  • @imperialguardsman9867
    @imperialguardsman9867 10 лет назад +10

    He never renounce his National Socialism untl the end of his life he remain true to those beliefs.

  • @KP-sl3ni
    @KP-sl3ni 6 лет назад +2

    I just found your channel. Thank you for enlightning me on things I wanted to understand, but did not know where to start. I linked your page to my FB. Grats on a great channel, and hope it grows like a weed!

  • @CanIcallyouMistah
    @CanIcallyouMistah 8 лет назад +3

    As an austrian, the first time I ever heard of Heidegger, was in the Anime Steins:Gate... What does that say about his popularity in his own linguisitic area?

  • @Ahmed84568
    @Ahmed84568 6 лет назад

    I am impressed with how he clearly and simply described a way to experience happy life, but isn't it important to give an importance to others at not for creating goof impressions but for the sake of humanity, as some of humans accomplishments beside being impressive, are essential for our lives now.

  • @grimawormtongue1949
    @grimawormtongue1949 10 лет назад +18

    This video doesn't really get to the meat of what Heidegger said at all.

    • @gordonice
      @gordonice 9 лет назад +7

      Please elaborate.

    • @MJ-un3wl
      @MJ-un3wl 4 года назад +3

      He's telling you to do yoga

  • @Phi1618033
    @Phi1618033 Год назад +2

    "Martin Heidegger is, without doubt, the most incomprehensible German philosopher who has ever lived."
    Hegel may beg to differ.

  • @Artfan123
    @Artfan123 5 лет назад +31

    "He hated television, airplanes, pop music, and processed foods"
    And he also hated Jewish people dont forget that part

    • @BioChemistryWizard
      @BioChemistryWizard 4 года назад +10

      Calling one of the most intelligent philosophers ever "anti-semitic" just makes anti-semites look good.

    • @MrKurtd1800
      @MrKurtd1800 4 года назад +3

      I didn't know that... based tbh

    • @georgekosko5124
      @georgekosko5124 4 года назад +2

      Wow my dude that's crazy. Let's reduce important 20th century philosophy to "nah that's just antisemitism"

  • @gawaineross4656
    @gawaineross4656 9 лет назад

    This was well done. The web of being is an ancient concept. It's refreshing to hear a philosopher discuss it.

  • @dylanobrien1547
    @dylanobrien1547 10 лет назад +24

    This video does an excellent job of explaining the Ontical insights about practical, everyday life contained in Heidegger's early work, but unfortunately does not give enough attention to Heidegger's work in Ontology, which is the most important element of his work. Lots of "cool insight" here, but no important discussion of being.
    Thus, I'd say that this, while interesting, presents us with the McDonny's version of Heidegger. It's pleasant and fast, but ultimately unsatisfying and unlikely to interest us in the long-term.
    Heidegger was the first (and perhaps last) Ontologist in the western world. His work opens up the previously sealed-off question of being. To do ontology is both profoundly disturbing and confusing. To do ontology is to risk having one's life, self, and all of one's cares swallowed up in being itself. And even to say this is to cheapen it.

    • @dinkledankle
      @dinkledankle 6 лет назад

      Of the 80+ prominent Ontologists, over half of those were/are Western philosophers. I can't imagine what you mean when you say Heidegger was the first. Heraclitus was the first.

  • @kennytheclown3859
    @kennytheclown3859 Год назад +1

    I love this guy!

  • @bostoncrawford5419
    @bostoncrawford5419 9 лет назад +4

    "Death? Haaaa, I'm not scared of death.
    Deaths been running from me my entire life and I've finaly caught the bastard.
    So my nemesis, so my greatest enamy,
    Death?!?!
    Are you ready to end my story
    Because I allready am"

  • @jordanbouma9620
    @jordanbouma9620 7 лет назад +2

    I love his outlook. That was pretty deep.

  • @Servant316
    @Servant316 9 лет назад +3

    I don't want to sound shallow or something, but when i sum up his thoughts on life it comes down to the simple widely recognised and hated popculture phrase - yolo. Or am i mistaking :-) ?

  • @kevinionno9263
    @kevinionno9263 10 лет назад

    What a delightful, concise and entertaining way to distill the essence of a very practical wisdom and make it available to those of us with neither the time or inclination to wade through ponderous prose. I very much enjoyed your Religion for Athiests and applaud your project to bring philosophy to the people. I, like you, believe philosophy should be useful in a practical way, helping us to consider different perspectives and ask the right questions in our quest to make sense and enrich our lives.
    When are you opening a campus in the USA?

    • @DioneMentis_Solista
      @DioneMentis_Solista 10 лет назад

      Alain de Botton And a campus in South Africa would be much appreciated too! I aways visit when in London but unfortunately my visits are few and far between.

  • @markjoshuamiguel4730
    @markjoshuamiguel4730 9 лет назад +14

    "We should simply aim to spend more time in graveyards."
    What does he mean by this?

    • @jumpyrobot2673
      @jumpyrobot2673 9 лет назад +21

      Mark Joshua Miguel I always felt like it was not just death that he wanted people to dwell on. It's the fact that we are, by the nature of life, finite. You can make a vague argument about impacts on society living on, but your experience in the world as you are will end. Period. Because it's not just the difference between you sitting alone waiting for lunch, and you sitting alone waiting for your friend who's supposed to show up to lunch. It's the difference between you living as you are, and you living knowing that you have three months left to live.
      Which can be shortened to hang out in a graveyard.
      Because there are a lot of people that lived, did things, and died. All they were and all that's left of their brief glimpse of the world is some signatures, some documents, and the stories that people still tell. Also some genes, but how much of you is in that helix is up for debate and that's only if they had kids. But that's your fate too. So live. Not because you've been told how to live, or you think it will make you happy, but it actually makes you happy.
      Which is probably a little sunnier than anything he ever said. Fine details...

    • @heidegyr404
      @heidegyr404 9 лет назад +8

      Mark Joshua Miguel Actually "Memento Mori" is quite interesting sentence and interdependent with Mr. Heidegger's philosophy.

    • @Siddhartha040107
      @Siddhartha040107 9 лет назад +8

      Mark Joshua Miguel impermanence. to realize that we are temporary so we could stop living for they-self and start living your life for your self.

    • @elee8294
      @elee8294 9 лет назад +3

      Mark Joshua Miguel He meant it literally. Graveyards are very good for thinking about how to be authentic because a lot of them are very quiet.

    •  9 лет назад +7

      Mark Joshua Miguel It reminded me of a quote from Louis C.K. He says: "You are going to be dead for WAY longer than you're alive. That's mostly what you're even gonna be. Like, you're just dead people that haven't died yet."

  • @Lorenzo23910
    @Lorenzo23910 10 лет назад +1

    This is the only time I have heard an english speaking man say Heideggerian jargon properly, clearly and without slowing down or stuttering. Nice job guys.

  • @18da18
    @18da18 8 лет назад +31

    I actually find Heidegger both comprehensible and the most sensible among philosophers, but that's just me.
    And shouldn't it be "Dasein" in one word?
    Either way, cool video!

    • @ArseneGray
      @ArseneGray 8 лет назад +5

      Da sein and Dasein can mean different things. Da sein means literally "being there" but Dasein means "the act of being" You can exchange the word Dasein with Existece in many uses.
      Like, "Mein *Dasein* hat keine Bedeutung." -> "My *existence* has no meaning."
      On the other hand "Wirst du mogen bei der Party *da sein*?" -> "Will you *be there* tomorrow at the party?"

    • @18da18
      @18da18 8 лет назад +1

      ArseneGray Heidegger's Dasein and Sein don't mean exactly what they mean in German; Dasein is “being” (or more precisely “being-in-time”) as in “human being”, and Sein is all other being - in overly simplified terms.

    • @rodionraskolnikov5948
      @rodionraskolnikov5948 8 лет назад +7

      Yes. Dasein is a neologism coined/redefined by Heidegger in his introduction to Being and Time for the sake of resisting traditional ontological concepts. Das Sein is horribly incorrect. He derived the term from 'da sein' meaning being there. More than anything else, Heidegger used it to connote a mode of being-in-the-world. Accordingly, it's apparent that whoever made this video lacks the slightest grasp on Heidegger's project.

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 8 лет назад

      Alain de bottom grew up speaking German so I'm just presuming he knows which way is right-I've forgotten most of my German so I couldn't say lol

    • @18da18
      @18da18 8 лет назад +1

      Teethgrinder 83 That's a false assumption, as this is, as Rodion pointed out, a neologism coined by Heidegger, thus that has nothing to do with whether you're German or not.
      Just like if someone grew up speaking Russian doesn't mean they'd know that Rodion Raskolnikov is a fictional character.

  • @rainneedayz
    @rainneedayz 8 лет назад

    I love that this video is under 6 minutes.

  • @Elf_Hater
    @Elf_Hater 8 лет назад +8

    Heidegger's philosophy sounds a little like Taoism - let go and appreciate the world as it is.
    "To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Lao Tzu

  • @krishnapartha
    @krishnapartha 3 года назад

    I love how you put 42 up when you mentioned “the meaning of our lives. I love Douglas Adams. :)

  • @Rosi_in_space
    @Rosi_in_space 7 лет назад +29

    "fun" fact: Heidegger had an affair/ relationship with Hannah Arendt...

  • @teb7426
    @teb7426 2 года назад +1

    Loving the contiguity of the speech, "it would be lying to say...", with the picture of Sir Tony Blair. Glad that there are others who will never forget, despite what they think. My theyself is heartened!

  • @dunnowy123
    @dunnowy123 9 лет назад +10

    What irritates me about so many of these philosophers is that while they sound enticing...they are almost exclusively upper class people. Yes, they rail against the lifestyle of the bourgeois and materialism, yet none of them truly lived in poverty. Even if they exiled themselves from modernity, they were often supported by inherited wealth.
    TL;DR = their perceptions of the good life is often from the context of a person with tremendous wealth, seeking more. Not someone actually suffering materially.

    • @fernandaramirezm790
      @fernandaramirezm790 9 лет назад

      I have never really put some thought on this. Could you give me names and sources, please?

    • @user-dw3hw9zp9y
      @user-dw3hw9zp9y 9 лет назад +4

      dunnowy123 dude lived in a cabin

    • @fridginators
      @fridginators 9 лет назад

      Fernanda Ramirez M dunnowy123 This is precisely the problem that Jacques Ranciere takes up in many of his books. It sounds like 'The Philosopher and His Poor' is what you're after, although I've actually read 'The Ignorant Schoolmaster' and find it more to the point. Essentially Ranciere questions _why_ is it that philosophers have become concerned with 'the poor', why do they presume to have followers? He instead thinks that we should presume a basis of equality rather than attempt to teach or philosophise our way up to it - ie: there's no reason why a teacher knows more than the child, and in many senses that presumption deliberately prevents kids from learning too much. Critical-Theory has a good guide to Ranciere here - www.critical-theory.com/who-the-fuck-is-jacques-ranciere/
      Perhaps you could also say that Ranciere is just a benefactor of privilege too but I guess at some level it's also a truism that to philosophise you have to be comfortable. At least good philosophers try to interrogate that position in a reflexive way - this is precisely what Marx does, and it's kind of what Horkheimer was attempting to do in his essay 'Traditional and Critical Theory'. Perhaps this still masks the philosophy of 'the poor' or the downtrodden whose voices aren't heard, and this is precisely the concern of Adorno and Foucault. Again, all these people are privileged, but that's also because society at large tends to only listen to the voices of privileged people. Philosophy is not very good at opening the space for women or people of colour in general, but I guess many attempts have been made at overcoming at least the very obvious bs.
      Existentialism as a philosophy though is famously a bit out of touch.

    • @Afr0Afr0
      @Afr0Afr0 9 лет назад +15

      dunnowy123 Its hard to publish a book when you are struggling to eat.

    • @xxxpyrosxxx
      @xxxpyrosxxx 8 лет назад +5

      I think that this is because poor people do not have the time to think abstract.
      They have to struggle for their lifes, shuffeling around interesting thoughts is not helping with that.

  • @jeffreyc.mcandrew8911
    @jeffreyc.mcandrew8911 5 лет назад

    Great and interesting man. This man taught us how to worship the now and grasp our treasures with infinite intensity. Our jobs and daily routines can put a limit on our ability to enjoy our being 100-percent. The overcoming to egoism, very interesting concept. The truth will set us free.

  • @slophat9296
    @slophat9296 8 лет назад +16

    I like the way they nonchalantly skim over the his support of hitler, "no, no. this guy was cool."

  • @ritheerithwando5895
    @ritheerithwando5895 8 лет назад

    Calvin said that it's really all about the torment of existence weighed against the horror of non-being. I humbly concur.

  • @The1FuckOffs
    @The1FuckOffs 9 лет назад +8

    Most incomprehensible German? You missed Hegel.

  • @viktorkhan8518
    @viktorkhan8518 3 года назад +1

    I'm astounded that you didn't mention any at all of Heidegger's hermeneutics.

  • @DrShaym
    @DrShaym 6 лет назад +14

    4:34, who peels a potatoe toward themselves?