This is one of the most impressive lectures I've seen on an intro to such daunting seminal thinkers as Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. it has shed much light on how I am to frame their philosophical views even after reading some of their works in the past. I am grateful to have found such a passionate, lively and likeable professor to make some of the most important ideas of man in the twentieth century understandable. A gem of philosophical insight and enjoyment. I'm smarter for it. And a great hour spent.
'What is the first thing people do when they become friends? What is the first thing, when romantic relationship starts? What people do? They feed the other person, right? You go out to dinner or something like that. Feeding someone is an important way of taking care of establishing a certain kind of relationship.' I never thought about that! Thanks!
I am not even planning to take this course but the lecturer is passionate when teaching in front. It makes me want to learn anything what he is teaching ☺
How are there no comments on this? This guy is amazing! His teaching style is inspiring. I like the part where he begins to touch on the Spanish Inquisition, and how it's a depressing topic, and he tries to channel his class from a bleak emotional reaction to his lecture into a more upbeat and positive reaction with his Monty Python spoof on the Spanish Inquisition. I wish I could take this class in 3-D.
Haven't had time. Just digesting what he has to say. Comments will follow. He does seem to be very articulate and and gets his ideas across. Considering the subject matter he's doing very well.
Easily two of the most interesting & seminal minds of the 19th & 20th Centuries. To understand their motives and thought is to understand modern man to a very large degree.
Very impressive tour de force. Having read and read about all three authors extensively ( in a dilettants fashion ... ) I was more than delighted to stumble on to this enlightening lecture. Lucky students you are at the university of texas in austin.
I could study... But then I could just drink coffee and watch your videos!!! This is like the cinema!! Thank you so much for being so entertaining and interesting. You have self smarted myself. You put the joy in learning.
I had an awful education. I dont like alot of teachers but I reaĺly like this guy. His got passion enthusiasm and he listens and he communicates so well.
Relativism is a self refuting philosophy. "There is no objective truth!.....except that there is no objective truth!" Give me a break. But nice work professor, you gave a good overview of a lot of material in a short amount of time. Good video.
For Philosophy, i find Prof. Bonevac as an excellent teacher for teaching us such difficult concepts in such an interesting way! Revisiting your lectures after a long time, Professor! Hearing the Philosophical and Psychological (Prof. Peterson) interpretations, has been a wonderfully enlightening journey. Only regret not taking these subjects in college.
Thankx alot all your lectures are amazingly well-explained . I used to have some difficulties understanding some modern philosophy but not any more. (:
Great lecture, thanks for sharing. When Nietzsche says that we should become gods ourselves to be worthy of the deed (of killing God), he's expressing the same concern as Dostoevsky - we are going to become narcessitic without an external anchor. Nietzsche cannot really be understood outside of the context of the Ubermensch concept; without a God to direct us we must steer ourselves to a state of perfection. We should bend the narcessism outward, and turn it into a form of species centric altruism, for the good of humanity. Religion taught us to be good humans, now it's time to move beyond that.
I love how you teach a subject that often becomes boring and disengaging after a certain period of time. You have a way of keeping it interesting. Great job, you are an awesome lecturer, I only wish myself and other people here in my country(Bosnia & Herzegovina) had one like you. We have a lot of smart, creative people here that never seem to achieve their full poteintial because of our faulty education system and our system in general. Your students are truly blessed and I only regret not finding these videos earlier. Keep up the good work! :)
You've a made a new fan tonight. Thank you for this. You tell both sides and understand both sides. I'd love to buy you a bottle of scotch and a book on your reading list. Thank you.
What we perceive and the way it is. What about lying? Meaning versus quality. A rock only has meaning to the mind, but it has quality aside from the mind.
Yes, it does open up Dostoevsky's ideas. It could be mentioned, but so could the Idiot or The Possessed. Perhaps he opted for Brother's Karamazov's text because this chapter entails this stuff quite directly.
Quiet an interesting and crucial subject for all of the human race, good presentation but pretty fast for me, I wish it was slower with more explanation. Thanks anyway for the upload and presentation
At the end when I hear the class moving around and packing up I was really annoyed by that. I know the time for the class is almost up but my professors at university would have told everyone who was packing up not to come to the next lecture. The lecture ends when the professor dismisses. That’s when you pack up.
Great Prof., makes it very interesting and fun to listen. Unfortunately, the one drinking (every few seconds) in the background as well as the noisy chairs are annoying. However, thanks for sharing.
N and D : both arguments are true because in society there are two orders: the world of the EVERY MAN and the world of the CONTEST. The Law creates the rules for every man, and the contest allows folks to be measured as they excel in their disciplines. People mix them up.
"There is no separation between appearances and things-in-themselves" I think means that Hegel thinks everything is a product of reality. Reality can't be separated from itself.
Nice lecture. Today with a colleague, I discussed Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Foucault wrt Wokeism. Is that why RUclips pushed this to me? And I read "Brothers Karamazov" one word at a time, one page at a time, over 33 years ago. Neitzsche's statement "there are no absolute truths" is as logical as "this statement is false." (Gödel)
As a student of life (ok...or philosophy), I love this presentation together with quotations and explanation. :D 1 question though. What technology/program/app was used in the presentation :D Thanks much.
I think people should pay attention to the fact that reality can in fact be misperceived. You may think that you are perceiving reality correctly, and that your perception is aligned with the truth, when the whole time you may have been completely misperceiving reality. There was a time when humanity believed that slavery was totally normal, and a natural part of life, that was a misperception. So although people perceived their world this way, the truth was always that slavery is immoral and wrong. Same thing applies to how I used to misperceive the reality of human treatment of animals. I used to think that it was totally normal to export animals, now I know better. Many different systems of belief will lead to misperceive reality
Great lecture, thank you for posting. Maybe a small difference, but I thought the Grand Inquisitor just said people just wanted bread and not free will, but it was maybe a self deception of the Grand Inquisitor (maybe just to rationalize having power.)
It is a myth that Dostoevsky was banned in Russia following the Revolution. Only two books of his were censored (The Possessed and Diary of a Writer). He still remained very popular and even stamps carried his image.
Is there any difference between the way we perceive that world and what it is? Forced perspective in stage craft is an example, but, once you know a thing is NOT one way but another you've made a Pragmatic judgement according to positive data.
9:30 Sneaky.... "What we perceive is the world" A categorical statement he uses as a "given". It would follow that since we all perceive a world differently, that we all exist in a different world. Our experience contradicts this belief.
Nietzsche's most important work here is On Truth and Lie in an Extra Moral Sense which prefigures essentially all of cognitive science by a century. I wrote Lakoff about this, but nobody listens to prisoners.
Hi ! Very interesting lecture and thank you for posting this on RUclips. Question here : When talking about Protagoras and how a man is the measure of all things, you give the example of how for some people the room is warm and cool for others. However, there is we can precisely measure the room's temperature cause by the moving of atoms, and that is true. So, wouldn't it be a truth that at a precise given moment the atoms are moving at a certain speed causing the room temperature to be X independently of all human perception ?
you forgot abt. the "double slit test" where atoms are concerned, if it is being "watched" it behaves differently, one could apply this "logic" to humans as well...we "perform" diff. when being "watched."
True, except the very concepts of warmth and coldness arise as a result of the interaction between humans and their environment. Perhaps the temperature can be measured in terms of the movement of atoms, but this does little to inform us on the warmth of the environment, which is subject to many different factors due to subjective, individual differences.
Should be studying for my physics and calculus exams next week, yet here I am.
You said it yourself, it's next week.
Yeah it’s relativity not relativism
Where do you think you are now?
This is one of the most impressive lectures I've seen on an intro to such daunting seminal thinkers as Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. it has shed much light on how I am to frame their philosophical views even after reading some of their works in the past. I am grateful to have found such a passionate, lively and likeable professor to make some of the most important ideas of man in the twentieth century understandable. A gem of philosophical insight and enjoyment. I'm smarter for it. And a great hour spent.
Call me!!
This is lecturing as it OUGHT TO BE!
'What is the first thing people do when they become friends?
What is the first thing, when romantic relationship starts?
What people do?
They feed the other person, right? You go out to dinner or something like that.
Feeding someone is an important way of taking care of establishing a certain kind of relationship.'
I never thought about that! Thanks!
I am not even planning to take this course but the lecturer is passionate when teaching in front. It makes me want to learn anything what he is teaching ☺
How are there no comments on this? This guy is amazing! His teaching style is inspiring. I like the part where he begins to touch on the Spanish Inquisition, and how it's a depressing topic, and he tries to channel his class from a bleak emotional reaction to his lecture into a more upbeat and positive reaction with his Monty Python spoof on the Spanish Inquisition. I wish I could take this class in 3-D.
Haven't had time. Just digesting what he has to say.
Comments will follow.
He does seem to be very articulate and and gets his ideas across. Considering the subject matter he's doing very well.
The camera going out of focus at 6:53 after he talks about perception is a neat little coincidence.
Excellent commentary which brings the complex philosophies to a much simpler level.
Easily two of the most interesting & seminal minds of the 19th & 20th Centuries. To understand their motives and thought is to understand modern man to a very large degree.
Very impressive tour de force. Having read and read about all three authors extensively ( in a dilettants fashion ... ) I was more than delighted to stumble on to this enlightening lecture. Lucky students you are at the university of texas in austin.
I could study... But then I could just drink coffee and watch your videos!!! This is like the cinema!! Thank you so much for being so entertaining and interesting. You have self smarted myself. You put the joy in learning.
Thank you for posting these lectures online. I really enjoy Beonevac's lecturing style, he's engaging and passionate.
I wish I was in this class. Fascinating lecture.
You do an amazing job of engaging your class.
This is a fantastic channel. An enthusiastic and enlightening lecturer who can bring together a love of literature, philosophy and the arts. Thank you
I had an awful education. I dont like alot of teachers but I reaĺly like this guy. His got passion enthusiasm and he listens and he communicates so well.
He reminds me of 'Kryten' from the UK series RedDwarf, vocally and some mannerisms. It made me smile all the more at this engaging lecture.
Good teaching, something to learn with him. Thanks!
What an engaging lecturer!
Relativism is a self refuting philosophy. "There is no objective truth!.....except that there is no objective truth!" Give me a break. But nice work professor, you gave a good overview of a lot of material in a short amount of time. Good video.
Fantastic lecture. Great professor. Thank you for sharing.
You are the best philosophy professor i have ever got !
Awesome. I'm reading TBK as part of a course right now, and would love to read some Nietzsche
Very insightful and fruitful comments by the lector. Thank you very much for the video!
A simple thank you is not enough, but thank you for shining the light into darkness.
That squeaky chair is driving me insane
For Philosophy, i find Prof. Bonevac as an excellent teacher for teaching us such difficult concepts in such an interesting way! Revisiting your lectures after a long time, Professor! Hearing the Philosophical and Psychological (Prof. Peterson) interpretations, has been a wonderfully enlightening journey. Only regret not taking these subjects in college.
Very interesting. Love Dostoevsky.
Very good lecture. The lecturer is fantastic and so engaging
A solid high level summary (and I did really enjoy this video / lecture / professor) but what it all means is really up for a lot of discussion.
Great lecture. Thank You for posting., Finding myself wishing I could sit in on what ever sort of class this is.
Great lecture! If only there more such teachers. Thank you very much
Great lecture, but Dostoevsky's books were not banned in the USSR. While the Soviets did censor out some stuff, he was celebrated in the Soviet Union.
I need a cigarette !
If he were only my philosophy prof. Great energy!
Thankx alot all your lectures are amazingly well-explained . I used to have some difficulties understanding some modern philosophy but not any more. (:
Good professor. Really nice class. Wish there were more professors as good in Brazil.
You, sir, are amazing. You are the philosophy teacher that I wanted but didn't get in my formative years. Better late than never though....
Such a great lecture, and an even greater lecturer! Passionate and incredibly entertaining. I giggled quite a bit.
What a great lecture!! I'm following from Brazil!
Why weren't my lecturers like this? Thoroughly enjoyable!
Really enjoying your lectures - thank you!
I really enjoyed this lecture. Thanks for sharing!
This is great , thank you Prof. Bonevac. Love and respect to you from India. 😊 😊
Good lecture. Hopefully kids and students will take information provided for virtue in such organized and pretty easy way to grasp.
Very beautiful work with this presentation. Well done 🤯
Your lectures are like being at the cinema
Free education and brilliant lecturers. ❤️
"By the way I once decided to grow a beard, and I looked like Satan." This lecture has been so stimulating and that sentence made me crack up so much.
i never learned a thing in school. I study all the time now that ive graduated, and learn so much!
Great lecture, thanks for sharing. When Nietzsche says that we should become gods ourselves to be worthy of the deed (of killing God), he's expressing the same concern as Dostoevsky - we are going to become narcessitic without an external anchor. Nietzsche cannot really be understood outside of the context of the Ubermensch concept; without a God to direct us we must steer ourselves to a state of perfection. We should bend the narcessism outward, and turn it into a form of species centric altruism, for the good of humanity. Religion taught us to be good humans, now it's time to move beyond that.
I love how you teach a subject that often becomes boring and disengaging after a certain period of time. You have a way of keeping it interesting. Great job, you are an awesome lecturer, I only wish myself and other people here in my country(Bosnia & Herzegovina) had one like you. We have a lot of smart, creative people here that never seem to achieve their full poteintial because of our faulty education system and our system in general. Your students are truly blessed and I only regret not finding these videos earlier. Keep up the good work! :)
Dude thanks to you for uploading your lectures
You've a made a new fan tonight. Thank you for this. You tell both sides and understand both sides.
I'd love to buy you a bottle of scotch and a book on your reading list. Thank you.
I made it 17 minutes in and paused it. I feel like I somehow suddenly pictured what the world could in a sense, actually look like.
What we perceive and the way it is. What about lying? Meaning versus quality. A rock only has meaning to the mind, but it has quality aside from the mind.
A lecturer who cares. It's such a rare thing.
an interesting lecture. Quite an amazing lecturer
This is just great, please keep it coming
Great job Professor Bonevac!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!!!
Fantastic lecture. I wonder if Crime and Punishment delves into these topic also
It absolutely does. If you liked this lecture, I really recommend it, you'll enjoy it.
Yes, it does open up Dostoevsky's ideas. It could be mentioned, but so could the Idiot or The Possessed. Perhaps he opted for Brother's Karamazov's text because this chapter entails this stuff quite directly.
love his passion
Quiet an interesting and crucial subject for all of the human race, good presentation but pretty fast for me, I wish it was slower with more explanation. Thanks anyway for the upload and presentation
Great lecture! Thanks a lot for the share =)
This was so enjoyable, thank you
At the end when I hear the class moving around and packing up I was really annoyed by that. I know the time for the class is almost up but my professors at university would have told everyone who was packing up not to come to the next lecture. The lecture ends when the professor dismisses. That’s when you pack up.
Great stuff, Daniel. I'd love to audit the class.
I wonder what happened when the camera cut out around 32:28. Just a copyright issue or was he about to tell a dirty joke?
Hobbes has an answer to the values of the social contract that is a paradox to Dostoyevsky. And so does Stoicism.
Greetings from the birthplace of philosophy, professor!
Great Prof., makes it very interesting and fun to listen. Unfortunately, the one drinking (every few seconds) in the background as well as the noisy chairs are annoying. However, thanks for sharing.
I would like to attend your class sir
Excellent professor.
Thanks for the upload.
N and D : both arguments are true because in society there are two orders: the world of the EVERY MAN and the world of the CONTEST. The Law creates the rules for every man, and the contest allows folks to be measured as they excel in their disciplines. People mix them up.
"There is no separation between appearances and things-in-themselves" I think means that Hegel thinks everything is a product of reality. Reality can't be separated from itself.
i miss in-person lectures so much. I don't even go to this school.
Nice lecture. Today with a colleague, I discussed Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Foucault wrt Wokeism. Is that why RUclips pushed this to me? And I read "Brothers Karamazov" one word at a time, one page at a time, over 33 years ago. Neitzsche's statement "there are no absolute truths" is as logical as "this statement is false." (Gödel)
As a student of life (ok...or philosophy), I love this presentation together with quotations and explanation. :D
1 question though. What technology/program/app was used in the presentation :D
Thanks much.
I think people should pay attention to the fact that reality can in fact be misperceived. You may think that you are perceiving reality correctly, and that your perception is aligned with the truth, when the whole time you may have been completely misperceiving reality. There was a time when humanity believed that slavery was totally normal, and a natural part of life, that was a misperception. So although people perceived their world this way, the truth was always that slavery is immoral and wrong. Same thing applies to how I used to misperceive the reality of human treatment of animals. I used to think that it was totally normal to export animals, now I know better. Many different systems of belief will lead to misperceive reality
Give peas a chance.
Thank You for posting...
Great lecture, thank you for posting. Maybe a small difference, but I thought the Grand Inquisitor just said people just wanted bread and not free will, but it was maybe a self deception of the Grand Inquisitor (maybe just to rationalize having power.)
excellent lecture!
Very hard to focus with that constant ringing noise in the background
It is a myth that Dostoevsky was banned in Russia following the Revolution. Only two books of his were censored (The Possessed and Diary of a Writer). He still remained very popular and even stamps carried his image.
is there a phone ringing in the background?
Very cogent presentation - good stuff
Is there any difference between the way we perceive that world and what it is? Forced perspective in stage craft is an example, but, once you know a thing is NOT one way but another you've made a Pragmatic judgement according to positive data.
This course must have been awesome!
9:30 Sneaky.... "What we perceive is the world" A categorical statement he uses as a "given". It would follow that since we all perceive a world differently, that we all exist in a different world. Our experience contradicts this belief.
Excellent lecture
a student squanked a clown horn at 4:28 and it scares me
Give us this day our Daily Bread.
Dan is the best!
why i never had a teacher like u 😌
Nietzsche's most important work here is On Truth and Lie in an Extra Moral Sense which prefigures essentially all of cognitive science by a century. I wrote Lakoff about this, but nobody listens to prisoners.
Hi ! Very interesting lecture and thank you for posting this on RUclips.
Question here : When talking about Protagoras and how a man is the measure of all things, you give the example of how for some people the room is warm and cool for others. However, there is we can precisely measure the room's temperature cause by the moving of atoms, and that is true. So, wouldn't it be a truth that at a precise given moment the atoms are moving at a certain speed causing the room temperature to be X independently of all human perception ?
you forgot abt. the "double slit test" where atoms are concerned, if it is being "watched" it behaves differently, one could apply this "logic" to humans as well...we "perform" diff. when being "watched."
True, except the very concepts of warmth and coldness arise as a result of the interaction between humans and their environment. Perhaps the temperature can be measured in terms of the movement of atoms, but this does little to inform us on the warmth of the environment, which is subject to many different factors due to subjective, individual differences.
Thanks for the share. Will you be doing this as a series?