Soren Kierkegaard, The Present Age | The Process of Leveling | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Søren Kierkegaard's essay "The Present Age", found in his book, The Two Ages. It discusses what Kierkegaard calls the process of "leveling", which is a form envy takes in the present age. Although leveling can occur partially through the actions of particular and concrete groups and individuals, it is an abstract process that occurs through reflection, and an equally abstract public and press.
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nowadays social media are the most powerful tool of leveling. Great lecture, Dr. Sadler!
Tommy Lin Thanks!
Good video. Captures the spirit of Kierkegaard's attempt to express people's synecdochic relationship to broader society very well.
Thank you for all you do I really appreciate your videos especially on Soren!
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Thanks very much
Thank you so much for these great existentialism lectures! Saving my philosophy grade :')
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Thank you. I will be reading this essay.
You're very welcome
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I think the stoics would say we can't fix these people so we should be indifferent towards them. Hegel would say they are cleverer than any thought. But Kierkegaard and Nietzsche theorize and try to conceptualize non-essentially even if they are polemic against it. Do you you have a take on why philosophy took on this topic after so many centuries of ignoring it?
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche think something has changed in modernity.
Prof, would Keirkegard consider either of the following 2 tactics with any potential in the face of leveling OR impotent, irregardless?
1) Civil disobedience, in full recognition that suffering the penalty for disobeying laws you consider unjust as necessary in exposing its absurd brutality to the "public"? (can't keep the idealism cake if ya eat it; yup, perhaps my age ≥ 30s)
OR,
2) Bartleby's , "I'd prefer not to? (If no, is it due to out of sight/(site) out of mind, with the "public"?
Lastly, is the abstracting operation of ”leveling” something Keirkegard could relate to the mechanics of commodity fetishism?
If I may addendum please; is there anything of either concept about the "Other" (Lacan via Zizek) or the "Spectacal" (Situationists) that was likely developed from the concept of Leveling ?
mickey pang why would either of those counteract the process of leveling?
@@GregoryBSadler , I appreciate you addressing my question , suppose I took the concept of leveling as a socially engineered tactic ( and only as) rather than a unique entity ( that now seems) inherent to how we engage and relate with each other as a group. Car analog ; I was considering what could challenge (in HP) the specific dodge v8 when you were explaining the physical process of fuel injection that made the current car engine possible? I thank you for the consideration and for your very accessible lectures. *Humble request here for a topic on the "wish (dialectical) image", especially past examples*
@@mickeypang It's neither a tactic nor an entity. You'll want to go back to the text and stick closely with it
By the most irresponsible way individuals may seek equality with their public is what razes them. So being impatient must only agitate the common ground, rather than maintain it, the responsible people would and do exist for their own good to be.
Not sure what you're saying here
Gregory B. Sadler it’s just that’s because the individual with jealous and envious motives will not act as any responsible person would since they are actively leveling other people and not tending to their own self, they destroy, or try to atleast, others and disregard their own self, which also destroys them. But the honest ones are not ignorant to others, or the public, so much as they have integrity in their motivations.
levelling = progressivism, they call it first equality, then equity, then of course the camps for those who don't want to be levelled
Yep. And conservatives do lots of leveling too