Full Lecture: Man is an Animal In Need Of A Master (Žižek on Kant)
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Probably the best representation, of this kind of freedom, can be found in the video game 'Final Fantasy X'.
There the whole dimension of freedom, in all its beauty and horror, is brought before the eyes of the viewer.
You have to go on, because you can't do otherwise. And the most painful thing about it is that you can't explain why.
In case anyone is curious, this is the scene: ruclips.net/video/mQskogtH678/видео.html
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Isnt that a fortune cookies proverb?
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I couldn’t catch the Sizek overlay on Kant - either/or would have worked for me.
"you acted freely because you had no choice" - makes me think of all the freedom fighters of the world, not least the free fighters of Palestine.
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25:10 master Nd slave
26:00 why we mKe master who we are secretly masters of
Might be a dumb question but here it is; man calling the ambulance has some kind of a parallel with the mother grabbing her kids to avoid avalanche. Yet, the husband’s own reaction is an authentic free choice as man calling the ambulance. So what type of a choice is mother’s? Less/more free than the husband’s?
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Are you a professor?
What is your study background?
Never mind, I asked this question before watching the video xD
We want to fill the lack of the other. It's the castration of the other what is really returned as traumatic.
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That fast forward past the boring intros
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is your relative joe rogan?
“I acted freely because I had no choice.”
This just seems like philosophical sophistry. Why not just say, instead, “I acted as I did because I had no choice.”?
i think it's about the difference if you do something you don't have to, like helping the guy who fell on the street, and you do something because someone points a gun at you. afterwards both say they couldn't act otherwise, the first because of who he is, and the latter because of the gun. i acted freely on who i am and i acted with no choice (besides death).
It’s not an absence of choice, it is treating it as if there were no choice. The example he’s used before is helping someone having a seizure or collapsing in the street and you run over to help and later getting interviewed by the news (as you might have seen) and being asked “why did you not just walk away? Why did you stay and help?” and responding “I had to. I had no choice.” You did have a choice but you acted as if you didn’t. “Acting as you did” doesn’t imply “freedom” which is the realization of necessity, not a lack of choice.
Think about this way, when you fall is love it is never out of your conscious choice. It just happens to you. So when you fall in love and are loved in return, you feel great, you feel more free and in tune with yourself than when you are shopping for groceries, which is more of a conscious choice than falling in love. You feel most free when you are free to follow those desires that your subjectivity forces you to follow, those desires that you did not choose freely but that make you feel alive. That is what we experience as freedom. In Sartre's words: "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you"
The idea that you have "free" choice is a religious concept, that have been assaulted by a lot of philosophers. In this case, you don't have choice as you understand it. (Doing what you will as you want). The key word is free-will. Which they assume you do not have. As I understand it, IF we live in a determined world(no free-will) i.e if the world and human obey to the rule of causality and so on. Then real freedom isnt the absence of constraints and the enhancement of your ability do to as you wish(as the anglo-saxon philosophers love to conceptualise it). They say that freedom is autonomous actions(think Kant). They mean that you are free when your action correspond to your "rational" moral maxims which are in essence action that are drived by your own imposed necessity. Otherwise you are acting heteronomously(thus like an automaton or a beast)
Edit : im french.
Man is an animal that can be educated, provided he does not fall into the hands of progressive pedagogues.😴