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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Book #3 is An Inquiry Into The Good by Kitaro Nishida.
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If that book interested you, consider reading "Religion and Nothingness" by Keiji Nishitani. It delves into unifying zen and Christianity.
Have a copy of it I'll be reading
Just finished Paul Gottfried’s book on fascism.
You might be interested.
'The Sacred Science of Ancient Japan' by Avery Morrow would be right up ur alley..
'All Things Shining' by the heideggerian philosopher Hubert Dreyfus would make for a nice review.
You're an inspiration to start reading more actual books and less twitter, news and short thoughtless articles out there.
i encourage u to keep going, i did this several months ago, now i dont have fb or twitter accounts, i dont read or watch the news at all (it is meaningless and u dont need to know whats going on in this crazy world - u will know through friends and people around u and thats enough ) , i just watch educational vids on youtube and most of the day is dedicated to reading great books. the quality of ur thoughts will change dramatically .
Same here 💫✨🌟💫
Keith has ascended, he is no longer black turtleneck Keith......he is Keith the Grey.
The Gandalf of you tube.
And he comes back to us now, at the turn of the tide.
@Cock Atrice He is white, rather white as it should have been (not Anglo).
@Cock Atrice There shall no dawn for white men.
@@urbanitecrusher5709 Wormtongue?
@Cock Atrice Keith Wood is Gandalf, the subscribers are the dwarves that follow him.
This is like a free education Keith. Your a great man for so young, no limits to where you go. We need more of your type in Ireland to develop a highly advanced in philosophy analysis.
In the world*
Holy shit Keith did Nishida
based as fuck
Nishida definitely did come closer to Dionysius or Eckhart if we are to posit a Western doppelganger of sorts. Dionysius might've been the only western thinker that really abolished the self - Eckhart merely following in his footsteps.
and so, Keet-san calmly unsheathed his dual katanas of FACTS and LOGIC and with a single elegant slash, before one could say 'akshually', fedora-crowned structure of scientific materialism fell to pieces.. whereupon the samurai sheathed his katanas and slowly walked into sunset..
Thanks, Keith. I used to live in Japan, they love the Irish. Zen mind, Beginners mind by Shunryu Suzuki is an essential read.
I would highly recommend "Opening the Hand of Thought" by Kosho Uchiyama. It follows from the same lineage as Suzuki via Dogen, but is not a collection of discourses and less enigmatic.
@@cbysmith thanks for that. I attended a 10 day vipassana meditation course on my journey. I would highly recommend that. The documentary, Doing time Doing vipassana, is worth viewing, vipassana.org it's donation only, enjoy Japan, wherever you find it.............
It's been nice knowin' ya Japan.
Suicide deaths in Japan since the Pandemic began outnumber COVID deaths.
It is interesting how they are so conservative and traditional but still severely affected by modernity.
Like many countries, I feel like they've entered a Faustian pseudomorphosis as a result of the export of liberal values. All these "Hikikomori" and work-related stresses and suicides seem to stem from an attempt to emulate and outcompete the west.
NO!
@beigeltrash the only reason the suicide rate is higher in Japan is because of their honour based culture.
@@winstonwolf5706 most people in the west don't even understand the japanese (east asian in general) concept of honor having nothing to do with our meaning of this word. Hope you're not one of those yappies.
it is Good that we receive more content from Woods.. this is the end of my current inquiry..
People train for years to empty their minds, and mine has been empty all my life without even trying.
@@annadunne5899 I am the pill.
@Oppein Hours We can still be self aware about consciousness while also defending a place in the world for our tribe.. but knowing its part of the game is an advantage.
@Oppein Hours I seem to be a limited materialist, so I might lack the aforementioned eyes to actually see, but unity, something Nishida seems to take for a granted good in my interpretation of what Keet reviewed, may not be a good thing in a grander sense of scale. There is a possibility a much larger (metaphysical?) world beyond our mere observable Universe exists, and, as unrefined and silly as this nihilistic point of view is on average, we don't even know if we're a proliferating menace upon this larger world as some virus or entropy itself in our world would be. Even in our world unity is a limited tool which mostly manifests in altruism (I probably have completely missed the point by now) and brings unfortune to the user if misallocated, while, when used well, it improves one's group's survival. So either unity improves the proliferation of some part of humanity, which means humans eventually dominate and maybe even "leak out" of their confines, which we can't even say if it's a good thing, or just hampers their growth if they're pathologically altruistic. Either of the previous scenarios prevent unity from being a universal good. Speaking of the former scenario, if projected really, really far, assuming such possibility even exists, humanity has a chance to reach levels of power asimptotically mirroring that of God, granting it an ability to break out into the bigger unknown outside the material. Higher civilization is unreachable without many crucial mechanisms, of which altruism may very well be is one. And if unity is something more than that, a true state of being one with everything, we know of a possible state that resembles one - entropic equilibrium, which is definitely not a state you would want to be in, unless it's a "good" outside the Universe.
Thank goodness Occam's razor exists and lets me easily discard infinite labyrinthine metaphysical worlds beyond our Universe that my imagination might've wanted to come up with. There is a very simple physical, materialistic fact lets me sleep pretty well at night and makes me feel unusually uplifted about life at the same time: the Universe has many questions, none of which will be answered by us if we cease to exist and, for all we know, we might be the only ones here capable of even asking them.
😂 I like that, probably because I can relate.
@@simonjj7397 I'm thinking of starting up my own meditation group. Your mind is like your arsehole, every morning you must empty it of shit before you start your day.
You need to get to Gurdjieff, Keith (speaking of authentic syntheses of East and West, not to mind being reactionary and traditionalist to boot. Cosmology, theology, psychology and politics are all seamlessly united in his work).
My copy of In Search Of The Miraculous arrived yesterday!
@@KeithWoods Good, but better to go to the horse's mouth when you're done with it. Ouspensky was only with Gurdjieff for the first of three stages of his teaching and he even filtered and distorted some of that.
Fr. Joseph Azize also just put out a good book on him.
@@gearoidwalsh8606 have u read Gnosis trilogy by Mouravieff? he apparently claims that his presentation of the teaching is more authentic and complete than Ouspensky's..
My copy of In Search of the Miraculous has been sitting on the shelf for years.. might get to it yet!
@@mostlydead3261 I haven't read Mouravieff. I'll look him up. I've read some good secondary and tertiary sources.
Long story short, avoid the Bennetts & De Salmanns. Ouspensky for all his limits got most of what he saw correct.
But, you can't beat going to the primary source himself at the end of the day.
Amazing Review Looking forward to more review.
Wow! I got heart from Keith.
My recommendations will be:
In the Image and Likeness of God by Vladimir Lossky
I agree with Keith’s synopsis of nishida’s work but I would only add my own limited take on it as well. Although nishida does recognize his own reified projection of a deity, he fails to account for how this projection is a product of will. Therefore the move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into nishida’s thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power. And nishida, like neitzche, understands god to be a projection of the will to power.
The catch here is that most people have too many problems to be able to attain these states of awareness.
I've been to Buddhist monasteries, yoga classes, meditation retreats, I've read the Hindu and Buddhist scriptures and they all say similar things, only they gloss over the simple step 'what do I do right now?'.
'empty your mind'
'I can't '
'Ummm, try harder'
The secret at the heart of this stuff is that most people aren't getting there.
I've learnt this after concerted effort at meditation, I've done it at least twice a day for the last 23 years. It's so difficult to get to the state described that most people aren't going to manage it IMO. That's even given that they have the unbelievable good fortune to somehow stumble upon a legitimate method that at least gives them a chance, amongst the absolute sea of charlatantry and false gurus.
These states are real and attainable, but it's almost impossible. If you're an average westerner who still wants to get drunk and sleep around and all that kind of thing you aren't even in the race.
I practice a method called Sahaja yoga. It's the only thing I've come across that I've found to be practical in identifying and sorting out the problems which were stopped me entering into more profound states of awareness. I don't know how anyone manages otherwise.
Buddhism has tens of thousands of texts to its name across dozens of distinct traditions and among a range of genres (motivational scripture, philosophical treatises, instructional manuals, etc). I can sympathize with a general sense of being initially overwhelmed, but holy shit it's misleading as hell to imply that there aren't a metric ton of practical instructions in Buddhism.
There are many practice manuals across every major category of Buddhism that either start with, or otherwise explicitly include, what novices or those of inferior capacities should do. Virtually none of those, I repeat NONE, demand the novice "empty their minds" to start. Cut the bullshit out.
On the few occasions where I have tried meditation, the best results came when I focused on an itch. When you suddenly sit and stop, or go into a focused state, all of this other stuff about your body that you hadn't noticed before, suddenly rears and becomes distracting. But if I focus on a _particular_ sensation I often find my mind slowing down than if I attempt to focus on nothing. Our minds were meant for focusing on things, not for not focusing. It's easier for you to do something than to not do something. Be affirmative rather than negative. Think about what is good rather than what is bad, etc. I could draw this analogy out endlessly. This is one of the many reasons why I'm not drawn to Buddhism.
There is not nothingness only the unmanifest.
What is the difference if nothingness doesn't negate potential?
tl;dr Keith is a Zen Buddhist now
One would hope.
maybe he'll embrace Zen Islam.. like in Dune..
Zen Islam is an oxymoron.
@@acrxsls1766 u havent read Dune, looks like.. little grug..
I agree that good people are motivated by good. Fear is a psychological manipulation that can only be perpetuated as a cycle of abuse.
I can't imagine the synaptical overload somebody who chances upon this will experience if they go on to check out some of your overtly political videos.
i hope they have the ride of their life
Have you looked into peter Kingsley yet? This might lead you to the western perennial practice/philosophy you are looking for.
Around the 16 minute mark it sounds an awful lot like Christianity.
Same thought
Yes, this is good.
Fantastic video and series! Loved this one.
Heidegger, Hegel, Marx were all very important for modern Japanese philosophy..
Keet my big brained boi my brain feels like the Cronenberg movie "Scanners" after your vids.
Scanners any good? Watched Videodrome and Dead Ringers recently, his obsession with bodies really stands out.
@@thesnakecharmer2531 Yes Scanners is good but my favorite Cronenberg body horror movie will always be The Fly.
@@yehudafinkelstein7504 The Fly, the only movie where I've felt sorry for the Iew.
@Brian O'Blivion I think their is something more psychoanalytical going on in there.
Loving the refutation of materialism.
I was sold a line of that BS when I was little and it's the reason I went into chemistry rather than philosophy.
What's the best way to teach yourself philosophy, is a historical approach useful?
Sorry if it's a dumb question.
@Benghali In Platforms Thanks for the vindication, you're probably right.
It's just that I've always been interested in philosophy but don't know how to meaningfully tackle the subject beyond reading around the people and ideas that I feel an affinity for - it leaves gaps in my knowledge.
Oh well, the time is probably better spent focusing on physical and financial self-improvement.
@Benghali In Platforms Thanks, bro. I wish you well.
spending time in nature is better than studying philosophy, if you don't enjoy studying philosophy for it's own sake you're better off going for a hike than reading most of the time
@@jackvancekirkland Went to Brimham Rocks a few months ago, there were some staggering views from the top.
It is best to take a historical approach since that's really the only way you will get a sense of what is happening in more modern discussions. The time investment is the biggest obstacle but it's very rewarding to be able to understand and reflect on a conversation that's gone on for over two thousand years now. I can't say you'll actually come out of it any more enlightened than you went in but it does give you a much better sense of what's going on in intellectual discourse with all the different strains of thought that have been bouncing off each other all this time.
I think it will be useful to problematize the relationship between Nishida's thought with that of Mahayana Buddhism generally. The move from process and causality by lawlike successions to "emptiness" marks perhaps the most important development in Buddhist intellectual history, a development which originated in India and was exported to places like Japan. These early Indian masters are widely considered the gold standard on emptiness among virtually all Mahayana traditions.
In Japan's case however, the Japanese translations of these Indic texts are among the worst translations ever recovered in Buddhist studies, as a result the Japanese gradually developed their own divergent understandings of Buddhist doctrine largely informed by bad translation, pre-Buddhist folk ideas, and other cultural idiosyncrasies further exaggerating doctrinal mutations. Strangely enough, with scant exception, this phenomenon wasn't seriously acknowledged until the 20th century via the "Critical Buddhism" movement led by people like Hakamaya Noriaki.
Most notably, these doctrinal mutations include the core conception of emptiness. The innovation of emptiness developed by the Indian masters rejected a locus for reality entirely, embracing not a substantialist idealism but rather a radical kind of nominalism. In short, reality was understood to consist of only interdependent superloci with no underlying locus. The Japanese divergence flipped this entirely and introduced "emptiness" qua crypto-substantialism. In their conception, emptiness was the locus which subsumes and sources all superloci. Put another way, in the former model conventional designations are not negated and, beyond the emptiness of relative superloci, there was no ultimate reality (in other words, emptiness is also empty); while in the the latter model conventional designations are regularly negated and an actual ultimate reality is asserted. (No, this isn't a matter of the so called "three turnings of the wheel", which was a Korean doxography only interesting the Tibetans, the Indian masters ignored this entirely.)
As such, ideas that come out of this like "nothing as the basis for reality" or the crypto-vedanta assertions of "nonduality" and "all is one" are fundamentally rejected in all mainline Buddhist philosophical traditions which maintain fidelity to the Indian masters, who in turn were unequivocal that they were fleshing out the essence intention of Buddha Shakyamuni.
A final point on "nonduality", decades of shoddy scholarship have left a lasting confusion among modern people trying to make sense of Buddhism. One common issue is erroneously saddling Buddhism with nonduality. Buddhism does on occasion use precise language in sanskrit like "nondual", but it means something very distinct. However, from Madhyamaka to Vajrayana and Dzogchen, "nonduality" is rejected as a deviation. While nonduality refers to ontology, to oneness, to a sublimation of subject and object to an ontic unity, Buddhist nondualism is epistemic and refers to the subject/object being free from conceptual extremes like existing or nonexisting (in other words, Buddhism asserts a "non-dual duality" which doesn't negate external objects). Put another way, the key liberating wisdom gnosis of Buddhism is not an ultimate ontic oneness called "nothingness" or "emptiness", but rather the epistemic realization that there is nothing whatsoever to "be" or be a part of.
I feel like a dumbass listening to Keith. I understand what he's saying, I just don't understand what he's saying.... If you catch my drift.
Thanks Keith, loving the book review series
Are you going to revist any books you've previously mentioned on your channel? I think some of those would be really interesting for you to discuss.
His argument about the world not existing without consciousness is just George Berkeley’s idealism
Pantheistic concepts always fail to give a good meta ethical reasons why god is "love" or whatever. They fail to explain why god is love and not a trickster or Azathoth. If god is love then it has failed to impart this clearly in "pure experience". And the irony is that this god of love requires us to have egos and conceive of materialism to flourish beyond being mere animals (which would mean that intelligence is a mistake) Pure oneness does not lead to concepts that cure cancer or any science. The intelligibility of beings requires a subject object split as does language. Would not a god who sets the rules bypass such a perceptual problem?
Excellent work Keith. Loved it.
Keep up the great reviews. Real books beat “news” and social media always
I recommend Zen and Japanese culture by DT Suzuki. Very interesting primer on Zen.
I read that book, very good, I reccomend it too :)
Posted this comment on your first book review of the series, but I'll post it again just in case it catches your interest.
Not sure if you've already outlined your list of books for the entire year, or if any of them will be fiction, but one book that is very timely and directly relates to this video/Nihilism is the fiction master piece 'Infinite Jest' by the American author David Foster Wallace. It was written in the early to mid 1990s and is incredibly predictive of the times we are living in now, as it is a dystopic novel about capitalist/corporate America and the destruction it brings to all value and meaning in society.
Wallace was undoubtedly aware of Agenda 2030 (or as it was called Agenda 21 back in the 1990s) and the book is a brutally honest, terrifying, yet hilarious depiction of the technocracy we find ourselves in today. Ultimately it's a story about the destruction of the family, as it mainly follows a dysfunctional family of four and their place in the technocratic dystopia. It's one of the hardest English language books to read, and would certainly take more than a week as it's over 1000 pages, but it's perhaps the only fiction book I would recommend to any intellectual or anyone interested in the topic of nihilism as it relates to how we live right now. Good luck on your list, looking forward to the videos!
Woods has mentioned DFW several times, so I’m sure he’s aware of it. I wouldn’t suppose it to take him over a week to read it, last time I read LOTR I finished it in less time than that :)
Too many big words...not enough experience.
You should make a playlist for these book reviews.
Wonderful talk Keith. Another great Buddhist writer and teacher is the Zen monk and poet Thich Nhat Hanh. He also embraces Western Christianity saying meditation and following The Way (the Eightfold Path) leads to both the Pure Land of Buddha and the Kingdom of God.
Can we get a recommended reading list, please?
The eternal Turtnat (Turtleneck Nationalism)
Thanks for taking the time to make this video - you're really good at summarizing philophical concepts without getting overly technical/analytic or dumbing it down. A++ content right here
Zero divide Zero equals One
yo keith how about give islam and its doctrine of tawhid a read.
Excellent overview of a great book
Great video. You should check out Alain On Happiness. I have a degree in Philosophy and of all the readings I did in college this one book stood out as a unique perspective. Alain (Emile Chartier) is worth a read. Unfortunately, that book is hard to come by and expensive.
You should do a review on Francis bacons new Atlantis
Would you care to interview Bernardo Kastrup on objective idealism? I think it would make for a fantastic conversation.
I'm new to eastern philosophy, how can something come from nothing ? I'm also new to this channel, but I'm Keen to learn, is consciousness maybe in harmony with the unconscious Through a spiritual means ? 👍🏻💪✝️
Something can't come from nothing unless nothing was filled by something. So something can only come from something. There's my little philosophy wank for the day.
@@mr.coolmug3181 Wisdom spoken 🙏
It’s hard for Newtonian thinkers to imagine something coming from nothing.
But in terms of how humans interact with the world it is true I think. The unworried, non-desirous and blank mind is more creative. Blank canvas and untamed land have far more varied potential than a nearly finished painting or a continent patchworked by farms and roads and cities.
Space that is already claimed has much more predetermined uses. Freeing up your mind, thankfully, a easier than freeing up the land, and blank canvas or paper is yet still easier to come by than free land.
Zenmaster Keef
His concept of a movement towards the absolute reminds me of Teilhard de chardans movement towards the omega point. I believe the letters work in the phenomena of man was also early 20th century
Zen is the perfect way of life for a red pilled white man tiger rider in the self hating Kali Yuga. Meditate, read, lift weights and walk stoically with "mushin" in your mind amongst the ruins..
Stoicism is the gayest thing ever
I think Zen can be fairly knocked for its obscurantism, both in theory and praxis. I've come to the conclusion that Dzogchen lacks this fault, is even more sudden, and manages to solve some of the core pragmatic issues Zen thought unsolvable.
I'd say the Western Tradition is very much acquainted with ideas familiar to the Eastern conception of Nothingness (Dao, Nirguna-Brahman, etc). The most profound formulation of it is, to my mind, the (Neo-)Platonic conception of the One/the Good, which is beyond Being ("hyper-ousia") and the ineffable source of the possibility of Being itself and the unlimited multiplicity of Beings. All our apophatic theology ultimately builds on that. The parts about Love as the path to God and the primacy of virtue and ethics also reminded me very much of Plato (virtuous life as "homoiosis theo", "becoming alike to God").
read 'Karl Marx and Human Self Creation': "But there have also been a wide variety of mystical religious standpoints, most of them heretically clashing with the established outlook, for whom, while a divine power was involved in creating a world, the result remained incomplete. To finish it, human activity had to collaborate with the divine. Such ideas give human beings a starring role, and this makes a big difference to the relation between nature and humanity. Nature is seen as an active unity, in which human purposive activity plays a part. In this category, we shall mention Jewish Cabbalists, Islamic Sufis and some Christian heretics, entwined with Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism and Hermetism. For such thinkers, divine creation of the world was self-creation, God making Himself through Nature and through us.
And that will bring us to Hegel. Describing his own kind of ‘speculative philosophy’ as mysticism, Hegel drew on the work of that long line of mystics. After Aristotle, he seems to have been one of the few philosophers, as opposed to straight theologians, to look at the problem of human and divine creative process, and, through his concept of Spirit, explicitly to bring them together. Only after examining his relation to the heretics will it be possible for us to return to Marx and his critique of Hegel. Then we shall see that, grasping humanity as self-creating, Marx is opposed to every attempt to consider humanity and its destiny from inside a closed or complete intellectual system. He never forgets that he is a human being talking about human beings. That is why ‘Marxism’, which found this quite distasteful, was so hostile to the real ideas of Marx... I want to show that Hegel, followed by Feuerbach and Marx, had to re-connect with those older, ‘heretical’ traditions to do their work, re-discovering them and giving them a modern form. This entailed breaking through the barrier of the Enlightenment and its successors, like, for instance, nineteenth-century positivists. Only then can freedom and self-creation be brought to light in the conditions of modern life."
I may be in the minority, but if you did a book review every day I would be quite happy
Now how is my nigga going to read one book per day?
@@ofthecaribbean read faster
@@ofthecaribbean play less vidya and watch less netflix.. less arguing on social networks via ur phone.. this is known to do miracles..
This is a beautiful video
God created male and female for a reason. It is not good for a man to be alone.
An idiot once said.....
Most of da times i jst sits thr=0
But sometimes i thinks=1
I am at odds with what i see upon looking back=2..
To accept 1s reflection is to pass back through the cave0 as1..
That which rejects the one is subject to the other in cycle.. ying vs yang..2..
Humans r scared of thr shadow.. animals dont give a fk.. gods
It is our ability to shift0 through the animals/gods that makes us the greatest hunters
I hereby give this oral book report an A+++.
It’s so weird to listen to this and then see all of the shitposting in the comments. But RUclips comments are RUclips comments, no matter where you go.
If God is One, Without Quality, Undifferentiated, All-Pervading, then what is God as Many, With Quality, Differentiated, Particular? It is the same Brahman, different from the relative individual (Jiva) only in its intensity and closeness to the Self, therefore worthy of worship.
There could be some other comments made on this from the Advaitic point of view, as some things are lacking due to a lack of understanding about how the basic faculties of the human being work (functions of Manas, Buddhi, the senses, Ahamkara, etc.), but otherwise in the greater picture sense, it is very welcomed and correct. Needs a little more refinement.
Sorry for offtop but can you tell the name for an ending music that you used to have? In a video about attack in France for example.
As always great video, thanks!
I’ll redouble my reccomendation of Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper.
Awesome. Excellent book review Keith. God bless. Donegal Ireland.
To anyone on here and even Keith, for fiction reading then Mishima's Sea Of Fertility tetralogy is amazing.
I think youd really appreciate Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves To Death". Do look it up if you can.
I recommend the writings and conversations of Ramana Maharshi. I recall you mentioned him before. I've never been more inclined to think a living man actually attained enlightenment. It's important for young men in this sphere to realize that their mind games are useless. This whole thing has been a fucking fever dream.
I wonder if you're familiar with Leibniz's counter to Locke's materialism in New Essays on Human Understanding: Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu, nisi intellectu ipse- Nothing is in the intellect that wasn't first in the senses, except the intellect itself.
Did you read Jacob boehme? I think it would be a great author to bring on the channel.
Do you know if there is somewhere that I can find a pdf of this book?
Z-library
Based Keith going to appeal to the Pewds with these weeb philosophy book reviews
God didn't create you all to be hated, rejected and alone.
Sounds very similar to Christian Platonism
This is a very interesting topic to me. Do you have a reading list?
Love your shirt golden boi
Great vid. Thanks.
Check out Bernardo Kastrup!
Zzzzz. Idealism is even dumber than realism, if only because it imagines itself more profound. In reality they amount to one and the same, misunderstandings of the deep logic of language.
Inspiring ohilosophy provides a pretty solid grasp on idealism and its not as easily dismissed as most believe. Although it has shortcomings but then again dualism has the issue of interaction.
Did your twitter get suspended?
no, just a break
Just taking a break
Keet takes a drink of his favorite whisky Bushmills every time someone asks him about his Twitter when he drops a vid.
@@KeithWoods oh alright then
Mr Woods have you seen 'Possessor' yet?
You should check out the reading recommendations by Theoria Apophasis here on RUclips where he's put out several recommended reading videos. He pretty much slates all modern philosophy, and recommends mostly old philosophy and metaphysics. I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on his recommendations.
Are you a woman?
good, good
Keep 'em coming.
This question might be blindingly ignorant since I’ve not read Nishida, but how might his work apply to ideas of constructed realities made up of representations (think simulacra and simulation). Does the elimination of the subject-object distinction make these representative realities just as real as the “base” reality?
Yes and no. The world is relatively unreal and absolutely real.
@@themysteriousstranger9605 thank you. So how should we deal with these abstractions, these media-curated realities? Should we embrace them or seek the underlying reality?
@@neonpeon2801 There is nothing to seek and there is nothing to not seek either. Both are a volitional movement away from what is. Volition is also a reification, objectivised after the fact, so also unreal relatively but real absolutely. So there is nothing 'you' can do, our very being is itself the dualistic movement that creates worlds. Therefore boundaries and distinctions are the very life of the all that is. This is why I came to Nationalism through zen.
I'd recommend reading the discourse between Arjuna and Lord Krishna in the Bhagavadgita.
@@themysteriousstranger9605 According to all that it sounds as if there is nowhere to go, no roadblocks to get through, nothing to achieve, nothing to overcome. No great struggle, all is one; is that right?
Turtleneck gang.
try the Anabasis by Xenophon!
ever noticed how 'Anabasis' sounds like 'anal basis' lol..
@@mostlydead3261 lmao 😆
Does our brain come from consciousness or does consciousness come from our brain? We will never know.
They arise simultaneously. There is no distinction just objective labels, which is the known and we cannot know it because we are it.
Well given that we cannot confirm the existence of anything beyond what our consciousness can grasp, it seems reasonable to say that consciousness is the fundamental substance rather than matter or both.
@@shunoinori I am sure it is a reasonable assumption but that doesn't necessarily mean it is certain and many would agree I am guessing.
@Greg Goulet
Yeah but he is a smart guy, who knows what he will think or feel tomorrow or in ten years. The whole question really fascinates me as I guess a lot of people. Some devote their whole lives to it.
Negation Japanese nothingness - cancel culture?
Any other nationalists bored of all this rarefied philosophy? What relevance do Zen, Daoism, non-dualism etc. really have to saving Europe?
Our movement requires, above all else, action, racial feeling and heroic courage, not endless contemplation of arcane topics that bear no relation aesthetically or culturally to us.
I'm not going to make every video about demographics. Just don't watch it if you're not interested.
@@KeithWoods As a Patriotic Alternative member myself, I suggest you ditch the reading and get more heavily involved in National Party activism. We need ACTION!
@@KeithWoods More women in wheat fields and shots of Bavarian castles is the solution!
Most nationalist youtubers talk about demographics and current events, this channel covers philosophy mostly. People each have their distinct part to play, Keith is playing his. Keith do more videos on the Irish wars though and uprisings you'd be good to learn from on those subjects.
There's nothing left but to ride the tiger and safeguard the seeds for the inevitable Spring.
Keith do a video on the troubles, Easter uprising and the Irishwar of independence
It sounds like he's philosophically affirming the basis of the Christian religion: God is love and our relationships are dependent on an understanding of God. God is both transcendent and imminent.
Whoa, it's like all in your head dude, even your head is just in your head!
Does this "philosophy" sound like the ramblings of someone too high to get the talking stick?
"The more you know
the less you understand"
Lao Tzu
Rene Guenon seems to view any sort of pantheism as a dangerous deviation.
Lame