The Meaning of Commitment: A Few Thoughts
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- 0:00 - Introducing commitment
0:30 - Commitment involves difficulty and pain
1:47 - Commitment involves being "half-sure, but whole-hearted"
3:58 - Commitment involves integrating our hearts and minds
5:40 - Commitment involves self-awareness
7:07 - Commitment involves authenticity
9:14 - The struggle to lay claim to our lives
11:52 - Consummating our existence itself
A new Dodson upload!
I was wondering if you might do a video on hauntology. Its something I've been trying to comprehend lately and I'm not sure I'm getting there. Either way, glad to get a new video.
Well, Adrian, hauntology sounds like a great suggestion. So, I'll probably do it. So, many thanks for the idea! Gratitude. Eric D.
I know I am kinda off topic but do anyone know of a good place to watch newly released series online ?
@Khari Colson Try flixzone. Just google for it =)
@Caden Tate yea, I have been watching on FlixZone for months myself =)
@Caden Tate Thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I really appreciate it!
This is why I have a passion and love for philosophy! It’s not just about the acquisition of knowledge...it’s about the acquisition of wisdom and it’s everyday application....you Sir are a sage! 👏🏻
Well, thanks, Ian. That's why I love it, too. And as a sometimes say in these videos, I sense that humanity's larger, more overarching struggle at this point in history has mostly to do with moving from a paradigm of addiction to one of wisdom. So, I personally feel like it's a good idea to aid in that process whenever possible. In any case, thanks as always for watching & listening. Gratitude. Eric D.
These videos feel like I'm listening to my own grandfather teach me about specifics of my own life experience. Thank you for making these, I will always be looking forward for the next!
Ha ha... yeah, it's a little odd how often my viewers see me as part of their families. I guess that that's a good thing, because what I think they're telling me is that they can really relate to what I'm saying... as if I'm speaking their native, familial language. So, thanks for telling me that. Eric D.
Yes, new video!
You're the only UA-camr I have notifications on for.
Ha ha... I'm a pretty big Addams Family fan, too. Anyhow, yeah, I'm honored by that. So thank-you. And of course, thanks for watching and listening, too. Gratitude. Eric D.
What an underated channel
Well, thanks, Hasan. But the truth is that I don't really make these videos for the many (unlike, for instance, the latest offering from Justin Bieber). Instead I make them mostly for the relatively few whose strange predilection it is to try to understand life. Anyhow, many thanks to *you* for watching & listening. Eric D.
Internet dad with the goods, thanks Eric.
Ha ha... I was just responding to someone who said that I remind him of his grandfather. Anyhow, you're welcome... and thanks for taking the time to watch and listen. Eric D. P.S. Cool ouroboros.
Dear Eric, your videos are very good. They guide my thoughts. Help me maneuver through my current existential crisis. I also learn a lot about philosophy psychology, and good books I should read.
Thank you
It's a shame that you're not more famous. You should be at least as famous as Jordan Peterson. You're much more sincere and authentic than him.
Also, your lectures are more intellectually rigorous.
Well, thanks, NickotBG. It makes me happy that you've managed to get so much out of these UA-cam videos, especially since that's why I make them in the first place. So it's very gratifying to hear that people such as yourself are benefiting from them. Anyhow, as far as existential crises go... there are actually far worse things in this world. And one of those worse things is *never* to have an existential crisis. Part of that's because over time, those sorts of harrowing moments tend to draw us toward life's greater wisdom. And the fact is that wisdom is rarely born in the steady glare of constant illumination. More commonly, it's born in our fugitive shadows... in our moments of difficulty and strife... the kinds of moments that throw us back upon ourselves, and challenge us to become deeper and better than we've been thus far. Hmm... as far as being famous goes... well, my faith is that exactly the right people will hear whatever I have to say, whether that's a lot of people, or very few. So, I'm content either way. But... thanks for the vote of confidence. Anyhow, strength and good fortune to you. And greetings from Georgia, USA. Eric D.
@@ericdodson2644 Dear Eric, thank you for your lovely reply. You are right, the right people will find your videos and existential crises do make us deeper thinkers, help us find ourselves and not lead robotic lives.
Good luck to you too.
You know what, I'm sure that you like reading fiction, I certainly do. I'd be interested in hearing about your favourite writers and books, maybe a review or two. If you happen to have read Michel Houellebecq and/or Kobo Abe I'd really like to hear your opinion on them from a philosophical and/or psychological perspective.
Greetings from Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (BG = Bulgaria, I've got family there and usually go on holiday there, in case you were wondering)
I've actually been to Georgia. Visited Savannah and Tybee island. Was beautiful, magnificent. Also there's this song "Rainy night in Georgia"
Anyhow, keep producing videos!
You look at commitment in much the same way as I look at discipline. It takes no discipline for me to go to the gym because I love to do it but it takes discipline to do the things I should do but don't enjoy.
Yeah... as a lifetime exerciser, I can definitely relate to that. And anyhow, once working-out becomes habitual for us, it happens as naturally and routinely as brushing our teeth does... just another part of a regular day. Anyhow, thanks as always for watching & listening. Eric D.
nice one thanks.
Thanks for pointing out the difference between a generous true commitment and one that is assigned, for self-gain. It's a slippery one!
Hi Proiectus Malus... yeah, there are many slippery gradients when it comes to understanding the place of commitment in our lives, as well as the reasons why we often struggle with it. But in my mind, the only thing worse than trying to understand all of that would be... *not* trying to understand all of that. Anyhow, it's always good to hear your figurative voice. Eric D.
The latter is much like virtue-signalling, in my view. Virtue-signalling is what hypocrites do and only hypocrites do it.
Hi Eric, as a fellow prof teaching comparative phil/lit in Taiwan, I plan on starting an English channel like yours, albeit with a more comparative focus on meditation etc. I enjoy your measured discussions. UA-cam needs a lot more of this, and there is an audience for it. Thanks for your time.
Thank you!
Much like balancing being sensuous and being Stoic in an individual. Truly, "too much of something is bad enough," the Spice Girls song states.
Thank you professor
Commitments are fine but they can definitely change as you get older and you look back and wonder what you were thinking. But good video. Thanks
Well, you're welcome. And yes, I'd say that the nature of our commitments *does* tend to change over time. But I'd also say that what we even think commitment is does, too (if we're lucky, that is). Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to watch & listen. Eric D.
“My girlfriend told me she wanted me to be more committed. ‘Don’t dare try it!’ I warned her, ‘I know my rights!’”
hope is blind
when hope is gone , all is lost
not knowing but hoping
moves us forward
And sometimes, when even hope abandons us, all there is... is waiting... not waiting for this or that, but just waiting... like a stone, while the indifferent currents of time circulate around us. Anyhow... thanks for listening and commenting. Eric D.
@@ericdodson2644 Could you do a video on hope ... perhaps hope reconsider. Maybe living without hope isn't that bad , having hope and searching for something consumes lot of energy cause we are constantly looking for something and we run a risk of blinding ourselves and not inhabiting the present moment fully . I don't think hope and hopelessness are different , maybe they are same , one feeds the other . From my own experience i found myself whenever feeling hopelessness I am running to something else for hope like some political philosophy or technology or some ideology and clinging to it desperately which is making me even more blind . Maybe all i have to do is feel the despair
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