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"Heed these words, you who wish to probe the depths of Nature: If you do not find within your Self that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the Treasure of Treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods." --Oracle of Delphi
So that's where Yoda got all his best lines. (always wondered about that.) Nah. Kidding. I think the idea of *Knowing Thyself (in that context) tends to imply that the *House is complete and not a Work perpetually being constructed, (or in the Process of Construction.) You can also *think you know yourself and ultimately be The greatest stranger to it. (such is the nature of self-delusion.) Personally, I think that If Self is a House and the *I is the Architect or Carpenter.. neither are ever really complete and remain perpetual work in Progress. (or possibly destruction I suppose. depending on the work or neglect one puts into it.) Love the Classics though. They have a nice, Classicist ring to the that always screams Mystical. (I miss those days.)
I enjoyed very much your presentation. It was brilliant, clear, precise, compact and substancial. A bit fast for me, an Spanish speaking old man. This forced me to stop from time to time, which is an advantage since I could assimilate Sartre's ideas and reasoning. I was lucky enough to meet Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir on a kibbutz in Israel during their visit and my visit to the Middle East in the mid-1960s. I was invited to participate to a meeting around 7-9 people with them. They were interested in the communal life of the kibbutz, the possibility of war with Egypt and Syria (we were in the Upper Galilee, 500 meters from the border).
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There were three angels that were afraid of God. One ran and came back in hope. One ran and froze in fear of God. The last Angel is still running. God embraced the first Angel, went out and found the second who hid, and is waiting for the third who was cast away and wont return. The world is simple. Shockingly simple, just like the Germans were shockingly good hosts for the French people. Shocking is only shocking for people who don't know the truth
Im just now realizing that every philosopher was a creative writer, and vice versa. Meaning is DIY, but many are not capable of figuring it out for themselves.
@@indigo22284 literature also grates us with the harsh reality of life, depending on the scribe. Moreover, the phrase "harsh reality of life" is a subjective one.
I think a philosopher can be measured by his influence. Sartre’s existentialism was influential in literature in this part of the world, for example Kobo Abe, Kenzaburo Oe, Takeshi Kaiko and more. I appreciate the length of this video and I was so moved by the concluding remarks.
Thank you! Sartre as a public intellectual wanted to be an every person's man. Proust wanted to be an artist so he wanted to create a work of art that stood the test of time. Both succeeded in their mission.
In this world, it is not popularity but truths that, in the end, matter. Influence? Many sadly influential things are promoted and end up of little consequence. But it is true, men like Hobbes and his Social Contract reverberates even today.
"Pretending you don't know is self-deception for the sake of self-preservation." I feel like we try to use this adage to our advantage as to gain favor from an act that doesn't deserve recognition.
It’s amazing to me that Sartre and some of his contemporaries, can see human life as pointless and devoid of meaning, then rationalize that fact as a motivation for self actualization.
Bloody good job on piecing together and portraying Sartre's life and ideas, really thorough and interesting. I thought the remark about knowing Sartre like an uncle made me laugh aloud and after listening to this I can appreciate that statement.
This is a brilliant exposition, and the artwork that enhances the narrative is breathtakingly well-chosen. I especially enjoyed the painting where the little girl is entranced by the magical wonder of the goldfish swimming in a bowl whilst the adults gaze at each other, and the baby, each adult with a preoccupation of some kind. Is it possible to access a list of the artwork?
Very well done. I was riveted to your narrative as I cleaned house and made dinner, all the while reconciling my own experiences and beliefs with Sartre and Existentialism in general, finally realizing that I am far more of an essentialist...and that I should read more Proust. Thanks for sharing. Really good work.
Definitely, meaning is best explored through literature and art, as may be explored by literature, music, paintings. Although philosophy, histories, religious divisions, science are always imperative for interpretation. I also ask myself, may God exist outside the creation of the universe ? ✨️Some intellectuals have been discussing these ideas for some time. I love your channel. It's absolutely one of my favorites. Proust, "In Time Lost," is also one of my favorite novels. The journey of reading books 📚
This screen has absolutely no limits it can display or render anything that you can imagine and even more. Right now it happens to be rendering and displaying what's right here. What we can do though is imagine that to this screen runs a giant wire and this wire hooks up to this giant mixing board with hundreds of knobs and each one of these knobs can be tuned and adjusted fine-tuned to change what is being displayed. It's like if you twist this knob here the colors will become more vivid, you twist this knob here the colors will dim, you twist this knob here the sounds will go wonky, they'll become louder or softer, you twist this knob here and you'll feel emotion you'll feel love or anger or hatred or jealousy or sadness, you twist this knob over here and your body morphs, your hand will morph into a tentacle, you twist a little bit more it turns into a claw, you twist a little bit more it turns into a wing, you twist a little more turns into something else and you can twist all of these and all of these knobs control everything that's being rendered and displayed on this screen called consciousness. Imagine I twist a knob of consciousness and if I twist this knob you won't be able to tell the difference between people and animals anymore and inanimate objects, there will be no difference between a table your mother and a dog if I twist this knob. Imagine other knob that I can twist, if I twist this knob time stops. Imagine that I twist a knob and you stop being human and you turn into a beer bottle. I twist the knob again and you turn into a pinecone. I twist the knob again you turn into a kangaroo. I twist the knob some more and you turn into the entire human race. Not a single person, the entire human race. I twist the knob some more you turn into the planet the entire planet. I twist the knob some more and you turn into the colour red you're not a living being anymore you're the colour red. Sounds trippy. Sounds impossible right and yet there is such a knob and many many other knobs. There are so many knobs that do so many freaky things.
@@bullfighterrecords If you are lying in bed sound asleep, you can dream up a hallucinated alien chasing your hallucinated body while you fight it off with a hallucinated machine gun which can puncture its hallucinated skin resulting it a hallucinated victory and even a hallucinated feeling of joy. So in a dream - precisely BECAUSE everything is a hallucination - a hallucinated weapon is very useful. Without it, you might get eaten alive! Now, what if what you call “reality” works just like that? If you’re like the typical person, you hold hallucination as a category of experience which is separate from ordinary “real” experience. To you, hallucinations are clearly unreal and inferior to real perceptions. But now I want you to consider the radical possibility that everything is a hallucination! Consider that there are not two categories of experience, one “real” and one “hallucinatory”, but only one category: hallucination. You might wonder, Why call this one category hallucination instead of perception?” Because hallucination is closer to the fact. Hallucination is defined as perception without an object. Which is EXACTLY what we’ve got! Perception = hallucination! There is nothing else behind it! There is no physical, external world behind your everyday perceptions. Which literally means that what you think of as solid, tangible, physical, material reality is just a hallucination, albeit a rather persistent one - one which is shared by most of the people in your tribe. That is, until you start to play around with altered states of consciousness or psychedelics. Then you quickly realize how intangible, unreal, and hallucinatory your everyday experience was all along. This is exactly why psychedelics are so effective. And also exactly why they are so demonized by mainstream culture.
This is why I put a lid on philosophy and threw it into the sea... after many years of studying, and philosophising. Like an apparition philosophy has no lower extremity, there's a torso and there's the ground and nothing in between, it is spectral, hence its enemy is existence. Since it has no body it wants to possess a body to take revenge on it by ensnaring it inside a vial of rumination and soreness. It is insane for it has no body while the body is its prime concern. Of course it will never admit that it was summoned to ease the maddening burden of envy of God in heaven.
You need to read Ward number 6 by Anton Chekhov. You might find similarities with yourself or guidance how to get out of your ill self. Sorry for been rude to you
Great video. As for Sartre the philosopher: he encouraged Soviet/Maoist styled political militantism in France 20 years after Orwell published 1984 and laid bare the road followed by dictatorial collectivism. Orwell was the visionary, Sartre was the equivalent of a holocaust denier.
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" IF one decides to be free of yes material idealistic views, Then the Bohemian of journeys lives as to pursue the next page of wonderment ". Wonderchek ///.
Although I disliked his more violent leanings and choices in his own life, I find a lot of value in his works. After all we cannot judge a person by one or two actions alone, but ought to consider the totality of his pursuits.
Thanks for the video. You’ve become my go to site for philosophy. Have we surpassed collective meaning? Or is the self determined individual meaning Sartre sought amplified by social media? I have a teenager, who’s trying to define themselves by finding like minded friends. Outside of playing video games online, they’re finding it hard to meet in person. When they are together many stay on their phone and they interactions center around what they’ve posted to social media. Perhaps the phone holds the collective meaning they all seek while trying to appear as an individual at the same time?
Newton didn’t want “gravity” ascribed to him. And he states that it is “so great an absurdity that I beleive no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.” Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley (1692) “Tis unconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate upon & affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential & inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe {innate} gravity to me. That gravity should be innate inherent & {essential} to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else by & through which their action or force {may} be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity that I beleive no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent {acting} consta{ntl}y according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I have left to the consideration of my readers.” - Author: Isaac Newton For Mr Bently at the Palace in Worcester A 4th Lett. from Mr Newton Source: 189.R.4.47, ff. 7-8, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK Published online: October 2007
‘Existence precedes essence’ makes no sense if the essence we give to existence is limited by the nature of existence itself. You can’t separate an bio/psychic organism from the environment that spawned it…they exist inseparably as one process like a wave manifests the ocean. What a thing IS, it must BE. A man can’t be a woman or vice versa no matter who you may choose yourself to be.
Thank you for this excellent video! As to human's propensity to judge others, my great - grandfather used to say : "All of life is opinion, and opinions are like a certain part of the anatomy; we've all got one, they're full of the same material and we don't need to go showing them off in public."
If there is no higher meaning in life, what does it matter if I live an authentic life or not? I guess Kierkegaard would say that making authentic choices is the only way to truly exist in the world, but he seems to have believed we are obliged to god. To Sartre, who cares whether one "truly exists" or not?
One of existentialism's core contentions is that potentiality is utmost from a state of nothingness from which all being erupts. However, even that thought Iis derived from language handed down to a thinker from previous generations. Descartes said, I think therefore I am." Apriori: those that are not don't ask the question if they exist. Similarly, a situation of non-existance doesn't have persons and their questions as a result of human existence. Yes?
@@sophiafakevirus bollocks. The person who claims to know the mind of God/Gods, are the OBVIOUS liar. Well... It's obvious to those who are capable of critical thinking. Religion was invented, when the first fool met the first conman.
Really nice piece of work. Much respect and gratitude. I would have liked names attatched to the visual art though. Who did those pictures of little grotesques playing silly buggers with dressed up owls and cats and wot-not ?
I had read HUIT CLOS after high school many years ago but was really informed by your video. Was he not a heroin addict ? I did not think of him as a great man before and less now. I preferred Camus and his life course. Thank you for the education.
Existentialism versus essence is struggle of order versus freedom. As per Essentialism we are valuable because we have an Essence, without such essence or big soul we are animal and unhappy. Existentialism holds there is no such essence. We are all born into nothing. We build our meaning along the way. Essence is fiction. Man is born with choice, without choice all have one predictable destiny. How and where did man earn that ability to chose? Are we happy or sad at birth? We are free or able to chose owing to a faculty of memory, this memory helps guaranteed survival and expands our possibilities of fulfillment. A child is free not a replica of his parent, his happiness is born with him, he will use his independence to be as happy as his mother or even far more happier than his mother/community.
We born with emty hand arive hier and when we death we go back with emthy hand nothing to whole so Satre make meaning but actual daeth make empty agein. When we thinking of Im this is my idea my hause this I make meaning but is fragile actual like Buda exspose ther is not eny person hier not iven Im therfore Satre never take atain primary point
He asked for a priest on his deathbed to give him the last rites, wasn’t keen on being non-existent. Beethoven’s 9th with an ear-splitting final cacophony.
Excellent analysis. Really appreciated the more personal reflections, both on Proust and throughout the summary. Thank you so much. Of course, my own comments are a perfect expression of Bad Faith, but, unlike Sartre, I embrace this bad faith as I see myself as an integral part of a social structure 😂 and not at all free to behave as I wish because I believe in moral actions and this belief is predicated on an awareness of the thoughts and feelings of those around us. It's a fine balancing act 😅
I developed a sickness (schizoaffective) from trying to pretend my essence was not of my creation, while knowing all my ‘pain’ (not real as well) was by my own hand. Not that nothing matters in totality, but in the little slice of humanity that’s me it’s negligible. Don’t fret over anything
The existentialists are quite right to say that the universe has no intrinsic plan or meaning. The universe favors humans no more than squirrels, and favors Life no more than rocks. Humans pitiably invented the fable of "God" to try to hide from this uncomfortable realization. However, even existentialists like Sartre tried to put a "spin" on this truth, to make their philosophy more appealing, by saying that we are free to make our own meaning. While that is true, it is not a great gift so much as a poor consolation prize. It is another attempt to "hide", like the "God" fable. Human attempts to create meaning will be greatly frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the universe or from fellow human beings. The vast majority of humanity will always prefer comforting illusions over bitter truth. The pews will always be empty in the Church of Existential Despair, yet that is where truth and reality are to be found. My condolences to fellow travelers who are sticklers for truth.
I agree with a lot of what Sartre says, regarding existence, proceeding essence however, I don’t think Sartre considers all the variables of existence, namely, being born, disabled, or acquiring it later on in life if we are indeed free, and we can sculpt our own meaning what is to say about those who cannot do this dut to. mental or physical impairments?
This is basically Tikkan Olam. Just the blending of the world, he probably took an ancient Jewish method for blending the world and hid his sources. Christ said roughly that nature is the consolidation of power. Fish into meat, grass into wheat. So the opposite would be distributing it evenly. Which is the cold death of all things
2/2 Bad faith is where we crumble from pressures in life whether challenges, failures or future. When we have bad faith of our capabilities or when we need to change our perspectives. Where freedom to choose must be in accordance to our conscience. For without conscience we give authority to others or unacceptable influence to be God over us. JamesWhiskey
@@sentientartificialintelligence If life is truly meaningless then how can you be passionate about anything as what you are passionate about is part of life? Meaninglessness should leave you indifferent about everything unless of course there is meaning in what interests you, making you passionate about it.
@@theodoricsmith577 Your statement lacks the calibre to be called meaningless. To describe it as such would be an accolade. If you fail to understand my pointing out the contradiction in finding life meaningless on the one hand and then finding things to be passionate about in that same life on the other hand then heaven help you. A pseudo-show of intellectual capacity by using a term which you do not prove by exposing the so-called 'formative contradiction' only exposes the paucity of your non - argument.
The only thing reflecting meaninglessness are in nonsensical propositions. Everything that is real means something relative to whatever else is objectively real.
Just a suggestion: Do put the Philosopher and/or the work's name in the title. It makes me watch the video more. It also signifies, it's based on them rather than your views only.
Well thankfully when i die there will not be the hell of other people to judge me I personally think that sex and love making are different, however it's like going to a buffet instead of cooking a nice meal at home. I'm a firm beliver in the Beegees line "Too many lovers in one lifetime, ain't good for you" There's nothing wrong with aert, nor love, nor enjoying the finery of life. You have the ability to experience these things that are finite. What's the use in gorging on food till that nice childhood meal becomes another dish on the platter?
I have a question: As an expert on philosophy and literature, I have always wondered why it seems that philosophers of the past, like Sartre, are mostly fiction writers, unlike modern day philosophers. Is my assumption wrong?
You did very well with this Sir, and I am (or was) a great admirer of Sartre. But Camus' conceptualization of the World and how we tend to construct meaning rings more true to me personally. (though I wouldn't consider myself an Absurdist pe se.) I also think that He (like any thinker/philosopher who does not cease to think) would probably have greatly shifted his Ideals and conceptualizations had he been exposed to the increasing absurdities of the modern age. (as it's oddly termed.) Yeah, hell is indeed Other People. And it's Other people who make us The Heaven or Hell that we are. ( or perceive ourselves to be.) and there is likely *No Exit from this Reality other than the Literal one some take. (much to the dismay of Camus.) But perhaps some of us are also 20+ different Character in One/At Once.? (creating our own Book of Disquiet.) At any rate I digress. Great work Sir. You're my new Favorite Channel here.
The real bums who do not want to take responsibility, are people in modern times, who feal overwhelmed with having to study so much more, than any of the previous generations did. Our task should be to make it easier for future generations, by doing serious studies which go way back, ,keep what serves humanity. That, instead of, arbitrarily deciding that people from the past were stupid, and we therefore should cut a big chunk of our own development, and its meaning, just because technology has made things so easy on us and we do not have the discipline to sit, read, and analyze, with the same love, and respect our ancestors had for us, when they strove to create these great stories to warn us about humanity;s defects. .Especially those related to ways of life which promote genocide, slavery, and other forms of self-extinction.
We live in the past as it progresses into the future. The present is the zero of time, a transition from negative to positive, possibilities to reality. Choices are limited by competence
In 2023, there are still over 4,000 different gods worshipped around this tiny blue dot. None believe in any of the 4,000 gods they don't worship. To ask "What is the meaning of life?" presumes that there is a meaning. Why should there be any meaning to life? It is chiefly predicated on a belief that we were created by an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent entity that had some pre-ordained purpose for every one of us. That not only voids any personal purpose in or of life as well as free will. Not that any of us can truly have free will as it is prejudiced by our own consciousness. Mankind's greatest quandary is realising that we must at some point have come from nothingness... Hence, the invention of gods, which merely kicks the can down the celestial highway.
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It took Proust his whole life to understand the bad faith of his youth. You would think Sartre would have seen this. He certainly recognized the very same issues in the life Genet, but Genet only enjoyed privilege when he became famous.
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"Heed these words, you who wish to probe the depths of Nature: If you do not find within your Self that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the wonders of your own House, how do you expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the Treasure of Treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods."
--Oracle of Delphi
So that's where Yoda got all his best lines. (always wondered about that.)
Nah. Kidding.
I think the idea of *Knowing Thyself (in that context) tends to imply that the *House is complete and
not a Work perpetually being constructed, (or in the Process of Construction.)
You can also *think you know yourself and ultimately be The greatest stranger to it.
(such is the nature of self-delusion.)
Personally, I think that If Self is a House and the *I is the Architect or Carpenter.. neither are ever really complete
and remain perpetual work in Progress. (or possibly destruction I suppose. depending on the work or neglect one puts into it.)
Love the Classics though. They have a nice, Classicist ring to the that always screams Mystical.
(I miss those days.)
I enjoyed very much your presentation. It was brilliant, clear, precise, compact and substancial. A bit fast for me, an Spanish speaking old man. This forced me to stop from time to time, which is an advantage since I could assimilate Sartre's ideas and reasoning.
I was lucky enough to meet Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir on a kibbutz in Israel during their visit and my visit to the Middle East in the mid-1960s. I was invited to participate to a meeting around 7-9 people with them. They were interested in the communal life of the kibbutz, the possibility of war with Egypt and Syria (we were in the Upper Galilee, 500 meters from the border).
U have a better vocabulary than Americans who've spoken English their entire lives.
Thanks!
You are actually the best UA-camr ever , you have a video on every philosopher / author that I read , your videos are perfectly structured and your explanations are fantastic. Keep it up, you are amazing
Thank you so much 😀
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Meaning is possibly best explored through literature. Seems that it’s one of humanities oldest and most persistent questions. Great video
Ah ha paradox once again.
For, is literature not “a pacifying tool…” and “…a bourgeoisie fantasy that cushions against the harsh reality of life” ??
There were three angels that were afraid of God.
One ran and came back in hope.
One ran and froze in fear of God.
The last Angel is still running.
God embraced the first Angel, went out and found the second who hid, and is waiting for the third who was cast away and wont return.
The world is simple. Shockingly simple, just like the Germans were shockingly good hosts for the French people.
Shocking is only shocking for people who don't know the truth
Im just now realizing that every philosopher was a creative writer, and vice versa.
Meaning is DIY, but many are not capable of figuring it out for themselves.
@@indigo22284 literature also grates us with the harsh reality of life, depending on the scribe.
Moreover, the phrase "harsh reality of life" is a subjective one.
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I think a philosopher can be measured by his influence. Sartre’s existentialism was influential in literature in this part of the world, for example Kobo Abe, Kenzaburo Oe, Takeshi Kaiko and more.
I appreciate the length of this video and I was so moved by the concluding remarks.
Thank you! Sartre as a public intellectual wanted to be an every person's man. Proust wanted to be an artist so he wanted to create a work of art that stood the test of time. Both succeeded in their mission.
I think the world needs the opposite. Still worth exploring.
In this world, it is not popularity but truths that, in the end, matter. Influence? Many sadly influential things are promoted and end up of little consequence. But it is true, men like Hobbes and his Social Contract reverberates even today.
I am...I AM this pain I have. It is not my body, it is ME. So it cannot be spared...this pain is me. I cannot escape me.
Sure you can! 😂
"Pretending you don't know is self-deception for the sake of self-preservation." I feel like we try to use this adage to our advantage as to gain favor from an act that doesn't deserve recognition.
Tack!
It’s amazing to me that Sartre and some of his contemporaries, can see human life as pointless and devoid of meaning, then rationalize that fact as a motivation for self actualization.
Yes. This is helpful to young persons trying to sort out this bizarre existence they will probably experience
Nihilism is what you mean
MAN, i was totally immersed in this, very logical, and burdened by the responsibility of my so called 'freedom of choice'. Thank You
Bloody good job on piecing together and portraying Sartre's life and ideas, really thorough and interesting. I thought the remark about knowing Sartre like an uncle made me laugh aloud and after listening to this I can appreciate that statement.
This is a brilliant exposition, and the artwork that enhances the narrative is breathtakingly well-chosen. I especially enjoyed the painting where the little girl is entranced by the magical wonder of the goldfish swimming in a bowl whilst the adults gaze at each other, and the baby, each adult with a preoccupation of some kind. Is it possible to access a list of the artwork?
Very well done. I was riveted to your narrative as I cleaned house and made dinner, all the while reconciling my own experiences and beliefs with Sartre and Existentialism in general, finally realizing that I am far more of an essentialist...and that I should read more Proust. Thanks for sharing. Really good work.
Wonderful!
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Definitely, meaning is best explored through literature and art, as may be explored by literature, music, paintings. Although philosophy, histories, religious divisions, science are always imperative for interpretation. I also ask myself, may God exist outside the creation of the universe ? ✨️Some intellectuals have been discussing these ideas for some time. I love your channel. It's absolutely one of my favorites. Proust, "In Time Lost," is also one of my favorite novels. The journey of reading books 📚
Thanks for this video! Sartre’s work is utterly brilliant.
Imagine believing not only did the universe come from nothing, but also thinking meaning came from the same nothingness.
great video on Sartre. His existential philosophy is really great.
No. It is quite shallow.
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This screen has absolutely no limits it can display or render anything that you can imagine and even more. Right now it happens to be rendering and displaying what's right here. What we can do though is imagine that to this screen runs a giant wire and this wire hooks up to this giant mixing board with hundreds of knobs and each one of these knobs can be tuned and adjusted fine-tuned to change what is being displayed. It's like if you twist this knob here the colors will become more vivid, you twist this knob here the colors will dim, you twist this knob here the sounds will go wonky, they'll become louder or softer, you twist this knob here and you'll feel emotion you'll feel love or anger or hatred or jealousy or sadness, you twist this knob over here and your body morphs, your hand will morph into a tentacle, you twist a little bit more it turns into a claw, you twist a little bit more it turns into a wing, you twist a little more turns into something else and you can twist all of these and all of these knobs control everything that's being rendered and displayed on this screen called consciousness. Imagine I twist a knob of consciousness and if I twist this knob you won't be able to tell the difference between people and animals anymore and inanimate objects, there will be no difference between a table your mother and a dog if I twist this knob. Imagine other knob that I can twist, if I twist this knob time stops. Imagine that I twist a knob and you stop being human and you turn into a beer bottle. I twist the knob again and you turn into a pinecone. I twist the knob again you turn into a kangaroo. I twist the knob some more and you turn into the entire human race. Not a single person, the entire human race. I twist the knob some more you turn into the planet the entire planet. I twist the knob some more and you turn into the colour red you're not a living being anymore you're the colour red. Sounds trippy. Sounds impossible right and yet there is such a knob and many many other knobs. There are so many knobs that do so many freaky things.
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@@bullfighterrecords If you are lying in bed sound asleep, you can dream up a hallucinated alien chasing your hallucinated body while you fight it off with a hallucinated machine gun which can puncture its hallucinated skin resulting it a hallucinated victory and even a hallucinated feeling of joy. So in a dream - precisely BECAUSE everything is a hallucination - a hallucinated weapon is very useful. Without it, you might get eaten alive!
Now, what if what you call “reality” works just like that?
If you’re like the typical person, you hold hallucination as a category of experience which is separate from ordinary “real” experience. To you, hallucinations are clearly unreal and inferior to real perceptions. But now I want you to consider the radical possibility that everything is a hallucination! Consider that there are not two categories of experience, one “real” and one “hallucinatory”, but only one category: hallucination. You might wonder, Why call this one category hallucination instead of perception?” Because hallucination is closer to the fact. Hallucination is defined as perception without an object. Which is EXACTLY what we’ve got!
Perception = hallucination! There is nothing else behind it! There is no physical, external world behind your everyday perceptions. Which literally means that what you think of as solid, tangible, physical, material reality is just a hallucination, albeit a rather persistent one - one which is shared by most of the people in your tribe. That is, until you start to play around with altered states of consciousness or psychedelics. Then you quickly realize how intangible, unreal, and hallucinatory your everyday experience was all along. This is exactly why psychedelics are so effective. And also exactly why they are so demonized by mainstream culture.
This is why I put a lid on philosophy and threw it into the sea... after many years of studying, and philosophising. Like an apparition philosophy has no lower extremity, there's a torso and there's the ground and nothing in between, it is spectral, hence its enemy is existence. Since it has no body it wants to possess a body to take revenge on it by ensnaring it inside a vial of rumination and soreness. It is insane for it has no body while the body is its prime concern. Of course it will never admit that it was summoned to ease the maddening burden of envy of God in heaven.
You need to read Ward number 6 by Anton Chekhov. You might find similarities with yourself or guidance how to get out of your ill self. Sorry for been rude to you
Sartre’s ceaseless thinking or overthinking was his suffering. Buddhist mindfulness meditation could have provided him relief.
There is no price too high for the privilege of owning yourself….
Thank you so much. You are the teacher I never had. I really appreciate your work.
Great video. As for Sartre the philosopher: he encouraged Soviet/Maoist styled political militantism in France 20 years after Orwell published 1984 and laid bare the road followed by dictatorial collectivism. Orwell was the visionary, Sartre was the equivalent of a holocaust denier.
I follow all your video, they are brilliant! It is difficult in our days to listen such opinions, if you are not in the field; I’m not!😂 But, as an intellectual, it is a pleasure!
" IF one decides to be free of yes material idealistic views,
Then the Bohemian of journeys lives as to pursue the next page of wonderment ". Wonderchek ///.
Thank you. My empty cup of coffee is now full of meaning.
Very insightful and amazing narrating technique🖤
Although I disliked his more violent leanings and choices in his own life, I find a lot of value in his works. After all we cannot judge a person by one or two actions alone, but ought to consider the totality of his pursuits.
Spoken word is for Right Now, even if pre-recorded. Written word is for all time.
Thank you, I love the longer videos
Thank you for doing all that you do for us.
Second go around with this vid, and I think I'll be listening to it a few times more.
Can you make a list on the most influential books to read over the past 200 years or so? Getting into literature now and have no idea where to begin
Exeptional excelency work [job] boy..keep up the enlightenment to is ultimate..good on ya..
Much appreciated
Out of the darkness, we grow to the light.
Thanks for the video. You’ve become my go to site for philosophy.
Have we surpassed collective meaning? Or is the self determined individual meaning Sartre sought amplified by social media? I have a teenager, who’s trying to define themselves by finding like minded friends. Outside of playing video games online, they’re finding it hard to meet in person. When they are together many stay on their phone and they interactions center around what they’ve posted to social media. Perhaps the phone holds the collective meaning they all seek while trying to appear as an individual at the same time?
Newton didn’t want “gravity” ascribed to him. And he states that it is “so great an absurdity that I beleive no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.”
Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley (1692)
“Tis unconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate upon & affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential & inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe {innate} gravity to me. That gravity should be innate inherent & {essential} to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else by & through which their action or force {may} be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity that I beleive no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent {acting} consta{ntl}y according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I have left to the consideration of my readers.”
- Author: Isaac Newton
For Mr Bently at the Palace in
Worcester
A 4th Lett. from Mr Newton
Source: 189.R.4.47, ff. 7-8, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK
Published online: October 2007
Easy! His eyes were looking two ways! That was his edge for his philosophy,!
good job man. really great analysis!
‘Existence precedes essence’ makes no sense if the essence we give to existence is limited by the nature of existence itself. You can’t separate an bio/psychic organism from the environment that spawned it…they exist inseparably as one process like a wave manifests the ocean. What a thing IS, it must BE. A man can’t be a woman or vice versa no matter who you may choose yourself to be.
Thank you for this excellent video! As to human's propensity to judge others, my great - grandfather used to say : "All of life is opinion, and opinions are like a certain part of the anatomy; we've all got one, they're full of the same material and we don't need to go showing them off in public."
Well said.
Hello Fiction Beast ! You are awesome, I love your videos
How did the French society react when Sartre made his “open relationship” with Beauvoir public?
I am sure he faced friction, didn’t he?
Thought-Provoking…
Thanks
If there is no higher meaning in life, what does it matter if I live an authentic life or not? I guess Kierkegaard would say that making authentic choices is the only way to truly exist in the world, but he seems to have believed we are obliged to god. To Sartre, who cares whether one "truly exists" or not?
One of existentialism's core contentions is that potentiality is utmost from a state of nothingness from which all being erupts. However, even that thought Iis derived from language handed down to a thinker from previous generations. Descartes said, I think therefore I am." Apriori: those that are not don't ask the question if they exist. Similarly, a situation of non-existance doesn't have persons and their questions as a result of human existence. Yes?
I love your videos...and the way you explain things...💙💙
Deux romans que j’avais toujours adoré sont La Nausée et L’étranger. J’aime bien ces deux cats, et leurs romans philosophiques
"Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important."
- Christopher Hitchens -
The controllers of the telescope and microscope are liars
@@sophiafakevirus bollocks. The person who claims to know the mind of God/Gods, are the OBVIOUS liar.
Well... It's obvious to those who are capable of critical thinking.
Religion was invented, when the first fool met the first conman.
Superb! Thoroughly enjoying your UA-cam channel. Keep up the great work. I'm not sure I understand the #philspector tag for this video.
Hell is being in a public toilet cubicle without a door lock...I think.Graham Greene said that
Really nice piece of work. Much respect and gratitude. I would have liked names attatched to the visual art though. Who did those pictures of little grotesques playing silly buggers with dressed up owls and cats and wot-not ?
Thank you! Maestro della Fertilità dell'Uovo - Grotesque Scene with Animals and Stylised Figures No. 2
I had read HUIT CLOS after high school many years ago but was really informed by your video. Was he not a heroin addict ? I did not think of him as a great man before and less now. I preferred Camus and his life course. Thank you for the education.
If you think of heroin/opiate addicts as bad people, man i have a long list for you
Existentialism versus essence is struggle of order versus freedom. As per Essentialism we are valuable because we have an Essence, without such essence or big soul we are animal and unhappy.
Existentialism holds there is no such essence. We are all born into nothing. We build our meaning along the way. Essence is fiction.
Man is born with choice, without choice all have one predictable destiny. How and where did man earn that ability to chose? Are we happy or sad at birth? We are free or able to chose owing to a faculty of memory, this memory helps guaranteed survival and expands our possibilities of fulfillment. A child is free not a replica of his parent, his happiness is born with him, he will use his independence to be as happy as his mother or even far more happier than his mother/community.
Always new insights, especially when listening more than once. Thanks.
thanks for this significant summary! bravo1
Even with nothing you can learn something
I agree that we make our own meaning, and meanings some can tell me had to be made; as long as we exist our meaning can be anything
We born with emty hand arive hier and when we death we go back with emthy hand nothing to whole so Satre make meaning but actual daeth make empty agein. When we thinking of Im this is my idea my hause this I make meaning but is fragile actual like Buda exspose ther is not eny person hier not iven Im therfore Satre never take atain primary point
“We’re filth we’re filth.. we come from filth we’re going to filth.. we’re filth!” -Ben Edlund “The TICK”
Satre says there's no meaning yet spent his life meaningly telling us so
He asked for a priest on his deathbed to give him the last rites, wasn’t keen on being non-existent. Beethoven’s 9th with an ear-splitting final cacophony.
Excellent analysis. Really appreciated the more personal reflections, both on Proust and throughout the summary. Thank you so much.
Of course, my own comments are a perfect expression of Bad Faith, but, unlike Sartre, I embrace this bad faith as I see myself as an integral part of a social structure 😂 and not at all free to behave as I wish because I believe in moral actions and this belief is predicated on an awareness of the thoughts and feelings of those around us. It's a fine balancing act 😅
There's a mistake at 08:16 : In 1939, with the outbreak of Word war one, I'm sure you mean WW2
"Good-looking people rarely go against the conventional establishment." So true.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
There are 2 Philoshopies, 1 for me and 1 for thee! There are two economies! 1 for me and 1 for thee!
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Meaning."
I developed a sickness (schizoaffective) from trying to pretend my essence was not of my creation, while knowing all my ‘pain’ (not real as well) was by my own hand. Not that nothing matters in totality, but in the little slice of humanity that’s me it’s negligible. Don’t fret over anything
The existentialists are quite right to say that the universe has no intrinsic plan or meaning. The universe favors humans no more than squirrels, and favors Life no more than rocks.
Humans pitiably invented the fable of "God" to try to hide from this uncomfortable realization.
However, even existentialists like Sartre tried to put a "spin" on this truth, to make their philosophy more appealing, by saying that we are free to make our own meaning. While that is true, it is not a great gift so much as a poor consolation prize. It is another attempt to "hide", like the "God" fable. Human attempts to create meaning will be greatly frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the universe or from fellow human beings.
The vast majority of humanity will always prefer comforting illusions over bitter truth. The pews will always be empty in the Church of Existential Despair, yet that is where truth and reality are to be found. My condolences to fellow travelers who are sticklers for truth.
I agree with a lot of what Sartre says, regarding existence, proceeding essence however, I don’t think Sartre considers all the variables of existence, namely, being born, disabled, or acquiring it later on in life if we are indeed free, and we can sculpt our own meaning what is to say about those who cannot do this dut to. mental or physical impairments?
This is basically Tikkan Olam. Just the blending of the world, he probably took an ancient Jewish method for blending the world and hid his sources.
Christ said roughly that nature is the consolidation of power. Fish into meat, grass into wheat. So the opposite would be distributing it evenly. Which is the cold death of all things
2/2 Bad faith is where we crumble from pressures in life whether challenges, failures or future. When we have bad faith of our capabilities or when we need to change our perspectives. Where freedom to choose must be in accordance to our conscience. For without conscience we give authority to others or unacceptable influence to be God over us. JamesWhiskey
Good informative video.
Great work!!
I'm horrified at meaning. Meaninglessness is the real freedom.
Glib 'meaningless' wordplay.
@@sentientartificialintelligence If life is truly meaningless then how can you be passionate about anything as what you are passionate about is part of life? Meaninglessness should leave you indifferent about everything unless of course there is meaning in what interests you, making you passionate about it.
So your comment is likewise meaningless. This is a formative contradiction.
@@theodoricsmith577 Your statement lacks the calibre to be called meaningless. To describe it as such would be an accolade. If you fail to understand my pointing out the contradiction in finding life meaningless on the one hand and then finding things to be passionate about in that same life on the other hand then heaven help you.
A pseudo-show of intellectual capacity by using a term which you do not prove by exposing the so-called 'formative contradiction' only exposes the paucity of your non - argument.
The only thing reflecting meaninglessness are in nonsensical propositions. Everything that is real means something relative to whatever else is objectively real.
Just a suggestion: Do put the Philosopher and/or the work's name in the title. It makes me watch the video more. It also signifies, it's based on them rather than your views only.
Well thankfully when i die there will not be the hell of other people to judge me
I personally think that sex and love making are different, however it's like going to a buffet instead of cooking a nice meal at home.
I'm a firm beliver in the Beegees line
"Too many lovers in one lifetime, ain't good for you"
There's nothing wrong with aert, nor love, nor enjoying the finery of life. You have the ability to experience these things that are finite. What's the use in gorging on food till that nice childhood meal becomes another dish on the platter?
Merci beaucoup!
Seeing things intuitively isn't closer to nature; it's human.
I have a question: As an expert on philosophy and literature, I have always wondered why it seems that philosophers of the past, like Sartre, are mostly fiction writers, unlike modern day philosophers. Is my assumption wrong?
Very interesting 🤔💂♂️⭐🎖️
FB, have you ever thought of taking on Genet?
First time hearing his name.
Jean Genet, novelist and playwright. Sartre a biography of him called St. Genet.
Great vid
We're pattern-recognising machines. Everything has meaning to us whether we find it or just put it there ourselves.
You did very well with this Sir, and I am (or was) a great admirer of Sartre.
But Camus' conceptualization of the World and how we tend to construct meaning
rings more true to me personally. (though I wouldn't consider myself an Absurdist pe se.)
I also think that He (like any thinker/philosopher who does not cease to think) would probably
have greatly shifted his Ideals and conceptualizations had he been exposed to the increasing
absurdities of the modern age. (as it's oddly termed.)
Yeah, hell is indeed Other People. And it's Other people who make us The Heaven or Hell that
we are. ( or perceive ourselves to be.) and there is likely *No Exit from this Reality other than
the Literal one some take. (much to the dismay of Camus.)
But perhaps some of us are also 20+ different Character in One/At Once.? (creating our own
Book of Disquiet.)
At any rate I digress. Great work Sir.
You're my new Favorite Channel here.
“Condemned to be free”
The real bums who do not want to take responsibility, are people in modern times, who feal overwhelmed with having to study so much more, than any of the previous generations did. Our task should be to make it easier for future generations, by doing serious studies which go way back, ,keep what serves humanity. That, instead of, arbitrarily deciding that people from the past were stupid, and we therefore should cut a big chunk of our own development, and its meaning, just because technology has made things so easy on us and we do not have the discipline to sit, read, and analyze, with the same love, and respect our ancestors had for us, when they strove to create these great stories to warn us about humanity;s defects. .Especially those related to ways of life which promote genocide, slavery, and other forms of self-extinction.
Pleases talk more about the point of view a the individual vs the group among philosophers
We live in the past as it progresses into the future. The present is the zero of time, a transition from negative to positive, possibilities to reality.
Choices are limited by competence
In 2023, there are still over 4,000 different gods worshipped around this tiny blue dot. None believe in any of the 4,000 gods they don't worship.
To ask "What is the meaning of life?" presumes that there is a meaning. Why should there be any meaning to life? It is chiefly predicated on a belief that we were created by an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent entity that had some pre-ordained purpose for every one of us. That not only voids any personal purpose in or of life as well as free will. Not that any of us can truly have free will as it is prejudiced by our own consciousness.
Mankind's greatest quandary is realising that we must at some point have come from nothingness... Hence, the invention of gods, which merely kicks the can down the celestial highway.
You are awesome dude
Thank you.
Hi smart people! I have a question 'bout the cliff hanger about the DOY kit. Around 44:15 he's summing up SEXY TIME! & so he ends it all with, "Unless you go the DIY route." Period, & then he goes to the consciousness chapter never saying what that DO IT YOSELF KIT IS BAKC THEN! whAT IS IT?! & im just curiouS WITH THIS. Wanting to phrase this with as much respect sounding ciuz im quirky and dont want to butt-hurt with phrasing. But I do want to know, waht "Unless you go the DIY route" is! Cuz that means there's a route, but then we leave it on a cliff hanger. & it's like. Yeah, what is that route?!?! & shout out to anyone & everyone in here! Y'all must be so badass mofos are some dope & wise ppl up in here. Y'all are DOPE AF STRAIGHT UP!!! So give yoself props, & a DOY maybe lol Blessingz everyone!!!!
Since when did any God actually say do good and you go to heaven ...I sometimes think almost no one actually has studied religion and spirituality
How is it that we love both Proust and J-P?
You have a nuanced taste in literature.
Sartre asks us to be observant. Proust taught us how.
Very astute summary of the two.
@@markspano3468 how beautifully put
It took Proust his whole life to understand the bad faith of his youth. You would think Sartre would have seen this. He certainly recognized the very same issues in the life Genet, but Genet only enjoyed privilege when he became famous.
"unless you go the DIY route" 😂😂😂