"Existence precedes essence" was famously announced in a lecture Sartre delivered to college students because, as he later claimed (undoubtedly due to the flak he got from Heidegger et. al.), he didn't think the students were intelligent enough to understand his real ideas. In fact, Sartre himself taught the opposite. As I look around me, everything I see has an essence, identity, meaning, use. I don't have to look at an object until it coalesces into a lamp. I don't have to figure out who I am before beginning my day. If, instead of cribbing from each other, teachers had actually gotten into Sartre, that nonsense would have died an early death.
Great content! Thank's for sharing! Just an observation: I think that we gotta be cautious in afirming that, according to Kierkegaard, religious faith opose to science. I've been reading some scholar's work on his thought and, as far as I've read, it seems to me that this is more of a particular reading of his works than a exposition of what Kierkegaard meant by "faith in virtue of the absurd". Edit: Based on my readings, I also think that Kaufman's interpretation of Kierkegaard's argument regarding the biblical episode of Abraham and Isaac on Fear and Tremble does not correspond to what Kierkegaard himself really thought about it. Kierkegaard surelly didn't want to extract the consequences that Kaufman's extracted of it.
He 'existed & experienced' the same as a Job & Abraham of the Bible ago, therefore witness to the 'essence' of being in Christ if who is the greater a Judge than our Conscience that He's capable raising up from death pangs like a Lazarus or Tabitha no guiles in them unlike the rest of us confessed Sinners before God Almighty's spirit?!
Here an overdose of Philosophy may make it 'intelligent' a Jew or anybody else being persecuted for own Faith, yet stupid enough not hiding Truth if not as intense, intimate individualist.
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Such an amazing series of lectures from a great mind on great minds …! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
This is great! Thank's for curating all this philosophy content. I hope you post the rest of the lectures.
Oh, I definitely will. I just wanted to fix up the audio a bit first, as usual.
@@Philosophy_Overdose That's good to hear, thank you.
@@Philosophy_Overdose if possible add subs too for videos like these.
Thank you
more KIERKEGAARD, please.
Superb... thank you!
Perfeita! Voce ve e percebe que ainda nao tinha visto mas vendo se alegra por sentir que estava a espera!
"Existence precedes essence" was famously announced in a lecture Sartre delivered to college students because, as he later claimed (undoubtedly due to the flak he got from Heidegger et. al.), he didn't think the students were intelligent enough to understand his real ideas. In fact, Sartre himself taught the opposite. As I look around me, everything I see has an essence, identity, meaning, use. I don't have to look at an object until it coalesces into a lamp. I don't have to figure out who I am before beginning my day. If, instead of cribbing from each other, teachers had actually gotten into Sartre, that nonsense would have died an early death.
Lest denying of light itself go extinct.
Great content! Thank's for sharing!
Just an observation: I think that we gotta be cautious in afirming that, according to Kierkegaard, religious faith opose to science.
I've been reading some scholar's work on his thought and, as far as I've read, it seems to me that this is more of a particular reading of his works than a exposition of what Kierkegaard meant by "faith in virtue of the absurd".
Edit: Based on my readings, I also think that Kaufman's interpretation of Kierkegaard's argument regarding the biblical episode of Abraham and Isaac on Fear and Tremble does not correspond to what Kierkegaard himself really thought about it.
Kierkegaard surelly didn't want to extract the consequences that Kaufman's extracted of it.
Voice is almost incoherent.
He 'existed & experienced' the same as a Job & Abraham of the Bible ago, therefore witness to the 'essence' of being in Christ if who is the greater a Judge than our Conscience that He's capable raising up from death pangs like a Lazarus or Tabitha no guiles in them unlike the rest of us confessed Sinners before God Almighty's spirit?!
Here an overdose of Philosophy may make it 'intelligent' a Jew or anybody else being persecuted for own Faith, yet stupid enough not hiding Truth if not as intense, intimate individualist.
Had Kierkegaard been alive today he would have become muslim.
What is to exist? I suffer, therefore I exist. No suffering, no eternal happiness.