your videos have saved my philosophy module at university. id never studied it before until university level and you explain it all in a way even I can understand. keep up the amazing work professor
Thank you for this, professor. Your videos are very informative and thorough. I have been working on Kierkegaard for a while now and one of the most important “clicks” regarding his points in my understanding happened thanks to you.
I just finished the conclusion part last month, and it was a mind-blowing experience! I feel Kierkegaard was deliberately condensing pages of writing into a paragraph, a sentence, or even a joke (some are funny, but most of them are obscure). It is a very demanding read but also high reward. Maybe his convoluted style is the mechanism to protect the content of the book from being "leveling." would you agree? This video is amazing, Dr. Sadler! I wish you could dive deeper since the book is relevant in the current context in my opinion.
Hello, first of all videos are excellent! Would you able to make a video about what philosophy videos should watch' chronologically for better understanding of the subject?
@@indudhart4222 I have an entire set of videos, which you can easily find, on self-directed study. If you want me to draw up an individual learning plan for you, you'd need to book my time
The part about equivocation reminds me of the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave. Possibly even people using words as images in their minds rather than looking for their intended meaning?
Really interesting. His point on contradiction reminded me of Rick Roderick’s talk about it. How now in the modern age we are very much accustomed to all our contradictions. lol
Hello, im a 20 year old History Of The Arts student from brazil, who over the last year has been engaging with philosophy reading and theory (basically for fun, but also because my father is a Sociology/Philosophy teacher so i kinda grew up being somewhat raised as being encouraged to pursue a more philosophical thought i guess). I found out about your videos last week through your Half-Hour Hegel content and ive been really loving it so far! Kierkegaard is a thinker that has seemed interesting for me for a while now, but now i see i really have to read him as soon as possible. My question is, would it be a stretch to connect this concept to Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism? Fisher's writting is a lot darker and more politically loaded, but a few moments of this video did give me de-ja-vu from portions of Capitalist Realism and other of his writtings. It would be interesting to i guess conceptualize this back and forth between an age of revolution (Fisher specifically points to the 60s anti-war period and post punk from the eighties) and a modern "apathetic" present age (Fisher points, as a professor, to the lack of interest in the future his students seem to have, and the rising numbers of pathologies like depression and anxiety) being something that happens in cycles. anyways, this was what jumped out to me at the moment. Regardless, i loved the video! Good job!
Yes, it would likely be a stretch. You'll want to compare both texts to each other, not an interpretation of a few concepts from the text to another texts
First, thank you for your excellent video. You help me as a life-long learner to understand better the thoughts of so many philosophers like Kierkegaard. I have a very small question. In his text he observes that modern man is passionless and paralyzed constant reflection, but he doesn't point why this is the case. He only builds from there to the other concepts such as the Public, the leveling process , etc. Is it something he covers in other texts ? Personally, I had the idea that it may be the case due to the progress of science and technology (19th century), which resulted in the modern age, that is dominated by a high amount of information and knowledge. This may have led a greater number of people to think more deeply about themselves, but in an unproductive manner.
Abraham and Don Juan seem to be perfect examples of passionate action. Don Juan being the representation of Aesthetic passion, and Abraham representing faith as a passion. Both act based on their desire, and reflection serves as a temptation for both of them. For Abraham reflection serves as a temptation to remain in the ethical, while his passion for faith commits him to this kind of action it seems. If he were to reflect, he would no longer be the father of faith, and fall to the temptation of the ethical: most simply because it is ethically wrong to kill your son, and there is no higher ethical justification for the action. Don Juan, similarly, is a seducer, but is not reflective. He does not calculate, instead he finds the immediacy of sensuality in his seduction: the moment he meets and seduces specifically. Acting in this way serves to fulfill his desire, but since his desire is one of immediacy it must be repeated again and again. This is why music is the perfect medium for Don Giovanni. It is the only medium that can demonstrate Don Juan's passionate actions, and the recurrence of action needed to fulfill his desire. There is obviously something to be said in terms of the hierarchy of passions here, but to me it at least seems like we get a perfect representation of passionate action in a lower passion (sensuality) and in the highest passion for Kierkegaard (faith).
Would you say that social media has greatly negatively affected the "passion" of people since it is almost entirely about fast and superficial reward? I think it has ruined the potential for people to get into deep and meaningful work.
I'd say that sometimes that's the case. Then again, I reconnected with the woman I'm married to through Facebook. So I wouldn't do too sweeping generalizations
thank you so much for your work! everything became clear, i started to look deeper into philosophy with your help
You’re very welcome
your videos have saved my philosophy module at university. id never studied it before until university level and you explain it all in a way even I can understand. keep up the amazing work professor
Glad the videos are helpful for you
Thank you for this, professor. Your videos are very informative and thorough. I have been working on Kierkegaard for a while now and one of the most important “clicks” regarding his points in my understanding happened thanks to you.
You're welcome
I just finished the conclusion part last month, and it was a mind-blowing experience! I feel Kierkegaard was deliberately condensing pages of writing into a paragraph, a sentence, or even a joke (some are funny, but most of them are obscure). It is a very demanding read but also high reward. Maybe his convoluted style is the mechanism to protect the content of the book from being "leveling." would you agree?
This video is amazing, Dr. Sadler! I wish you could dive deeper since the book is relevant in the current context in my opinion.
Yes, I'd say that his style, and the ways he frames things, is deliberate
Great work👍 Im happy to have finally started reading Soren's works.
Good!
Hello, first of all videos are excellent!
Would you able to make a video about what philosophy videos should watch' chronologically for better understanding of the subject?
You should be reading the texts, rather than relying primarily on videos
@@GregoryBSadler would you suggest some books sir?
@@indudhart4222 I have an entire set of videos, which you can easily find, on self-directed study.
If you want me to draw up an individual learning plan for you, you'd need to book my time
The part about equivocation reminds me of the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave. Possibly even people using words as images in their minds rather than looking for their intended meaning?
I wouldn't try to connect those here
That is a very great example.
Thanks!
Really interesting. His point on contradiction reminded me of Rick Roderick’s talk about it. How now in the modern age we are very much accustomed to all our contradictions. lol
Quite true of many
Hello, im a 20 year old History Of The Arts student from brazil, who over the last year has been engaging with philosophy reading and theory (basically for fun, but also because my father is a Sociology/Philosophy teacher so i kinda grew up being somewhat raised as being encouraged to pursue a more philosophical thought i guess). I found out about your videos last week through your Half-Hour Hegel content and ive been really loving it so far! Kierkegaard is a thinker that has seemed interesting for me for a while now, but now i see i really have to read him as soon as possible.
My question is, would it be a stretch to connect this concept to Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism? Fisher's writting is a lot darker and more politically loaded, but a few moments of this video did give me de-ja-vu from portions of Capitalist Realism and other of his writtings. It would be interesting to i guess conceptualize this back and forth between an age of revolution (Fisher specifically points to the 60s anti-war period and post punk from the eighties) and a modern "apathetic" present age (Fisher points, as a professor, to the lack of interest in the future his students seem to have, and the rising numbers of pathologies like depression and anxiety) being something that happens in cycles.
anyways, this was what jumped out to me at the moment. Regardless, i loved the video! Good job!
Yes, it would likely be a stretch. You'll want to compare both texts to each other, not an interpretation of a few concepts from the text to another texts
@@GregoryBSadler that makes sense
Thanks for the answer!
posting on twitter isn't action! OH! SHOTS FIRED!
Well, it is an action, but not action in any real sense
First, thank you for your excellent video. You help me as a life-long learner to understand better the thoughts of so many philosophers like Kierkegaard. I have a very small question. In his text he observes that modern man is passionless and paralyzed constant reflection, but he doesn't point why this is the case. He only builds from there to the other concepts such as the Public, the leveling process , etc. Is it something he covers in other texts ? Personally, I had the idea that it may be the case due to the progress of science and technology (19th century), which resulted in the modern age, that is dominated by a high amount of information and knowledge. This may have led a greater number of people to think more deeply about themselves, but in an unproductive manner.
He does discuss that matter in other texts, and he also is being a bit hyperbolic as well
@@GregoryBSadler Thank you very much Greg. I look forward to read his other texts, as well as other existentialists. Cheers.
Abraham and Don Juan seem to be perfect examples of passionate action. Don Juan being the representation of Aesthetic passion, and Abraham representing faith as a passion. Both act based on their desire, and reflection serves as a temptation for both of them. For Abraham reflection serves as a temptation to remain in the ethical, while his passion for faith commits him to this kind of action it seems. If he were to reflect, he would no longer be the father of faith, and fall to the temptation of the ethical: most simply because it is ethically wrong to kill your son, and there is no higher ethical justification for the action. Don Juan, similarly, is a seducer, but is not reflective. He does not calculate, instead he finds the immediacy of sensuality in his seduction: the moment he meets and seduces specifically. Acting in this way serves to fulfill his desire, but since his desire is one of immediacy it must be repeated again and again. This is why music is the perfect medium for Don Giovanni. It is the only medium that can demonstrate Don Juan's passionate actions, and the recurrence of action needed to fulfill his desire. There is obviously something to be said in terms of the hierarchy of passions here, but to me it at least seems like we get a perfect representation of passionate action in a lower passion (sensuality) and in the highest passion for Kierkegaard (faith).
Would you say that social media has greatly negatively affected the "passion" of people since it is almost entirely about fast and superficial reward? I think it has ruined the potential for people to get into deep and meaningful work.
I'd say that sometimes that's the case. Then again, I reconnected with the woman I'm married to through Facebook. So I wouldn't do too sweeping generalizations
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