Fyodor Dostoyevski, Lecture 1: Our Most Advantageous Advantage
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- A first lecture on Dostoyevski's Notes from (the) Underground. The main theme in this video has to do with the relationship between happiness and freedom.
Prof Dodson. Words can not express my gratitude for your lectures. Truly thank
At 20:52 really glad you didn't edit that tangent out it was great! These lectures are really well delivered to be entertaining and interesting so glad I came across this channel
This channel is amazing and I'm so glad I found it. The alcohol scenario was really deep.
So you're free when your aware that you don't have to do what you want. That very helpful & deep message.
This is amazing. Omg. Thank you
Not boring! Thank you.
You are really brilliant and I am so thankful for these.
Beautifully Human. Thank you!
I wish I had you at the institution I was at.
I found a new favourite youtuber.
Thank you... Really helpful for understanding the fantastic book
Fantastic lecture....so glad I dipped my toe from your other channel
Love this video, i wished it was longer. How do you talk about philosophy especially a dry topic like freedom in enticing way? Just how Russian made philosophy sexy in novel. Reading Dostoyevsky 5 volume biography by Joseph Frank as we speak. Point of life is neither to be happy or free but to enjoy videos like this and of course, Russian literature lol
This was such an insightful lecture. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Do you have any written work on this topic I could look at for reference or further reading on the topics discussed?
Would is pursue of darkness in order to be free according to dostoyevski be similar to freuds thanathos or kierkegaards "we fear what we want, we want what we fear"?
Thank you so much for the course. May I have the reading materials?
Anyone know why he might've been interested in Frederick Douglass? Did he write about the American Civil War? Slavery? I'm looking for a way to interpret Notes from the Underground for Douglass' writings.
19:59 "props"
This video made me wonder and want to put into practice.
- we can only exercise our freedom as to the degree.
That is our ability to persue that which is difficult.-
So if something becomes a habit or easy because of our reasoning we are not exercising our freedom. If I understand this correctly.
Freedom to me sounds like a leap of faith, the bigger leap we can take and handle in its entirety the greater our potential freedom.
Maybe I'm making sence wondering if I'm on the right track??
So the above is my counter argument, to the video, as i reflect on what I wrote.
But it would explain why we would go against what we desire or what is good for us.
I think if this exercise of freedom is an essential part of being human. Then it would explain some of the crazy behaviors in the area of courting mates. An additional desire is for someone whom can exercise their freedom.
does there even exist anything that could be considered "purely negative"?
26:17 'and the best part of what we are as human beings...' [video cuts] I think what you waned to say after those words might have been this: '... is to repent for the sins we commit (and weep for those others commit)' But just like the censors cut his original text about the need for Christ - so too you were cut.
I've never made a choice in my life. Choices are made but there's no "I" making them. The "self" recognises the choice and then instantly takes the credit.
Choices are made by whom or what then?
@@nenntmichbond I guess he would believe that choices are made through Gods will. This is a concept that can be found in the eastern teaching of Advaita Vedanta.
@@nenntmichbond Apparent choices are made by the brain.
Hello, do anyone know where I find the analysis paper in the video ?
According to Dostoyevski, hypothetically, utilitarianism is a form of slavery, and the exclusive pursuit of happiness is a kind of bondage? Do you teach summer classes as well?
Well, I don't normally teach summer classes. But, thanks to *you* I'm going to be posting additional lecture videos throughout this summer. So... many thanks to you for giving me the motivation to get rolling on that. Anyhow, last week I added two on Nietzsche. Probably tomorrow I'll do another one in that series (we'll have to see how tomorrow's big meeting with the University goes...). Anyhow, thanks again, Sr. Pendejo. Saludos... y te agradezco... Enriquito.
those opening words are me...but instead of spite it is poverty.....
17:30
Man... you didn't have to be very ... forward like that :(
You talked about doing things that are bad for us „just because”, but you used wars as an example. I do not think it fits. Sure, in hindsight we can all see that, maybe, war was bad from almost all imaginable points of view. But those who choose and support war surely find some external motivation which has to do with what they think will give them pleasure: national expansion, gaining power, fulfilling some religious ideal, gaining honor etc. I don't see this as an example of spite or of intentional self destruction.
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Anti-vaxxer: Dostoyevski
I'd actually worry about the "Prometheus' liver" in there.. that seemed very direct.