Danish psychology student here. You gotta underline the point that anxiety comes from the knowledge and awareness of conscious choice and reverse anxiety is what brings you into that awareness. So anxiety is the force that allows you to relate to and be aware of your existence. The point being without anxiety you just kinda let life drift by living a pseudo existence, you fall into the antipathy forces or nature (Heidegger would say you fall into your throwness), not daring to actualize the sympathic forces or your spirit. The self is a duality of these two forces and it's everyone's own responsibility to balance them or you'll be lost in different types of despair and not be a self. In humans something in us reaches out towards the unknown or growth (it's basically the Aesthetic sphere of existence) and the other strives for security and the known (the philistine sphere or "mass man as you called it" - which oddly is never covered by people who haven't read him in his original language - there are 4 spheres of existence, not just 3). An example of how anxiety works: You have an exam and you spend the first couple of days or maybe even weeks not really dealing with it, you neglect it and don't face it and the more you neglect it the worse this inner worrying feeling becomes. With the deadline closing in you are finally grabbed by anxiety in the realisation of your situation and now you either study or you collapse, give up and drop out. That's your dizzyness. Thus anxiety is a psychological factor that brings you into consciousness and allows you to relate to your existence. Yes anxiety sucks but existential thinkers view it as the core motivator of your entire existence, a positive phenomena with a directional and guiding value. It's important to note the aesthetic sphere isn't a self, you can be lost in the potential and possibility, it's not about not just being a mass man. The aesthetic existence is filled with despair because you aren't anchored to reality. Becoming a self is becoming an authentic self, a synergi of your inner duality. That's when you move into the ethical sphere. Also you're a little heavy on the religious aspect. Kierkegaard wasn't your average christian by any stretch of the imagination. The mass man can easily attend church every Sunday and when asked why he will state it's because he believes in god. But that doesn't make him a real self or a real christian in Kierkegaard's opinion. He didn't believe in god in the classical sense, he wasn't a man in the sky who says anything. God is everything, god is what remains when everything that's rational and logical has disappeared. To live in the religious sphere is to live by a religious hope. That's not a hope like "I hope it won't rain tomorrow". The religious hope is the hope that remains in humans when everything seems lost and without any rational solution. That's faith, and a faith that stands by virtue of the absurd.
And I'm schizophrenic with an affected anxiety called schizoaffectivity that is spectral. I saw that germanic Danish nonsense translated into English, closed the book refunded it at the end of the course. I absorb it into this girl as a muse just for fun, and lived until 41. He's trying to abstract some ancient medieval Bible or something. Heidegger anxiety is a fullness and falling out of dasein due to alterity in transcdental idealist systems.
These are the exact thoughts that have been going throught my head the entire week, ive been trying to do and make decisions that maximize my anxiety, comfortable life is life that is not lived to potential
I absolutely love this video! I’m slowly working out my brain to understand Kierkegaard.. do u have any lectures on Kierkegaard u have really enjoyed? Jon Stewart has an excellent docuseries on SK’s relation to Socrates as well as Philosopher of The Heart (an excellent biography). I wish there was more Kierkegaard content on UA-cam!
You equate Original sin with Hereditary sin (or ancestral sin as it is often called in the Eastern Church). However, some commentators seem to suggest that Kierkegaard is distinguishing the two, and there is an important difference between them on which the weight of Kierkegaard's whole argument about freedom hinges. The distinction doesn't matter to me and, because I don't share Kierkegaard's religious beliefs, it doesn't, in my eyes, affect the issue of freedom. However, it seemed to matter for Kierkegaard. In this view, our inheritance from Adan is not Sin, but the possibility of sin on the one hand, and death on the other.
As I mentioned in the video, that's not a topic I wanted to spend too much time on as it's disagreed upon by many different denominations of Christians. The important part is that because of Adam's sin, all are capable/inclined/destined to sin. Regardless of which view someone holds, it seems to be the case that everyone sins whether or not they inherited by nature or not.
With the Creation of the Heavens & Earth together with the Creation of Man & Woman … God Set into Motion a “Grand Experiment”. God - Started by giving Each of Us > Freedom - of - Will… Free Will of “Personal” Choice. He then, Set Before Us … the Rules by Which He “Asked / Suggested” Us to Live By i.e. 10 Commandments and his Teachings. He then said .. Here are my Requests .. In “Our”, Grand Experiment i.e. Yours & Mine… You can Do with Your Lives as You “Free Will” Wish / Choose. But “Know This” … That Your - Eternal Life - will be Decided Not by Me, But by “Your Own Actions” in my Grand Experiment. You / The Basis of Your Eternal Life, Will be Judged … > Not Only On What You have Done > But Also, By What You have Failed to Do ! In the End, the “Free Will” Choice is “Yours” !
@@freeindeed08 I was trying to be funny....but I know who my neighbor is...the person that needs me now. But about the idea of Gods plan....isn't the goal eternal life and doing God's will....which is loving ones neighbor?
@@freeindeed08 I’m a philosophy major. I’m very familiar with Kierkegaard and his beliefs. But there’s a way to present the information without promoting Christianity, and this video does not do that.
@@barbcarbon9440 trying to separate Kierkegaard from Christianity is impossible. His philosophy depends on and is based on Christianity. Faith in God is the core and solution to every problem that is presented in his works. To deny that is to deny everything he ever wrote.
@@freeindeed08 yes. I know. As I said, I’m a philosophy major. I study Kierkegaard. The difference is that the narrator here injects his own opinion in support of Kierkegaard‘s beliefs. That changes everything about the video. Instead of an objective philosophical examination of the work it becomes propaganda.
Absolutely ridiculous and intellectually insulting approach to one of mankind’s greatest thinkers. Reducing Kierkegaard to some kind of cartoon character is idiotic and unworthy. Shame on you.
Danish psychology student here. You gotta underline the point that anxiety comes from the knowledge and awareness of conscious choice and reverse anxiety is what brings you into that awareness. So anxiety is the force that allows you to relate to and be aware of your existence. The point being without anxiety you just kinda let life drift by living a pseudo existence, you fall into the antipathy forces or nature (Heidegger would say you fall into your throwness), not daring to actualize the sympathic forces or your spirit. The self is a duality of these two forces and it's everyone's own responsibility to balance them or you'll be lost in different types of despair and not be a self. In humans something in us reaches out towards the unknown or growth (it's basically the Aesthetic sphere of existence) and the other strives for security and the known (the philistine sphere or "mass man as you called it" - which oddly is never covered by people who haven't read him in his original language - there are 4 spheres of existence, not just 3).
An example of how anxiety works: You have an exam and you spend the first couple of days or maybe even weeks not really dealing with it, you neglect it and don't face it and the more you neglect it the worse this inner worrying feeling becomes. With the deadline closing in you are finally grabbed by anxiety in the realisation of your situation and now you either study or you collapse, give up and drop out. That's your dizzyness. Thus anxiety is a psychological factor that brings you into consciousness and allows you to relate to your existence. Yes anxiety sucks but existential thinkers view it as the core motivator of your entire existence, a positive phenomena with a directional and guiding value.
It's important to note the aesthetic sphere isn't a self, you can be lost in the potential and possibility, it's not about not just being a mass man. The aesthetic existence is filled with despair because you aren't anchored to reality. Becoming a self is becoming an authentic self, a synergi of your inner duality. That's when you move into the ethical sphere.
Also you're a little heavy on the religious aspect. Kierkegaard wasn't your average christian by any stretch of the imagination. The mass man can easily attend church every Sunday and when asked why he will state it's because he believes in god. But that doesn't make him a real self or a real christian in Kierkegaard's opinion. He didn't believe in god in the classical sense, he wasn't a man in the sky who says anything. God is everything, god is what remains when everything that's rational and logical has disappeared. To live in the religious sphere is to live by a religious hope. That's not a hope like "I hope it won't rain tomorrow". The religious hope is the hope that remains in humans when everything seems lost and without any rational solution. That's faith, and a faith that stands by virtue of the absurd.
And I'm schizophrenic with an affected anxiety called schizoaffectivity that is spectral. I saw that germanic Danish nonsense translated into English, closed the book refunded it at the end of the course. I absorb it into this girl as a muse just for fun, and lived until 41. He's trying to abstract some ancient medieval Bible or something. Heidegger anxiety is a fullness and falling out of dasein due to alterity in transcdental idealist systems.
Thank you for your videos man. I've been letting anxiety rule my life for too long.
Thanks man, appreciate the comment. I'll be praying for you.
"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." - 1 Peter 5:7
There it's all free I had to take all these courses and do it all myself
These are the exact thoughts that have been going throught my head the entire week, ive been trying to do and make decisions that maximize my anxiety, comfortable life is life that is not lived to potential
Love your videos. Always looking for decent Kierkegaard content.
Das school of anxiety is das school of greatness because who ever has learn how to be anxious in das right way has learned das ultimate
Very great video! I’m so thankful I found this channel!
Lets goo!! Recently picked up sickness unto death
Very nice! It is the hardest of all the works I've read to understand so I'd recommend consulting outside sources if you get lost.
His greatest existential concept is Angst. The angst of freedom. Sartre expands on this very well.
Reminds me of the spirit of adventure.
Another banger as usual!
I absolutely love this video! I’m slowly working out my brain to understand Kierkegaard.. do u have any lectures on Kierkegaard u have really enjoyed? Jon Stewart has an excellent docuseries on SK’s relation to Socrates as well as Philosopher of The Heart (an excellent biography).
I wish there was more Kierkegaard content on UA-cam!
Thank you! Michael Sugrue is solid on Kierkegaard. He doesn’t go super in depth on any particular work but he gives a good overview.
I like seeing kiekeegadians...profound video
Awesome content bro
Great job!
Please do cover the stoics
Song in the background please? Sounds like spanish guitar
Nice explanation sir can share the scholarly sources you consulted for understanding the original work. It would be very helpful for my assignment
I wish I could help but I made the video a while ago and don’t remember.
thank you very much for this video :D
Well done.
Kierkegaard was a Protestant, not a generic Christian. Christian includes papes and orthodox, Soren was a Proddy.
Nietzsche & Kierkegaard were both Lutherans if you didn't know
@@maturegaming372 YES! And Lutherans are...Protestants. Bloody hell, I just wonder if people ever really listen.
You equate Original sin with Hereditary sin (or ancestral sin as it is often called in the Eastern Church). However, some commentators seem to suggest that Kierkegaard is distinguishing the two, and there is an important difference between them on which the weight of Kierkegaard's whole argument about freedom hinges. The distinction doesn't matter to me and, because I don't share Kierkegaard's religious beliefs, it doesn't, in my eyes, affect the issue of freedom. However, it seemed to matter for Kierkegaard. In this view, our inheritance from Adan is not Sin, but the possibility of sin on the one hand, and death on the other.
As I mentioned in the video, that's not a topic I wanted to spend too much time on as it's disagreed upon by many different denominations of Christians. The important part is that because of Adam's sin, all are capable/inclined/destined to sin. Regardless of which view someone holds, it seems to be the case that everyone sins whether or not they inherited by nature or not.
I love this
Very nice
What’s the song playing in the background
"Laid Back Guitars" by Kevin MacLeaod
angst of freedom is different from anxiety
Ty, did not understand this lol
With the Creation of the Heavens & Earth
together with the Creation of Man & Woman …
God Set into Motion a “Grand Experiment”.
God - Started by giving Each of Us > Freedom - of - Will…
Free Will of “Personal” Choice.
He then, Set Before Us …
the Rules by Which He “Asked / Suggested” Us to Live By
i.e. 10 Commandments and his Teachings.
He then said .. Here are my Requests ..
In “Our”, Grand Experiment i.e. Yours & Mine…
You can Do with Your Lives as You “Free Will” Wish / Choose.
But “Know This” …
That Your - Eternal Life - will be Decided Not by Me,
But by “Your Own Actions” in my Grand Experiment.
You / The Basis of Your Eternal Life, Will be Judged …
> Not Only On What You have Done
> But Also, By What You have Failed to Do !
In the End, the “Free Will” Choice is “Yours” !
Better read Nieszche 👌🏻
Haven't read much yet but I've watched a fair amount of lectures. Interesting takes for sure but I obviously don't agree with him.
Enjoyed Nietzsche; read him 1st.
Based af ngl
Well God doesn't make it clear what the plan is.....unless it's love your neighbor, Jesus did not have my neighbors, and eternal life is the goal.
The parable of the Good Samaritan is a good one to check out if you want to know the answer to “who is my neighbor.”
@@freeindeed08 I was trying to be funny....but I know who my neighbor is...the person that needs me now. But about the idea of Gods plan....isn't the goal eternal life and doing God's will....which is loving ones neighbor?
@@hanskung3278 you should read the parable one more time, because the meaning is different than you are thinking.
You philosophy majors kill me. How can you equate todays anxiety with a book written 2 centuries ago. It makes no sense.
I’m not a philosophy major
Philosophy video? Nope. Christian propaganda. 🙄
Kierkegaard was a staunch Christian. Would it be surprising if his philosophy reflected that?
@@freeindeed08 I’m a philosophy major. I’m very familiar with Kierkegaard and his beliefs. But there’s a way to present the information without promoting Christianity, and this video does not do that.
@@barbcarbon9440 trying to separate Kierkegaard from Christianity is impossible. His philosophy depends on and is based on Christianity. Faith in God is the core and solution to every problem that is presented in his works. To deny that is to deny everything he ever wrote.
@@freeindeed08 yes. I know. As I said, I’m a philosophy major. I study Kierkegaard. The difference is that the narrator here injects his own opinion in support of Kierkegaard‘s beliefs. That changes everything about the video. Instead of an objective philosophical examination of the work it becomes propaganda.
All of Kierkegaards writings are Christian propaganda.
Absolutely ridiculous and intellectually insulting approach to one of mankind’s greatest thinkers. Reducing Kierkegaard to some kind of cartoon character is idiotic and unworthy. Shame on you.
Lol