Man I really love watching these videos you post. You are awesome for posting all this great stuff. I just read philosophy for my own amusement and sometimes have trouble digesting certain things if they are obscure or abstruse enough. But luckily you have posted videos on a lot of the stuff I'm interested in: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Plato to name a few. I am amazed at how much information you keep locked away in your head and can recall it absent notes, and then to speak in depth completely extemporaneously- whoa. Thanks for sharing your deep wealth of knowledge.
You're welcome. I think that I have to thank two things for that. One is the decade and a half of teaching service classes to non-majors. The other is the philosophical formation I got at my grad school, SIUC
Video of the session Saturday morning -- this time, we tackle some of the themes of Jean-Paul Sartre's works. Excellent discussion with the participants
Loved the discussion on Sartre! Shows just how relevant his philosophy still is. Can't wait to delve into his works myself. Thanks for these introductory videos!
PLEASE EXPLAIN its meaning sir, " a being such that in its being, its being is in question in so far as this being implies a being other than itself" consciousness defined. Kindly help Ch2 Bad Faith 1st passage Page 86
Great dialogue. Great series. Some of his ideas seem to be analogous with Kant's, in regards to freedom and responsibility...or perhaps I just misinterpreted that through the dialogue.
I think that it is unfair to say that the Bohemians, Beats, et cetera were all part of one conformist group. The motives for many of them were not social but individual, and they sought the company of others not because those others could understand them but because those were the only ones that would accept them. It seems much too structuralist to simply clump these disparate movements together, as though they had been a trend from the start. Take any one member of, say, Portland's music scene, and if that one is a contributing and influential member then he is totally unique; the environment just makes it easier to flourish. It feels like an imposed category that a conformist could use to level a non-conformist, but it is understood from the perspective of the conformist.
Yes, some of them were individuals. Many just talked the talk. I've had my time with "non-conformists". In my experience, those who actually are, talk very little about not being conformists
The audience is begging the fundamental question: what is free will? It is pointless to talk about when someone is using choice and when they are not when the question of the existence choice itself has not been answered. And since that question can never be answered with logic, only asserted, the whole thing is pointless except as an exercise of their social conventions. Of course, this comment is pointless too, and it doesn't even have the virtue of being an exercise of social conventions, because I recognize that the social conventions I cherish are not theirs.
Why does it seem like, in every philosophy class, there's a student waiting to blurt out a thought as soon as it arrives to him? It's always a dude. Strange phenomenon but also fairly irritating. I disliked those guys always.
Man I really love watching these videos you post. You are awesome for posting all this great stuff. I just read philosophy for my own amusement and sometimes have trouble digesting certain things if they are obscure or abstruse enough. But luckily you have posted videos on a lot of the stuff I'm interested in: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Plato to name a few. I am amazed at how much information you keep locked away in your head and can recall it absent notes, and then to speak in depth completely extemporaneously- whoa. Thanks for sharing your deep wealth of knowledge.
You're welcome. I think that I have to thank two things for that. One is the decade and a half of teaching service classes to non-majors. The other is the philosophical formation I got at my grad school, SIUC
Video of the session Saturday morning -- this time, we tackle some of the themes of Jean-Paul Sartre's works. Excellent discussion with the participants
Loved the discussion on Sartre! Shows just how relevant his philosophy still is. Can't wait to delve into his works myself. Thanks for these introductory videos!
You're welcome!
PLEASE EXPLAIN its meaning sir, " a being such that in its being, its being is in question in so far as this being implies a being other than itself" consciousness defined.
Kindly help
Ch2 Bad Faith 1st passage Page 86
Great question for an AMA
Great dialogue. Great series.
Some of his ideas seem to be analogous with Kant's, in regards to freedom and responsibility...or perhaps I just misinterpreted that through the dialogue.
No, there's definitely connections there -- although the same could be said for Sartre and Descartes, or Hegel, or. . . .
Also, please, " Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the Nothingness of its being " Ch2 Bad Faith 1st passage Page 86
What's confusing you about that? You'll need to say more than just "explain this".
thank you for the lecture
You're welcome
Lecture or discussion group? You be the judge.
Why be forced to have only one!
Excellent ...
Thanks!
Sartre's philosophy seems particularly autobiographical.
Sometimes it is
I think that it is unfair to say that the Bohemians, Beats, et cetera were all part of one conformist group. The motives for many of them were not social but individual, and they sought the company of others not because those others could understand them but because those were the only ones that would accept them. It seems much too structuralist to simply clump these disparate movements together, as though they had been a trend from the start. Take any one member of, say, Portland's music scene, and if that one is a contributing and influential member then he is totally unique; the environment just makes it easier to flourish. It feels like an imposed category that a conformist could use to level a non-conformist, but it is understood from the perspective of the conformist.
Yes, some of them were individuals. Many just talked the talk.
I've had my time with "non-conformists". In my experience, those who actually are, talk very little about not being conformists
The audience is begging the fundamental question: what is free will? It is pointless to talk about when someone is using choice and when they are not when the question of the existence choice itself has not been answered. And since that question can never be answered with logic, only asserted, the whole thing is pointless except as an exercise of their social conventions. Of course, this comment is pointless too, and it doesn't even have the virtue of being an exercise of social conventions, because I recognize that the social conventions I cherish are not theirs.
Using "begging the question" wrong
Why does it seem like, in every philosophy class, there's a student waiting to blurt out a thought as soon as it arrives to him? It's always a dude. Strange phenomenon but also fairly irritating. I disliked those guys always.
It's mostly a dude, in my experience. Fortunately, it's not in every class