What's the difference between getting revenge for something that happened 5 seconds ago vs. 5 years ago? I don't view one as any more or less reprehensible than the other.
Well, yeah. Physical is superior. Great video, by the way, as always. However, I have one big argument: for us who live in third world country, buying a physical book from EU or US is expensive af. So, for this, I usually go kindle/digital. Like, I just bought a book for 6 of my curreny on Kindle, which would be like 70 if I had bought a physical copy.
That is great advice and a great video. Other good one is to focus on what you need to do today. This hit me yesterday when I was feeling anxious. I though about that verse in the Sermon of the Mountain: "Sufficient for the day is its own trouble". I though, "well, I have to take care fo today. What do I have to take care of today?". It was late at nigth. All I had to do was pray and sleep. This isn't to hard to manage. So, my anxiety went away.
While I think this is a fine video, I do feel it's important to note your omission of Plato's philosophy of mathematics. It's true that the Allegory of the Cave has multiple valid interpretations rooted in metaphysics and epistemology, Plato uses the Allegory to set up his discussion on the importance of mathematics in the education of his philosopher-kings. To illustrate my point, consider this passage found at the bottom of page 232 of the Republic, Book 7 (Cambridge Texts In The History of Political Thought, translated by Tom Griffith). Socrates: "'In a case like this the soul within him would be driven in its confusion to start searching. It would arouse the capacity for reflection within itself, and ask it what the one itself actually was. In this way studying the one would be one of those things which lead and direct us towards the contemplation of what is.' Glaucon: 'Right, and seeing the one does have exactly this effect. After all, we are can see the same thing, at one and the same time, both as one and also as an infinite number.' Socrates: Well, if this is true of the one, I said, 'is it not also true of number in general?' Glaucon: 'Yes, of course.' Socrates: 'And arithmetic and the theory of number are exclusively concerned with number.' Glaucon: 'Absolutely.' Socrates: 'Clearly, then, the study of the number is conducive to truth.' Glaucon: 'To a remarkable degree.' " Needless to say, mathematics is crucial to the allegory of the cave. Also, I don't know how you can also talk about Plato's Theory of Forms without mentioning mathematics. I mean Platonism is quite literally an ideology found within the philosophy of mathematics. By the way, for any viewer writing an essay on this (or simply wants to be more informed) that asks for a counter to Plato's Theory of Forms, it has a name (which is not mentioned in this video): intuitionism. Intuitionism fundamentally stipulates that all mathematics is ultimately a construct of the human mind, or that mathematics is created, not discovered (a product of our own intuition). This tells me that you either (1) never actually read the entirety of Book 7 as its evident that it concerns mathematics and its role in education "to a remarkable degree," and/or (2) you just don't know philosophy in general.
The Plato's allegory in the cave is about racism and slavery. There is a lot more to that allegory in the cave as well The parable of the life, than you will ever imagine. Check out this book called, The mind Then and Now,: in the heart of chaos. Coming out within the next 2mths.
I find Pascal to be an absolute badass. He defends the importance of becoming aware of one's own existential dread while, at the same time, acknowledging how difficult that is, and the importance of engaging with things that take you away from it from time to time. One of my favorite passages from the Pensées: "So we are wrong in blaming them. Their error does not lie in seeking excitement, if they seek it only as a diversion; the evil is that they seek it as if the possession of the objects of their quest would make them really happy. In this respect it is right to call their quest a vain one. Hence in all this both the censurers and the censured do not understand man's true nature".
I was raised Christian, but I find it impossible for me to believe the way many seem to believe. I have studied 25 years and came to some similar realizations. No matter how atheist and skeptical my beliefs that when something seems impossible to endure or overcome, I am grateful for a sense of faith. Sometimes you simply cannot afford to devote any mental energy towards anything other than a positive outcome. As in a survival scenario or something dire. Faith is a super powerful psychotechnology. And then grace or forgiveness. Repentance and penance. It seems inevitable that we will do something that goes against our own personal or community standards. I guess we wouldn't have them if it was simply natural behavior for everyone all the time. It takes faith to accept some of life's circumstances. And grace to forgive us and others. And that by having faith you can rally people around you to protect your groups morale and the more you can forgive yourself and others the more cohesive your group will be. Just that some believers end up going way too far in what personal and group behavior they will forgive. These are great psychotechnologies but when they start to claim moral superiority it becomes a toxic cult and is a dangerous thing indeed. The practices of faith and grace are somewhat universal experiences for humans in this meta experience. Just don't let anyone control your life with it.
Another great video, I've stayed away from Shestov for a couple reasons mainly his aphoristic style but you have inspired me to give him another look. Still waiting on Han Ryner
The transparent eyeball reminds me of 'On having no head'. It's a short to the point book that describes how to have the direct experience of 'becoming one with nature' as its framed here.
Regarding the third aspect of beauty. It sounds like he's talking about duality. One thing can't exist without the other. Hence TRULY acknowledging or approaching one thing means to appreciate the whole universe. One star can't exist without the rest of the universe which "made it" from which can be extrapolated that the whole universe couldn't exist without this one star because the universe made the star by being itself. So the star in itself is also the the whole universe manifesting as it. It's the same with us and anything else.
@@PhilosophyToons I didn't notice the presence or absence of music in a way that was worth noting after having watched many of your videos. Whatever way you do it, it seems to be working for me.
I find that the best thing against anxiety is the virtue RECTITUDE. Once you satisfied rectitude you have satisfied your obbligations and have no further reason to worry. Rectitude destroys anxiety.
Pascal was really bad at gambling. He bet everything on a wager with 1/~4000 odds. In Pascal's wager, since there's about 4000 religions, the odds you pick the right one and get the good afterlife are 1/4000.
@@PhilosophyToons It's a good vid. Still bad odds to pick one of the 4000 religions in hopes the one you picked leads to a good afterlife. Safer to choose what one believes based on verifiable evidence.
I'm with you. Christianity has a lot of solutions to the emotional, psychological, and philosophical problems we face. And after so many decades of people criticizing Christianity it's been really interesting to watch in recent years as people discover and talk more about it
Yes. Because the truth is he cares for himself more when he role plays. In pragmatism you have near truths and those are never complete facts. a pramatic truth is only based on facts and is not near.
A man after my own heart. Survive, adapt & overcome. Change (either for better or for worse) is inevitable & it's necessary. Closed-mindedness, is a sickness. "Philosophize with a grenade." 😎 love it 👊🏼
Me as a scientist reading the republic found it harder than solving ten thousand mathematical equations….especially the chapter about women…it said something can’t judge..cause it wasn’t clear at all…I really wanted to know his opinion about the matter Being a non native English speaker adds an entire new level of difficulty to his books..I don’t know if I should work on my understanding of philosophy or my language skills…which one is the problem? Can’t decide 😅💀
Yes, i agree with everything said but i have a problem - i am not aware of it, I don’t feel that shortness and so I am not so driven, you need to feel it but i don’t
New channel idea… AnxietyToons. It’s a bad joke. But, Anxiety is no joke! I have suffered with it for years. I always say in this time we live in, if you aren’t anxious it means you’re not paying attention.
As a longtime devotee of stoicism I find it to be an art. Easy to understand, but difficult to master. Always requiring diligent practice, but immensely rewarding.
Hackett is the S***! Thier Complete Works of Plato. Ruined me on everything academia, education and university. Why? Because they included a book called "Defenitions" written by the scholars of the actual "Academy." Guess what the defenition to philosophy is? It's not "love of wisdom." "Φιλοσοφία: The state which contemplates the truth. What makes it true. Cultivation of the soul*. Based upon correct resson." That f**** n red pilled me so hard! And it's all Hackett's fault. *P.S. What they meant by soul was The Soul with a capital "S" not your soul. Soul to them was this Roger Penrose notion of a Tripartite reality. That was neither dualist or monoist. In that it was divided 3 ways mental, physical and mathematical. Tripartite.Which is later highlighted in Euclid's treatise on geometry. With the 1st postulate on how construct an equilateral triangle using the points of two circles... 😆.. Roger Penrose's triangle ⟁ anyone? Anyways the two circles in Euclid's 1st postulate represent the "monad" and "dyad" the Equilateral Triangle it constructs is the image of the higher form of Triangle that only exists in the mathematical realm. Which is seen by the mind through the physical sense of sight.
Another thing about Seneca that engenders great respect from me is that he was a philosopher who walked the walk. When Nero’s thugs showed up and told him he had to take his own life he did it without fear or complaint. That’s Stoicism in action.
