Existentialism: Where To Start

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Existentialism is a vague and complex ideological movement filled with prominent figures such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, among many others
Today, I'll breakdown this loosely defined school of thought, explain the general themes and principles while also providing 7 book recommendations for where to start
Gage's Video: • The Reason Existential...
Books Mentioned:
Existentialism is a Humanism, Sartre - amzn.to/3Uc2Y5v
Two Ages, Kierkegaaard - amzn.to/449HDhS
On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche - amzn.to/4aMRAnP
Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche - amzn.to/3Qenph2
The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus - amzn.to/3xQ2Xgk
Notes from Underground - amzn.to/3wezfkt
The Trial, Kafka - amzn.to/4b18eQZ
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - What is Existentialism?
1:05 - Key Themes & Principles
3:43 - Book #1
5:10 - Book #2
6:56 - Book #3
8:39 - Book #4
11:28 - Book #5
14:52 - Book #6
17:55 - Book #7
20:12 - Simone de Beauvoir
21:58 - Summarized
22:32 - Why Our Society Needs Existentialism
24:38 - Outro
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@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici 2 месяца назад

One does not simply start with the existentialists

@Geemeel1 2 месяца назад

Great reviews and very clear explained for starters, Thanks!! 👏🏽

@nacho6438 2 месяца назад

definitely going to check these out!

@doyle6000 Месяц назад

Subscribed, thanks!

@hatethenewyou 2 месяца назад

Another great video, very insightful as always man.

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

I'm grateful for the support!

@jackwalter5970 2 месяца назад

I never thought of Dostoevsky as being existentialist. Interesting.

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

Both he, Kafka, and other writers interwove existential or philosophical concerns into their fiction in a way that suggests ideas or arguments in a less direct, didactic way than philosophical works do

@philipptiepolt5547 2 месяца назад

Thanks a lot for this excellent video! I can follow your thoughts and I think they are deep. Don't be annoyed about These comments like: "Take a lesson in logic first!"... We are AMAteurs and we know there are lots of frustrated professional philosophers working as taxi drivers who channel their frustration into your channel. 😅 ❤ All the best from Leipzig, Germany.

@sudhanshulaha7836 Месяц назад

I tried reading the myth of Sisyphus but couldn't as the language was too complex.

@TheActiveMind1 Месяц назад

No worries! It is quite a challenging work. I’d commend coming back to it in a few months and leveraging supplementary resources (RU-vid, podcasts, etc) to help your reading of it

@ReadtoFilth 2 месяца назад

Yep all of them are on my Existentialism TBR. I may have to reread Myth of Sisyphus because boy that was a hard read. I enjoy reading Albert Camus’ works and I subscribe to Absurdism. Have you read any other Albert Camus’ books?

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

Yes, I’ve read The Stranger and The Rebel

@floridaboy6357 2 месяца назад

Where to start? Way ahead of you bud 😭

@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici 2 месяца назад

Lol I've read everything from the thumbnail. This channel is not for me.

@IAmWillJR 2 месяца назад

Do you take recommendations on what to explore?

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

Of course!

@IAmWillJR 2 месяца назад

@@TheActiveMind1, South east Asia or Japanese literature?

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

@@IAmWillJR Feel free to send any recommendations!

@IAmWillJR 2 месяца назад

@@TheActiveMind1, I read a few queer literature, I doubt there’s an active audience or any in the RU-vid community. I could be wrong! 😅 I was a few hundred pages in ‘A Fine Balance’ which talked about the hardship of different perspectives last I remembered. You can start there for South East Asia Literature fiction. Theres knowledge to be said about every book but I am certain the book I have mentioned is a work of art in it of itself.

@sihamwh 2 месяца назад

⁠@@IAmWillJR i second A fine balance ✋

@billpoole8541 2 месяца назад

So existentialism and free will are essentially the same thing?

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

Not quite. It's a bit complicated as some like Nietzsche outright deny free will, while Camus acknowledges the limit of free will. For example, Sisyphus may be condemned to live in this absurd existence driven by fate, but he can consciously choose to find solace in the pursuit or 'rebel against the absurd'. Free will is one of those very nuanced, convoluted topics within philosophy

@stephen1340c 2 месяца назад

For an existentialist like Martin Heidegger, making the most of one's life, freely and responsibly, means scapegoating and committing genocide against racial, ethnic, religious, and/or cultural minorities.

@De_Selby 2 месяца назад

Interesting philosophy. More so shocking than interesting. Could you recommend any works of his?

@stephen1340c 2 месяца назад

@De_Selby Not a recommendation but a suggestion: Look into his "Black Notebooks". His anti-Semitic prejudices were fundamental to his philosophy.

@damiana.9544 2 месяца назад

How to start existencialism? Sorry to tell you, but It already started, you cannot run away from it, existencialism in a neverending conundrum everyone will return to at random times of life XD

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

Haha the never-ending crisis!

@sihamwh 2 месяца назад

I don’t beleive you can cure moral decay by a philosophy of individual dogmas. The thing with creating your own truth is that with eight billions of us you’ll have an equal amount of truths and some of them will clash. And knowing one has the autonomy to change one’s life does not guarantee a willingness to do so or for it to be for the better. Free will does not a better world make imo, rather the will to do better at each individual level wish is not a universal goal and that goes back again to the concept of what’s better and for whom and the zero sum of it all. I wished you didn’t mention Simone with a caveat as it makes it sound like an afterthought or a foot note when by and large she is a key figure of existentialism french or otherwise 😜

@TheActiveMind1 2 месяца назад

Existentialism is not about creating individual truths by assessing own’s individuality and self-expression within a totality of individuals. I would agree that a belief in free will doesn’t inherently evoke a desire to enact such will, but that’s not the fault of a philosophy but of that particular individual. Lastly, I didn’t discuss Simone as a caveat, rather I gave her a dedicated section of the video because she is a key figure, yet I wouldn’t include her books as part of my recommended starter list