Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground | Desire and Reason | Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short work of existentialist literature, Notes from Underground, and specifically discusses the relationship between desire and reason, and the priority that desire ultimate has over reason.
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6 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 21

@horrifyinggelatinousblob 5 лет назад

Love your content. It’s concise, clear and light hearted when it can be. Cheers from The North

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@__Mike__2000 9 дней назад

What a fantastic little novel. I read it in high school but didn't understand any of it (neither did my teacher!). Read it again (and again) after watching these lectures. They really helped me understand the depth of the novel. Your lectures are brilliant!

@GregoryBSadler 8 дней назад

I'm glad you're finding them useful

@terryhand 4 года назад

Before I listened to your lectures I was very much in the Nabokov camp with regards to Dostoevsky. But thanks to you I am beginning to see him in a completely different light. What I really like about your talks is the way you present your subjects in such an unbiased manner. How else, you might ask, could we understand these great thinkers? But it is a rare commodity in these polarised times.

@GregoryBSadler 4 года назад

Glad you found it useful!

@hayyydeen 5 лет назад

Hey really loving these Core Concept videos on Dostoevsky. Do you plan on talking about any of his other works? Would love to hear you go in depth on The Brothers Karamazov or Demons (The Possessed/Devils). Either way love the work

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

You do know I shot a video long ago on part of the Brothers Karamazov

@hayyydeen 5 лет назад

If you mean the lecture you did on the grand inquisitor I have seen it

@NS-jp8bo 5 лет назад

Thank you for the quality content :)

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

You're very welcome!

@readingaddict 3 года назад

Love you sir. I liked it

@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@gabrielle1962 Месяц назад

Thanks for this lecture! I would love to explore a Lacanian approach to this topic 🙂

@GregoryBSadler Месяц назад

As someone who has published works on Lacan, I'd focus on understanding Dostoevsky fully first before trying my hand at a "Lacanian" approach

@MrMarktrumble 5 лет назад

I am grateful that I desired to know god, and that the divided line and the one became big mysteries for me at an early age. It gave an orientation that helped develop whatever self control I have now to be. But I still have questions, and can be "cranky". I desire to be authentically wise.

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

I'm looking for wisdom too

@tonechavi2760 5 лет назад

@@GregoryBSadler Luckiky i found some flowing out from you! Thank you

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

@@tonechavi2760 You're very welcome!

@aion5837 5 лет назад

Desire may be a primitive drive and almost identical to the drive to survive. The new born 'desires' those things that ensure his survival. In that context, at the very least, Dostoevsky's stressing the importance of the desire to desire makes complete sense. If the new born becomes overly traumatised the desire to desire can be reduced putting the baby's life at risk because they refuse feeding. So, perhaps in adults the desire to desire is an affirmation of life. This is very psychological - sorry! I just want you to know that it is entirely your fault that I have become hooked on reading Heidegger and not just Heidegger but also the philosophy of technology. I do think that on-line courses will be the norm in the future and of course tutors should be properly funded.

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

Well, I will be rolling a lot of these videos into online courses, not just for academic institutions, but in my Study with Sadler online courses site. There are worse things you could be hooked on than Heidegger!