Strangely I disagree. If anything the fact that we are basically fucked and will face hardship and suffering as part of the human condition doesn't push me away from hedonistic pursuits or useless shit. If anything it drives me towards getting laid and acquiring material possessions that will own me . Why? Because when you try and live a life with big dreams and lofty ideals God will laugh at you and shit on your plans. Some people breeze through , perhaps with horrible hearts and narcissistic tendencies and others crash and burn even when they try and do good and do the right things. If anything I consider kierkegaard a light hearted Nihilist much like myself . When I'm doing well I'm all spiritual and shit. Meditating, manifesting. Crushing life. Then one domino falls and my world can just collapse like that leaving you crushed, hurt, full of Angst as kierkegaard defined and put it and thinking do I even want to be here anymore. The point is I feel being a hedonist is great. Most humans operate on the basis of fear and reward as motivators. Our subconscious drivers operate based on blue prints that lead to pleasure and Try to avoid pain. Open bar ? Well mofo I'm drinking until I'm in the gutter because you never know when the bar is going to run out of that sweet free MOET. You get my drift. The universe and its defiant Yin and Yang paradoxical oxymoronic self contradictory nature essentially insists on ordered chaos. Life contradicts itself. The greatest pleasures cause the greatest pains. Kierkegaard was a G for not being with his love knowing that eventually that spark dies and the motto " better to have loved and lost than not have loved at all " is complete bullshit. Better to not hurt at all I say and be single. So cheers 🍻 to sorren kierkegaard and an honourable mention to Heidegger who acknowledged that the only thing that gives life content and meaning is DEATH. Fuck a society, a culture or anybodies else's expectation for me. Am I bitter ? Hell yeh I am. The older we get the more our beatiful spongy heart's turn to Leather and then stone. The best philosophy is no philosophy! Comitt to an ideology at your own peril because one day you wake up and it no longer means anything to you or life will piss in your face and on your scruples to show you how little you truly know and how little in control you really are . Just roll with it ! Me personally, material shit, getting laid , having fun is the success of life. You come in with nothing and leave with nothing. Fuck living an American dream with mortgage debt. Getting divorced at 50, having twatty kids that age you as fast a living next to a nuclear reactor and a university degree that teaches you how to be enslaved to the system and not free from it. Also fuck charity. If I can I will but I won't make a habit out of it. Kill or be killed . Gotta take care of me first. No one got rich giving half their earnings to charity. And poor kids dieng in Africa everyday while Elon musk wants to buy twitter and put micro chips In people's heads. The world is fucked. Life is a bitch. Pandemics happen and will continue to do so. Global warming is real . Dictators are real. War is real. Good people die horrific deaths. Thank you kierkegaard for enlightening us 🙏. The low level basal instinctual drivers are what motivate me. My reptilian monkey brain demands it . Anything else will lead to disappointment loss and pain 💔.
What is the difference between existentialism and individualism? Does the answer lie in how one comes to accept or "reckon" with ignorance? Whether it presents itself as a mental or physical barrier? If it is a mental barrier then ethics might help guide, if you have a good memory. If it is a physical barrier, then fatigue should be a trusted warning signal, if your constitution is sound. Training the memory and physical exercise, that's all there is to it. Like brushing your teeth, you don't see the benefits when you're young but eventually you reap the rewards.
Hey Ben, I'd love to see a very in depth video from you some time. Like one that was an hour long? I enjoy the shorter videos, but I think you might really make an impressive video with more screentime
Any recomendation to start understanding kierkegaard more? i start reading kierkegaard with "Either/ Or" but i find it very complex at times, so is quite difficult to understand (sorry if my writting is kind of bad, but this is not my native language)
Klegios ... to put it in a nutshell, Kierkegaard had really funny enlightening new considerations about individuality and freedom, the deeper sense of happiness, despair and anxiety ... reflecting all bizarre personal circumstances. I assume, it's helpful to read Wittgensteins Tractatus logico-philosophicus before, or essays from Theodor W Adorno before, critizing less mindful use of language and selfish useless human culture. Kierkegaard was far ahead of his time.
I think the disagreement with Kierkegaard that you mentioned at the end of the video mostly comes from egos and closed minds. Gods word is universal, not just relating to Christianity but seemingly to every religions path to enlightenment. A complete letting go of any control that you think you might have in the world...not saying that you shouldn’t try in life but true freedom comes from knowing that this isn’t your world to control but instead having faith and respect for the forces that did create it.
@@d.esanchez3351As an atheist myself, I agree with your comment. There are good and evil people in every religious and philosophical community....atheists are not “off the hook” when it comes to this fact of life. Unfortunately some atheists are smug enough to foolishly believe that their lack of faith is somehow a “superpower,” that makes them inherently superior, or better than religious folks.... As an atheist who used to believe in garbage ideas like that, I am glad that I eventually decided to take a more moderate approach, and listen to the words of philosophers like Soren Kierkegaard. While I strongly disagree with his very specific, and logically unprovable idea that says everyone needs to have a relationship with the Christian god, I still think that Kierkegaard had valuable things to say on other topics.
I hope you don't believe that Christianity's values are seen in other religions' paths to enlightenment because you think Christianity is objectively better than many other religions. Christianity's good elements are good in themselves regardless of the validity of the bold cosmological claims of religion. Do the gods love the good because it is good or is the good good because the gods love it? --remember your Plato. Christianity is partially good because some of its elements are good and not because it is good as a whole because it isn't.
Can you make a video about consciousness and the split brain experiment and its implications on consciousness? I always wondered whether we are alone in our minds, as in what if what we call our consciousness is only part of the brain, and not its entirety which the split brain experiment kinda hints. It feels to me that I am only partially in control of my brain, and the rest of the brain seems to be subservient to that part. But what if it was the other way around? Or maybe I am second in command without knowing it?
Yepp, it's important that we exist, and continue to do it. Philosophical anthropology is an incredibly interesting topic imo. In my COMMUNITY section: "The human evolution process, an essay with modern philosophical anthropology as a basis" I reflect on the modern human species and its relation to energy transformation and space exploration. My basic question is, should the modern human species still be called an animal, or is it now (soon) so different concerning its behaviour that it doesn't make sense anymore ? An animal has a brain mainly to control its body functions, a modern human is more and more developing towards a brain in focus which needs a body to survive, air and food. This brain is constructed to not accept total randomness and luck for surviving in the solar system, it can by transforming energy (then being able to deflect medium sized asteroids, survive in severe ice ages etc) and spreading out in the star system, willfully affect its own probability for survival. Then it has abandoned the main principle animal world, randomness and luck concerning survival in the long run. There can't, philosophically, be any greater difference than exist or not.
I thought Kierkegaard separated from Olsen because he could not capture the same passion with her if he chose to marry her -> things would become monotonous. Am I mistaken?
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” !
Faith in the absurd simply means ceasing to question. If the ethical can be superseded by God on a whim then the ethical is meaningless, and only the arbitrary/contradictory will of God is what you're supposed to follow. No thanks.
No one who ever gave the time of day to religious B.S. like Kierkegaard could ever really be the "father of existentialism", because a large part of what existentialism is all about is the struggle of humans beings to deal with a world that is at heart meaningless, and therefore also godless, a situation that seems to make almost sadistic comedy and absurdity out of the most unbearable human pain.
Based on some statements made here by Kierkegaard .. he surely seems self contradictory. Hmm ... such as having freedom actually produces more anxiety? Seriously? Uh, NO. Absolutely not. That's an asinine conclusion. If anything, then anxiety is produced ONLY when your personal freedom is limited.
