There's something about RU-vid lectures where the lower the view count, the better they get! I'm 23 min in and already really enjoy your style of presenting!
I'm a philosophy undergrad tackling this difficult book and I'm glad you made this. Thanks for putting it out here for free you've saved me lots of stress!
I really appreciate this lecture, it made me appreciate Merleau-Ponty. He's very hard to read and the text is dense, but I suppose it was because I was approaching it as just a text. Thank you for this introduction.
That's an excellent way to put it--it's not "just a text," but a very demanding work that you have to move through quite slowly. I'm glad my lecture was valuable for you--that's the kind of result I was hoping for when I recorded it!
I can feel your passion for philosophy when you talked about, for instance, Merleau-Ponty, which I believe makes your videos really stand out in contrast to tons of other similar videos on RU-vid that only treat philosophy as some lifeless "knowledge". Thank you for your videos!
Jeeeeeze this just blew my mind. You’re also so articulate and easy to understand and sometimes someone else putting it in words as to what I study and I read can really make it solidify as what the hell im doing. Thank you for this intro to merleau ponty, it really really tied a lot together for me.
Flourishing....awakening..in freedom.. freedom is a field with no concept, no opinions, no conclusions which allows you to discover something new about yourselves..
Description is expressing the form in which something appears; explanation is attempting to say why something appears; analysis is breaking something down into its constituent parts.