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“But Nikita did not find from loving Lyuba intimately any higher happiness than he had usually known - he felt only that his heart was now in charge of his whole body and could divide his blood with his poor but necessary pleasure.”

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I've found your video exactly because I posed myself the same questions and wanted to see if someone had a point of view on the matter. Great video

I'm going to be starting a philosophy degree in uni in just a few weeks' time, and though obviously I know I'm interested in the area, I've been doing a lot of thinking about how my 'interest' weighs against 'practicality'. Everyone knows there's no set future/career for a philosophy graduate, and to be very honest, I chose the degree based on "I would like to know more about this" rather than "I already know I love this", so as the summer has progressed I've grown more and more uncertain. But after watching your video, feel I've made the correct choice. It was a huge gamble on my part lol, but if every time I research into what I'll be learning at uni I look forward more eagerly to starting, maybe I've done something right.

You are an angel and such a good teacher. Glad I found you on YT!❤thank you!

There is no such thing as love whatsoever. If we find a person we say we “love” it’s merely ornately disguised selfishness. What we are seeing in that person’s eyes is a reflection of our own desires: what we like, what we want, or a combination of the two. If true love existed once it’s now extinct like the dinosaurs because our world is too selfish and superficial. We killed it.

What about music? I mean, the kind of love songs the lyrics of which fall along the lines of fairytale-like poetry. Many people would find these corny and cliché, and conclude that the love mentioned in these songs is nothing but a myth

work sets you free

guilt is slavishly conscientiousness

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I like that meme haha

Actually I think that a Phil degree prepares you to be an excellent video essayist, or streamer. I am 100% serious.

I seem to have fallen in love with you.

How is the philosophy graduate school like?

Hello, Liv. Are you well?

good, but your "demand" at the end wont happen (and is an unfounded demand).

Lesson from philosophy of mathematics: "Equality" is intensional, not extensional. Even (surprisingly) Marx noted this. What is considered equal in one sense is unequal in other senses. It's not a coherent benchmark.

Your videos very true I meant, unfortunately most of the time people are only together for convenience. Where is the situation ship in regards to a promotion at work basically the rub shoulders and monkey branch from the general manager of 2, Director of operations. I’ve seen this and work literally both women and some men even doing this literally like they will just so hot from one relationship one bedroom to the next just to get a job that they’re completely on qualified for and it’s much easier for women to do and or to move up the socioeconomic ladder. Everything is stacked against you when you the bottom 90%

Hello from Homerton! Fascinating monologue. Anyway, I had you at 0.75x speed and it was perfect. Keep posting!

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Thank you thank you for this!!🥹

So glad I found this video

I Hope you are well!

I believe the right title for this video is “Romance is a myth”

Love this

Your voice is so low

How did you get into the university, as in what were your grades. What would you need to get an admission?

Can I get the pdf of this book?

Thank you for making this video on a topic that is talked about far too little! I never learned about Philosophy at school, but I wish I did. I never knew about Schopenhauer, but I came to similar conclusions he did when I was 19. The only way out seemed dying, but I didn't want to die. It would've been ungrateful to my mother, who has born and raised me. I think I only snapped out of my depression because I was going to University soon and that gave me prospects of a new life, something to be excited about. I still face these thoughts from time to time (I am 26 now). However, two things stop me from falling into depressions: 1) I was told in the few therapy sessions I had that we do not overcome our crisis by doing nothing. We have to keep seeking experiences to achieve higher emotional states. However, that doesn't solve the meaninglessness, so 2) My father gave up on himself, and feeling first-hand how much pain you cause your loved ones when you stop trying to be happy made me realise: even if I have no reason to seek happiness, I need to do so for the people that care about me I am also an artist, which makes meaninglessness another struggle for me. Why create? Recently I read a book about ikigai, and the part about starting small, and seeing the world like a child really struck a chord with me. A child will try to draw, without thinking of whether it is good or whether the drawing has meaning. Once I accept my work as meaningless and insignificant, and only pursue my work for the satisfaction of having achieved my insignificant goal, it gives me all the energy and determination I need to finish a piece. I'm not good at explaining but something clicked in my brain after reading the book. I don't ask myself anymore whats the point of creating this, I just do and try to do it as well as I can, for the sake of doing something with passion. Anyway, that's all for my little brain dump. Thank you for inspiring me to think about this topic today. Have a good one ❤

Moby Dick. The first 400 pages are a total waste of time. You could not publish this today, an editor would insist the ship leaves the harbor in the first 20 pages.

I agreeee....!!!!!!!! I was foooled all these years

Such a great insightful analysis. I was looking for a video about existentialism in Kafka and i found this hidden gem, a comparison between two novels that have accompanied me for the last months. After having read Crime and Punishment a few months ago, and currently reading The Trial, your video couldn’t have come at a better time ! Not only you’ve helped me understand Crime and Punishment more, but i can now see a lot further while i’m reading Kafka. Also, your choice of actual passages from the book is truly helpful and really spot on with what you’re explaining. Thanks a lot, immediate like and subscribe, your work and insightful mind is appreciated !

In Brave New World, the citizens are conditioned not the fear death. In the real world, DNA evolution has conditioned us over millions of years *to fear death* Either way, we have been conditioned. Which is better? Also, I find the second half of John the Savage’s speech utter horrifying and literally couldn’t disagree any more. The World Controller genuinely seemed in the right in that scene to me. If pain is what it means to be human, then I don’t want to be human.

very insightful - thanks for sharing! I want to watch "everywhere all at once" again :D

Jobs only exist because there are some that need to be done for society to function. The criticisms of bullshit jobs are valid in my opinion, since they suck valuable resources (capital & labour) away from important jobs that actually improve peoples' lives.

so happy to find against interpretation on audible! got it on now :) Excited to see more videos & checking out your best phil reads. I look forward to finding more time to read when I return to Oxford.

Hello livophil, I would like to direct my lines of query towards you, do you have Instagram or telegram?

Great insights

19:46 The English translation is 'Convenience Store Woman'. Great critique.

Much awaited content! Glad you are back. This video definetly is making me want to go live in a forest or a little town lol. Jokes aside, the last message really got me thinking, about how this loneliness pandemic on humanity might be more and more related too te way most of adult relationships are superficial and work based, since showing personal ideas or thoughts in a job ambient is usually discoruaged. Makes me think this is why we feel we have less meaninful relationships nowadays and its harder to understand who we are, because a part of our personality, as you said, its now this purified and "correct" form of being, while our non work self its the incorrect and more problematic person, which sounds as a very bad psycological situation for ourselves. Anyways love the video!

I Like the way you think.

Like your face. Smile.

Im feeling you with the economics vs other humanities to asian parents lol. They all advised me to choose business or econ but ive chosen philosophy and politics 😅 i love your videos btw

Why did you speed up your voice

spoiler alert! capitalism is organized crime. private property is illegitimate. philosophers only interpret reality, the point is to overthrow tyranny.

I don't think you can quite say goodness is a manmade concept. Goodness is probably primevally associated with the pleasurable and badness with the painful. So across cultures and ideologies Roman, Christian, and otherwise, you have generally consistent principles of moral goodness - you shouldn't torture people for amusement, you shouldn't betray your friends, etc.