Sartre: Existentialism and the Anguish of Freedom
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- Join George and John as they discuss and debate different Philosophical ideas. Today they are looking at Sartre’s Existentialism and the anguish of freedom.
The core principle of Existentialism is that existence precedes essence, unlike Essentialism, Existentialism believes that we do not have an innate essence that makes us who we are, we exist first and then we develop our essence based on the choices we make as free conscious agents. This is what Sartre referred to as the anguish of freedom.
Watch the explanation of why Sartre saw freedom as a source of anguish and anxiety, and listen to the debate on whether Existentialism as a whole is a valid Philosophical approach to life.
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somethings happen in life that make u question things. It is a consolation that others have gone though similar thoughts
Why does John always sound so high lol
Because he always is 😂
he bangs his head to heavy metal music...
It’s part of his essence ;)
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@@PhilosophyVibe Thanks for this. Sartre was very difficult to me, until now.
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As a medical student, philosophy is a borrowed course and i have a presentation on this topic. Thanks for helping with this video ❤
I’m so overwhelmed after realising this. 4 years later still just as anxious.
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This is so helpful..
Now I understand the term very well..
Thank you somuch..
Great channel. The previous background that you have will influence your choices per sure, however, you are totally responsible for your choices. This thought that there isn't free will to any degree just creates spoiled people that don't assume responsibility for their choices.
Really great. It's like pelagianism controversy a little bit. Ultimaately you need to ask: Do you have a choice to make? If so, than it doesn't matter how you were "shaped" by environment. If you had a choice and you made it (you really can't escape making a choice if you have it) than you created you. So we may say you co-create your essence, but it is more, cause the sum of influences that shaped you without your choice is not... YOU! It's just a mere part or reflection of environment, what is really YOU starts with YOUR first real choice and than you create you. So YOU in that part which is an answer or reaction to part that was ingrained in you. So we differentiate the part of YOU that comes from outside (aka environment) and part of YOU which is an effect of your every choice you can't avoid to make. We are not responsible for the first part, but the first part is not US. We are creators nor followers, we create ourselves, not realizing imposed plan. In that case something new appear in the world. And if we choose not to choose than we create a pattern of a human which is uncreative, passive, which is not human per se.
William Ernest Henley, the poet who wrote “Invictus” sums up the Existentialist philosophy beautifully : “I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my of my Soul”. At every moment we are Free to choose, even in the most dire circumstance where the results of a bad or unwise choice could bring about horrible consequences.
Good way on giving an open choice at the end.
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I always teach my translation students that when they translate, they have full freedom to make choices. Even if I suggest corrections, I would only explain why I am making changes. It is up to them to agree or disagree. They have full freedom but are fully accountable as well.
That's dumb.
Very clear, thank you.
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really good points.
I'm learning more than I did in school
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We bear the complete responsibility for our choices. That actually makes me happy every day. It is a big responsibility but it makes life so rich and meaningful. To me being a helpless toy in the hands of fate is a depressing idea, not freedom. I love freedom!
There's a really good documentary similar to this topic called Three Identical Strangers, I think you might be able to catch it on Netflix. Highly recommend this doc. Delves into the nature VS. nurture debate
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Our experieces mold us and our generations. The evolution takes palce when experiences and choices of our ancestors mold our generation. We have choice to certain limit- the limit is our body. We can choose as much as it allows us.
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Great video! Just a suggestion, you could consider doing a series on Philosophy of Language next. It would be great to see Frege, Russell and Quine feature on this channel (Wittgenstein already has once).
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I think everything has a determined outcome, based on prior experience and knowledge gained, and actions done. I think we can all make choices. However, it will ultimately lead us to a specific outcome.
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Make a video on Nominalism. It precedes and causes all philosophy that followed after it. Thanks for your channel. Love it. Are you going to straighten the mat?
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Nice discussion, but what is meant by free choice. I you think the choices aren't determined in some ultimate sense, are they just random? Or is there some other option?
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i am still working on my existence and essence to mould and shape and develope ovall as a person with and Identity. it takes time i guess like rome was not built in one day. the thing is how soon or longer and how much time we will exist and our essence will be recognised for what we are. for that I guess we need a market or a place where our existence can be seen and so we are recognised with our essence.
Sink or swim? Tossed into a backyard pool or dropped into a stormy sea? Having everything handed to or fighting for the next breath? Having a helping hand or being backed into a corner? Nature or nurture? The anguish of freedom is that freedom is not always what it cracked up.
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I am such a moron that I never knew what existenialism meant until now. Thank you for the video.
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"our existence comes with the anguish of freedom"
In short, there are choices, whether predetermined or not.
Make a video on Martin Heidegger please ..
Sartre (later in life) would agree more with John. He was deeply influenced by other existentialists that focused on the specific cases of feminism and civil rights.
The core idea 'existence precedes essence' is still valid for the individual but can lead to bigotry when applyed generally within a society.
8:15
yup, but as Camus said, the true meaning of being existentialist is to rebel ... even though the life is meaningless, like you said, that some people may have genetics or backgrounds that affect the future (facticities).. in the end of the day, we are the one who gives and create the meaning of one's life.
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Why does this look like that old flash drive show they showed in school?
10:30
you may don't remember, but you CHOSE to hear it in the past, let say accidentally heard it and you chose to follow it in some sort..
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Sir, please could you make a video on Russell's logical atomism ..........
Hi Samir, will look into this for 2020. Thank you for the suggestion.
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John sounds like Prince Phillips looked
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Subtitles?
Sartre projected his ideas unto his philosophy. If you want to be anxious follow him because he gives man 100%responsibility and more. Too Scary for cowards
John is quite an inquisitive, stubborn chilld of a man, who refuses to be Sartr-ized🤣🤣
As a joke we are doing ncr
it'd probably be better for the existentialist side to try and base libertarian freedom on something more than just intuition
So your intuitive response to this video is to question the validity of intuition as an argument?
@@hendrikstrauss3717 very clever
even if the response was intuitive it wouldn't necessarily make it wrong or irrational
@@2tehnik My only point was that the power of intuition is nothing to be argumentatively discarded because it is what allows us tp argue in the first place.
@@hendrikstrauss3717 you can't say all intuitions are on the same level because of that though.
rational intuition can tell me the derivative of e^x is e^x and that's basically undoubtable and necessary, but claims like "I have free will" or "external reality exists in itself" aren't undoubtable or necessary, hence why they are brought into question in the first place.
the existentialist still has to provide an argument for the existence of libertarian free will (especially libertarian free will since compatibilism easily becomes incompatible with existentialism (as the video shows))
@@2tehnik hmmm... I've never thought about existentialism and compatibilsm being incompatible. Atleast what existentialism has been to me is the innate meaninglessness of the world around, and our being forced to give some narrative structure to the world. Seems artistically and philosophically true to me. I actually think even Kantianism is compatible with the aforementioned.
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Give a narrative on a small boy how the existence of a boy appear to him????
Let us invite Eren Jäger so he can assert the true meaning of freedom 😌🤚🏻
John…not choosing is choosing ffs
There is one issue you didn't address: if we do NOT have a choice and choices arise ONLY from essence, then we do NOT bear any responsibility for our actions, our lives and ANY consequences that come from these choices. I think that - whatever essence you throw in - is a worse than any alternative.
At least it isn't lopsided like most of the philosophy teachers on youtube. Sartre essence was to get rich and famous. LOL.
That's a very weak attempted take down of existentialism.
You are always choosing your attitude. Your childhood does not dictate (it might influence it, but that's a long way from 'determining' it) your choice of attitude as an adult.
Just because you don't remember making a choice, does not mean you didn't make it.
There could be lots of people born gifted, but their choice of attitude etc means they didn't develop it and we/the world never got to know that they were born gifted.
Existence not only precedes essence, but who said that there is even an essence at all? That's not a given.