Eric. From a man also born in 1960 (me) ... Thanks! Great video. I have been consciously enjoying the idea of making my whole life be a self-authored work of art for the past year or so, and really unconsciously doing that my whole life. Life is so amazing! I just want to be "awake" for all of it.
A sincere hymn to the Existentialists and their clear thinking. Nice! (Personal responsibility is the theme I love best: taking the steep and thorny path when the temptation is to take the primrose path.)
I used to want to ignore and push back my feelings of anxiety and dredd but lately I am much more inclined to acknowledge my feelings as part of who I am in light of the fact that I am in tune with the 'whole' that you speak of. Great horrors are happening to people all round the world who are at the peril of an indifferent universe.
Eric, thanks for making this video. I love the way you explain the most crucial concepts of our human existence. We have such amazing minds, and everyone should hear this talk you made. You're right about it taking courage to accept some of these ideas, however a better human should result from it. There is no limit to what the human race could achieve with more mindfullness.
Great work Eric, I am unfamiliar with existentialism except for part 1 of your introduction. I have a question that I feel compelled to ask: around 4:28 in the video you describe subjectivity and objectivity being fundamental poles of ex-sistence (existence) as such. And that the fundamental takeaway is that the personal subjective pole is seeking meaning in the objective world (pole) and vis versa. In my preponderances it makes a lot of sense to think our personal views are mostly objective and that the world itself is mostly subjective [to the objectivity of it's inhabitants]. In fact, in all our activities as you rightly say, we personally try to create meaning around us as we engage in opportunities to do so with the rest of the world. But our efforts to create are not unbiased in a sense that we approach and act on each moment separately from all other moments. Rather, we are guided by coding in our DNA and "programming" of values, habits, behaviors, even preferences that are encoded into our minds since birth all so that we engage with the world with deliberate intention. My views is that the objective part within each of us is responsible for finding meaning [creating] in the subjective part of the world much more than our subjective part finds meaning in the objectivity of the world. Perhaps one may even say that the objective part of the world only has the meaning to be endured, that we only endure the objective part of the world. Is it worth considering a duality of subjective and objective qualities in existence in ambos, ourselves as individuals and the world at large? If and individual is indeed purely subjective, can you say whether he or she would have any bias, or preference for the impressions an objective world may have on his or her subjectivity? Aren't our biases and preferences indeed a product of our objectivity as individuals?
I think you have a good point. For me, an objective view of the universe is natural since I feel I'm made of the same stuff, and at the same time (being complex) I'm an extension. This means I have a part to play, and I think of this as movement. The universe is energy and movement, I'm made of energy and my purpose is movement. There's a good one on one relationship. Human creations like states are different. They only exist because we created them. They too have this singular nature, but aren't complex enough to have a relationship with the universe, and so are subjective. Their relationship with the universe is antagonistic...fighting nature, separating itself from nature, and the worst part which is reducing movement by supposedly making things easier. This reduces meaning for us individuals.
Hey Eric, I just wanted to say that you do great work. You clearly are very knowledgable and it really shows in your videos.
Eric. From a man also born in 1960 (me) ... Thanks! Great video. I have been consciously enjoying the idea of making my whole life be a self-authored work of art for the past year or so, and really unconsciously doing that my whole life. Life is so amazing! I just want to be "awake" for all of it.
A sincere hymn to the Existentialists and their clear thinking. Nice! (Personal responsibility is the theme I love best: taking the steep and thorny path when the temptation is to take the primrose path.)
your videos on existentialism and nihilism has helped me out a lot. thank you so much for these videos
I used to want to ignore and push back my feelings of anxiety and dredd but lately I am much more inclined to acknowledge my feelings as part of who I am in light of the fact that I am in tune with the 'whole' that you speak of. Great horrors are happening to people all round the world who are at the peril of an indifferent universe.
Well said.
Eric, thanks for making this video. I love the way you explain the most crucial concepts of our human existence. We have such amazing minds, and everyone should hear this talk you made.
You're right about it taking courage to accept some of these ideas, however a better human should result from it. There is no limit to what the human race could achieve with more mindfullness.
thanks for all your hard work. be the artist of your life and be the higher man!
Great work Eric, I am unfamiliar with existentialism except for part 1 of your introduction. I have a question that I feel compelled to ask: around 4:28 in the video you describe subjectivity and objectivity being fundamental poles of ex-sistence (existence) as such. And that the fundamental takeaway is that the personal subjective pole is seeking meaning in the objective world (pole) and vis versa. In my preponderances it makes a lot of sense to think our personal views are mostly objective and that the world itself is mostly subjective [to the objectivity of it's inhabitants].
In fact, in all our activities as you rightly say, we personally try to create meaning around us as we engage in opportunities to do so with the rest of the world. But our efforts to create are not unbiased in a sense that we approach and act on each moment separately from all other moments. Rather, we are guided by coding in our DNA and "programming" of values, habits, behaviors, even preferences that are encoded into our minds since birth all so that we engage with the world with deliberate intention. My views is that the objective part within each of us is responsible for finding meaning [creating] in the subjective part of the world much more than our subjective part finds meaning in the objectivity of the world. Perhaps one may even say that the objective part of the world only has the meaning to be endured, that we only endure the objective part of the world.
Is it worth considering a duality of subjective and objective qualities in existence in ambos, ourselves as individuals and the world at large?
If and individual is indeed purely subjective, can you say whether he or she would have any bias, or preference for the impressions an objective world may have on his or her subjectivity?
Aren't our biases and preferences indeed a product of our objectivity as individuals?
I think you have a good point. For me, an objective view of the universe is natural since I feel I'm made of the same stuff, and at the same time (being complex) I'm an extension. This means I have a part to play, and I think of this as movement. The universe is energy and movement, I'm made of energy and my purpose is movement. There's a good one on one relationship.
Human creations like states are different. They only exist because we created them. They too have this singular nature, but aren't complex enough to have a relationship with the universe, and so are subjective. Their relationship with the universe is antagonistic...fighting nature, separating itself from nature, and the worst part which is reducing movement by supposedly making things easier. This reduces meaning for us individuals.
Sir, how about a lecture on "Either Or" by Soren Kierkegaard?
“and to top it off...DEATH!” Cracked me up 😂
Great work.
Bravo Sir well done! Much appreciated and deeply felt
"You are what you are not, and you are not what you are". - Sartre
Great stuff
Another great video, babe!!!
Dope!!! Brave dude
I wonder if you ever took interest in the writings of Andre Malraux, who greatly influenced Sartre.....
Thank you so much! I have learned a lot from you...:)
I would have to attest to your existential quest to be the "ubermensch"
Doc Johnson haha, nice!
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Even Hazel Barnes edited Sartre, hahaha 😂
Aye mend!
Poetry 😊
Free will...? ... Read Nietzsche ... and protect your illusions ...
cute