That last bit of the professor looking out of the window into the vast beyond is profound after his discussion of the locus of truth vis-a-vis subjectivity and objectivity.
00:15 1.Introduction 02:43 2. Kierkegaard's philosophical fragments 08:50 3. Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety 17:28 4.Kierkegaard's prefaces and the polemic with Johan Ludvig Heiberg 22:15 5. Kierkegaard's "Preface VIII" 27:28 6. Kierkegaard's stages on life's way 34:01 7. The conflict with the corsair 41:57 8. Introduction to Kierkegaard's concluding unscientific postscript 47:35 9. Kierkegaard's "The issue in the Fragments" 54:24 10. Kierkegaard's "A first and last explanation" 59:26 11. The parallel authorship 1:04:55 12. The journals and notebooks 1:08:26 13. Conclusion
Don't even remember Socrates wondering if he was a monster (5:35), but it's GOOD to know! My ego has one concept of ME...carrying remembrances of challenges overcome. But somewhere in my Self there are regrets. Age brings some to mind that, in life's mid-stage, rarely popped up in my stream of consciousness. Perhaps this wondering about WHAT IS THE SUM? or WHAT IS THE NET? is presumptuous. I could end up too easy on myself, or too hard! (and repress too much) At any rate, most will go through this ruminating before they die, but it looks as though Socrates might have been transfixed by these questions somewhat prior to a late stage of his life. I CAN'T JUDGE HIM; they're transfixing questions indeed! I just wonder if he got into a compulsion about it, and when Athens denied him this habit...it was as if they denied him his "home"? His "life," his "practice." [yes, I'm aware it was a sentence of death or exile] A fate worse than death?? Trust me, I know this compulsion MYSELF (I mean the questions...can you tell from the length of this comment?!). With Socrates there was not the discipline of the army any longer to temper (crowd or tame) this compulsion. There was not youth's strength to put it aside either, and to simply "go on" on the following day. Anyway, with Zen...there are at least some sayings purporting just such tempering is a part to the Zen way itself. Whereas to do "the good" in these times there are organizations around you can resort to if, say, you're not able to rap down the big cosmic questions with friends and acquaintances [avoiding, though, some Foreign Legion pitch]. Here comes the matter of agape vs eros. According to Socrates' priestess friend/mentor Diotima, "Love starts with loving beautiful forms, and proceeds to beautiful minds. From minds, one can learn to love laws and institutions, then sciences; he sees that there is a single science uniting all of nature’s beauty." iep.utm.edu/love-his/#H2 But this sequence...and this "single science" itself I personally am not so sure about. Needing tempering and Diotima's "single science" seem to be matters of "Nature." But I'm inclined to interpret that the message of Kierkegaard's "the God" (Christ) goes in another direction. Know thyself, ha! Can we? "O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me." It seems to me there is One whose karmic-laws-in-action ARE able to deal with these questions. I mean also to coax us slowly into the project of living life [all its absolute paradoxes] instead of attempting so often to climb this ladder to omniscience. If there are monstrous aspects, to provide lessons farther down the path to deal with same. Whereas in this immediate present...if one writes me off as screwed up, I must remember that my "shadow" can become evident to some MORE than it ends up evident to my own ego. And, if I form opinions that another is screwed up, I have to remember that I don't know at all the extent of challenges he or she had to deal with [and "minor" ones in this lonely era CAN be major, as George Monbiot once pointed out]. Regarding judging, the God's karma knows what's what, and I guess that "should" mean this difficult/pharisaical/compulsive "symbolic analyst" pastime is not something I'm required to let weigh me down. To guess how many incarnations some insurrectionist might require is presumptuous. For all I know he or she could end up doing at the very end like the thief on the cross adjacent did. "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." Who is the other? Same question as...who/what am I? What's salient is that the kingdom of God is "in" both of us. We may end up for periods getting our daily bread; but, apart from this and the latter reality, isn't there sort of a maelstrom out there?? To love the other we must LOOK for that kingdom (or God's dimension(s)) in the other. That's what fulfilling the commandment means, right? "That of God in every man" as Fox put it. Therein ends (sometimes) our well intentioned judging. And probably a lot of "analysis" that often really doesn't turn up a whole lot.
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Thank you for putting this up.
That last bit of the professor looking out of the window into the vast beyond is profound after his discussion of the locus of truth vis-a-vis subjectivity and objectivity.
Preface VIII is absolutely hilarious to me, S.K. was such a genius.
00:15 1.Introduction
02:43 2. Kierkegaard's philosophical fragments
08:50 3. Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety
17:28 4.Kierkegaard's prefaces and the polemic with Johan Ludvig Heiberg
22:15 5. Kierkegaard's "Preface VIII"
27:28 6. Kierkegaard's stages on life's way
34:01 7. The conflict with the corsair
41:57 8. Introduction to Kierkegaard's concluding unscientific postscript
47:35 9. Kierkegaard's "The issue in the Fragments"
54:24 10. Kierkegaard's "A first and last explanation"
59:26 11. The parallel authorship
1:04:55 12. The journals and notebooks
1:08:26 13. Conclusion
Thank you for this video
Don't even remember Socrates wondering if he was a monster (5:35), but it's GOOD to know!
My ego has one concept of ME...carrying remembrances of challenges overcome. But somewhere in my Self there are regrets. Age brings some to mind that, in life's mid-stage, rarely popped up in my stream of consciousness. Perhaps this wondering about WHAT IS THE SUM? or WHAT IS THE NET? is presumptuous. I could end up too easy on myself, or too hard! (and repress too much) At any rate, most will go through this ruminating before they die, but it looks as though Socrates might have been transfixed by these questions somewhat prior to a late stage of his life. I CAN'T JUDGE HIM; they're transfixing questions indeed! I just wonder if he got into a compulsion about it, and when Athens denied him this habit...it was as if they denied him his "home"? His "life," his "practice." [yes, I'm aware it was a sentence of death or exile] A fate worse than death?? Trust me, I know this compulsion MYSELF (I mean the questions...can you tell from the length of this comment?!). With Socrates there was not the discipline of the army any longer to temper (crowd or tame) this compulsion. There was not youth's strength to put it aside either, and to simply "go on" on the following day.
Anyway, with Zen...there are at least some sayings purporting just such tempering is a part to the Zen way itself. Whereas to do "the good" in these times there are organizations around you can resort to if, say, you're not able to rap down the big cosmic questions with friends and acquaintances [avoiding, though, some Foreign Legion pitch]. Here comes the matter of agape vs eros. According to Socrates' priestess friend/mentor Diotima, "Love starts with loving beautiful forms, and proceeds to beautiful minds. From minds, one can learn to love laws and institutions, then sciences; he sees that there is a single science uniting all of nature’s beauty." iep.utm.edu/love-his/#H2
But this sequence...and this "single science" itself I personally am not so sure about. Needing tempering and Diotima's "single science" seem to be matters of "Nature." But I'm inclined to interpret that the message of Kierkegaard's "the God" (Christ) goes in another direction.
Know thyself, ha! Can we?
"O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me."
It seems to me there is One whose karmic-laws-in-action ARE able to deal with these questions. I mean also to coax us slowly into the project of living life [all its absolute paradoxes] instead of attempting so often to climb this ladder to omniscience. If there are monstrous aspects, to provide lessons farther down the path to deal with same. Whereas in this immediate present...if one writes me off as screwed up, I must remember that my "shadow" can become evident to some MORE than it ends up evident to my own ego. And, if I form opinions that another is screwed up, I have to remember that I don't know at all the extent of challenges he or she had to deal with [and "minor" ones in this lonely era CAN be major, as George Monbiot once pointed out]. Regarding judging, the God's karma knows what's what, and I guess that "should" mean this difficult/pharisaical/compulsive "symbolic analyst" pastime is not something I'm required to let weigh me down. To guess how many incarnations some insurrectionist might require is presumptuous. For all I know he or she could end up doing at the very end like the thief on the cross adjacent did.
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
Who is the other? Same question as...who/what am I? What's salient is that the kingdom of God is "in" both of us. We may end up for periods getting our daily bread; but, apart from this and the latter reality, isn't there sort of a maelstrom out there?? To love the other we must LOOK for that kingdom (or God's dimension(s)) in the other. That's what fulfilling the commandment means, right? "That of God in every man" as Fox put it. Therein ends (sometimes) our well intentioned judging. And probably a lot of "analysis" that often really doesn't turn up a whole lot.