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@@jordanparis964 well, powerful in this context refers to the effects of love. What people do as a reaction to the experience, the feeling of love. The fact that sometimes there are unexpected and unexplainable affects resulting from the experience of love. Agape has positive impacts all over the world. Also the impact of the absence or withholding of it. Pretty powerful stuff. And I don’t think that’s just an opinion. I know that when we talk about physics I cannot dismiss things like the electromagnetic force, forces that keep electrons moving and staying, obviously gravity is doesn’t seem very strong but it’s certainly doing a great job at keeping enormous and distant planets in orbit. However love has extremely powerful effects on humanity, and humanity is getting progressively better at using & wielding these physical forces. So, I guess that’s what I mean.🕊️
To love and be loved in return is the most electrifying and elevating feeling. Imagine having your power grid shut down , that's what losing love feels like in my personal experience. Thanks for uploading.
I don’t think that’s possible today to be loved in return not in a world of tinder swipes and dating apps. Sure one of my friends found a happy relationship but nobody else did it’s a rigged game from the start.
@@michaelshrek1199Bcs loving is what make you human . Allow you to experience the true extent of human condition. Never having experienced love is the testimony of something quite wrong within' . Something that require work . Never be proud of not being able to love . Always ask yourself why and how to fix it.
I once went to talk with a therapist and told her about my life. So much pain and trauma occurred but I still reflect on what she told me. She said, "you came to therapy to see if something was wrong with you, to be diagnosed with some possible illness. However, what it never was that, it was actually what happened to you and the lack of affection and love. You have gotten to the point that you compare yourself to a stray dog; yapping, snarl and screaming when one shows some form of affection/love towards you. You're afraid of it." If I can quote from Bertrand Russell is that, "love is wise, hatred is foolish."
Depends on the situation we are talking about when it comes to hatred. I have hatred towards someone that does wrong to me if the reasoning is coherent.
I myself never had the courage to plunge into Dostoevski's philosophy so listening to someone explaining such things so passionately makes me interested, very much
The ending of crime and punishment will always be my favourite ‘is it possible that her beliefs can fail, now, to be my beliefs too? Her feelings her aspirations, at least’ Raskolnikov finally finds purpose in love!
Maybe the corporate ladder in a city full of competition-minded women is simply not your biotope. You’re only at the mercy of others to the extent that you allow. And you only need one person who sees and accepts you as you are.
Something burned in my memory is that passage in C&P when Rodia confesses his crime to Sonia, expecting horror from her, hate, fear and anger, but all she can do is cry filled with compassion, and even when he mocks her for her naivety, he's still touched and saved by her love at the end. It really touched me, and what in my interpretation is that even if the world is cruel and merciless, by loving with true kindness and respect to others, we can improve the world, so there's one more fellow hand offering help for the next person who falls down.
This novel helped me see something some Christians had said that I didn't really get until reading this novel. That people who are deeply sinful are already in hell, both from the consequences of their actions and because no one who figures out who they are and who is decent will associate closely with them. Show them understanding and politeness, perhaps, but not permit them to have any kind of relationship that requires trust.
No person who is "decent." Deeply "sinful" acts. If your interpretation of one's actions defined who they are at any given moment, you'd be ignoring their ability to change, and your own ability to change your view, or the possibility of any sort of connection between the two of you. You can't as a truthful individual, act as if your interpretations of other people's actions say anything deeply meaningful about their being. Christians would say such things about many harmless people and use it as an excuse to either ignore their existence or achieve a sort of moral high ground.
@De_Selby You know, the worst part about talking to teenagers is they always assume the worst possible interpretation of what one says. It seems the same is true of the internet. This seems doubly true of any non-religious person trying to interpret a religious person's statement. For teenagers, it's insecurity and lack of self-esteem. What is it about atheists?
Some think that they can cure people like the underground man by loving them, but it doesn't work. The underground man sounds somewhat like a covert, vulnerable narcissist, which is basically a subtype in which grandiosity is replaced by sullen petulance. However, covert narcissists still want the attention of others and would not be able to pass up the chance to keep someone like Liza around for attention. If the underground man is a narcissist, he sounds unusually honest. I'm going to have to read the book to see if he really seems to want to push Liza out of his life or is hoping she will stay to try to cure him.
@De_Selby OK, here's a second and more helpful reply: I have worked as both a proselytizing missionary and as a legal professional. I've had many opportunities to try and help people in bad situations who do dumb things because they were taught wrong or are acting out trauma or have gotten really bad advice or something along those lines. Those people are just kept from abundant living because they don't know how. You teach them how, and they get better. Those aren't the people depicted in the Underground Man or the people I'm talking about. These kind of people know there's another way, and they don't want help. They despise good people and good living and think it's naive or stupid or weak, and they are secretly proud of who they are and how they act. If you associate with them, they don't change. They just prey on you. They are in hell, and it isn't that they are irredeemable, its just that they choose to be there, and they think they are better than you while they suffer.
@@grantstratton2239 I love your comments. Really words of value and well put. It has always been a struggle for me to understand this, but I really feel like I am closing in on the understanding of this now. I found your comment to be quite empathetic. I was a bit sad and relived the day I understood that rejecting what you describe as "people in hell" is a deep form of love.
my take: while it is certainly noble to aspire to love everybody and be kind unconditionally, that does not mean to lose yourself in the process and ignore the boundaries you set against others. Remember, part of love is self love and surely there must exist a balance between selflessness and selfishness in the equation of love overall. Part of loving yourself is to show compassion to yourself and that means having your back when you need it, not letting others walk over you and take advantage. If you can be a good friend to yourself you can be a good friend to anybody.
Love is addicting to people who have never felt it (this was not meant to be deep i just went through its differently in higher secondary school causing a major distraction and bad grades )
@@krishnamayimarianni8026I finally found love again and I'm engaged now. I'm so very happy. I wanted to take my own life many days and was taking drugs to prevent myself from actually doing it. It's finally over. I've always been a very passionate person. When I was a child I couldn't wait to grow up and find love.
Well said , but love is addictive regardless if you feel it or not. It's a beautiful yet powerfu l emotion when felt well can empower you but also see many great things in life. I wish everyone understands and experiences the beauty of love.
This is your best video you making by far as a Muslim brother I love you Agnostic young man for the Dostoevskian idea that you sharing with us 🖤 Salute 🫡
I was struggling with being kind, your advice about imagine yourslef as someone else actually made me feel better. Thank you. You are doing a great job!
Dostoevsky's genius is that he can slowly but surely bring any reader (if he is open) closer to Christ. Its like evangelisation on deeper level. Truly a life changing writer.
Closer to Christ? Hm. I met someone who was bragging about reading him and writing a novel in similar vein. It really did not impress me because he absolutely failed to recognise his own delusions and selfishness, he acted several times out of pride, entitlement and he even justified to himself whatever conniving behaviour cause he told me 'he deserves better'. If it gets to the point you are perpetually destroying trust ans goodness, maybe you are not entitled to happiness after all. All philosophy is useless if you can't apply it to life, to yourself and others. I was a fan of literature in school and was good at interpreting writing, that's it.
@@elisal98800 there are always exceptions to the rule. You can call an idea useless because this individual didn't understand it or applied it to himself. We humans are flawed, both Dostoyevsky's idea and the individual aren't perfect, no phylosophy is.
its scary I totally understand and can agree to the underground man.”a child who found no warmth in a village will burn it to the ground to have some.”I can’t recall were that’s from but it’s true and all i can say is.”same.” 2:37
In the tale of Ragnarok the only human archetypes to survive the final war between the gods are Lif and Lifthrasir, which is life of the body and love of life, respectively. Most eschatologies point to these virtues and anyone who has faced adversity might agree that this is what gets them through it. Your videos are great. Thank you.
I came for interesting ideas, but I unexpectedly, I walk out, with a heart full of hope And adding a read of Dostoevsky to my "Things I want to do before I die" list, thank you so much for sharing this with all of us
I think nietze and kierkagaard are much more depressing to read, perhaps it’s just the difference in formats but Dostoevskys ability to not only pack in the deepest of ideas into characters but to vehicle them into a genuinely engaging and exciting plot is a level of genius that for me puts him at the top of the existentialists. Just reading notes from underground and crime and punishment I dare say are enough to make even the staunchest atheist (if read with an open mind and charity) to consider attending church even just to give it a try. I know it certainly did for me anyways
I am putting the first minute of this video in my insta story. I will mention you as well. I recently got into philosophy and am currently reading "the brothers karamazov". Love the video...
I have not yet watched the video, but I am sure it is great. I just love your videos about Dostoevsky. Thank you for making such informative and captivating content!
Bro, just recently discovered your channel and I'm so impressed with your videos of philosophy, I'm into this subject and I like knowing about things. Just wanna say thank you for your incredible videos they are really fascinating
Wonderful video. Thank you so much for sharing Dosteovsky's central message about the redemptive power of selfless love. However many spiritual masters have taught that it needs to be discriminating.
If love is destructive, then it was never love to begin with. I feel like the word love has been tarnished. People use the word love interchangeably with desire, lust and trauma reactive feelings. To me love means wanting what is best for oneself and others. The issue is that we try to place meaning onto others that benefit ourselves. I just feel like real love is rare and has been co-opted and replaced just like what is happening to the word woman/man . Real love doesn't always feel good, especially if you're a selfish person.
What is best for oneself and others is tricky because "what is best" is subjective territory, and something that is best perhaps doesn't always make you feel happy, especially if you're a disordered person. Take addiction for example. Or delusional beliefs that being told the truth about can mentally affect you. Which begs the question? Is ignorance happiness? And if so, is happiness really what we should be striving for? Truth hurts because it sets us free from our delusions, but delusions are what keep a lot of people going. Maybe love is being unhappy with the reality of life and accepting that and that acceptance is what allows you to feel empathy. Maybe happiness is a drug that doesn't allow you to see that we are in hell, perhaps, and love is the antidote to happiness. Hmmmmmm..
That's so interesting that also, in the Bible it describes God as love ("So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." - 1 John 4:16), and to be in hell, a person makes the decision to reject God, therefore, hell is in another sense, the rejection of love. Wild.
I highly recommend reading "Till We have Faces" it is C.S. Lewis' exploration of selfish love vs genuine love. It shows how easily we use the people we care for most to fill our emotional needs
This is my first vid from you and can definitely say i'm obsessed. I love your analysis and intrepretationa nd will definitely watch more vids from you. Thank youuu
Alyosha is probably one of the most beautiful characters ever written ♥ I think this is one of your best videos. Thanks for sharing. This materialistic selfish world needs more Dostoevsky.
Your channel was able to change my mindset, and it shows that humanity has the possibility of more growth, thank you for sharing your wisdom. Hope to learn more from you.
Honestly this is by far the best channel about photography , etc. The way you explain things are just fascinating and easy to understand! Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you teacher, what I personally struggle with and exactly what my own therapist worked so endlessly with. My own 🙏 remove my fear from outwardly expressing your inner presence in me. Thank you again teacher for reinforcing my own therapist, who became like my adopted mom for me and like my adopted big sister.
They are surprisingly readable and engrossing, especially the university acclaimed masterworks, like the brothers Karamazov and crime and punishment. Especially if you get a good modern translation.
Man, this spoke to me... My philosophy has always been that even through its hardships, love/kindness is so much better than its alternative. Not only does it feel better, but the alternative is not survivable. I hope I never turn or become cruel. It would take a LOT to break me.
Ug. What a fantastic video that has reminded me of the person I strive to be. I needed this video right now. So again. Thank you. You said so much when there is so much more that could have been said.
Thank you! You have inspired me to read more of Dostoevsky. I’ve only read The Underground Man & just found it depressing but did not understand the author’s purpose.
Love your content man. Been studying a few interesting writters and Id love to hear your take on Italo Svevo and one of his most important creations "La coscienza di Zeno" Keep up the upload schedule and dont burn yourself out. Have a good one!
Here, you have provided me with enough material to fill multiple prayer and meditation hours. I come from a mixed Catholic and Orthodox family, and while Catholic lean towards Orthodoxy. I love Dostoevsky.
Dostoevsky is my favorite. He describes the Dynamics between all types of interpersonal relationships of codependent people. Codependency stealing each other's agency while each being destroyed in lack of love. Until he finally gets to the brotherly Love type of perfection. The healthy independent person. Loving w personal sacrifice, but without taking anyone's agency and maintaining their own agency. The highest virtue. I won't agree with the apotheosis of f****** Christ dying. Because that to me sounds insane. That is not love. But I'm no ancient philosopher. I'm just a modern forensic badass. Thanks for another great vide brother. You're such a young wise man. And it's really refreshing to see a young person with this intellectual capacity of emotional reasoning and presenting the old authors that have been long forgotten.
Have read muchDostoyevsky never heard so well interpreted sucha great ordinary man you're a genius I thi k and he would besmiling listening to you talk about him
I "love" the common theme and understanding of love shared in Dostoevsky's novels and more than a millenia of Persian poetry. I wish I could see Dostoevsky, Rumi, Hafiz, Attar of Neyshabour, Saadi, and others have a conversation together. It's so beautiful to see how people so far away from each other in time and in distance understood the most transcendant state of being that is love, in its deepest meaning. با مدعی مگویید اسرار عشق و مستی تا بیخبر بمیرد در درد خودپرستی عاشق شو ارنه روزی کار جهان سر آید ناخوانده نقش مقصود از کارگاه هستی حافظ
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche "The healthy man does not torture others-generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers". -Carl Jung
Love the video and have one thing to add as a warning for the sacrificial love bit. The idea that the highest love is sacrificial and unrelenting even while others hurt us and give us nothing in return sounds a lot like what you see in domestic violence cases. The survivor of abuse believes that they are doing what is moral and good by loving someone even while they are being abused. Where the line between sacrificial and unconditional love is divided is if the abuse is continuous and detrimental to one's well being. Yes, there can be abusive or toxic behaviors in a healthy relationship occasionally and one can use love to address and CHANGE them, but there needs to be a line drawn. You can still unconditionally love someone and want what's best for yourself ❤️
Myshkin being left broken after the uh "event" made me weep. The whole novel is him being truly loving and honourable and at times questioning whether that's correct (see Ippolit) and he's destroyed by it. Being destroyed is one thing but the fact he knows what will happen (alongside Filipovna) is what is crushing. To love and pursue it in the face of fate is horrific and beautiful
This was a great video and I'm happy that you show a deeply moral sense of respect for Christ. As his story portrays this theme of Dostoevsky's universal love so deeply.
Bravo, good sir. Your commanding video essays inspire and encourage me to practice redeveloping my own fluency in creating meaningful, quality essays. Thank you for being an agent and champion, not only for the profound works and authors that you seek truth from, but for us, the hopeful viewers as well.
Love the way you break down this subject! Wish I had teachers like you !! Hope you find a beautiful kind women who will bring you many children! Nothing like holding them the first time and every time after! Then you truly understand love. Don’t let your health hold you back!! Always a fan in Mississippi USA
I love your vids! you’ve helped introduce me to a whole plethora of philosophies, and it has arguably brought me out of my anxiety. Thank you so so much. P.s. will you ever cover more of Sartre?
@@unsolicitedadvice9198you are just the best. One of the best philosophy content creators out there. You even reply to fans! Thank you, truly. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Nausea.
I can't remember where but I do remember seeing something along the lines of, For men, an outlet for aggression is of as much importance as an outlet for love, if not even more so. Exercising is a great outlet for aggression, combat sports in particular. In my experience and opinion, I think men when they have both are ina a very prime state, a state of being that facilitates self development all over, not just physically but more importantly, mentally and spiritually. It's like a constant state of flow, or maybe I'm just rambling 😅🤣 Love ya videos bro, keep em coming 😎
I'm not great at this stuff. Interweb stuff I mean. Don't know if you'll Ever read this but I'm looking forward to all your coming content. I would really like to see you review Huckleberry Fynn. I believe one of the great novels. Mark Twain was in fact a great mind along side the great minds you give us such great work on. Thank you.
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I truly believe that love is literally the most powerful force universally, and hell is the absolute absence of hope.
Well not just that(on the hell part) but also the eternal damnation of your own choices.
How are you defining powerful?
@@jordanparis964 well, powerful in this context refers to the effects of love. What people do as a reaction to the experience, the feeling of love. The fact that sometimes there are unexpected and unexplainable affects resulting from the experience of love. Agape has positive impacts all over the world. Also the impact of the absence or withholding of it. Pretty powerful stuff. And I don’t think that’s just an opinion.
I know that when we talk about physics I cannot dismiss things like the electromagnetic force, forces that keep electrons moving and staying, obviously gravity is doesn’t seem very strong but it’s certainly doing a great job at keeping enormous and distant planets in orbit. However love has extremely powerful effects on humanity, and humanity is getting progressively better at using & wielding these physical forces. So, I guess that’s what I mean.🕊️
L9ve is weak, fear is what keeps people beneath your heels. How do you think Stalin controlled Russia for decades? By love or by fear?
To love and be loved in return is the most electrifying and elevating feeling.
Imagine having your power grid shut down , that's what losing love feels like in my personal experience.
Thanks for uploading.
I don’t think that’s possible today to be loved in return not in a world of tinder swipes and dating apps. Sure one of my friends found a happy relationship but nobody else did it’s a rigged game from the start.
People will betray you in the end. And they will take advantage of you. They will hurt and destroy you
@@spagooter1807lmaooo funny you say that cuz i just watched ‘the problem with modern love’
One must balance chemistry with comfort. I’ve seen one or the other but never together and in balance.
"To love is to suffer" but as one man said "it is better to have loved and lost then not to have loved at all"
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@@michaelshrek1199Bcs loving is what make you human . Allow you to experience the true extent of human condition.
Never having experienced love is the testimony of something quite wrong within' . Something that require work .
Never be proud of not being able to love . Always ask yourself why and how to fix it.
I once went to talk with a therapist and told her about my life. So much pain and trauma occurred but I still reflect on what she told me. She said, "you came to therapy to see if something was wrong with you, to be diagnosed with some possible illness. However, what it never was that, it was actually what happened to you and the lack of affection and love. You have gotten to the point that you compare yourself to a stray dog; yapping, snarl and screaming when one shows some form of affection/love towards you. You're afraid of it." If I can quote from Bertrand Russell is that, "love is wise, hatred is foolish."
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What a great analogy
Depends on the situation we are talking about when it comes to hatred. I have hatred towards someone that does wrong to me if the reasoning is coherent.
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Haha! That's very kind! This one is pretty close to my heart, so I hope you like it
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I myself never had the courage to plunge into Dostoevski's philosophy so listening to someone explaining such things so passionately makes me interested, very much
The ending of crime and punishment will always be my favourite ‘is it possible that her beliefs can fail, now, to be my beliefs too? Her feelings her aspirations, at least’ Raskolnikov finally finds purpose in love!
It is so beautiful!
Maybe the corporate ladder in a city full of competition-minded women is simply not your biotope. You’re only at the mercy of others to the extent that you allow. And you only need one person who sees and accepts you as you are.
Something burned in my memory is that passage in C&P when Rodia confesses his crime to Sonia, expecting horror from her, hate, fear and anger, but all she can do is cry filled with compassion, and even when he mocks her for her naivety, he's still touched and saved by her love at the end. It really touched me, and what in my interpretation is that even if the world is cruel and merciless, by loving with true kindness and respect to others, we can improve the world, so there's one more fellow hand offering help for the next person who falls down.
This novel helped me see something some Christians had said that I didn't really get until reading this novel. That people who are deeply sinful are already in hell, both from the consequences of their actions and because no one who figures out who they are and who is decent will associate closely with them. Show them understanding and politeness, perhaps, but not permit them to have any kind of relationship that requires trust.
No person who is "decent."
Deeply "sinful" acts.
If your interpretation of one's actions defined who they are at any given moment, you'd be ignoring their ability to change, and your own ability to change your view, or the possibility of any sort of connection between the two of you.
You can't as a truthful individual, act as if your interpretations of other people's actions say anything deeply meaningful about their being.
Christians would say such things about many harmless people and use it as an excuse to either ignore their existence or achieve a sort of moral high ground.
@De_Selby You know, the worst part about talking to teenagers is they always assume the worst possible interpretation of what one says. It seems the same is true of the internet. This seems doubly true of any non-religious person trying to interpret a religious person's statement.
For teenagers, it's insecurity and lack of self-esteem. What is it about atheists?
Some think that they can cure people like the underground man by loving them, but it doesn't work. The underground man sounds somewhat like a covert, vulnerable narcissist, which is basically a subtype in which grandiosity is replaced by sullen petulance. However, covert narcissists still want the attention of others and would not be able to pass up the chance to keep someone like Liza around for attention. If the underground man is a narcissist, he sounds unusually honest. I'm going to have to read the book to see if he really seems to want to push Liza out of his life or is hoping she will stay to try to cure him.
@De_Selby OK, here's a second and more helpful reply:
I have worked as both a proselytizing missionary and as a legal professional. I've had many opportunities to try and help people in bad situations who do dumb things because they were taught wrong or are acting out trauma or have gotten really bad advice or something along those lines. Those people are just kept from abundant living because they don't know how. You teach them how, and they get better.
Those aren't the people depicted in the Underground Man or the people I'm talking about. These kind of people know there's another way, and they don't want help. They despise good people and good living and think it's naive or stupid or weak, and they are secretly proud of who they are and how they act. If you associate with them, they don't change. They just prey on you.
They are in hell, and it isn't that they are irredeemable, its just that they choose to be there, and they think they are better than you while they suffer.
@@grantstratton2239 I love your comments. Really words of value and well put. It has always been a struggle for me to understand this, but I really feel like I am closing in on the understanding of this now. I found your comment to be quite empathetic.
I was a bit sad and relived the day I understood that rejecting what you describe as "people in hell" is a deep form of love.
My favourite Russian in the whole paradise Mr Dostoyevsky! Love his literature forever. Deepest of the existential abyss
my take: while it is certainly noble to aspire to love everybody and be kind unconditionally, that does not mean to lose yourself in the process and ignore the boundaries you set against others. Remember, part of love is self love and surely there must exist a balance between selflessness and selfishness in the equation of love overall. Part of loving yourself is to show compassion to yourself and that means having your back when you need it, not letting others walk over you and take advantage. If you can be a good friend to yourself you can be a good friend to anybody.
This is genuinely the only thing missing. It's what makes Myshkin such a loveable fool. He is selfless he practically forgets himself.
8:09 Putting the self-plug right before the chapter "The Love of The Egoist" is one of those nice touches that make me absolutely love this channel
This channel is a gold mine! I am delighted to have found it.
Love is addicting to people who have never felt it
(this was not meant to be deep i just went through its differently in higher secondary school causing a major distraction and bad grades )
My mother never felt it from her mother and she never begged for it,she taught me,too much of anything ain't good
I hope you experience the love you have within you and share it.
It's always addicting. Lol. It is to me anyways. I have a deep undying love when I love.
@@krishnamayimarianni8026I finally found love again and I'm engaged now. I'm so very happy. I wanted to take my own life many days and was taking drugs to prevent myself from actually doing it. It's finally over. I've always been a very passionate person. When I was a child I couldn't wait to grow up and find love.
Well said , but love is addictive regardless if you feel it or not. It's a beautiful yet powerfu l emotion when felt well can empower you but also see many great things in life. I wish everyone understands and experiences the beauty of love.
Love is a subject of endless fascination
'Love' has an entire new and beautiful meaning to me and it is because of this video. Thank you!
Let’s go baby love the Dostoevsky vids
Thank you! This is one of my favourite aspects of his thought
This is your best video you making by far as a Muslim brother I love you Agnostic young man for the Dostoevskian idea that you sharing with us 🖤 Salute 🫡
Man, you are literally my favorite philosophy channel. Thank you for making the obscure and dark Nietzsche more clear and understandable to people.
This is slowly becoming my favorite channel on youtube, great content every single video
I was struggling with being kind, your advice about imagine yourslef as someone else actually made me feel better. Thank you. You are doing a great job!
Dostoevsky's genius is that he can slowly but surely bring any reader (if he is open) closer to Christ. Its like evangelisation on deeper level. Truly a life changing writer.
Closer to Christ? Hm. I met someone who was bragging about reading him and writing a novel in similar vein. It really did not impress me because he absolutely failed to recognise his own delusions and selfishness, he acted several times out of pride, entitlement and he even justified to himself whatever conniving behaviour cause he told me 'he deserves better'. If it gets to the point you are perpetually destroying trust ans goodness, maybe you are not entitled to happiness after all. All philosophy is useless if you can't apply it to life, to yourself and others. I was a fan of literature in school and was good at interpreting writing, that's it.
@@elisal98800 there are always exceptions to the rule. You can call an idea useless because this individual didn't understand it or applied it to himself. We humans are flawed, both Dostoyevsky's idea and the individual aren't perfect, no phylosophy is.
@@elisal98800that person isn’t Dostoevsky, Read Dostoevsky And you’ll have a better understanding than you can give a valid opinion
I agree. Not necessarily in a belief in God, but in following the moral example of Christ-like love.
its scary I totally understand and can agree to the underground man.”a child who found no warmth in a village will burn it to the ground to have some.”I can’t recall were that’s from but it’s true and all i can say is.”same.” 2:37
Excited for this topic! Still planning to have you on. Just got busy. Talk soon!
I hope you like it! And it's no rush. Chat soon!
Definitely we want you guys to collaborate …can’t wait 👊🏿👊🏿🫡
In the tale of Ragnarok the only human archetypes to survive the final war between the gods are Lif and Lifthrasir, which is life of the body and love of life, respectively. Most eschatologies point to these virtues and anyone who has faced adversity might agree that this is what gets them through it. Your videos are great. Thank you.
I came for interesting ideas, but I unexpectedly, I walk out, with a heart full of hope
And adding a read of Dostoevsky to my "Things I want to do before I die" list, thank you so much for sharing this with all of us
I think nietze and kierkagaard are much more depressing to read, perhaps it’s just the difference in formats but Dostoevskys ability to not only pack in the deepest of ideas into characters but to vehicle them into a genuinely engaging and exciting plot is a level of genius that for me puts him at the top of the existentialists. Just reading notes from underground and crime and punishment I dare say are enough to make even the staunchest atheist (if read with an open mind and charity) to consider attending church even just to give it a try. I know it certainly did for me anyways
I am putting the first minute of this video in my insta story. I will mention you as well. I recently got into philosophy and am currently reading "the brothers karamazov". Love the video...
I have not yet watched the video, but I am sure it is great. I just love your videos about Dostoevsky. Thank you for making such informative and captivating content!
Thank you! that is very kind of you to say
I have never seen you not only describe the views of some philosopher, but laud them with such passion.
I watch a lot of your videos twice, man. I find a lot of salience in them. Good head on your shoulders.
Bro, just recently discovered your channel and I'm so impressed with your videos of philosophy, I'm into this subject and I like knowing about things. Just wanna say thank you for your incredible videos they are really fascinating
Thank you for watching! I’m really glad you are finding the videos helpful!
Thanks!
Wonderful video. Thank you so much for sharing Dosteovsky's central message about the redemptive power of selfless love. However many spiritual masters have taught that it needs to be discriminating.
28:30 i do the same and its very helpful, i tought i was the only one that does it 😂
You're a great person, salute from Italy
You are an amazing human being, I hope you know that, I'll download this video so that I can get back to this
If love is destructive, then it was never love to begin with. I feel like the word love has been tarnished. People use the word love interchangeably with desire, lust and trauma reactive feelings. To me love means wanting what is best for oneself and others. The issue is that we try to place meaning onto others that benefit ourselves. I just feel like real love is rare and has been co-opted and replaced just like what is happening to the word woman/man . Real love doesn't always feel good, especially if you're a selfish person.
What is best for oneself and others is tricky because "what is best" is subjective territory, and something that is best perhaps doesn't always make you feel happy, especially if you're a disordered person. Take addiction for example. Or delusional beliefs that being told the truth about can mentally affect you. Which begs the question? Is ignorance happiness? And if so, is happiness really what we should be striving for? Truth hurts because it sets us free from our delusions, but delusions are what keep a lot of people going. Maybe love is being unhappy with the reality of life and accepting that and that acceptance is what allows you to feel empathy. Maybe happiness is a drug that doesn't allow you to see that we are in hell, perhaps, and love is the antidote to happiness. Hmmmmmm..
Early today, Love your content brother. You're definitely one of the best self improvement advicers out there.
Thank you! I am glad you are enjoying the videos
That's so interesting that also, in the Bible it describes God as love ("So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." - 1 John 4:16), and to be in hell, a person makes the decision to reject God, therefore, hell is in another sense, the rejection of love.
Wild.
I highly recommend reading "Till We have Faces" it is C.S. Lewis' exploration of selfish love vs genuine love. It shows how easily we use the people we care for most to fill our emotional needs
This brought me to tears. I hope i can love like this one day
You can't. it's just a Dostoevsky fantasy
@@Alex-pg1gtare you purposely embodying the underground man or are you a jackass and don't realize it
This is my first vid from you and can definitely say i'm obsessed. I love your analysis and intrepretationa nd will definitely watch more vids from you. Thank youuu
Your videos are amazing, your voice and cadence make it so easy to listen to and understand. Xoxo love from Spain 🫶🏼
Alyosha is probably one of the most beautiful characters ever written ♥
I think this is one of your best videos. Thanks for sharing. This materialistic selfish world needs more Dostoevsky.
I agree that love can kill but also grant us meaning
It certainly has two edges
@@unsolicitedadvice9198love is edging
Your channel was able to change my mindset, and it shows that humanity has the possibility of more growth, thank you for sharing your wisdom. Hope to learn more from you.
Omg I love your channel your explanation is too greatt
Thank you! That is very kind
Found you from Alex, and cannot stop listening.
Beautiful explanation, thank you for this video💞
Honestly this is by far the best channel about photography , etc. The way you explain things are just fascinating and easy to understand!
Thank you for your hard work.
You did an amazing job analyzing & interpreting this ! ❤
Thank you teacher, what I personally struggle with and exactly what my own therapist worked so endlessly with. My own 🙏 remove my fear from outwardly expressing your inner presence in me. Thank you again teacher for reinforcing my own therapist, who became like my adopted mom for me and like my adopted big sister.
Love these videos on thinkers who are quite interesting, but I know I'll never have the chance to make it through one of their books.
They are surprisingly readable and engrossing, especially the university acclaimed masterworks, like the brothers Karamazov and crime and punishment. Especially if you get a good modern translation.
I absolutely love these talks. Reminds me of myself in a way.
I love waking up to more videos from you!!! Thank you for your effort!!!
Your videos on Dostoevsky' are always your best.
Man, this spoke to me... My philosophy has always been that even through its hardships, love/kindness is so much better than its alternative. Not only does it feel better, but the alternative is not survivable. I hope I never turn or become cruel. It would take a LOT to break me.
The fact that you collaborated with mindshift makes me very happy ❤
Ug. What a fantastic video that has reminded me of the person I strive to be. I needed this video right now. So again. Thank you.
You said so much when there is so much more that could have been said.
Thank you! You have inspired me to read more of Dostoevsky. I’ve only read The Underground Man & just found it depressing but did not understand the author’s purpose.
Love your content man. Been studying a few interesting writters and Id love to hear your take on Italo Svevo and one of his most important creations "La coscienza di Zeno"
Keep up the upload schedule and dont burn yourself out.
Have a good one!
Simply the best discourse on the subject that i have heard or read.
Thankyou! This is was so good for starting my day with. You explained it beautifully 😁
Give me some dostoevsky anytime of the day.
Haha! I hope you like it
I think your channel is my roman empire
Here, you have provided me with enough material to fill multiple prayer and meditation hours. I come from a mixed Catholic and Orthodox family, and while Catholic lean towards Orthodoxy. I love Dostoevsky.
Orthodoxy is wrong. Catholicism is correct.
احب نبرة صوتك وكيف تتفاعل مع الكلمات وتشرح الموضوع من اعماق قلبك🤍
Dostoevsky is my favorite. He describes the Dynamics between all types of interpersonal relationships of codependent people.
Codependency stealing each other's agency while each being destroyed in lack of love.
Until he finally gets to the brotherly Love type of perfection. The healthy independent person. Loving w personal sacrifice, but without taking anyone's agency and maintaining their own agency.
The highest virtue.
I won't agree with the apotheosis of f****** Christ dying. Because that to me sounds insane. That is not love. But I'm no ancient philosopher. I'm just a modern forensic badass.
Thanks for another great vide brother.
You're such a young wise man. And it's really refreshing to see a young person with this intellectual capacity of emotional reasoning and presenting the old authors that have been long forgotten.
Loved it. Your interpretation is very refreshing.
Have read muchDostoyevsky never heard so well interpreted sucha great ordinary man you're a genius I thi k and he would besmiling listening to you talk about him
Well done young man. Really good work.
I "love" the common theme and understanding of love shared in Dostoevsky's novels and more than a millenia of Persian poetry. I wish I could see Dostoevsky, Rumi, Hafiz, Attar of Neyshabour, Saadi, and others have a conversation together.
It's so beautiful to see how people so far away from each other in time and in distance understood the most transcendant state of being that is love, in its deepest meaning.
با مدعی مگویید اسرار عشق و مستی
تا بیخبر بمیرد در درد خودپرستی
عاشق شو ارنه روزی کار جهان سر آید
ناخوانده نقش مقصود از کارگاه هستی
حافظ
As a Persian, it was so heartwarming to see someone mentioning Hafiz... Thank you
Love your interpretation of Dostoevsky work
Thank you!
This channel is so interesting👌
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
"The healthy man does not torture others-generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers".
-Carl Jung
thank you so much! Great analysis!
This channel always telling me the right thing at the right time, crazy.
Always solid content
Love the video and have one thing to add as a warning for the sacrificial love bit. The idea that the highest love is sacrificial and unrelenting even while others hurt us and give us nothing in return sounds a lot like what you see in domestic violence cases. The survivor of abuse believes that they are doing what is moral and good by loving someone even while they are being abused. Where the line between sacrificial and unconditional love is divided is if the abuse is continuous and detrimental to one's well being. Yes, there can be abusive or toxic behaviors in a healthy relationship occasionally and one can use love to address and CHANGE them, but there needs to be a line drawn. You can still unconditionally love someone and want what's best for yourself ❤️
15:01 thank you for this- its so refreshing to hear
Dude you videos have improved so much since the first time i followed you and your improving day by day!
Thank you! I try to work on little ways to make them better
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 well it's certainly showing!
Myshkin being left broken after the uh "event" made me weep. The whole novel is him being truly loving and honourable and at times questioning whether that's correct (see Ippolit) and he's destroyed by it. Being destroyed is one thing but the fact he knows what will happen (alongside Filipovna) is what is crushing. To love and pursue it in the face of fate is horrific and beautiful
I have been trying to write a script about The Idiot for months but each time I do I get so heartbroken I stop after a couple of paragraphs
This was a great video and I'm happy that you show a deeply moral sense of respect for Christ. As his story portrays this theme of Dostoevsky's universal love so deeply.
Such an amazing and insightful video. Thank you for creating this!
Thank for this beautiful video, this is the kind of video that changes the world. Love you brother.
ah! just love your videos mannnnnnnn💖
Thank you!
21:17 is such a nice little speech
This unique channel is so good
Bravo, good sir. Your commanding video essays inspire and encourage me to practice redeveloping my own fluency in creating meaningful, quality essays. Thank you for being an agent and champion, not only for the profound works and authors that you seek truth from, but for us, the hopeful viewers as well.
Amazing video bro, youre smart beyond your age
Keep up the good work mate!
Love the way you break down this subject! Wish I had teachers like you !! Hope you find a beautiful kind women who will bring you many children! Nothing like holding them the first time and every time after! Then you truly understand love. Don’t let your health hold you back!! Always a fan in Mississippi USA
I love your passion
I love your vids! you’ve helped introduce me to a whole plethora of philosophies, and it has arguably brought me out of my anxiety. Thank you so so much.
P.s. will you ever cover more of Sartre?
Thank you! And I do plan to (I should cover “Nausea” in the next few weeks)
@@unsolicitedadvice9198you are just the best. One of the best philosophy content creators out there. You even reply to fans! Thank you, truly. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Nausea.
nice video as always :)
Thank you!
I can't remember where but I do remember seeing something along the lines of,
For men, an outlet for aggression is of as much importance as an outlet for love, if not even more so.
Exercising is a great outlet for aggression, combat sports in particular.
In my experience and opinion, I think men when they have both are ina a very prime state, a state of being that facilitates self development all over, not just physically but more importantly, mentally and spiritually. It's like a constant state of flow, or maybe I'm just rambling 😅🤣
Love ya videos bro, keep em coming 😎
I'm not great at this stuff. Interweb stuff I mean. Don't know if you'll Ever read this but I'm looking forward to all your coming content. I would really like to see you review Huckleberry Fynn. I believe one of the great novels. Mark Twain was in fact a great mind along side the great minds you give us such great work on. Thank you.
I took an amazing nap while listening to this video. I will listen again later 😂
Extremely good . I always look forward to watching your videos 😊