Thank you for explaining this difficult subject. I studied Kant's critique of pure reason, translated by Werner S. Pluhar, many years ago in college. It almost cracks my head. I still have the book and tried to reread it several times, but I always put it down again. Very difficult book. Thanks again.
Thanks for the video and explanation! I'm currently working through the Critique of Judgment/Power of Judgment (Urtheilskraft) (specifically the quite interesting Analytic of the Sublime section), so this will be useful for me.
I never really chose to be alone. Some people just have great difficulties in finding people who fit to them, and society really likes making it even harder for them.
" I am reminded of a great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. He is a specimen of those people who are absolutely in the mind. He lived according to mind so totally that people used to set their watches, whenever they saw Immanuel Kant going to the university. Never - it may rain, it may rain fire, it may rain cats and dogs, it may be utterly cold, snow falling … Whatever the situation, Kant will reach the university at exactly the same time all the year round, even on holidays. Such a fixed, almost mechanical … He would go on holiday at exactly the same time, remain in the university library, which was specially kept open for him, because otherwise what would he do there the whole day? And he was a very prominent, well-known philosopher, and he would leave the university at exactly the same time every day. One day it happened … It had rained and there was too much mud on the way - one of his shoes got stuck in the mud. He did not stop to take the shoe out because that would make him reach the university a few seconds later, and that was impossible. He left the shoe there. He just arrived with one shoe. The students could not believe it. Somebody asked, “What happened to the other shoe?” He said, “It got stuck in the mud, so I left it there, knowing perfectly well nobody is going to steal one shoe. When I return in the evening, then I will pick it up. But I could not have been late.” A woman proposed to him: “I want to be married to you” - a beautiful young woman. Perhaps no woman has ever received such an answer, before or after Immanuel Kant. Either you say, “Yes,” or you say, “No. Excuse me.” Immanuel Kant said, “I will have to do a great deal of research.” The woman asked, “About what?” He said, “I will have to look in all the marriage manuals, all the books concerning marriage, and find out all the pros and cons - whether to marry or not to marry.” The woman could not imagine that this kind of answer had ever been given to any woman before. Even no is acceptable, even yes, although you are getting into a misery, but it is acceptable. But this kind of indifferent attitude towards the woman - he did not say a single sweet word to her. He did not say anything about her beauty, his whole concern was his mind. He had to convince his mind whether or not marriage is logically the right thing. It took him three years. It was really a long search. Day and night he was working on it, and he had found three hundred reasons against marriage and three hundred reasons for marriage. So the problem even after three years was the same. One friend suggested out of compassion, “You wasted three years on this stupid research. In three years you would have experienced all these six hundred, without any research. You should have just said yes to that woman. There was no need to do so much hard work. Three years would have given you all the pros and cons - existentially, experientially.” But Kant said, “I am in a fix. Both are equal, parallel, balanced. There is no way to choose.” The friend suggested, “Of the pros you have forgotten one thing: that whenever there is a chance, it is better to say yes and go through the experience. That is one thing more in favor of the pros. The cons cannot give you any experience, and only experience has any validity.” He understood, it was intellectually right. He immediately went to the woman’s house, knocked on her door. Her old father opened the door and said, “Young man, you are too late. You took too long in your research. My girl is married and has two children.” That was the last thing that was ever heard about his marriage. From then on no woman ever asked him, and he was not the kind of man to ask anybody. He remained unmarried."
I continued to be exhausted and withdraw from people because you're talked to like a bag of skin with a bunch of Bones and juice in it and as you get older you don't want to deal with it anymore
@@georgenelson8917 This state would not apply to people in general as most would just feel lonely and isolated. Schopenhauer felt that his intellectual abilities and higher moral character allowed him to ascend above the tedium of day to day existence. It would have been difficult for him to had found himself in a more proletarian position.
If they were not lonely it is because of their disciplined state of mind of controlling the will of the self. They were separated intellectually from practically everyone regardless of social status or education because of rigid philosophic beliefs. This is evident from the reading. Schopenhauer described at length how he was repelled by the culture he experienced but tried to remain tolerant even though he even had a feeling of the sublime just by not being a part of his everyday surroundings.
A nice little digression. More Kantian footnotes please!
Haha, glad you remember that old series. Maybe I will add to it.
Thank You Christopher Anadale again for sharing these wonderful historical works of written excellence.
Good day Sir.
Thank you for explaining this difficult subject. I studied Kant's critique of pure reason, translated by Werner S. Pluhar, many years ago in college. It almost cracks my head. I still have the book and tried to reread it several times, but I always put it down again. Very difficult book. Thanks again.
Thanks for the video and explanation! I'm currently working through the Critique of Judgment/Power of Judgment (Urtheilskraft) (specifically the quite interesting Analytic of the Sublime section), so this will be useful for me.
Thank you for explaining Kant and Schopenhauer in modern terms - I find some of their writings difficult to understand and you make it so clear.
Another great vid, I really appreciate your channel and readings. Thanks!
I never really chose to be alone. Some people just have great difficulties in finding people who fit to them, and society really likes making it even harder for them.
How so? Do you live in a desolate area perhaps?
Loving this channel😊
" I am reminded of a great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. He is a specimen of those people who are absolutely in the mind. He lived according to mind so totally that people used to set their watches, whenever they saw Immanuel Kant going to the university. Never - it may rain, it may rain fire, it may rain cats and dogs, it may be utterly cold, snow falling … Whatever the situation, Kant will reach the university at exactly the same time all the year round, even on holidays. Such a fixed, almost mechanical … He would go on holiday at exactly the same time, remain in the university library, which was specially kept open for him, because otherwise what would he do there the whole day? And he was a very prominent, well-known philosopher, and he would leave the university at exactly the same time every day.
One day it happened … It had rained and there was too much mud on the way - one of his shoes got stuck in the mud. He did not stop to take the shoe out because that would make him reach the university a few seconds later, and that was impossible. He left the shoe there. He just arrived with one shoe. The students could not believe it. Somebody asked, “What happened to the other shoe?”
He said, “It got stuck in the mud, so I left it there, knowing perfectly well nobody is going to steal one shoe. When I return in the evening, then I will pick it up. But I could not have been late.”
A woman proposed to him: “I want to be married to you” - a beautiful young woman. Perhaps no woman has ever received such an answer, before or after Immanuel Kant. Either you say, “Yes,” or you say, “No. Excuse me.” Immanuel Kant said, “I will have to do a great deal of research.”
The woman asked, “About what?”
He said, “I will have to look in all the marriage manuals, all the books concerning marriage, and find out all the pros and cons - whether to marry or not to marry.”
The woman could not imagine that this kind of answer had ever been given to any woman before. Even no is acceptable, even yes, although you are getting into a misery, but it is acceptable. But this kind of indifferent attitude towards the woman - he did not say a single sweet word to her. He did not say anything about her beauty, his whole concern was his mind. He had to convince his mind whether or not marriage is logically the right thing.
It took him three years. It was really a long search. Day and night he was working on it, and he had found three hundred reasons against marriage and three hundred reasons for marriage. So the problem even after three years was the same.
One friend suggested out of compassion, “You wasted three years on this stupid research. In three years you would have experienced all these six hundred, without any research. You should have just said yes to that woman. There was no need to do so much hard work. Three years would have given you all the pros and cons - existentially, experientially.”
But Kant said, “I am in a fix. Both are equal, parallel, balanced. There is no way to choose.”
The friend suggested, “Of the pros you have forgotten one thing: that whenever there is a chance, it is better to say yes and go through the experience. That is one thing more in favor of the pros. The cons cannot give you any experience, and only experience has any validity.”
He understood, it was intellectually right. He immediately went to the woman’s house, knocked on her door. Her old father opened the door and said, “Young man, you are too late. You took too long in your research. My girl is married and has two children.” That was the last thing that was ever heard about his marriage. From then on no woman ever asked him, and he was not the kind of man to ask anybody. He remained unmarried."
Kant evidently failed to take into account that his having made no decision within a reasonable time was the same as a no.
Love these videos! I regret not taking philosophy in school. Thank you. ❤
Excellent presentation 🔥
Yes!!! A new episode! Thank you very much Dr. A! Do you have any publications I can read such as a journal article? Thanks!
Thank you sir
Thanks! You are a great explainer.
Super!
I wish I had U as a professor 👏
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What a banger!!!
Very gripping title to the video. Misanthropy is always clickbait.
Is it that right? I was worried it wouldn't work.
I continued to be exhausted and withdraw from people because you're talked to like a bag of skin with a bunch of Bones and juice in it and as you get older you don't want to deal with it anymore
i don't get wgat sublime is
A typology of solitude would be sublime here
Being away from annoying normal bone head human. Does that help?
@@georgenelson8917 This state would not apply to people in general as most would just feel lonely and isolated. Schopenhauer felt that his intellectual abilities and higher moral character allowed him to ascend above the tedium of day to day existence. It would have been difficult for him to had found himself in a more proletarian position.
Schopenhauer was a rich fart who lived in paradise compared to todays society. These people have no clue what loneliness even means.
If they were not lonely it is because of their disciplined state of mind of controlling the will of the self. They were separated intellectually from practically everyone regardless of social status or education because of rigid philosophic beliefs. This is evident from the reading. Schopenhauer described at length how he was repelled by the culture he experienced but tried to remain tolerant even though he even had a feeling of the sublime just by not being a part of his everyday surroundings.
An example?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_the_Great