A review of the work and life of this unique thinker who has exerted an amazing influence on modern philosophy. Delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College
The vast majority of people will willingly and happily give up their freedom if it means they obtain certainty, security, and comfort. I do think Kierkegaard was correct in the assertion that freedom induces anxiety because with complete freedom comes complete responsibility.
Denmark was not a backwater at the time of Shakespeare. The actual reason he set Hamlet in Denmark, is because the story was derivative of a much older tale which originated there. The first written rendition of the story is found in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum (Chronicle of the Danes), the first written history of Denmark.
What a fascinating thinker bar socrates possibly the greatest ironist. He had an unusual way of creating disjunctive sentences to create cadences, even sonic reverb . He wasn't a philosopher of eloquent wit or intricate nuances ,if anything, he was a tad blunt . But he cultivated a method of making the point realised by not emphasising the point being made . He once said something critical about the contradictory nature of the Danish Lutheran churches' stance on charity . I read it once 30 yrs ago, and it still continues reverberating in my head .
Just a small correction. Denmark was going through its Golden Age during the time Kierkegaard was alive, it certainly wasn't a land no one knew about. It was a hub for art, literature, and even philosophy and I would argue he was relatively well known in Germany while he was still alive, although I agree he was not taken very seriously and even characterized by his peers.
Denmark was certainly not some weird, remote land for Shakespeare either. 🙄 It was the gatekeeper of the Baltic and the most powerful Nordic state for many centuries.
Você parece muito seguro em falar de Kierkegaard a partir de uma perspectiva toda sua que eu, pessoalmente, tenho dificuldade em aceitar. Para mim, Kierkegaard continua sendo meu maior desafio. Consequentemente, qualquer tratamento do que ele foi e é se me interessa, sem duvida, deixa-me igualmente apreensivo.
Acrescentaria algo mais agora a condição existencial do indivíduo, noção fundamental para Kierkegaard: não seria ele, o indivíduo, a negação da autoapropriacao conforme o conceito e o sistema necessariamente alheios a ele ou melhor a si mesmo? E o salto da fe a confiança portanto em se pôr nas mãos de Deus? Daí então que tomar a si o direito de critica-lo apenas legitimavel enquanto autocrítica de si mesmo?
He's saying "The measure is always god, giving a bases for argument, which is passion, which is important and human." But then he doesn't really believe?
You suggest the Reformation was the first cleavage in the Christian Church but well before the Reformation, it had already suffered a monumental schism into East and West: the split in 1054 between Greek speaking and Latin speaking Christendoms. Also Heidegger is not the author of 'Being And Nothingness' (L'Etre et le Neant); it was Sartre. (23.20). Heidegger wrote 'Being and Time' ('Sein und Zeit').
Sartre NOT Heidegger Don Giovanni NOT Don Juan. Heidegger NOT Wittgenstein This lecturer gets details wrong, Wrong in details suspect in everything ... especially his thesis that because K. Wrote so much he cannot be truely a knight of faith....spurious with hidden assumptions😮
Denmark wasn't a backwater when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet... It controlled all the straits connecting the Baltic & North Seas, & Copenhagen was so prosperous that it managed to establish a very important university in 1479.
I'll put it like this.... There do exist people that walk among us, which are filled with goodness, believe it or not. By that I mean benevolence, etc... Fruits of the spirit. And the other people, the Boogie People, are filled with the opposite. And when we depart, we will possibly go to that place where these qualities are absolute. It's in your database. Do find out. As for myself, I've seen the illustrations to Dante, on Wikipedia.
Just make a fully Kosher version of what them were doing, back then hopefully, and roll with it. I did found out all of this stuff by what looks like, here on Earth as... pure coincidence :) Ah, btw. you know there's absolutely more than one instantiation of the same type, right? Of the same ego. To me that comes very natural. And at the same time, there's uncountably many possible types... so maybe the world we inhabit is actually infinite, temporally speaking. :) I am glad we found a reason to keep improving ourselves... Yet, do work on the Kosher version I was talking about, so we are able to improve the sacred game of Cricket, Baseball, and Oina. Okay? Don't let people out on the essentials :)
This type of question is really hard... Where do we take it from here. It depends where you guys in America want to take it, over there. But you have to agree that this type of testing on populations is unacceptable. And history does indicate that the vast majority of the American public would agree with that... That's why it is important we are telling the truth, and there's no cover-up on this one. But I did say that some form of Panopticism can do the job.
I am studying Kierkegaard quite a bit and everything I've heard about his cause of death is highly speculative and not reliable fact. The late Dr. Michael Sugrue does an excellent lecture on Kierkegaard which is available on you tube BTW. Happy learning😎
I like these lectures in general, but this lecture goes out of its way to reduce Kirkegaard's philosophy into a bunch of hot takes and reducing his views with motivism
Says Being and Nothingness was Heidegger, but that was actually Sartre. Heidegger did Being and *Time*. Not a surprising confusion in the heat of the moment, since Sartre's book is similarly titled and even takes inspiration from Heidegger's.
You think St.Augustine was a Catholic staint? I don't think so, I think he was ngostic. I think he was incorporated into a combined faith/practice of many cultures by the Romans, to create a religion. Apparently there were 36 or 39 gospels, or something crazy like that. The melted it down into 4. With saints.
Yes, okay... I'm worried a little about myself too, because if I am in fact to be compared to Ludwig, I do not consider I have produced a serious philosophical work as yet. So what I should be doing, would be to research, and write. And this issue does not seem to be understood by anybody.
No Kierkegaard doesn’t posit a God of the gaps theory🙄And he didn’t suffer with a lack of faith in the existence of God😅Some amateur errors here, come on!
@Ano Nymous I'd have to listen to it again to give you a more specific answer but the lecture obviously has no feeling for the man. Anyone who can say they looked around the world of their time and saw that it was full of crap_ "that to have courage is to risk, having to pay a ten dollar fine" and the like, is a person that deserves better treatment than this guy gave.
Exactly. I like these lectures a little, but this lecture feels like he goes out of his way to turn Kirkegaard's philosophy into just a bunch of hot takes and reducing his arguments by motivism.
@@Finn-xw4vn And I have learned way more about the man and his thoughts, since last I was this way. "K." is deep. He writes of being out on the town, one evening, being the life of the party, witty and charming, and then, he writes, when he went home he just wanted to shoot himself. This was a man, offended by pretense.
"GOD is dead" and "you can't get to HIM with "Reason" further shows that all this about the praising "Philosophers" is in fact celebrating structured ignorance that is handsomely rewarded in our internationally GODLESS world, by design.
This guy really doesnt know Kierkegaard very well, this is a very general and unsubtle introduction of him it is sad... Inte heller har du varit i Danmark Wes men talar som om du varit där!??
Love this plain and understandable language, these lectures are just great.
People will be listening to this in 100 years. Incredible job.
I am listening after 3 years.. not a 100 but hey 3% there
The vast majority of people will willingly and happily give up their freedom if it means they obtain certainty, security, and comfort. I do think Kierkegaard was correct in the assertion that freedom induces anxiety because with complete freedom comes complete responsibility.
I would too. But the decision often cannot be a conscious one. Also, to a degree you, we are all a part of our society, never can be free.
correction : "being and nothingness" is sarte not heidegger. heidegger is "being and time"
Denmark was not a backwater at the time of Shakespeare. The actual reason he set Hamlet in Denmark, is because the story was derivative of a much older tale which originated there. The first written rendition of the story is found in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum (Chronicle of the Danes), the first written history of Denmark.
The is one of the best lectures on Kierkegaard.
What a fascinating thinker bar socrates possibly the greatest ironist. He had an unusual way of creating disjunctive sentences to create cadences, even sonic reverb . He wasn't a philosopher of eloquent wit or intricate nuances ,if anything, he was a tad blunt . But he cultivated a method of making the point realised by not emphasising the point being made . He once said something critical about the contradictory nature of the Danish Lutheran churches' stance on charity . I read it once 30 yrs ago, and it still continues reverberating in my head .
Around 23:00 -- Sartre wrote "Being and Nothingness" but Heidegger wrote "Being and Time."
Just a small correction. Denmark was going through its Golden Age during the time Kierkegaard was alive, it certainly wasn't a land no one knew about. It was a hub for art, literature, and even philosophy and I would argue he was relatively well known in Germany while he was still alive, although I agree he was not taken very seriously and even characterized by his peers.
Yes. I also think it is an anachronistic mistake to call Kierkegaard a "Danish fundamentalist"
The state was literally bankrupt from war which included being firebombed in an act of terrorism by the British, and had to sell Norway.
Denmark was certainly not some weird, remote land for Shakespeare either. 🙄 It was the gatekeeper of the Baltic and the most powerful Nordic state for many centuries.
But he was Danish.....his great antagonist Hegel was German !
HERE IT IS !!!!!!!! 2020 LETS DO IT !!!!!!!
I cannot get enough of the way the lectures show how the human and the thought intertwine.
Você parece muito seguro em falar de Kierkegaard a partir de uma perspectiva toda sua que eu, pessoalmente, tenho dificuldade em aceitar.
Para mim, Kierkegaard continua sendo meu maior desafio. Consequentemente, qualquer tratamento do que ele foi e é se me interessa, sem duvida, deixa-me igualmente apreensivo.
Acrescentaria algo mais agora a condição existencial do indivíduo, noção fundamental para Kierkegaard: não seria ele, o indivíduo, a negação da autoapropriacao conforme o conceito e o sistema necessariamente alheios a ele ou melhor a si mesmo? E o salto da fe a confiança portanto em se pôr nas mãos de Deus?
Daí então que tomar a si o direito de critica-lo apenas legitimavel enquanto autocrítica de si mesmo?
Brilliant analysis. Also love the comparison with Stirner. Very on point.
He's saying "The measure is always god, giving a bases for argument, which is passion, which is important and human." But then he doesn't really believe?
You suggest the Reformation was the first cleavage in the Christian Church but well before the Reformation, it had already suffered a monumental schism into East and West: the split in 1054 between Greek speaking and Latin speaking Christendoms. Also Heidegger is not the author of 'Being And Nothingness' (L'Etre et le Neant); it was Sartre. (23.20). Heidegger wrote 'Being and Time' ('Sein und Zeit').
Sartre NOT Heidegger
Don Giovanni NOT Don Juan.
Heidegger NOT Wittgenstein
This lecturer gets details wrong,
Wrong in details suspect in everything ... especially his thesis that because K. Wrote so much he cannot be truely a knight of faith....spurious with hidden assumptions😮
Clear but cogent--great change from other presentations from academe on K.
Good stuff. Always love your lectures
Thanks a lot. Greetings from Holland😊
Here is Austria. Thank you.
Droppin’ som’ mo’ philosophy/history heat fo’ the 2020
Denmark wasn't a backwater when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet... It controlled all the straits connecting the Baltic & North Seas, & Copenhagen was so prosperous that it managed to establish a very important university in 1479.
Thank you. I’m sure I’m going to enjoy this series too.
Would you ever get around to doing Albert Camus?
Thanks sir, your lectures are great
I'll put it like this.... There do exist people that walk among us, which are filled with goodness, believe it or not. By that I mean benevolence, etc... Fruits of the spirit. And the other people, the Boogie People, are filled with the opposite. And when we depart, we will possibly go to that place where these qualities are absolute. It's in your database. Do find out. As for myself, I've seen the illustrations to Dante, on Wikipedia.
It’s 2:00AM and I have class in the morning.
Well, youare actually having a class right now :-)
Thank you so much
The germans??? Actually he was danish.
This was eye opening. I never realized that this guy's enormous footprint on our thinking.
Just make a fully Kosher version of what them were doing, back then hopefully, and roll with it. I did found out all of this stuff by what looks like, here on Earth as... pure coincidence :) Ah, btw. you know there's absolutely more than one instantiation of the same type, right? Of the same ego. To me that comes very natural. And at the same time, there's uncountably many possible types... so maybe the world we inhabit is actually infinite, temporally speaking. :) I am glad we found a reason to keep improving ourselves... Yet, do work on the Kosher version I was talking about, so we are able to improve the sacred game of Cricket, Baseball, and Oina. Okay? Don't let people out on the essentials :)
Come to think about it... I'm not even a Set Theorist. Something I always wanted to be.
Not quite ;) Have you visited our Mountain? I haven't.
This type of question is really hard... Where do we take it from here. It depends where you guys in America want to take it, over there. But you have to agree that this type of testing on populations is unacceptable. And history does indicate that the vast majority of the American public would agree with that... That's why it is important we are telling the truth, and there's no cover-up on this one. But I did say that some form of Panopticism can do the job.
do we know the reason of his early death?
I am studying Kierkegaard quite a bit and everything I've heard about his cause of death is highly speculative and not reliable fact.
The late Dr. Michael Sugrue does an excellent lecture on Kierkegaard which is available on you tube BTW. Happy learning😎
Nice lecture, but please correct this misleading title….Kirkegaard was danish
Great lecture. He says don juan goofy
Interesting 👌
Just tell us what he wrote not your opinions. These Americans man.
'Nietzsche' comes down the mountain 5.30 - Heidegger's work 'Being and Nothingness' 23.00 - is this guy for real?
I can't believe you've never did Albert Camus
Because he isn't in Philosophical level.
@@rammmin1 fym, he just said Kiekegaard was more of a poet
I also hear Beckett
There's people going somewhere in order to observe the Sabbath.
32:47 I thought that was my phone. I have the same notification sound 😂
selv centered comments albert
@@Ggeorgiev89 what
Heidegger wrote being and time. Sartre wrote being and nothingness
Sartre is a crooked British they have a get your own war with France in ww2
Sometimes the problems of young men get writ large.
He was.
German-ish
He never said he was a German. Maybe listen to the lecture before commenting.
@@suzannearama The title?
@@suzannearamaHe 👉 implied 👈 he was a German by having his ikon above the title "The Germans".
We don't even need this one.. germanic dane of alterity
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I like these lectures in general, but this lecture goes out of its way to reduce Kirkegaard's philosophy into a bunch of hot takes and reducing his views with motivism
Who? Where?
Kierkegaard was Danish though.
Says Being and Nothingness was Heidegger, but that was actually Sartre. Heidegger did Being and *Time*. Not a surprising confusion in the heat of the moment, since Sartre's book is similarly titled and even takes inspiration from Heidegger's.
At parties
You think St.Augustine was a Catholic staint? I don't think so, I think he was ngostic. I think he was incorporated into a combined faith/practice of many cultures by the Romans, to create a religion. Apparently there were 36 or 39 gospels, or something crazy like that. The melted it down into 4. With saints.
Addition to the list of people influenced by Kierkegaard: Elliott Smith
In what way? :)
his music gives me that hurts so good feeling ya know? ha i guess there could be a bit of an influence there....
Take that pitiable lacemakers.
Things were better when there was more getting other each other fired up. 🔥🙅♂️⛓🔥
Yes, okay... I'm worried a little about myself too, because if I am in fact to be compared to Ludwig, I do not consider I have produced a serious philosophical work as yet. So what I should be doing, would be to research, and write. And this issue does not seem to be understood by anybody.
Sounds a lot like jbp
Great presentation but you’re really doing a disservice to Nietzsche. He was anything but an idealist.
Existentialism
No Kierkegaard doesn’t posit a God of the gaps theory🙄And he didn’t suffer with a lack of faith in the existence of God😅Some amateur errors here, come on!
This is not an honest, nor a fair hearing of Kierkegaard, or his thoughts. It is character assassination.
@Ano Nymous I'd have to listen to it again to give you a more specific answer but the lecture obviously has no feeling for the man. Anyone who can say they looked around the world of their time and saw that it was full of crap_ "that to have courage is to risk, having to pay a ten dollar fine" and the like, is a person that deserves better treatment than this guy gave.
Exactly. I like these lectures a little, but this lecture feels like he goes out of his way to turn Kirkegaard's philosophy into just a bunch of hot takes and reducing his arguments by motivism.
@@Finn-xw4vn And I have learned way more about the man and his thoughts, since last I was this way. "K." is deep. He writes of being out on the town, one evening, being the life of the party, witty and charming, and then, he writes, when he went home he just wanted to shoot himself. This was a man, offended by pretense.
"GOD is dead" and "you can't get to HIM with "Reason" further shows that all this about the praising "Philosophers" is in fact celebrating structured ignorance that is handsomely rewarded in our internationally GODLESS world, by design.
He uses German in most of his books and is not a fundamentalist...
Psychobabble
Kierkegaard was German? ...... uhm..
This guy really doesnt know Kierkegaard very well, this is a very general and unsubtle introduction of him it is sad... Inte heller har du varit i Danmark Wes men talar som om du varit där!??
Weak tea
What an insulting lecture. You don't understand Søren Kierkegaard at all. Downvote this video.