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If solipsism is what happens when you begin on the inside & never work yourself out, what happens when you start on the outside & never work your way in?

Heidegger was a bridge & not a goal; moving towards a new human from an older human; taking the old & making it new & giving humanity an ability to create anew: Sartre, Camus, Becker, Frankle, etc.

Quit pacing and stuttering…you just might believe what you’re spewing

I am curious how Nietzsche reconciles "ruthless self criticism" coded as good with "bite of conscience" as bad.

For a classicist, I am surprised that Nietzsche sounds so oblivious to the centrality of conscience and community for the aristocratic ethics of both Roman Stoicism and Socratic ethics.

One thing I'd call you to consider is that while Hobbes does start with the individual and end with the individual (his important idea of Popular Sovereignty in fact makes the State into a Corporation of One Person "The People" -- the idea of "The People" is One Person as a corporation which he calls a Mortal God aka The Leviathan). --There are certain things to consider about his ideas of the family. When you consider Plato's Republic, it is also similar in the sense that there is a relationship between the State (or The City) and the Individual. Plato's Republic is a reflection of the individual soul and a unitary being like Hobbes' Leviathan. Even Aristotle's Politics accused Plato of "atomization" for wanting too much unity in the State much like our contemporaries do with Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes' Leviathan & Plato's Republic together is a good case study on North Korea btw. xD A lot of the things found in those two books you'll find in North Korea, notably in Plato's Republic the root of all totalitarianism is Plato's community of pleasures and pains (a lot like Hobbes' utilitarian appetites & aversions). Plato suggested in order to better organize the State, the people should have this unity of emotion not grieving at separate things, but altogether united in emotion. You find this doctrine at play especially in North Korea where in propaganda people are all sharing emotion or highly co-ordinated to act as a body. In Plato's Republic, while not exactly like how Hobbes does it, did endorse the idea that different constituents of the Republic should come to act as One Person like organs. Back to my point about the family, because like in Plato's Statesmen, which makes the point that the family or household and the political state are no different, Hobbes also makes that case: so in the state of nature, Hobbes tries to tackle this point about the families: Hobbes says, that the family is a little city. In the state of nature, even members of the family make covenants with the parents, but amongst the families themselves, Hobbes claims, there is a war of all against all, so they consent to instituting a Commonwealth so that not only individuals but families would be at peace. Another allusion to Plato's doctrine that the household / family and State don't differ is Hobbes stating that rights of Sovereignty in the Sovereignty by Institution (fear of each other) and Sovereignty by Acquisition (basically despotic conquest, fear of him who governs) are the same. If you go back to Jean Bodin's Six Books of a Commonwealth, I think the similar case is also hinted albeit Royal Monarchy is distinguished from Lordly Monarchy, and Lordly Monarchy from Tyrannical Monarchy (which btw it's true Hobbes does away with, although Jean Bodin also made a case that tyrannical monarchy is still monarchy sorta like Hobbes). Bodin also conceded like Hobbes to Plato that household and state aren't different in governing. The reason why they maintain Plato's notion that a household and state aren't so different, as opposed to Aristotle who says they are, is for their support of monarchy imo: if you make the case state and household aren't different, then now monarchy is justifiable in having knowledge to govern the state, because if they were different then how would the monarchy know any better? like in Aristotle's notion monarchy is more proper to a household, but not to political constitutions -- which Hobbes flips upside down, his Leviathan is One Person hovering over The City or political constitution -- now that they aren't different, the Monarch has knowledge... in similar account, Hobbes urges us in the introduction of Leviathan to read ourselves to better understand Mankind -- so like Plato whose understanding of ourselves is better illuminated through the City, Hobbes Leviathan also ascertains that we can find the knowledge to govern the State in reading in ourselves Mankind and what governs Mankind. This is a bit of an incoherent ramble, but you'll see many useful points here.

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21:59 I don't know why I laughed at this statement

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Anyone else click this thinking it was Norm Macdonald?

This man changed the course of my life. I am forever in his debt.

The character Don Quixote is like the Fool card in the Tarot deck. ❤

Thank you, professor. Rest in peace.

I love this❤❤❤

how surprised marcus aurelieus would be if he came back to earth today and see after hundred and thousands of years people are still talking abt him and his virtuous life.. great accomplishment for a human..

Never heard about such a big idiot like Nietzsche was

Sooooo if art dies also Nietches ideas of new values also dies?

Rest in Peace. We loved your lectures!

I'll be enjoying this at least once a year for the rest of my life.

I would be the cliche student falling for such a handsome and intelligent man if I was in his class. He has rizz for days.

Til Valhalla

Quixote is, and has been my favorite novel since the first time I read it way back in high school. I’ve read it multiple times, almost yearly since then and always take something new away with me as I have gotten older and explored more of life. It’s truly a masterpiece of masterpieces.

Beautiful

His bit on language being a social enterprise and the way to deal with sophist/nihilists is to silence them, really resonated with me.

Rip man I admire you and hope to live a good live like you❤

so basically Baudrilliard owes his whole career to Bergson...

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“The symposium isn’t really over and there’s still a seat at it for you”

We’re lizards. Not apes.

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Marcus Aurelius was a massive cuck though

I just cannot believe that he did this without notes. Rest in peace.

This man has done more for me in life than any other person. It's a sad thing to say, but I feel like it needs to be said. Thank you Dr Sugrue for bringing philosophy into a life filled with pleasure but absent from happiness. Philosophy has made me a better man and a better father, and it all started with a lecture about Marcus Aurelius that I thankfully clicked on a decade and a half ago.

Weirdly, supposing that the dimensionality of space time is semiotic the analogy of euclidean and noneuclidean geometries is sound, but if its not (and it might not be) then this entire perspective is tantamount to self pity.

OK, we've had a while to think about it now. What do we prefer, short hair goatee Darren or clean shaven ponytail Darren?

RIP Professor

kierkagaard a real one, g

Nietzsche worshipped superiority and dominance while being tended to by his sister. Nietzsche was a worm, dreaming of being a turd.

do not look at his feet and how often he comes close to stepping on that loose bloody cable.

30:46) Bridging the is-ought gap with epistemology and politics: The spectrum of progress defines ethics. - The species is the primary entity - Immortality is attained by living forth in the minds of the species

this is a fantastic lecture i really enjoyed! just one small nitpick: avogadro’s number is not a physical constant like the gravitational constant it’s not a number we can measure from the world, it’s not a constant of nature that we observe it’s a standardization constant for normalizing amounts of a substance. it’s like the word “dozen” it tells you exactly how many of something you have specially, exactly how many things there are in a “mole” which is like chemists’ version of a dozen a dozen is 12 things a mole is 6.02214076*10^23 things it’s a lot of things but it’s just a way of counting physical objects(usually particles since you don’t often have that many eggs) so two dozen is 12*2 and two moles is avogadro’s number * 2 and most importantly, it could be any number. it’s arbitrary we picked that one for historical reasons: it’s very close to the amount of subatomic particles in a gram of carbon but of course a gram is arbitrary too

A radical awareness

How refreshing to watch two philosophy professors ragging on a philosopher's book for its mental calisthenics! (Are you kidding me? Just Rawls?? No way! True of at least half of "great" philosophers.)

This is extremely engaging. Rock and roll my brother in Christ God bless master Eckhart for givin that raw uncut magical mystical Truth, like a medieval Bluetooth connection to the protection of mystical integrity turning our memories into Gods living reveries. Parental advisory bro, this is what many strive to know. Wow.

Oh fuck I’m supposed to say got it haha

Nietzche wanted to create a new moral by bringing something old back? The "warrior aristocrats" fit nicely in the role of the weak trying to take back power 😂

This man saw his fair share of weak vs strong. He is from the Priest class built on a solid basis of copious wedgies at school. His constant movement and cat like ability nullifies attackers denying them access to his brief elastic.