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Atheist = someone who lacks belief in a god or gods. In other words, lives and acts as though there is no god. It is in fact, NOT, the positive belief in the premise that there is in-fact no god or gods. Agnostic = someone who lacks the knowledge that God or gods exist. In other words, lives and acts as no god or gods exist in a state of uncertainty. These two things get conflated so often. Believing in something is different from knowing something. You can believe, meaning you are convinced of something being true, without actually knowing whether or not it is true. For example, I am convinced on the basis of everything that I do know, that there is no god. However, I am still agnostic because I have wavering certainty of this belief. This makes me an agnostic atheist. Also, as a note, these are two separate concepts and not just varying degrees of knowledge or certainty.

Thank you again I love Albert Camus and existentialist philosophy in general personally I'm a Taoist and I find similarities in existentialism therefore it's on my list of things to study . Frederick Nietzsche, Soren kirkegaard , Arthur Schopenhauer, Jean Paul Sartre, and others. I also think there are many parallels in Stoicism as well

We need more general public talks-wise. Talks need not be restricted to psychology.

Excellent

Having become aware of the absurdity of existence, maybe thats why I suffer from suicide ideation. Life is still worth living. I revolt against the absurdity.

In this series of lectures, Sarte explained so beautifully and simply.

Thank you from a Absurdist mystic

Hey, Professor. Loved the class. The Buddhist does not demote this life experience and promote the nirvana in after life. In fact, the path to enlightenment is overcoming the perspective of life as suffering and engaging in life as it is (Buddhism prescribe understanding the 4 noble truths and following the noble eightfold path). This is so the case that the Bodhisattva vows are the representation of "withstanding the eternal recurrence", "eternal confirmation and seal". Also, nirvana is a state of the liberated mind, the mind as you stated "can live beautifully enough" with the pain and pleasure intact. Amor fati and Buddhism are so much alike.

I really appreciate your videos. Sartre ignited my interest in philosophy because his was the first philosophy that really connected with me in my intro to philosophy course and I am really enjoying diving deeper into his ideas. Thank you!

Would is pursue of darkness in order to be free according to dostoyevski be similar to freuds thanathos or kierkegaards "we fear what we want, we want what we fear"?

Good lectures however your perceptions of national socialism are shallow. I believe you are a pro National Socialist by the ending delivery of this 8th lecture

I'm a coward so I live

This description of repetition is the closest I’ve heard someone describe the sensation people that do psychedelics refer to as a “time loop” (not to be confused with a thought loop which is common in anxiety and depression). Not only do you become aware of your cycles of repetition but you FEEL that you’re just along for a ride that’s greater than you. Side note: if one finds themselves here the best thing to do imo is accept that we truly aren’t in control as much as we think and it’s okay to go with the cycles (life) and let go

Walter Kaufman was an excellent translator of Nietzsche’s German into English but to his philosophy he had not been introduced. His footnotes are always wide of the mark and bear the stigmata of all academics who have sacrificed their lives for security on a campus of green grass and oaken shade. James Legge who translated Chinese classics like the I Ching was a good translator but a poor expositor of its contents. The holy grail is one thing the wine it contained another.

Couple years ago, I identified the Jonah Complex as the most likely psychological explanation for my own neurotic ills in life, but this lecture is by far the best explanation I've seen of it, including clear ways to overcome it and realise that 'luminous essence' in myself that is at the heart of all people, whether they realise it or not; so thank you for making this available to a wider audience!

Thank you so much

Camus is the only philosopher I have ever needed.

Was his death a result of his philosophy?

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much! I finally know how to identify myself when people ask about my beliefs: ENCHANTED AGNOSTIC is perfect! 😂🥰

I know this is an older video, but I've been trying to figure this out: theres a pattern thats raised as false: work/entertainment, but then the reaponse is to appreciate the existential and to me, that just sounds like a different from of entertainment. I just don't get what the existentialists actually want people to do.

lot of thanks, you 're a great teacher.

Professor is beyond words

I do not think this is a very good understanding of religion. Maybe a good view of the use people may make of religion, but this understanding expressed here may also be shutting down an important aspect of ourselves to be found in religious experience and religious writings.

Nietzsche is the only philosopher I've ever read that you can scroll through with a pencil marking out quotations to find that not only are there quotations within the quotations but the quotations, when you start making them come to overlap eachother.

Awesome lecture

Awesome series, thanks for this

Thank you so much! This was amazing.

Thank you. This is was great lecture for me to understand Albert Camus.

So, I finally told him, "I can row a boat, Camus?"

All the other philosophers just word salad about what is, is, Nietzsche may be the only worthy.

All Atheists are Agnostic. All Theists are Gnostic.

Thank you for your explanation two a Layman it help me a little bit better tow understand 😀

very much enjoying these lectures, thanks for making them so easily accessible!

Where are you, Eric? Three years and waiting.

Thank you for this series

There are at least a threefold philosophical problem with his Nazi gig. 1) His actions (of which there are many) in purging German universities of Jews (see the documentary on YT by Jefferey Van Davis) and his refusal to apologise afterwards (the meeting with Paul Celan) points to the ethical and moral vacuum that is at the core of his "structure of Being" which rests on futurity and potentiality at any cost. 2) Derrida ("Of Spirit") notes that the linguistic/textual flaw appears when he turns to the image of "fire" as the metaphor for Being. This screams at you in his 1940s/late 1930s lectures on Heraclitus. For Heidegger, fire "lightens" a clearing and opening of Being. He didn't spot that it also consumes and destroys. 3) His own admission of philosophical collapse in the Der Spiegel interview when he was grilled a little on his Nazi involvement. Heidegger's conclusion: "Only a god can save us." Being has evaporated into thin air after the Nazi atrocities and there is no answer to the will of technology that he decided the Nazis came to symbolise. So it's not about "hey, we all get things wrong, he's not such a bad guy". The philosophical problem is: what went wrong with his ethics in his assertion of pure individual existential existence? This goes back to his rejection of Kant when he tried to establish an ontology without any Kritik, a word that he never understood in Kant while he spent years rejecting (and missing) the Kantian thesis on the ideas of reason and the refutations of cosmology.

You said the care structure was threefold, but you broke it down to four? Facticity, throwness, falleness and existentiality? And the irony of explaining das Mann to students who have to pass grades etc… And the deeper problem with this model: that Hitler (and those like him) was the most authentic of them all….. These are very lucid presentations - thanks for sharing them with the general public.

I have enjoyed your lectures very much. Thank you, Professor Dodson.

Do you suppose the Corona virus reaction could be related to the extreme and rapid growth of news and social media creating a collective consciousness situation we aren't really prepared to deal with? It seems similar to the reactions to guns and tobacco when automobile and alcohol violence is many times worse (I've been directly affected by gun violence so please don't go down that road). The fact is there seems, to me, to be a sort of (disasterous) feedback loop between news propaganda, social media, and a super lynch mob mentality that rapidly forms and has been getting worse as media access grows. I was born in 1955 and have experienced the absurdity of public opinion grow in ways I don't believe could have been foreseen or prepared for especially with the increasing narcissism so blatant in our modern world

My respect for you rise another level just for refering Fall Out 4 in the middle of a philisophic lecture! 😎👍

This guy really likes mentioning he studied classical languages

What would be a 4th?

Thanks a million. Your lectures allow me to improve my English listening skills and find out interesting things for myself at the same time.

Man, youre amazing

Amazing video! Thank you for sharing this!

I like the Germans, things they say stand out, (even in english)..herman hesse, in steppenwolf, said laughter was the music, of the oher side, (in a discourse, about the difference between brhams, and mozart)..i recall that, from 30 years ago.. that had gravitas, for me..(no-one , made me read it, it was just a suggestion).

So, what happened to his pets?...were they re-united, in the afterlife?...futurama, was one of the goat, tv shows..(bender is the dog, in adventure time..good cartoon too..). Cartoons, can do, the impossible?..

Great video.

These lectures make me want to go to uwg