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Existentialist Dasein
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Registrace 30. 03. 2013
I'm a philosopher and musicologist, and Existentialist Dasein is my way of giving some of the knowledge I’ve gained through my education back to the community.
Digital Colonization: Why I’m Taking a Pause from YouTube
In this episode, I discuss how and why we, as content producers, colonize your mind to mine your attention. I also explain why I've stopped making videos regularly and why I won't continue participating in this absurd game of exploitation. I challenge every CZcamsr to be transparent with their audience and decrease their contribution to the online noise. Furthermore, I urge every content producer to conclude each episode they create with the following:
“I do not urge anyone to subscribe; I rather ask everyone at least to think twice before he does it.”
-Kierkegaard, The Moment
“I do not urge anyone to subscribe; I rather ask everyone at least to think twice before he does it.”
-Kierkegaard, The Moment
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ChatGPT and the Urgency to Rethink the Rules of Writing
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These days, you cannot browse the web without coming across an article or a video related to ChatGPT. So, I thought I’d take this opportunity to share my own perspective with you. In this video, I explain why I think language models have the potential to finally push our education system forward. Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com...
Why Cultivate Existential Thinking: Nietzsche on Science and the Ascetic Ideal
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This is the fourth and final video in the series Crisis in Critical Thinking, and it focuses on Nietzsche's views on the crisis of science. Most of the thoughts are derived from On the Genealogy of Morality. Enjoy:)! Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Instagram: johannesabsu...
Does Studying Maths and Logic Improve Logical Reasoning? No.
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This is the third video in the series Crisis in Critical Thinking. The video draws attention to research papers which show logical and mathematical training does not improve logical reasoning. Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Instagram: johannesabsurdus Expand your musica...
Russian Nihilism: Lessons from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
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This is the second video in the series Crisis in Critical Thinking. The video focuses on a specific aspect of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and explains how mindless science-worship was related to the Russian nihilist movement. Enjoy:)! Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Instagram: instagra...
Nietzsche on Science and Nihilism
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This is the first video in the series Crisis in Critical Thinking. The other videos will be released in January. Much of this video relies on the third treatise from Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality. Enjoy:)! Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Instagram: johannesabsu...
Violence and Cognitive Dissonance: From J. D. Salinger to "Top Gun: Maverick"
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It's becoming increasingly more difficult to keep silent about how silly humanity is; with each passing day, I'm becoming more and more baffled by our species. Keeping all this bafflement and frustration inside seems no longer an option; so, I had to break my silence after almost a year and release a CZcams video. The making of this video was meant as nothing more than a cathartic sublimation o...
Can We Engage in Philosophy from a Starting Point?
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In this episode, we examine if there is a starting point from which we can philosophise. Support my channel on Patreon to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein Follow me on Instagram: johannesabsurdus Also, don't forget to follow me on facebook: BoooksAndBoooze/
What Is Reason?
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In this episode, we examine how Jaspers characterises Reason. Enjoy:)! Literature: Jaspers, Karl. Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952. Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Instagram: johannesabsurdus Expand your musical palette: open.spo...
The Existentialist's Guide to Classical Music
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“In the late eighteenth century, 84 percent of the repertory of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra consisted of music by living composers. By 1855, the figure had declined to 38 percent, by 1870 to 24 percent.” The statistics differ from place to place, but in a country like Austria, that number is now down to 9% according to Bachtracker. The problem is that overemphasising a selected group of co...
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 (Waldstein) [Analysis]
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This is a musical analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 (also known as his Waldstein Sonata) for music lovers. Enjoy! Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Instagram: johannesabsurdus Expand your musical palette: open.spotify.com/playlist/3O...
Reason and Anti-Reason: A Critique of Marx, Marxism, and Historical Materialism by Jaspers
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In this episode, we analyse the first half of the first chapter of Jaspers' book, Reason and Anti-reason in Our Time. Enjoy:) Literature: Jaspers, Karl. Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952. Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Instagram: ...
Nietzsche's Stylistic Pluralism: A Case of Perspectivism
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This video classifies some of Nietzsche's works based on the different styles Nietzsche used to express his ideas throughout his authorship. Literature: • Nehamas, Alexander. Nietzsche: Life as Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Support my channel to help me make more videos: www.patreon.com/ExistentialistDasein www.paypal.com/paypalme/existentialistdasein Follow me on Insta...
Nietzsche and Socrates
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By drawing attention to the similarity between a passage from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Plato's Meno, we explore the relationship between Socrates and Nietzsche. Enjoy:) Primary literature: • Nehamas, Alexander. Nietzsche: Life as Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. • Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Edited by Adrian Del Caro and Robert B. ...
Was Bach an Innovator? [With a Discussion of French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816, Allemande]
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Was Bach an Innovator? [With a Discussion of French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816, Allemande]
Plotinus' Philosophy in a Nutshell: The One, Intellect, and Soul
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Plotinus' Philosophy in a Nutshell: The One, Intellect, and Soul
An Introduction to Plotinus and His Views on Music
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An Introduction to Plotinus and His Views on Music
Jaspers on Avoiding Political Responsibility
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Jaspers on Avoiding Political Responsibility
Albert Camus' The Adulterous Woman (from Exile and the Kingdom) [Analysis]
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Albert Camus' The Adulterous Woman (from Exile and the Kingdom) [Analysis]
Plato's Timaeus and The Republic: The Cosmos as a Musical Performance
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Plato's Timaeus and The Republic: The Cosmos as a Musical Performance
Kierkegaard on Knowledge and Approximation
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Kierkegaard on Knowledge and Approximation
An Introduction to Plato and His Views on Music
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An Introduction to Plato and His Views on Music
How Should an Existentialist Celebrate Their Birthday?
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How Should an Existentialist Celebrate Their Birthday?
A Philosophical Thought for Christmas 2020
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A Philosophical Thought for Christmas 2020
Kierkegaard and Jaspers on Science: Jaspers (2/2)
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Kierkegaard and Jaspers on Science: Jaspers (2/2)
Why don't people see this as the original inspiration for christian idea of trinity? Why they are blind to see that concepts in christanity are modified Greek philosophy?
Good stuff
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17:00 VANITY 20:00 ironist as prophet 21:45 life as a poem
Wish you continued this. Its very good.
Hello there , I have just finished Fear and trembling by SK , and tbh your lecture is proved to be such a great help . Personally I feel that this lecture is just a perfect guide for anyone that wants to embark on journey of reading SK books . Great lecture .
Thank you so much 🥰 for hardworking you put in this videos 🎉🎉
A lot of the reason I would say that incest is still wrong even with proper precautions is mainly because human behavior doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Nobody just wakes up one morning and decides to talk to their sister about having sex with them simply because it would be a new experience. However, I have met people who have been groomed and sexually assaulted by their own family members, and I can tell you that that does cause immense amounts of trauma. That is why I would still argue that even though the brother and sister consented, I would be very hesitant to say that that was true consent. we don’t know what happened between them. That would make them consent to something like this. Perhaps there was some grooming done in their past that we simply don’t know about.
enjoyed this. thank you. I'll be checking out your other videos :)
This is a brilliant video and analysis and this video has really helped me understand the first few chapters of the book. Can you make videos about other chapters? Thank you
The biblical prophet Elijah has returned, as prophesied, and testifies: If Nietzsche would have known what the biblical "satan" is, he would have known that he was a satanist. Neither Socrates nor Jesus Christ had any power in his estimation, because that which Nietzsche considered "power" is actually insanity, Truth be known; the "power" of satan: the selfish human EGO.
Bull Shit Explanation. It clearly means controling women with force if neccessary. The oroginal says: "Wenn Du zum Weibe gehst, vergiss die Peitsche nicht!". For a German speaker it leaves no space for interpretation. Misogyny !
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I always deeply found myself ❤❤on this channel
The best explanation!!
Celie from the Colour Purple advises the metaphorical whip to Harpo, the old woman who meets Zarathustra agrees with Celie. Women have always hated women because they understand each other, they walk in each others' skin. Zarathustra proclaims his ignorance when it comes to women psyche... But women know how women could be put on the keel... That's one of the probable interpretations...
Superb overview toward the Overman and self surpassing. Thank you.
Still based Nietzsche
New subscriber 😉
What I got from This. Every minute of your life counts, once it’s over it’s over. So go balls to the wall in everything you do to maximise your experience and potential.
Actually, Attridge, Aberdein, and Inglis did a follow-up study to their study at 1:00. They concluded "Our results suggest that it is possible to teach logical thinking, given a certain degree of exposure."
With Zarathustra's descent down from the mountain, it could be a reference from the republic by Plato where Socrates descends into the town to witness the festival. Plato had this idea that philosophers were at the highest point in society or something
Bach was subordinate of kings & bishops which takes his music to realms between stoicism and asceticism?
It's simple people are OVERWHELMINGLY DUMB.
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I will reflect on the thoughts you put forward in this video and atleast try to reduce the noise I am subjecting myself too. I hope it will help me I think this maybe be a video that is truly only self help and the best closure I could imagine. I will not unsubscribe but I will take a hard look at al the other chanels I am subscribed too truly reevaluate them but yours will allways be there as a reminder to value my attention when I need it.
I appreciate you making this video and taking a principled stance. Over time I've noticed these compulsions and modes of interaction with my environment as a result of being jacked into the hyper-attention economy. This feeling of urgency and speed, fear and anxiety of being left out and not keeping up with totally imaginary social spheres that arise and disappear without any roots. I've already wiped my social media several times and I have to consciously work on my compulsion to build endless watchlists/bookmarks/folders that I'll most likely never revisit. It's as if curating depositories of content has displaced my enjoyment of them (while my enjoyment of said content has displaced my attention/time for 'introspection'). What Mark Fisher explores in "Time Wars" and elsewhere, the idea that we are required to live in a condition of “continuos partial attention” (attention habitually distributed across multiple communication platforms) and "hyperkinetic boredom". We are always-busy-always-bored pathological cyborgs produced by accelerating information exchange (Franco Berardi). Boredom has effectively been eliminated from social life and yet we have never been more bored. When the pessimist in me turns I think I understand Pascal, and perhaps Zapffe even more. What if there was time to self-reflect? Pre-industrialised people also suffered from melancholy and boredom. Are we assuming that there even is a self/ego that could and should grow and become unique? Perhaps our cognitive surplus and our uncanny being in the world won't let us rest. Given even the 'best' circumstances we cannot "sit quietly in a room alone." I would prefer growing a community rather than expanding my own subjectivity, but we live under neoliberal constraints that promote individualist profile-building and atomization. There is a conflict, like your video is content and my comment is a reaction, it feels as if these exist in a space that will always reduce them to attention/engagement. Your decision to dis-engage and touch grass is a good one and I respect it.
But this channel was so good! Don't stop, please! Why is it always the case that the good ones walk away from social media?
Thanks much!
Great explanation. Thank you 🕛
amazing analysis. Love it!
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So LGBTQ is based on pedophilia and communism... if we are to believe what we read.
Brilliant 🕛🤩
huh
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This is gold. The relatively low number of views on this says something about our society with regards to the last men.
Thanks! Watching at the foothills of the Himalayas, Mcloadganj, Dharamsala, India.
Thank you, from one who is now delving into the works of Plotinus's Ennead.
Thanks for the comment. If you want something more substantial, I recommend Eyjólfur Emilsson's Plotinus.
Thank you. This video was very important to me
I'm glad it meant something to you:)!
This is brilliant. Here's to hoping that those intent on doubling down don't last
the music is unbearable! it makes it so hard to focus on the matter!
Thank you for the hope.
It's up to us to realise the hope and turn it into reality:)!
Thanks for the short!
And thank you for listening:)!
so what would a transcendental entity look like, be named, have function ? Why is he using this term in a differnt sense as to how it is normally used i.e. as quasi religious realm, as a non material sensation..... say, give me a sentence w. transcendental in it that makes it operational ... forgive my philistine reaction !
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STRONGLY AGREE, in the most prosaic terms inhumanly possible.
Let's hope there will be fortunate things to agree on in the future.
Most informative! Thank you!
Thanks.
Just think, 41 million Soviet men, women and children were murdered by the Nazi Germans for your right to speak shit about their system. Now, if that's not the death of intellection - nothing is. The suicide of non-inverted thought indeed.