You like that or academia has trained you to understate all of your negative opinions so as to save face while allowing you to partake in a small release of misery?
This man is great! He is passionate about his lectures and trying to explain it in a way that students who don't really care for the class can relate to and understand.
The way in which Daniel Bonevac explains Albert Camus' philosophy is so powerful, clear and inspiring. Thank you for sharing these ideas in such a crystal clear and passionate fashion.
Moral of the story - please be more like Analytic Philosophers, see what there is, then think about it and figure things out but don't forget to that it is a _theory_ and be open to changes to it. Don't instead start with preconceived ideas and expectations and then become Existentialists when the world turns out different to the extent of seeming cruelly indifferent and very baffling.
Alienation is something you either do or do not feel 'existentially'. It's unlikely a university professor will feel alienation, they spend their time amongst people very like them. But what if one day a university philosophy professor finds himself living amongst ordinary high school dropouts and working at McDonalds. People do not really become aware that life is absurd until the absurdity of life becomes impossible to ignore, often because of circumstance.
I know I already made a comment, but that was part-way into the lecture. I've now finished it, and I have to say it's the clearest, most understandable coverage of existentialism that I've ever seen. And delivered with such obvious passion! Bravo, Prof. Bonevac! I'm a teacher myself, and I could have listened to you delivering a lecture 3x longer. Have a subscription :)
Halfway through and I just have to say how fantastic I think this is. A proffessor with such passion for what he does. Would be awesome to have a teacher like that. Thanks, this inspired me.
Existentialism is primarily a reaction (in my view) to the loss of certainty which began with the Copernican revolution -- and a broad recognition of the necessity of choice as the price each of us must pay for our short-term lease on existence. You are radically free, but the freedom is not unlimited: there is no escape, for example, from the need to make choices -- to love, to hate, to establish the "brotherhood of man" as an axiom to live by in a world of uncertainty and value pluralism. Let this good lecture be a starting point, not an ending, of your _own_ journey.
Thank you for this I've always grappled with the meaning of existentialism when really the word exist is in it. I can remember in French class we learned about this and it went over our heads
I wish my professor were like this guy he teaches so great! My philosophy professor used to be a cop in Jersey. He’s a very militant guy screams most of the time, super strict, and it feels like philosophy boot camp in the literal sense almost haha.
Thanks for the lectures, Dr. Bonevac. For me, alienation to the circumstances of one's life as a result of being thrown into existence in a particular time and place is a consequence of knowing that the attachment that we feel to our circumstances is reflexive and not deliberate, since if we had been thrown into an utterly different time and place, we would reflexively feel an attachment to those circumstances as well. This part of existentialism to me seems to follow directly from the scientific image you like to start your lectures with, an image where earth is just another planet among many, sol another star among many, and my consciousness another consciousness among many, with no special status for me to appreciate intellectually and then find reasons to endorse. The fact of alienation in existentialism seems to me to be a requisite idea for understanding why existence is said by many existentialist philosophers to be absurd.
I've read and watched plenty about existentialism, and this is the first time ever that someone has defined "essence" in a way that makes sense - intrinsic function. Humans have biological and perhaps psychological characteristics, but we have no intrinsic function *in the world*. This is why we must choose our own function. Thankyou, professor, for finally clarifying this!
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche do affirm that we have no essence and that it is up to the individual to affirm themselves through pathos. For Kierkegaard this is Christianity, for Nietzsche this is artistic self expression. You could maybe call Kant or Hegel a proto-existentialist, but Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are certainly focused on the question of existence and the intrinsic meaning of existence
This was an amazing lecture. I'm currently working on a research project based on Existentialism, and this lecture gave me a massive insight as to what Existentialism is as well as the important figures who played a role in the movement. Thank you very much for this magnificent video!
Really enjoyed your lecture. I'm studying for my Psych GRE Subject Test and was trying to better understand existentialism. You really helped. THANKS! :D
This guy is a great orator. And that's a good thing, because I had to watch this 4 times to understand what he;s saying. Now I want to hear him talk about free-will.
wow, i didn't know that channel Henri le Chat Noir. I have just watched some. I love it! thanks for the suggestion! (You said it was a cat with a French accent? The videos that I just saw were actually all in French with an English accent)
Lol. That student who sighed "Everyday" when the professor said something about how we all feel like "I don't want to this anymore" or something like that. I can relate. x')
Honestly I think Aristotle view on existentialism is smarter. OK, we are free to define our lives and give it whatever meaning we want, but what happens when we fail (our plans fail)? Some existentialists might be frustrated and commit suicide. But most of them don't. And here is Aristotle's essence: we might have failed very bad, but we might choose to continue because we seek something else, way inferior to our initial plan - we failed to accomplish the great things but i still want to taste that BigMc at Mc'Donalds or see that movie or football match etc. And this is the essence we see in all people, no matter if existentialists or not. Is always there, in every human. And it is the thing that prevents the majority of existentialists of commiting suicide after a big fail. Many many thanks for your videos!
Great lecture. Annoying squeaking desk. So may times I was getting into what you said, there's this squeaking desk(chair?)! Get rid of that thing... or are all the desks that way?
Reading thru Heidegger's " being & time" u will realize that Sartre's " being & nothingness" is almost at certain points direct plagiarism of ideas. Sartre however adds an awsome level when he talks about the social dimension with " the look" & hell is other people. The other defines us & steals my freedom so i make the other realise themselves as being defined by me. All social relationships are based in conflict. Especially love. Thia professor is cool & it would be fun to go thru being & nothingness line by line to get a really good understanding of this. He only gets to skim the surface with this lecture but its still fun tho.
After reading the 'Idiot', i have reached to the previous lacture after some googling and then to here. Very useful to make head and tail of Dostoevsky and some of my personal questions regarding being and nothingness.
Didn't Camus himself say he wasn't an existentialist? I was always thought that he believed life is inherently devoid of any meaning, and trying to give it meaning would fail, and that the existentialists thought that meaning in life had to be assigned by the self, not any outside entity.
Ironically, I passionately choose rationalism, behaviouristically act rationally, train for logic with litanies of examples, and, acting like a pretentious French waiter become a stoic and a contemplative, creating the essence that Aristotle would assert was given before I was born as my final end. Good lecture. Thank you.
Wiw so interesting when he talks about Epicurius and the pleasure of anonymity of being a secret never thought about that before but it has a residence for me. Maybe that's why I dislike social media like here I am this is my show look at me
Got a Jordan Peterson video recommended under this, which is really sad considering how many leagues are between the two professors understanding of philosophers and philosophical concepts. Wish the 700k views on that video went here instead.
Existentialism also exist in the manner of psychology, which is where Peterson excels. However, philosophical and psychological existentialism do not really differ greatly. The roots remain the same
Brilliant Daniek Truly Talented speaker!! However the existential crisis in the room is the chair squeeking does it show that others aren't aware truly of their free will and that humans are unconscious beings squeaking in an auditorium, surely if not we they would be aware of the impact of their self awareness to be present and SIT bloody still!! Who am I really I am a squeaker!!!
Normal people cannot assign a meaning of their choosing to Life (as Camus argues), because biology overrides our wishes. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you can try to say to yourself: "This is exactly what I wanted, and it gives me great joy." In reality, you will feel intense pain in your shattered thumb, and no amount of philosophy will change the fact that you just want the pain to stop. Some people have a genetic defect so that they feel no physical pain; but I would think they can still experience emotional pain, like grief or fear, and the same argument would apply to such people. It is unrealistic to think that a person can just "choose" to be happy with whatever circumstances he must endure.
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I like how so many are complaining over a squeaky chair; even though they're getting a free university lecture!
I used to carry a little can of WD40 with me to lectures for this reason lol
You like that or academia has trained you to understate all of your negative opinions so as to save face while allowing you to partake in a small release of misery?
It seems squeaky chair beats philosophy lecture, who would have known...
I'm in Denmark. All university lectures are free here.
Yeah for sure, but did you notice that squeaky chair tho??
You're the professor I am deprived of meeting in my entire university life. Glad to hear you on CZcams. Thanks!
Great professor, great lecture.
This man is great! He is passionate about his lectures and trying to explain it in a way that students who don't really care for the class can relate to and understand.
lbaca222 Can we say existentialism is a movement called for peace and justice ?
Go back to sleep
I can relate to that, baby, what's your name ?
@@koroglurustem1722 Keep it in your pants, man
If you don't care for class then flip burgers
The way in which Daniel Bonevac explains Albert Camus' philosophy is so powerful, clear and inspiring. Thank you for sharing these ideas in such a crystal clear and passionate fashion.
Moral of the story - please be more like Analytic Philosophers, see what there is, then think about it and figure things out but don't forget to that it is a _theory_ and be open to changes to it. Don't instead start with preconceived ideas and expectations and then become Existentialists when the world turns out different to the extent of seeming cruelly indifferent and very baffling.
Alienation is something you either do or do not feel 'existentially'.
It's unlikely a university professor will feel alienation, they spend their time amongst people very like them.
But what if one day a university philosophy professor finds himself living amongst ordinary high school dropouts and working at McDonalds.
People do not really become aware that life is absurd until the absurdity of life becomes impossible to ignore, often because of circumstance.
The stages listed in The Stranger are similar to the stages of loss: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. Just noticed that!
Oh captain my captain!
I've been watching these videos since Quarantine started.
D'oh
Easy Walt
I know I already made a comment, but that was part-way into the lecture. I've now finished it, and I have to say it's the clearest, most understandable coverage of existentialism that I've ever seen. And delivered with such obvious passion! Bravo, Prof. Bonevac! I'm a teacher myself, and I could have listened to you delivering a lecture 3x longer. Have a subscription :)
Wow, you are a great teacher/professor, thanks for the free lecture
Halfway through and I just have to say how fantastic I think this is. A proffessor with such passion for what he does. Would be awesome to have a teacher like that. Thanks, this inspired me.
Existentialism is primarily a reaction (in my view) to the loss of certainty which began with the Copernican revolution -- and a broad recognition of the necessity of choice as the price each of us must pay for our short-term lease on existence. You are radically free, but the freedom is not unlimited: there is no escape, for example, from the need to make choices -- to love, to hate, to establish the "brotherhood of man" as an axiom to live by in a world of uncertainty and value pluralism. Let this good lecture be a starting point, not an ending, of your _own_ journey.
I enjoy Bonevac’s lectures very much. They are some of my favorites right now on youtube, and there are so many 👍🏻
"Next monday no class. Wednesday we come back and talk. "
That was deep.
I Really appreciate how the lecturer went straight to the point with the definition, right off the bat. Love it
Students squeaking w chairs on purpose, they're like: "we paid so much money to listen to this and you f'ing youtubers want for free"
wow, real great, helpful comment..your supposed to listen to the lecture f'ing moron.
@@michaelsteven1090 It was a great comment, punk...
excellent lecture but the noise is extremely distracting
Having taken classes in this room back in the day, the chairs are made so if you just barely move it squeaks lol it is annoying even in the room
Lol
The chair cries out in pain, as it listens again and again.
Excellent.
Those damn chairs......
Emptier than my essenceless soul.
+Ha Kou well at least this video managed to add 40 000 more people sitting in those chairs
cscott Greas the chairs
unwatchable because of all the shuffling around sounds. FACK!
@@julioenergy If a pin dropped during this lecture and no one heard it, would it really exist?
This presentation had me fascinated from start to finish. Your enthusiasm for philosophy and your sense of humor is admirable. Thank you for sharing.
I loved the lucidity, the very simple way a profound subject was explained and of course the intermittent humour! Thank you, Sir.
Thank you for this I've always grappled with the meaning of existentialism when really the word exist is in it. I can remember in French class we learned about this and it went over our heads
I wish my professor were like this guy he teaches so great! My philosophy professor used to be a cop in Jersey. He’s a very militant guy screams most of the time, super strict, and it feels like philosophy boot camp in the literal sense almost haha.
Daniel Bonevac is a great teacher and a great speaker I really enjoyed this speech
that was absolutely fabulous!
this is surely so helpful, I must say. Thank you for posting this....... :)
Loving these videos. So much knowledge u have shared. Thanks :)
Thanks for the lectures, Dr. Bonevac.
For me, alienation to the circumstances of one's life as a result of being thrown into existence in a particular time and place is a consequence of knowing that the attachment that we feel to our circumstances is reflexive and not deliberate, since if we had been thrown into an utterly different time and place, we would reflexively feel an attachment to those circumstances as well.
This part of existentialism to me seems to follow directly from the scientific image you like to start your lectures with, an image where earth is just another planet among many, sol another star among many, and my consciousness another consciousness among many, with no special status for me to appreciate intellectually and then find reasons to endorse.
The fact of alienation in existentialism seems to me to be a requisite idea for understanding why existence is said by many existentialist philosophers to be absurd.
I've read and watched plenty about existentialism, and this is the first time ever that someone has defined "essence" in a way that makes sense - intrinsic function. Humans have biological and perhaps psychological characteristics, but we have no intrinsic function *in the world*. This is why we must choose our own function. Thankyou, professor, for finally clarifying this!
Excellent lecture! Great professor!
If I only had these types of Teachers as a kid...
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche do affirm that we have no essence and that it is up to the individual to affirm themselves through pathos. For Kierkegaard this is Christianity, for Nietzsche this is artistic self expression. You could maybe call Kant or Hegel a proto-existentialist, but Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are certainly focused on the question of existence and the intrinsic meaning of existence
Thanks! You're a fun teacher.
Very nice video, thankyou for this
Loved this lecture and very excited to discover your channel.
This was an amazing lecture. I'm currently working on a research project based on Existentialism, and this lecture gave me a massive insight as to what Existentialism is as well as the important figures who played a role in the movement. Thank you very much for this magnificent video!
Thank you so much sir for this really fascinating presentation, indeed its very organized and comprehending
Such a great lecture! Cheers from Brazil
If I was in that lecture, I would feel like clapping in the end.
Love your passion for this!
Really enjoyed your lecture. I'm studying for my Psych GRE Subject Test and was trying to better understand existentialism. You really helped. THANKS! :D
did u finish it?
Wow, such a great presentation. Thank You so much :)
I really enjoyed the lecture. Many thanks
The squeaky chairs have no intrinsic meaning, only the meaning you give them. Sisyphus smiled while carrying the rock.
great teacher,
Them damn chairs!!!
Wow .It was so helpful .You made it so easy .Thank you sir.You are my new favourite professor.
You are a great professor... making the concept easy to understand.. I would love to be in your class for a day...
This guy is a great orator. And that's a good thing, because I had to watch this 4 times to understand what he;s saying.
Now I want to hear him talk about free-will.
One of the best talks on existencialism I've heard. Short quick right to the point.
Thanks a lot for the lecture! ^^
You explained Camus' call to revolt against the absurd beautifully. I didn't quite understand what he meant by that before.
We all struggle with the conflict between expansion and contraction meaning we are all one but then we have to have our boundaries for survival.
Fantastic lecture, very clear and engaging!
Thank you, really simple and clean lecture
Indebted to you professor..amazing lectures. Thank you so much!
wow, i didn't know that channel Henri le Chat Noir. I have just watched some. I love it! thanks for the suggestion!
(You said it was a cat with a French accent? The videos that I just saw were actually all in French with an English accent)
Lol. That student who sighed "Everyday" when the professor said something about how we all feel like "I don't want to this anymore" or something like that. I can relate. x')
Sir, YOU are a great inspiration..Regards at YOUR feet
Oh my God ..Such a great deliver 💕💕..I am in love with his choices of words and his delivery 😫🥺💕..Thanks a lot professor
LMAOOO
Great lecture! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this.
Amazing! I recently went through a series of life changing events and stumbled upon your lectures at a very unique time. Thank you for sharing!
His hand movements actually help keep up with his longer points.
Great Great job
Thanks for posting this for free
I wouldn't even miss a day of your lecture if I was enrolled there :D
Love all your videos :D
Wow, thank you!
@@PhiloofAlexandria Most welcome, sir!
Your lectures are very inspiring. Can't wait to watch more of them during my Christmas break :)
Great lecture, thank you!
thank you for this
!It was an honor to meet your Passion for who you really are
Great lecture, thanks for posting!
Those chair squeaks though... :[
no class monday was the best thing i heard
and it was a good lecture
Honestly I think Aristotle view on existentialism is smarter. OK, we are free to define our lives and give it whatever meaning we want, but what happens when we fail (our plans fail)? Some existentialists might be frustrated and commit suicide. But most of them don't. And here is Aristotle's essence: we might have failed very bad, but we might choose to continue because we seek something else, way inferior to our initial plan - we failed to accomplish the great things but i still want to taste that BigMc at Mc'Donalds or see that movie or football match etc. And this is the essence we see in all people, no matter if existentialists or not. Is always there, in every human. And it is the thing that prevents the majority of existentialists of commiting suicide after a big fail. Many many thanks for your videos!
Great lecture. Annoying squeaking desk. So may times I was getting into what you said, there's this squeaking desk(chair?)! Get rid of that thing... or are all the desks that way?
Thank you so much Professor...wonderful lecture...and funny (banana)
"I now have every discworld book."
Sub'd
Explain what you mean please. Isn't Discworld a sci-fi book?
great video but I have to ask, is it sped up or is he on speed?
I’m from Pittsburgh. I talk fast.
any thoughts on Jaden Smith?
have you ever been to NEPAL? amazing talk!
How can this man think reading Heidegger is torture but have read so much Sellars? How I ask you?!
:). Actually, since I gave this lecture I've read a lot of Heidegger, and I enjoyed it. Sellars was good preparation.
Awesome vid! Subscribed!
great lecture
Reading thru Heidegger's " being & time" u will realize that Sartre's " being & nothingness" is almost at certain points direct plagiarism of ideas. Sartre however adds an awsome level when he talks about the social dimension with " the look" & hell is other people. The other defines us & steals my freedom so i make the other realise themselves as being defined by me. All social relationships are based in conflict. Especially love. Thia professor is cool & it would be fun to go thru being & nothingness line by line to get a really good understanding of this. He only gets to skim the surface with this lecture but its still fun tho.
After reading the 'Idiot', i have reached to the previous lacture after some googling and then to here. Very useful to make head and tail of Dostoevsky and some of my personal questions regarding being and nothingness.
Didn't Camus himself say he wasn't an existentialist? I was always thought that he believed life is inherently devoid of any meaning, and trying to give it meaning would fail, and that the existentialists thought that meaning in life had to be assigned by the self, not any outside entity.
MachinaMonsterProductions Camus called himself a nihilist.
that was great :))))
The Lecturer seems to happy to be a philosopher
"Nobody else is going to put any chains on me!" 👀 The rental market
Ironically, I passionately choose rationalism, behaviouristically act rationally, train for logic with litanies of examples, and, acting like a pretentious French waiter become a stoic and a contemplative, creating the essence that Aristotle would assert was given before I was born as my final end. Good lecture. Thank you.
i am. let go. just observe this moment with no judgement. act from your heart not your ego driven mind. totale freedom
The TAO is a a principal of Moderation and Temperance. Aristotle talks of the "Golden Mean" in judgement. Quality is the measure of all things.
In which course did you give this lecture? Was it PHL 301?
Wiw so interesting when he talks about Epicurius and the pleasure of anonymity of being a secret never thought about that before but it has a residence for me. Maybe that's why I dislike social media like here I am this is my show look at me
Can anyone suggest a good journal or book where I can research on this existentialism for my final research work?
The knowledge of Good and Evil takes us out of the world, the relinking to life puts us back. "Let us tend to our garden." from Voltaire's Candide.
I paused to go watch Henri the cat ^^
Got a Jordan Peterson video recommended under this, which is really sad considering how many leagues are between the two professors understanding of philosophers and philosophical concepts. Wish the 700k views on that video went here instead.
Existentialism also exist in the manner of psychology, which is where Peterson excels. However, philosophical and psychological existentialism do not really differ greatly. The roots remain the same
nicely done
Brilliant Daniek Truly Talented speaker!! However the existential crisis in the room is the chair squeeking does it show that others aren't aware truly of their free will and that humans are unconscious beings squeaking in an auditorium, surely if not we they would be aware of the impact of their self awareness to be present and SIT bloody still!! Who am I really I am a squeaker!!!
Normal people cannot assign a meaning of their choosing to Life (as Camus argues), because biology overrides our wishes. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you can try to say to yourself: "This is exactly what I wanted, and it gives me great joy." In reality, you will feel intense pain in your shattered thumb, and no amount of philosophy will change the fact that you just want the pain to stop. Some people have a genetic defect so that they feel no physical pain; but I would think they can still experience emotional pain, like grief or fear, and the same argument would apply to such people. It is unrealistic to think that a person can just "choose" to be happy with whatever circumstances he must endure.