This is one of the most impressive lectures I've seen on an intro to such daunting seminal thinkers as Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. it has shed much light on how I am to frame their philosophical views even after reading some of their works in the past. I am grateful to have found such a passionate, lively and likeable professor to make some of the most important ideas of man in the twentieth century understandable. A gem of philosophical insight and enjoyment. I'm smarter for it. And a great hour spent.
'What is the first thing people do when they become friends? What is the first thing, when romantic relationship starts? What people do? They feed the other person, right? You go out to dinner or something like that. Feeding someone is an important way of taking care of establishing a certain kind of relationship.' I never thought about that! Thanks!
I am not even planning to take this course but the lecturer is passionate when teaching in front. It makes me want to learn anything what he is teaching ☺
How are there no comments on this? This guy is amazing! His teaching style is inspiring. I like the part where he begins to touch on the Spanish Inquisition, and how it's a depressing topic, and he tries to channel his class from a bleak emotional reaction to his lecture into a more upbeat and positive reaction with his Monty Python spoof on the Spanish Inquisition. I wish I could take this class in 3-D.
Haven't had time. Just digesting what he has to say. Comments will follow. He does seem to be very articulate and and gets his ideas across. Considering the subject matter he's doing very well.
Easily two of the most interesting & seminal minds of the 19th & 20th Centuries. To understand their motives and thought is to understand modern man to a very large degree.
Very impressive tour de force. Having read and read about all three authors extensively ( in a dilettants fashion ... ) I was more than delighted to stumble on to this enlightening lecture. Lucky students you are at the university of texas in austin.
Relativism is a self refuting philosophy. "There is no objective truth!.....except that there is no objective truth!" Give me a break. But nice work professor, you gave a good overview of a lot of material in a short amount of time. Good video.
I could study... But then I could just drink coffee and watch your videos!!! This is like the cinema!! Thank you so much for being so entertaining and interesting. You have self smarted myself. You put the joy in learning.
I had an awful education. I dont like alot of teachers but I reaĺly like this guy. His got passion enthusiasm and he listens and he communicates so well.
For Philosophy, i find Prof. Bonevac as an excellent teacher for teaching us such difficult concepts in such an interesting way! Revisiting your lectures after a long time, Professor! Hearing the Philosophical and Psychological (Prof. Peterson) interpretations, has been a wonderfully enlightening journey. Only regret not taking these subjects in college.
Thankx alot all your lectures are amazingly well-explained . I used to have some difficulties understanding some modern philosophy but not any more. (:
You've a made a new fan tonight. Thank you for this. You tell both sides and understand both sides. I'd love to buy you a bottle of scotch and a book on your reading list. Thank you.
Great lecture, thanks for sharing. When Nietzsche says that we should become gods ourselves to be worthy of the deed (of killing God), he's expressing the same concern as Dostoevsky - we are going to become narcessitic without an external anchor. Nietzsche cannot really be understood outside of the context of the Ubermensch concept; without a God to direct us we must steer ourselves to a state of perfection. We should bend the narcessism outward, and turn it into a form of species centric altruism, for the good of humanity. Religion taught us to be good humans, now it's time to move beyond that.
As a student of life (ok...or philosophy), I love this presentation together with quotations and explanation. :D 1 question though. What technology/program/app was used in the presentation :D Thanks much.
I love how you teach a subject that often becomes boring and disengaging after a certain period of time. You have a way of keeping it interesting. Great job, you are an awesome lecturer, I only wish myself and other people here in my country(Bosnia & Herzegovina) had one like you. We have a lot of smart, creative people here that never seem to achieve their full poteintial because of our faulty education system and our system in general. Your students are truly blessed and I only regret not finding these videos earlier. Keep up the good work! :)
What we perceive and the way it is. What about lying? Meaning versus quality. A rock only has meaning to the mind, but it has quality aside from the mind.
Quiet an interesting and crucial subject for all of the human race, good presentation but pretty fast for me, I wish it was slower with more explanation. Thanks anyway for the upload and presentation
Nice lecture. Today with a colleague, I discussed Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Foucault wrt Wokeism. Is that why CZcams pushed this to me? And I read "Brothers Karamazov" one word at a time, one page at a time, over 33 years ago. Neitzsche's statement "there are no absolute truths" is as logical as "this statement is false." (Gödel)
Great Prof., makes it very interesting and fun to listen. Unfortunately, the one drinking (every few seconds) in the background as well as the noisy chairs are annoying. However, thanks for sharing.
Great lecture, thank you for posting. Maybe a small difference, but I thought the Grand Inquisitor just said people just wanted bread and not free will, but it was maybe a self deception of the Grand Inquisitor (maybe just to rationalize having power.)
"There is no separation between appearances and things-in-themselves" I think means that Hegel thinks everything is a product of reality. Reality can't be separated from itself.
It is a myth that Dostoevsky was banned in Russia following the Revolution. Only two books of his were censored (The Possessed and Diary of a Writer). He still remained very popular and even stamps carried his image.
So there I stood, just yesterday. Thinking, I don't need these videos anymore. For years I have been trawling through the content of people such as Jordan B Peterson and Joe Rogan, and sites such as Academy of ideas, Empire of the mind et al. So I started unsubbing, been there done that. Then. Today. New perspective. Thank you Mr Bonevac, just when I thought I was out, you pulled me back in. L/s.
N and D : both arguments are true because in society there are two orders: the world of the EVERY MAN and the world of the CONTEST. The Law creates the rules for every man, and the contest allows folks to be measured as they excel in their disciplines. People mix them up.
At the end when I hear the class moving around and packing up I was really annoyed by that. I know the time for the class is almost up but my professors at university would have told everyone who was packing up not to come to the next lecture. The lecture ends when the professor dismisses. That’s when you pack up.
Should be studying for my physics and calculus exams next week, yet here I am.
You said it yourself, it's next week.
Yeah it’s relativity not relativism
Where do you think you are now?
This is lecturing as it OUGHT TO BE!
This is one of the most impressive lectures I've seen on an intro to such daunting seminal thinkers as Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. it has shed much light on how I am to frame their philosophical views even after reading some of their works in the past. I am grateful to have found such a passionate, lively and likeable professor to make some of the most important ideas of man in the twentieth century understandable. A gem of philosophical insight and enjoyment. I'm smarter for it. And a great hour spent.
Call me!!
'What is the first thing people do when they become friends?
What is the first thing, when romantic relationship starts?
What people do?
They feed the other person, right? You go out to dinner or something like that.
Feeding someone is an important way of taking care of establishing a certain kind of relationship.'
I never thought about that! Thanks!
The camera going out of focus at 6:53 after he talks about perception is a neat little coincidence.
I am not even planning to take this course but the lecturer is passionate when teaching in front. It makes me want to learn anything what he is teaching ☺
How are there no comments on this? This guy is amazing! His teaching style is inspiring. I like the part where he begins to touch on the Spanish Inquisition, and how it's a depressing topic, and he tries to channel his class from a bleak emotional reaction to his lecture into a more upbeat and positive reaction with his Monty Python spoof on the Spanish Inquisition. I wish I could take this class in 3-D.
Haven't had time. Just digesting what he has to say.
Comments will follow.
He does seem to be very articulate and and gets his ideas across. Considering the subject matter he's doing very well.
Easily two of the most interesting & seminal minds of the 19th & 20th Centuries. To understand their motives and thought is to understand modern man to a very large degree.
Excellent commentary which brings the complex philosophies to a much simpler level.
That squeaky chair is driving me insane
Very impressive tour de force. Having read and read about all three authors extensively ( in a dilettants fashion ... ) I was more than delighted to stumble on to this enlightening lecture. Lucky students you are at the university of texas in austin.
I wish I was in this class. Fascinating lecture.
I need a cigarette !
Thank you for posting these lectures online. I really enjoy Beonevac's lecturing style, he's engaging and passionate.
Very interesting. Love Dostoevsky.
Relativism is a self refuting philosophy. "There is no objective truth!.....except that there is no objective truth!" Give me a break. But nice work professor, you gave a good overview of a lot of material in a short amount of time. Good video.
Good teaching, something to learn with him. Thanks!
You do an amazing job of engaging your class.
I could study... But then I could just drink coffee and watch your videos!!! This is like the cinema!! Thank you so much for being so entertaining and interesting. You have self smarted myself. You put the joy in learning.
He reminds me of 'Kryten' from the UK series RedDwarf, vocally and some mannerisms. It made me smile all the more at this engaging lecture.
What an engaging lecturer!
A simple thank you is not enough, but thank you for shining the light into darkness.
The best lecture on CZcams, pure excellence.
Very insightful and fruitful comments by the lector. Thank you very much for the video!
This is a fantastic channel. An enthusiastic and enlightening lecturer who can bring together a love of literature, philosophy and the arts. Thank you
I had an awful education. I dont like alot of teachers but I reaĺly like this guy. His got passion enthusiasm and he listens and he communicates so well.
Fantastic lecture. Great professor. Thank you for sharing.
Great lecture. Thank You for posting., Finding myself wishing I could sit in on what ever sort of class this is.
You are the best philosophy professor i have ever got !
A solid high level summary (and I did really enjoy this video / lecture / professor) but what it all means is really up for a lot of discussion.
love his passion
Great lecture! If only there more such teachers. Thank you very much
Awesome. I'm reading TBK as part of a course right now, and would love to read some Nietzsche
For Philosophy, i find Prof. Bonevac as an excellent teacher for teaching us such difficult concepts in such an interesting way! Revisiting your lectures after a long time, Professor! Hearing the Philosophical and Psychological (Prof. Peterson) interpretations, has been a wonderfully enlightening journey. Only regret not taking these subjects in college.
Thanks for the upload.
This is just great, please keep it coming
Really enjoying your lectures - thank you!
If he were only my philosophy prof. Great energy!
I really enjoyed this lecture. Thanks for sharing!
Dude thanks to you for uploading your lectures
Thank You for posting...
Very good lecture. The lecturer is fantastic and so engaging
Great lecture, but Dostoevsky's books were not banned in the USSR. While the Soviets did censor out some stuff, he was celebrated in the Soviet Union.
Thankx alot all your lectures are amazingly well-explained . I used to have some difficulties understanding some modern philosophy but not any more. (:
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!!!
Great job Professor Bonevac!
What a great lecture!! I'm following from Brazil!
This was so enjoyable, thank you
Great lecture! Thanks a lot for the share =)
Your lectures are like being at the cinema
Free education and brilliant lecturers. ❤️
Very beautiful work with this presentation. Well done 🤯
You, sir, are amazing. You are the philosophy teacher that I wanted but didn't get in my formative years. Better late than never though....
an interesting lecture. Quite an amazing lecturer
"By the way I once decided to grow a beard, and I looked like Satan." This lecture has been so stimulating and that sentence made me crack up so much.
This is great , thank you Prof. Bonevac. Love and respect to you from India. 😊 😊
A lecturer who cares. It's such a rare thing.
Excellent professor.
Why weren't my lecturers like this? Thoroughly enjoyable!
Such a great lecture, and an even greater lecturer! Passionate and incredibly entertaining. I giggled quite a bit.
Good lecture. Hopefully kids and students will take information provided for virtue in such organized and pretty easy way to grasp.
Good professor. Really nice class. Wish there were more professors as good in Brazil.
excellent lecture!
You've a made a new fan tonight. Thank you for this. You tell both sides and understand both sides.
I'd love to buy you a bottle of scotch and a book on your reading list. Thank you.
Great lecture!
i never learned a thing in school. I study all the time now that ive graduated, and learn so much!
Great lecture, thanks for sharing. When Nietzsche says that we should become gods ourselves to be worthy of the deed (of killing God), he's expressing the same concern as Dostoevsky - we are going to become narcessitic without an external anchor. Nietzsche cannot really be understood outside of the context of the Ubermensch concept; without a God to direct us we must steer ourselves to a state of perfection. We should bend the narcessism outward, and turn it into a form of species centric altruism, for the good of humanity. Religion taught us to be good humans, now it's time to move beyond that.
Great stuff, Daniel. I'd love to audit the class.
Great Lecture
Greetings from the birthplace of philosophy, professor!
As a student of life (ok...or philosophy), I love this presentation together with quotations and explanation. :D
1 question though. What technology/program/app was used in the presentation :D
Thanks much.
I love how you teach a subject that often becomes boring and disengaging after a certain period of time. You have a way of keeping it interesting. Great job, you are an awesome lecturer, I only wish myself and other people here in my country(Bosnia & Herzegovina) had one like you. We have a lot of smart, creative people here that never seem to achieve their full poteintial because of our faulty education system and our system in general. Your students are truly blessed and I only regret not finding these videos earlier. Keep up the good work! :)
very worthwhile
Thanks for the share. Will you be doing this as a series?
Fascinating
Thank you!
I made it 17 minutes in and paused it. I feel like I somehow suddenly pictured what the world could in a sense, actually look like.
Excellent lecture
What we perceive and the way it is. What about lying? Meaning versus quality. A rock only has meaning to the mind, but it has quality aside from the mind.
Quiet an interesting and crucial subject for all of the human race, good presentation but pretty fast for me, I wish it was slower with more explanation. Thanks anyway for the upload and presentation
Nice lecture. Today with a colleague, I discussed Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Foucault wrt Wokeism. Is that why CZcams pushed this to me? And I read "Brothers Karamazov" one word at a time, one page at a time, over 33 years ago. Neitzsche's statement "there are no absolute truths" is as logical as "this statement is false." (Gödel)
Great Prof., makes it very interesting and fun to listen. Unfortunately, the one drinking (every few seconds) in the background as well as the noisy chairs are annoying. However, thanks for sharing.
Very cogent presentation - good stuff
Dan is the best!
why i never had a teacher like u 😌
WIsh i has money for classes like this thanks for posting. your a good teacher
This so advanced for me right now
Hobbes has an answer to the values of the social contract that is a paradox to Dostoyevsky. And so does Stoicism.
Give peas a chance.
I wonder what happened when the camera cut out around 32:28. Just a copyright issue or was he about to tell a dirty joke?
Give us this day our Daily Bread.
i miss in-person lectures so much. I don't even go to this school.
Great lecture, thank you for posting. Maybe a small difference, but I thought the Grand Inquisitor just said people just wanted bread and not free will, but it was maybe a self deception of the Grand Inquisitor (maybe just to rationalize having power.)
This course must have been awesome!
"There is no separation between appearances and things-in-themselves" I think means that Hegel thinks everything is a product of reality. Reality can't be separated from itself.
It is a myth that Dostoevsky was banned in Russia following the Revolution. Only two books of his were censored (The Possessed and Diary of a Writer). He still remained very popular and even stamps carried his image.
So there I stood, just yesterday. Thinking, I don't need these videos anymore. For years I have been trawling through the content of people such as Jordan B Peterson and Joe Rogan, and sites such as Academy of ideas, Empire of the mind et al. So I started unsubbing, been there done that. Then. Today. New perspective. Thank you Mr Bonevac, just when I thought I was out, you pulled me back in. L/s.
N and D : both arguments are true because in society there are two orders: the world of the EVERY MAN and the world of the CONTEST. The Law creates the rules for every man, and the contest allows folks to be measured as they excel in their disciplines. People mix them up.
At the end when I hear the class moving around and packing up I was really annoyed by that. I know the time for the class is almost up but my professors at university would have told everyone who was packing up not to come to the next lecture. The lecture ends when the professor dismisses. That’s when you pack up.
what class/ university is this ?