Husserl, Heidegger & Existentialism - Hubert Dreyfus & Bryan Magee (1987)

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  • čas přidán 23. 08. 2023
  • In this program, Hubert Dreyfus and Bryan Magee discuss the thinkers Husserl and Heidegger, as well as the movements of phenomenology and existentialism. This comes from a 1987 series on the Great Philosophers. Edmund Husserl was a 20th-century German philosopher, best known for founding phenomenology, a philosophical movement and methodology of examining the underlying structure of experience. Martin Heidegger was also a 20th-century German philosopher, best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism. Existentialists take human existence and the human condition to be a fundamental issue. They tend to be radical individualists who privilege our lived experience and choice. They focus on themes such as: freedom, authenticity, the individual, meaning, anxiety, alienation, death, dread, the absurd, contingency, and nihilism. They are often also suspicious of any fixed, pre-determined human nature, objective/universal values, and abstract philosophical systems. Some of the most important existentialist thinkers (or at least thinkers associated with existentialism) include Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Karl Jaspers, and Simone de Beauvoir. (My Description)
    The full series: • The Great Philosophers...
    #philosophy #heidegger #bryanmagee #husserl

Komentáře • 66

  • @Philosophy_Overdose
    @Philosophy_Overdose  Před 8 měsíci +25

    This is a reupload. I wanted a version with higher audio quality. I’ll still leave the previous video up as unlisted, so as to not break any external links with it. Sorry about any inconvenience!

  • @MrSpinteractive
    @MrSpinteractive Před 7 měsíci +9

    Always wonderful to listen and learn from Dreyfus.

  • @militaryandemergencyservic3286
    @militaryandemergencyservic3286 Před 8 měsíci +17

    Never knew Chuck Norris was a philosophy expert.

    • @conjugatemethod
      @conjugatemethod Před 8 měsíci +1

      A philosophy expert, yes.

    • @tomasomaonaigh7659
      @tomasomaonaigh7659 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Chuck Norris would knock you out for such a preposterous statement.

    • @excitingworld364
      @excitingworld364 Před 5 měsíci

      That's the best comment so far. Add a funny orange hair color, clearly not natural...

  • @aromalrays6530
    @aromalrays6530 Před 8 měsíci +21

    Thanks so much for uploading this beautiful series. Just fantastic stuff.

    • @soran27
      @soran27 Před 7 měsíci +1

      absolutely fabulous, I agree.

  • @StAsshole
    @StAsshole Před 5 měsíci +51

    Magee’s rizz is off the charts

  • @user-kl4qe6ru4y
    @user-kl4qe6ru4y Před 2 měsíci +3

    What I am amazed is not the philosophy that they are talking about, but how well they understand the subject and how well they explain it in this talks. Amazing.

  • @hihello-sx1sx
    @hihello-sx1sx Před 7 měsíci +7

    Didn’t expect them to just start roasting Sartre out of nowhere lol

    • @steffernie
      @steffernie Před 2 dny

      omg that was insane I loved it

  • @blu3_fish869
    @blu3_fish869 Před měsícem

    this was an extremely helpful video

  • @nsbd90now
    @nsbd90now Před 5 měsíci +5

    I'm at 32 minutes and this is absolutely fantastic.

    • @mikeoglen6848
      @mikeoglen6848 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I'm at 27 min and it's fantabulous!

    • @calvinsaxon5822
      @calvinsaxon5822 Před měsícem +1

      Agree. It's so refreshing to go back in time a few decades and watch a video that is substantial and clear without having to waste 3 minutes with an annoying visual introduction + logo and 10 minutes talking about what philosophy is, all with the purpose of making the viewer feel smart without really saying anything, i.e. 90% of You Tube videos with purported academic content today.

  • @bogdand6129
    @bogdand6129 Před měsícem +2

    On Sartre's interpretation of Heidegger:
    "...but he felt he had to fix up Heidegger ... as a Frenchman" 😂

  • @LightVibrationPresenseKindness

    great channel!

  • @user-yr6vy6ss1m
    @user-yr6vy6ss1m Před 3 měsíci

    great !

  • @skepticalgenious
    @skepticalgenious Před 8 měsíci +2

    Wow I was born when this was filmed roughly. Existential anxiety is funny. Like... oh no what happens if I don't exist. No I can't imagine that. 😂

    • @PaulThronson
      @PaulThronson Před 6 měsíci +2

      I believe anxiety is meant as a state of being. We would recognize any bad mood (negative emotion if you want to refer to affective neuroscience) worried, angry, depressed. But a lot of these emotions require intellectual consideration which is an action and that itself that results in new moods.

  • @GenteelCretin
    @GenteelCretin Před 7 měsíci +2

    40:48 - It is a bit strange to think that copies of Being and Nothingness seem to outsell No Exit and Nausea (all of which probably outsell Being and Time by a healthy margin). It's hard to not feel like Being and Nothingness' phenomenology misses the mark when compared to the rest of the phenomenological tradition.

  • @mb2982
    @mb2982 Před 7 měsíci +1

    There is a 2 hour interview with Dreyfus more recent in 2000s ...you had it before but can't find it ...if copyright issue keen to know source as it's very important interview

    • @ramnathbhat
      @ramnathbhat Před 5 měsíci

      czcams.com/video/iAxu6pg7JU0/video.html

  • @paulnorthey6712
    @paulnorthey6712 Před 4 měsíci +1

    What is ' meditation ' in the light of these reflections?

  • @fede2
    @fede2 Před 4 dny

    The shade at Sartre was brutal. Although, I agree that Merleau Ponty is much more impressive.

  • @sonarbangla8711
    @sonarbangla8711 Před 2 měsíci

    What philosophers are trying to understand or explain is better understood as what physicists are trying but are unable to gasp and hang themselves between uncertainty and certainty, so philosophers find themselves hanging in between what seems unimportant and trifle and is the essence of root of the phenomenology. Much like physics and metaphysics, if we get the first we fail to get to the second.

  • @tomasomaonaigh7659
    @tomasomaonaigh7659 Před 8 měsíci

    We need a bigger boat.

  • @PlaydoughPlato
    @PlaydoughPlato Před 6 měsíci

    I wonder if they had read Sartre’s Imagination. I think it gives a more favorable account of his straddling of phenomenology and existentialism than nausea or being and nothingness.

  • @MG-ge5xq
    @MG-ge5xq Před 5 měsíci +1

    It's the Poets... 39:09 Very smart. I agree.

  • @aarontideley2828
    @aarontideley2828 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Blue shirt sounds like pooh bear. Such a nice voice

  • @3ru97c43
    @3ru97c43 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I don't think I'm high enough for this

  • @nronan3
    @nronan3 Před měsícem

    At @6:15, what is the German phrase Hubert Dreyfus uses in describing Bryan Magee's comment about imagining distant galaxies? I'm hearing "wunder-bar phenomenon". What is that?

    • @user-ny1gh6rd1l
      @user-ny1gh6rd1l Před měsícem

      Wundabar = wonderful🤓Also phenomenon is just phenomenon in english. Though I'm not sure it is part of your question😶😅

  • @peterwolf8092
    @peterwolf8092 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Hey, do you by any chance do upload the audios of the videos on any podcast apps?
    That would be neat! Cause I can listen and think better about it while going for a walk. 😄

    • @dikkie2913
      @dikkie2913 Před 7 měsíci

      CZcams revanced. Google it. Thank me later ;)

  • @antrewt
    @antrewt Před měsícem

    Thought can't touch the phenomena of consciousness for it is mere words, mere representation, but perception itself touches all phenomena, including all the phenomena of consciousness. Heidegger was a failed Western attempt to think about the phenomena of conscious experience, but in the East they have been observing the phenomena through meditation for thousands of years and their insights are light years beyond anything that's ever come out of the Western intellectual tradition except perhaps Hegel and in other respects, Adorno.

  • @GuitarWithBrett
    @GuitarWithBrett Před 6 měsíci +1

    It’s like philosophy discovered art and literature

  • @watchfuleagleson
    @watchfuleagleson Před 2 měsíci +1

    40:20 Heidegger did more than try to read Sartre's muck. Posthumously his copy of Being and Nothingness was found filled with marginalia throughout.

  • @davidmayhew8083
    @davidmayhew8083 Před měsícem

    Ok. What is the "existential" part? When someone says, "existential crisis" I always wonder what that means. What's the difference between a "crisis" and a "existential crisis"? Is what is meant by "existential" is psychological or a condition based on presumed threat, or state of anxiety caused by intellectual "fact" as opposed to a real physical situation, then that definition of "existential" is not defined in any dictionary I know. When I hear someone flaunt the term "existential", I always get the impression they're just being pretentious.

  • @nsbd90now
    @nsbd90now Před 5 měsíci

    Oh! Ha ha! I never knew Being and Nothingness was a play on Being and Time! lol!

  • @antrewt
    @antrewt Před měsícem

    These are a couple of funny fellows :D

  • @jprEhU
    @jprEhU Před 6 měsíci

    Consciousness other wise refered to as reality...

  • @oliverjamito9902
    @oliverjamito9902 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you Pops for Thy visitations to comfort the COMFORTER! Even before Thy little Child from afar EAST came to a FOREIGN LAND. Gratitude and Honor for opening thy door for the TRAVELER! Raised, fed, cloths, teach to remind already the child already knows? Ar this moment visited the little child "i" to ministered to comfort the COMFORTER, and provided Haven for the CHILD from afar EAST the OLIVE...Heirs will say remember Lamps are just a merchandise! Heirs will say instead carry extra OLIVE OIL with thy Lamps! Yet some will say, who is that NEW WINE? NOW what Bottles? Can HOLD "WITHOUT BURSTING"? What is aims? Resting upon knows belongs? Students will say what is foreign policies unto all these "WHO AM I"? Specially making many noises forgotten! Remember ye all able to make noises commanded my Heirs to provide space and room to grow! Heirs upon all dry grounds nor the world will say FROM HERE GROWS! Gratitude and Honor unto all the shared I AM! Yes,even creation itself can't exist without!

  • @antrewt
    @antrewt Před měsícem

    The presenter is simply a picture of visual hilarity. They don't make them like that anymore.

  • @sdzielinski
    @sdzielinski Před 3 měsíci

    Dreyfus gets it wrong. Husserl's greatest work is found in the manuscripts. That was his self-assessment.

  • @militaryandemergencyservic3286
    @militaryandemergencyservic3286 Před 8 měsíci +2

    40:26 - this man has actually met Heidegger (not sure I really believe him). Did they discuss his antisemitism?
    Magee opts not to raise the point of Heidegger's antisemitism and involvement with the Nazi party.
    I wonder if he likes Sartre's famous line 'I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.' (Since he himself has a very impressive one). Hitler's was smaller.

    • @alexhauser5043
      @alexhauser5043 Před 8 měsíci +19

      "Did they discuss his antisemitism?"
      Of course not. What would you have had Dreyfus do? Lecture Heidegger?
      "Magee opts not to raise the point of Heidegger's antisemitism and involvement with the Nazi party. "
      Just as he opted not to raise the subject of Sartre's Maoism or Khmer Rouge apologia.
      If we're not allowed to discuss Heidegger's philosophy without such a descent into the journalistic, neither should we be permitted to discuss the cross-eyed Frenchman's work without doing so.

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@alexhauser5043 A brief mention of it is sensible in both cases. It raises a difficult question for existentialism: can you accept that people might dedicate themselves to horrific causes? When they truly abandon gods, the principle of utility, the golden mean, the categorical imperative, or whatever supposedly objective source of purpose, what do people really choose for their meaning in life?
      It's like bringing up Hobbes's context in the English Civil War/Restoration period, Kant's context in the Newtonian supremacy, Descartes' context in the post-Reformation etc. These help people to both see why the philosophers' ideas are significant and provide a starting point for criticising or appreciating their ideas regarding some real-world problems.

    • @alexhauser5043
      @alexhauser5043 Před 7 měsíci +2

      ​@@Myndir Yes, you have a point. Heidegger's, "resolute projection" can't be taken as a sensible moral standard by itself. Heidegger and Sartre were both morally bankrupt, and this does suggest that there's something profoundly wrong with their reasoning.
      Just the same, we have a moral and intellectual duty to be consistent. If we must discuss Heidegger's treatment of his colleagues and his National Socialism, then we must discuss Sartre's Maoism and his Pol Pot apologia. I object primarily to Marxist-adjacent intellectuals getting a 'pass' for defending such scum.

  • @excitingworld364
    @excitingworld364 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Not to mention that Heidegger was a fascist even once???!

    • @Mikey42287
      @Mikey42287 Před 5 měsíci +3

      It doesn't matter. Humanity takes many forms.

    • @excitingworld364
      @excitingworld364 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@Mikey42287 wow, that's some view of humanity

    • @StAsshole
      @StAsshole Před 4 měsíci

      Heidegger being anti semitic has very little to do with what they’re discussing here. Also it’s a very well known fact. Imagine if brands were required to reveal how psychopathic their CEOs are. Imagine if each Kanye album after 2020 included a disclaimer in the sleeve. Have you thought why you even need that truth to be revealed? Like what is it’s utility to you?

    • @Mikey42287
      @Mikey42287 Před 4 měsíci

      @excitingworld364 Clichéd and biased judgments are subjective and thus irrelevant in the face of an objective sociological analysis.

    • @MD-lf3gt
      @MD-lf3gt Před 3 měsíci +3

      If you have a conversation lasting 45 minutes about Heidegger and three other philosophers and you choose to talk about Heideggers stand in the nazi period…we would have had a whole other conversation and we would have missed the brilliant and important conversation we are hearing now.
      In 1966 Heidegger gave an interview in Der Spiegel about his stance in the nazi period. So if you’re interested…

  • @ChrisAthanas
    @ChrisAthanas Před 2 měsíci

    Total nonsense pseudo intellectual babble @25m
    Wow
    People actually listen to this and think it's profound?
    Sophistry

    • @fede2
      @fede2 Před měsícem +2

      Thanks for enlightening us, Plato.