Introduction to Max Stirner | The Ghost Philosopher
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- Max Stirner may not be very well known in college classrooms, however, he has become an internet icon with philosophy students. This video will give a basic introduction to Max Stirner including his biography and his philosophy.
Stirner is connected to the philosophy of egoism which focuses on the individual and your individual concerns. Many people, according to Stirner, are possessed by these fixed spiritual ideas. One of the main ideas of critique for Stirner is Christianity, but abstract ideas like "peace", "justice", and "humanity" are also considered spirit ideas. Like God, you can't point to something and say "that it justice." These essences are not to be of concern for Stirner, but instead, one's concern should be one's own.
Although arguably not making a big impact in the history of philosophy, Stirner's unique radical philosophy has made him famous in the culture of modern philosophy.
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I think part of why he became so well known is that his depiction in the iconic drawings making him look like someone who thinks he's above everyone and everything, then you read his philosophy and it's exactly what you'd expect. That's very memeable.
He does look like that lol
The memes made him popular but also always drastically and grossly depart from his actual ideas.
exactly, his philsophy at its core is action based upon personal passion and love
As someone who studied Stirner before the internet was much more than message boards, I think he is one of those philosophers whose rhetorical style made his already controversial ideas prime fuel for edgelords and a prime target of social moralists of all stripes.
However, the message I have always gotten from his works is one of individual authenticity for oneself and individual responsibility to oneself for all. His denouncement of sacred ...anything suggests that nothing is above suspicion because nothing is underpinned by anything except the individual, that all possessions - be it a couch, or an idea, or a relationship - should be constantly re-evaluated, taken or tossed as it serves the needs, desires, and circumstances of the one who possesses it in the moment. Anything more risks turning possessions into sacred relics that stall and poison individual freedom.
...pardon the ramble. I hope that made sense.
i think stirner works best if you read him in your mid 20s
just the breath of fresh air his views provide. i think in chapter 2 he goes on about the youth growing up into an adult man. And the shifting views from an idealist to a more egoist point of view.
its very honest and looking at todays world it kinda explains how everything is so self serving and egoistic. and it helps you not getting consumed by this world.
More Stirner content would be cool.
Makes me think about the emergence of the phrase "I'm just doing me"
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Awesome video. I can appreciate the wide range of philosophers you cover. Makes for interesting videos.
Yes! 🤘
Fantastic!
Please do one on philip mainlander next
There isnt much content on him on CZcams
On all sons and daughters of Schopenhauer!!! Mainlander, Bhansen, Hartmann, Plumacher, Druskowitz...
@@Wahid_4770 have the first names for those people?
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Oh, you haven't heard of them? Assumed these folks were already on your radar.
(THE POST SCHOPENHAUERIANS)
1. Philipp Mainländer
2. Julius Bahnsen
3. Eduard von Hartmann
4. Helene Druskowitz
5. Olga plumacher
I also suggest you to read ALBERT CARACO (THE PROPHET OF CARNAGE)
"Reading Albert Caraco is a torture. He may be the last truly dangerous author of world literature".
-- Frédéric Saenen
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weltschmerz: pessimism in German philosophy 1860-1900 by Fredrick Beiser
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Oh, you haven't heard of them?Assumed these folks were already on your radar.
1. Philipp Mainländer
2. Julius Bahnsen
3. Eduard von Hartmann
4. Helene Druskowitz
5. Olga Plumacher
Yes, "Stirn" is German for "forehead". And as far I remember Stirner didn´t write about wheels in the head but about too many rafters in the mind. At least in the German original. By the way, "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum" literally means "The Only One and his property."
Wheels in your head is said in the, "Ego and its Property" translation, while the 'Rafters in your head' translation is done by Wolfi Landstreicher (a more accurate translation than the originally popular Ego one, which has many erroneous elements including the emphasis on Ego where Stirner did not have it).
The original German goes as thus,
"Mensch, es spukt in Deinem Kopfe; Du hast einen Sparren zu viel! Du bildest Dir große Dinge ein und malst Dir eine ganze Götterwelt aus, die für Dich da sei, ein Geisterreich, zu welchem Du berufen seist, ein Ideal, das Dir winkt. Du hast eine fixe Idee!"
Thank you for the information. Very interesting indeed.
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Commenting for the algo because i want more stirner videos...is stirner saying like Nietzsche: What is good? - All that heightens the feelings of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? - All that proceeds from weakness. A plea to for all mankind to forget false narratives and focus on becoming the best versions of themselves.
Lots of similarities and plenty of debate about possible influence/co-incidence. There’s probably some nuanced differences, with Stirner being ok with weakness when we choose it for our own, instead of it being a morality. Nietz seems more committed to a hierarchy of will, Stirner is more anarchic maybe. Idk I haven’t deeply read either I’m a CZcams comment lol
This is why the world is what it is and is heading where it's heading. It's a "not even wrong" philosophy. You cannot separate yourself from the world as if you were not in it and expect good results.
We just need more philosophy in general too much material "wealth" not enough mental enrichment
Nice
The photo of Bavaria shows Munich, but Stirner was born in Bayreuth.
ego! ja, i got it! laveyan here, so...
Good video but the dimension of his work which relates to Marx and the young hegelians isn't explored. Which is a shame since its arguably why the Stirner is still relevant.
The introduction of his book is interesting, but couldn't we also say that Stirner himself is also possessed by the fixed idea of "ego" "my interest" "me" "myself" "self"?
But I kinda agree with how he compares ideologies and fixed ideas to "ghosts" that possess people's mind and controls them. Instead of the idea serving and pleasing the mind, the mind serves and pleases the idea, the cause, the abstract concept.
He also mentioned that you can have these ideas as something disposable to have and then rid of when it does not please you anymore.
Look up Kane B. He has a wonderful, if a little dry, series on Stirner where he speaks a little about the concept of the Unique - the direct translation of a word that is often translated as Ego in Stirner - and how it is a placeholder word, like a name, for the individual, which Stirner considers beyond definition.
well, plato means broad, and cicero means chick pea
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My 1yr old baby has independently developed this same philosophy, he's brilliant!!
200th liker is me kissesss =D
max stirner, it's the name you long to touch, but you mustn't touch...
They called themselves Dye Fryin'. Or, the Free. Live free or die Fryin'. KFC. Also, my headcanon is that Stirner was autistic, and this influenced his philosophy heavily, and also explains his demeanor. I converged on very similar ideas to Stirner before my diagnosis (although autism isn't really an illness). Stirnerian Egoism has also been described as "very Buddhisty" by Buddhists in the know, which is why your copy of Der Einzige has that cover.
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His philosophy really coincides with the idea of ego identity in psychology. A "fixed idea" is like someone shaping their ego identity around "spooks", or ideas with no real basis in reality.
stirner is not real he was made up by engels
I support this claim wholeheartedly
um, yeah, because delbel is basic. he can shove that fulton building somewhere too. worst prof @ ccc