6 Philosophical Answers to Modern Emptiness
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00:00 intro
01:35 Arthur Schopenhauer
05:30 Soren Kierkegaard
08:41 Fyodor Dostoevsky
11:00 Friedrich Nietzsche
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14:59 Albert Camus
17:48 Jean-Paul Sartre
18:55 Final words
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It’s fascinating that regardless of the changes to the modern landscape, humanity’s mind and heart still ponder over the same questions
You can’t actually be serious?
@@Saber23 What people find fascinating is subjective.
@@yahualharis7230 that’s not what I’m talking about you idiot 😂 I agree this is fascinating 🤦♂️
I agree
I disagree
Sartre really has a way of seeing things from a new angle
Yes, and he can spot things from different angles simultaneously.
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Sartre caused more harm than any good. X’ed out.
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Dostoevsky, notably The Brothers Karamazov, has helped my mental health so much. I feel like aiming for a life of active love like Alyosha is a wonderful goal for anyone.
my mental health is fucked would love to believe in love but alyosha is religious i cant believe in that
@@talhaabdullah2859 I don't even feel like it needs to be religion, just active love. The more love in the world, the better it will be. Bad, even horrible things will still happen, but at least there is more love and positivity in the world. Although pretty much nobody is capable of it to the level Alyosha does, as I think Dostoevsky intended the Karamazovs as a part of everyone, as he says, "we are all Karamazov". We just want to try and let as much "Alyosha" shine through as we can in any given situation.
great book.i don t think that we should aim for something like beeing more like alisoha..but yeah..love gives us a rlly nice feed back..pitty that people around these days are to affraid to love..they r scared of getting fooled with idk what..all the time..i love people but i also desdain them for beeing idiots. no one wants to work that brain .can t even talk with most of them..they ing consumes me by talkning just shit and doing same..but i know is alot to work..we first need to start unlearn alot that our society and parrents told us..i also want to live in a f ing tribe with a good family and friens,brothers..and love them play with them sing with them .....but i m ok with the ideea that i ld probably die alone..i love others but i can t eat their shit all the time..i can t be good with them while they keep beeing bad ppls..not giving me respect and love back ..if they get something from me they think they are smart and i m fool.they refuse to see me as a f brother..:))) sorry froc complainin..is still room for love..dont neccesary have to be other ppls...hate writing comms..i need more time for this shit...can t explaing things well in few words...
@@trycorydon3628You sound like the main character in Notes from the underground.
The underground man is overly concerned about being respected and takes every slight as a calculated attack against him, this makes him more and more irrational and angry over time.
Everyone else is an idiot or beneath him somehow because they don't use their brain or aren't conscious enough to think rationally like him yet it is he who lives underground.
Only give what you can give and be content that you were good enough to do that, if they choose to laugh at you for it then that is their deformity of character not yours.
Expect nothing from anyone, draw boundaries and live your life.
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 times to times i m angry..if not i m very nice ..cuz thats is my main self' to say so..but observing ppl beeing rlly dumb ..but rlly dumb around me,i fell alone .short ex: today a new employ at my work place was sendind me aa video cuz he didn t know how to lock a door..can t explain well but alot of them don t know wich is left and wich is right..those are the moments when i m getting angry..in rest of my time i rlly know how to enjoy beauties of life..the sad thing is that i rlly want to enjoy life with others..and almost no one knows how..i m f cking crying when i go outside and see the beauty of the day,asking myself if this day is maybe a gift for me...
Kierkegaard … the man who was loathed, despised and ridiculed in his lifetime but who is now often referred to as ‘the father of existentialism’!
I have studied or read at least something about each of the authors you presented in this video.
During my adolescence in high school (Liceo in Italy) I studied philosophy and I encountered Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. I felt affinity with all these kind of "existential" authors. In the last year of high school in the final little thesis I've spoken about the scandal and the paradox and for philosophy I've analyzed Kierkegaard and the scandal and paradox of Faith. I've tried to read directly some works of Nietzsche but It tormented me too much. I've liked to read more also from Schopenhauer or Kierkegaard but I didn't manage.
Then a few years ago (at 22 approx, now I'm 25) I encountered Dostoevskij and I was dazzled. It feels to me so profound and complete and true. I've read almost all of his production in the past 2/3 years. In particular all his last 5 great novels together with "Notes from underground" are to me absolutely astonishing. I've loved also "White Nights", even If it is a simpler novel and it has not the profundity of the last works, I've found it deeply touching, full of true, young romantic emotions in their essence.
Anyway probably the most profound and beautiful suggestion I've found in Dostoevskij is the dualism between the Karamazov brothers Ivan and Alioscia, an alternative between the possibilities of reason, rationality and the possibilities of charity, love in the times of nihilism. Ivan found the maximum that he could find by using his type of approach, the one that puts the individual attempt to find the truth and this way leads to the truth of the absurdity of life. Alioscia doesn't refute directly his thesis, he rather try to help concretely his brother when his thoughts lead him to insanity. Alioscia suggests another way and this way leads to semplicity, in this I agree with what is said in the video. The culmination of Alioscia's approach to life is represented by the epilogue of the book which is an hymn to love which I found extremely beautiful and touching, I think the most beautiful pages about the most profound concept of love I've found in a novel.
Then, recently, I've also read "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus and I've tried again to read "Beyond Good and Evil" by Nietzsche but I didn't manage to finish. Now I'm re-reading "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevskij.
"Dazzled. Profound, complete and true" That has been my experience also. I am captivated by the essence of life through love that permeates his writing. Genius.
Dostoyevsky was a genius when it came to humans. The Brothers Karamazov felt like it was written by different authors with different characters. How could Dostoyevsky did that deep into our psyche? Great author and one of a kind book
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Love your channel, your videos actually made me fall in love with philosophy and actually start reading books about it. I'm currently reading the 'The Myth of Sisyphus' and it is amazing. Keep going mate, you are amazing.
Having all this insights at an early age helps....before I shared the same opinion as sartre ....I was into anime, where the protagonist used the dialogues like "if you don't like your destiny, don't accept it ...instead have the courage to change it" but after cancer I'm more bend towards determinism and I too find campus view more closer to my reality.
I was into spirituality too...Kierkegaard's & Dostoevsky answer is not my answer anymore. I am nearly average in all things but conscious of Nietzsche's view I have started doing haiku, haibun, tanka, senryu etc.
Schopenhauer first solution, that is meditation has not worked for me( may be i didn't do it correctly for two years) and music gives me some solace i guess.
Great video mate, Thanks you so much for this!
Dosvosky's work changed the way I think about Jesus and myself.
You do a very nice job of summarizing the philosophy of these great thinkers. I appreciate your summaries. I think you are doing a great service.
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Thank you for discussing some of most important concepts in western philosophy in the simplest way possible.
Thank you, Fiction Beast. I watched earlier this morning. Thank you for all your videos .
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I recognized him but couldn't recall his name, so I googled "cross eyed thick glasses philosopher" and Sartre was the first answer
For me this two persons helped to over come nihilism one is Nietzche and other one is Albert Camus
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Good to know
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Thank you. It’s very clear to me now. Nihilism or the meaninglessness of life, like nothingness in Buddhism, is part of nature. But unlike Buddhism, western philosophy looked for ideas to invent a better life. I am one of the lucky ones who have been able to (sometimes) love my job, so I can relate to you and Camus.
' ' We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus [absurdity].
That alone should make us love each other, but it does.' ' Charles Bukowski
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Exceptional video, Thankyou for this.
your videos are definitely usefull for people! Love your videos they got me really into philosophy and helps me accepting life and the way it is. Albert Camus is also my fav. Thank you for making all those videos!!!
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I am grateful to have your channel. I watch for 30 min. every morning at 4:30 a.m. i hope you will have a healty life and long life to be able to serve to this channel more. As you said the things we make sometimes can contribute our good feelings for short moments so the meaning of life is hidden in those little times . that's it. Bless yourself!
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u did a good job of summing up the core philosophies of these men a little surprised camus is your favorite he has long been mine since I was introduced to his work by a great woman professor reading him helped form and solidify my own atheist beliefs⚛😀
The last concluding line regarding making friends was really on point!
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This was excellent and you’re right that it helps a lot of people such as myself.
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Would you consider the writings of Joseph Cambell , namely the Hero’s journey… as an extension of these earlier thinkers?
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Appreciate it. Greta suggestion. Let me think about it.
Your work certainly brings a lot of joy to my life! Keep it up with these philosophy videos.
Very great content, you able to summarize the 6th philosophers so well. Continue your endless useless job, just like Sisyphus. I love the way you express your amor fati.
Your channel has really helped me. You make philosophical concepts accessible. I also resonate deeply with Nietzsche and Camus and I like Schopenhauer but I think his idea of the will to live- I don't think is applicable to the post modern generation of people, for example many people are less focused on sex and monogamy and more focused on careers/occupations. Then there are those who identify as A-sexual. Sex drives among men and women have fallen, (according to some studies). But, these ideas/statistics can also be incorrect. I think the will to live is subjective, overall. Whether it's rational or empirical, I have no idea.
The fight for survival makes everything meaningful.
Excellent video and the script. The last bit is very powerful. Yes, you are doing a great and useful work by creating these videos. Keep going, buddy. - Ekram Kabir, Dhaka, Bangladesh…
Thanks for fixed subtitles🙂 I'll go outside to pile up firewood now, and then watch your video. I use photography though, to create art, as an response to the absurdity and emptiness that modernity has left us with. Technology destroyed the purpose of my life, and now I use technology to fill the gap with art. I'm not famous though, I just use the art of photography, to fill this big hole of emptiness and pointlessness. Think it was Albert Camus that recommended this? To use art to counteract the absurdity of modern life.
Hear, hear!
Ooh my guy! :D It's been so long since I listened to you. :)
Still, one thing remained the same: you know what. ;)
Only Camu has given me the solution by accepting the absurdness of this life.
Camus was gay and preyed on young teens- it's true
music, art, meditation, nature, acceptance
Thank you for the persian subtitle
Men have continued to live meaningful lives long before, and after, the Existentialists came along. This is because they made their lives meaningful for themselves by embracing life as being (on the whole) something that is worthwhile. In order to do this they did not have to examine it, so much as they simply had to experience it, and, in doing so, they focused more on its joys and its possibilities than upon its tragedies and its sorrows. Nor did they wait around for some philosopher, theologian, or preacher to tell them the meaning of life -- for these men were already in touch with its meaningfulness from within themselves from the very beginning !
What is this lovely picture at the end, of the animals in the woods playing music and dancing - please -?
MY FAVOURITE NIETZSCHE, SCHOPENHAUER & ALBERT CAMUS
Çok teşekkürler 😻. Ben daha çok Sartre'yi kendime uygun buldum.
I've only dabbled a tiny bit in all of these thinkers mentioned, so I am really a novice, and as such would be glad to hear otherwise, but what struck me is that none of these 'answers' to modern emptiness were about cultivating a communal way of living and radically transforming the material conditions of social life itself. To me, it seems the answers were very inward, or rather, 'individual', and as such - in my opinion - can only be partial solutions.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated :)
What does it mean to ask what the meaning of life is? Is meaning not an exclusively human construct? Has anyone seen cats or dogs ask about the meaning of life? Life came first, then came along humans, and with their capacity for abstract thought followed the notion of meaning. Then humans tried to apply this notion to life itself thus using a word outside of its context and so failing in the process. Life and existence transcend meaning. I believe this reasoning stems from Wittgenstein's ideas.
Six thinkers in one video. But, it grasped the essance of them.
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Can you Suggest me some books related to political science of Japanese scholars plz
I don’t know much about Japanese politics
Can you explain what a "existential crisis" is?
I wonder what soern would feel about the amount of non being we experience now will so much music and other distractions from being
Any profound Philosophy; necessarily to be blended with ABSURDITY OF A. CAMUS… & so on 👌🌺
What! Didn't Albert Camus proclaim that art is a way to counteract absurdism? I don't make art to become an Übermensch, just to counteract the absurdity of my life and this place. Every image accepted by Adobe Stock Photo brings a moment of happiness to my life, though.
I don't like Nietzsche's idea about making art to become an Übermensch. I thought I had found my philosopher in Camus. Was I wrong?
And the proof is that a lot of these guys went crazy with the ideas that were in their head
Philosophies are not reasons why emotions and thoughts make a person. As Oscar Wilde ' ... I want to enjoy my feelings. To control and dominate them.' As most thoughts can be influenced by what is seen in situations, captivating 'ulterior motives' etc. Sometimes to withdraw or distance oneself is best option to existentialism with conscience and reasonings as guide against neurotic emotions. JamesWhiskey
Physics Chemistry Bio....the Psychology creates the godly pronouncement.....moleculer structure and the behavioural pattern,changes and natural selection for years or a day,may be a life the procreation with nature then simulate ourselves etc.
Fiction Beast seems to have mixed up Dostoevsky with Tolstoy.
This is about modern philosophers but we could go back to Epicurus. Even further back, it has been Homer's Ulysees was the first atheist in literature.
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We in the first world are all living a lie. You know it, I know it, we all know it. That is the only meaning in our lives. To be cruel and unjust with no intention of helping others except when we believe it will somehow help us. Our fear is greater than our love and that motivates all the decisions in our lives. How else do you explain the behaviour of denying others what has been given to us to make our lives prosper.
I recommend you altering the title to be more accurate but it's a hassle so I don't blame you if you ignore
God will give you meaning
I just want to know what's the point anymore? I wake up, I work out, I work, I eat, I work on my house, I take a bike ride, I take a walk, I go to sleep. Wake up and repeat.
I have zero friends, I haven't had a woman in over six years, no one cares that I exist. I live alone, eat alone, go to the store alone, do everything alone. People treat me, at best, as invisible, and at worst, as the absolute bane of their existence in the moment.
I'm not a fat ugly loser, either. I'm six feet tall, muscular, in shape, bald 34 year old man. I keep my head shaved and have a big beard. I dress conservatively, usually in black shirts and jeans, and drive a non descript cheap car. I have no debt, I bought my house with cash, I have savings, investments, and currently making over $135,000 a year. I don't know what I'm working so hard for, and I'm very lonely. I spend a great deal of time thinking, longing for some kind of connection. I doubt anyone will ever love me. I am, evolutionarily, a failure.
You could adopt a child and raise him/her, you could get a "higher" goal in life like social work or helping the poor/physically disabled/mentally challenged or simply move to a third world country and be faced with issues related to day to day survival/improvement of the society or system etc or start helping people selflessly. By acquiring any of these/many other possible goals, the lack of meaning issue may not bother you much
the problem here seems to be that you're fixated on goals which do not serve you. everything you wrote is indicative of you being overly attached to your material belongings, social status and sex. obviously you also live in a society which doesn't serve your desires but that's not the true source of your suffering. in essence you are too passionate and attached to mundane life. But especially this thing about considering yourself an evolutionary failure is just pathetic. since the dawn of civilization anyone remotely clever has sought to transcend the blind darwinistic Will influencing most of our base animal behavior... Breeding, love don't matter. But don't take it from me, according to your values many philosophers and great thinkers (even some mentioned in this video) of history would be considered "evolutionary failures" for not having spread their genes. Except, they weren't, because instead of spreading their genes they spread their (in Dawkin's idea of the word) memes, or ideas
so yeah, if you think you won't be able to pass on your genes in this world for whatever reason, maybe try letting go of your attachments and try creating some art, idk write or draw something
Either way Schopenhauer would be a good read for you.
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Will I be harmed after my death? That's the most important question that I can ask that has anything to do with me. The problem is, I can't answer that question, and neither can you.
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The mystery of time,time is your body going thru life,it has a genisus ,conception,birth,however long one lives,death,4 major parts,like the seasons,the four directions !! All of time,eternity !! Who knows ?,all we know for sure is that life will end some day & there are simular beliefs all over the world as what comes after we disembody ??
substantive nature
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Everyone of us endowed with Infinite potential to “ Offer “…
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I was thinking...with whom i should go with..i chose albert camus...
The happy flock is always susceptible to the strong personality.
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Dear Fiction Beast, I love your channel, your erudition & the joy you’ve given me through your fair minded philosophical & literary assessments. However when we look at modernity we have to show some caution to how well we’ve done as a collective humanity. Although you are mathematically correct to say most people now have enough food to eat, 25,000 people still die daily as a result of hunger related illness which equates to over 9 million people each year. I appreciate this is a small percentage of 7 billion but it’s not a cause for celebration. There’s every evidence this figure is set to rise. 854 million people are malnourished & a further 100 million are set to join them through rising food prices. There’s every evidence to suggest there could be up to 1000 million extra homeless refugees in the next 20 years due to global heating. It’s also worth remembering many people throughout so called developed countries are increasingly hungry skipping meals & have entered a very real downward spiral into poverty & relative misery despite what men like Bill Gates & Steven Pinker attest. I think
we’re fucked. Yes I’m a pessimist. Yes I’m a practitioner of doomsterism. Yes I like Dostoevsky but I couldn’t be more left wing. I am not a snowflake. I am not a utopian dreamer. Statistics on poverty weren’t collected empirically before 1981 so we are guessing to a certain extent at the extent of human poverty prior to this time. For most of humanity sapiens fed & clothed themselves outside the auspices of being an employee in the very recent capitalist system which is worth noting.
Keep up the good work.
“It is much safer to be feared than loved”
-Machiavelli
You forgot Blaise Pascal.
I beg to differ. Modern people are NOT empty. They are actually TOO FULL of: themselves, their selfishness, ego, self ambition, hate, love of money and materialism, self love, violence, anger, refusal to be held accountable for their own failures, blaming others, lack of discipline, ingratitude...
I think the reason why modern people are 'empty' because even if they are full of self ambition, hate and love, it is their social reality that denies their ability to live a truly fulfilling and experiential life. To say that everyone is full of themselves, ungrateful and egotistical is extremely heavy weighted, pessimistic and blown out of proportion, as there are people like you who are also discontent with predatory capitalism, the fact that you are going against the philosophy of western governance is proof that outliers exist, hence we cannot all be ungrateful and hungry machines. We are empty because we always have been, but the difference is that today we are realising that we are forced to oblige by capitalism because there is such a stark negative stigma against communism, hence it seems like there is nowhere to go, but to revolt. Does this make sense? You can debate me on this one cause I'd be interested in what you have to say :)
You got me with anger and lack of discipline.
Emptiness with a low thrum of anxiety. What not having her done to you?
I feel a sense of disgust radiating from Sarte. Camus is great, one could sense his will to life.
Yet, I think the most entertaining, the most profound and psychologically correct is Kierkegaard. The man was a Saint.
"We're programmed to seek a mate" or "to mate"? Not the same thing!
The goal is to mate.
as a certified idiot, it blows my mind that I could name every single person in the thumbnail and what their philosophies are
I am the same. Welcome to my world.
But all of those philosophers came up with Existentialism due to rising Atheism. but as science advances more and the universe becomes visibly more like a library of books, the more existentialist ideas will surface. The universe is apparently made of cosmological books that are intentionally left by someone (i.e. DNA, light, gravitational waves, etc). these cosmic books don’t mean anything without a reader. And if humans are the only beings (in this solar system) who can read these books and make sense of them then it means that we are the end product of this universe and we are created for a reason. we are the purpose behind the creation of this universe as these books are nothing without a reader. the universe is full of these cosmic books waiting for us to read them.
These "cosmic books" can only be considered "books" when someone decides to call them that. The existence of information doesn't imply design, you're just reinventing numerology.
@@user-wq8iy4lu7e information can be coded in any format: alphabets, heliographs, signals, paintings, proteins, etc. the conservation of information is an important concept in cosmology. yet in one camp, some people say that information which governs the workings of the universe is made by a creator and on the other side some say that everything in the universe assembled itself randomly and left behind manuals like the DNA for us to establish science disciplines like: Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, etc and employ powerful AI machines and thousands of talented researchers to unravel its wonders that we may borrow smart ideas from it. Existentialism is a symptom of an internal conflict between reason and intuition. reason that is based on evidence and narrative. the evidence is right but the narrative is false. We created a negative feedback loop that feeds into existentialism
It's apparent that once we reject God that our lives will be dedicated to finding something to do that will either give us the illusion of having meaning and purpose or will divert us from thinking about our meaningless and purposeless lives.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
These are not solutions. There solutions want human to numb their thinking abilities and consciousness just by diverting attention to joys in different ways painting music etc. The answer comes when we continuously hit the root of question not by diverting