Close Up - Existentialism

[Coyotefreak667]

@CTALONS True and false. Kierkegaard was a christian existentialist. Sartre was an atheist one. You can be a believer while being existentialist or you just don't care about religion. As typical for existentialism it's YOUR choice...

[brokennarcissist]

Existentialism is a strawman of freedom, it's it's own normative standard. Don't understand why not to privilege Camus over Sartre? Guess what you're no longer human. Enjoy masturbating? You're indulging false consciousness... You will not find a more restricting judgement worldview than an existentialist. You're nothing without the meaning(s) of other, ect... 

Conformity is freedom.... blah

[wishiwascreative1]

What a depressing worldview :(

[NearVSMello]

@wishiwascreative1 I happen to find it very inspiring. Perhaps you heard words in the vid like "meaningless" or "outsider" and immediately thought "bad" or "sad." But do you think this BECAUSE such a worldview is depressing, or is such a worldview depressing to you because YOU think so. Because YOU have decided where to place your sadness and happiness. Believe it or not by DECIDING that existentialism is depressing, you yourself have experienced an existential moment.

[NearVSMello]

@wishiwascreative1 Though because you do not see that it is YOU who's calling existentialism depressing rather than existentialism being depressing in itself, you would be in what Sartre calls bad faith.

[kurtrogler]

go to theintellectualblog. com

[irishpaisa]

Once you encounter existentialism, I don't think you can go back, or revert, to your old way of thinking!! So, If you consider ignorance blissful, then, beware my friend!

[Skoople88]

@irishpaisa Totally agree. This may sound lame but I remember the very moment I came across existentialism. It triggered a 2 week episode of depersonalization

[irishpaisa]

@Skoople88 A two week episode is tough but short. Existentialism is like finding out that Santa Claus does not exist and there is no god, basically its all on you...... This is a difficult realization to digest, its a game changer.

[Skoople88]

@irishpaisa It's difficult to digest depending on your previous beliefs. If your religious then yeah it would be tough to hear but for someone who is on the fence about everything, it could be an eye opener. For me, it was a breath of fresh air and easier to comprehend than God. Not to say I fully grasp the concept of existentialism and it's philosophical cousins but I get the ideas behind it :P

[alliant]

psychedelic philosophy is like the ultimate embrace of existential freedom.

to become psychedelic is to remove the existential idiot from your head, and get 'on with it'. existentialism is when your weakness takes over. you need to be a kind of stoic to understand this world. to understand our world, I mean.

[alliant]

@alliant

to elaborate on this, at the end the conclusion is that we ask questions to the world and what we get is a dumb indifference. a total non-answer. and thus we must prescribe the answers to our selves. the existentialists rationalized this far too much, without bringing it all around.

YOU are the universe. the universe is not an externality which we come up 'against'. this very real feeling of alienation from Nature is what we must overcome. as You overcome, Nature overcomes

[strattfordcrass]

@CTALONS: These emo-christian-existentialists.­..

Exustentialism don't "reject" God because it's a

hypothesis. Existentialism is a clear straight

contradiction to religious God. It's not "free will".

I think "indiferent to God" would fit it better...

[dmkramerica]

This is an excellent piece.

[a51ts2]

Thanks for posting this.

[Somatostatin]

the whole idea is about human life which is uncertain.

existentialism rejects the very notion of transcendetalism; we cant depend on a higher being or the paranormal or miracles and all that shit. we're week and vincible. Sarte tells us that were certainly responsible for our actions.

we also do have [limited]freedoms, limited choices...like a freedom of suicide.

[FozIber]

For me Existentialism, like the so many movements as Contra Cultura are not more neyther less than philosophical essays that will have there own strong social contribution in a future. Anyway the richness of this documents are enormous.

[thecatherintherye]

interesting stuff

[MindMusicArt]

that's cool that a boy came up to you and handed you a book i wish someone could have handed me a book like that instead i went out and baught it. and since thne i've been in love with it as well

[recain]

this is one of my most favorite videos on youtube. Big thanks to ExWizard for posting it.

[jcnejce2223]

This is a good piece. Where can we find more of this video?

[parrhasius]

Thanks for presenting this excellent piece. I have been interested in this philosophy for years, makes a lot of sense to me , presently reading 'Being and Nothingness' by Sartre , if only he could get to his point as simply as this video does: I find this book has almost put me off Sartre ; Nausea was excellent .

[MindMusicArt]

It's cool that you are reading being and nothingness i finished the book a while back and your write, it is quite wordy at times and he could get to his point quicker but all in all it's a really good read if you stick to it and become truely engage in what your reading. and a good book to read by sartre so that you don't get turned off of him is a book called existentialism and human emotions, it's great and he get's to his point very quickly plus it's short.

[MindMusicArt]

post some more especially somemore regarding neitzsche if ther eis any direct footage of that

[coryr77]

I'm in love and always have been with with existential philosophy. When people talk about it without considering it romanticism...I appreciate that. Thanks for the video.

[kobe1federer1]

Seven words, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[brandensc]

"These snooty philosophers"? Who is this snooty commentator on YouTube saying whom should and shouldn't be portrayed?

[forceofdust]

Terrible film-making. Mersault should never be portrayed for one thing. Otherwise it takes away the closeness every person feels with him. And who are these 2 snooty philosophers?

[mathgrenades]

I think you mean 'e.g.' not 'i.e.'

[blnstm]

Who are you to dispute the meaning he creates for himself.

[mandraak84]

A helper ?

I mean he doesn't dispute the meaning, he simply corrects the use of e.g./i.e. (which is often confusing: e.g.= "example given", used for a list of examples, and i.e.= "that is (to say)", used to reformulate more clearly an idea) That's it!

So now my question to be : Who are you to dispute his good intention ? :D

[lipkinfilms]

Good elementary intro in existentialism, would do better if covered the whole scope of existentialism; i.e. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers and Unamuno.

[bonzodog10]

Nice one mate. i was gonna say that myself.

[pyrrho314]

Nietzsche isn't existentialist though... you mean as influence on?

[barrettrussell]

Kierkegaard being the father of existentialism, and in that a direct disput to husserl's philosophy (as kierkegaard studied in berlin right after husserls death), and later Nietzsche as well heidegger continued this direction of individual, phenomenal, ontology. Read heidegger (as sartre even uses the term dasein on occasion). If you like existentialism, try to find the series called "no excuses" by the late robert solomon,

[barrettrussell]

i meant hegel not husserl's