Existentialism

[aguteempasil]

Albert Camus was NOT an existentialist. often he is mixed up with Satre's movement, even though they had a falling out before one of them died.

[CocteauDalighari]

Keep spelling Nietzsche's name wrong[ly]; I guess that's pretty individualistic.

[jayyy689]

All those guys are white males.

[violet101]

@jayyy689 there was a woman :D (Simone de Beauvoir)

[sylphidsoul]

yah, so Sartre coined the term.

[CarlJohnDavison]

This video is actually straight up wrong. It says existentialism is a sister philosophy with Nihilism...really? Read some more books.

[10axyz]

I agree with existentialism in all, except for one - the moral law exists, moral estimations of our deeds - also exist.

Sometime the science will descover, that each our action has moral weight.

In human genom our deeds are written in the form of special codes - negative or positive moral judges, which collects for many reincarnations, and moral karma (or immoral) defines a quality of lives and inviroment of the person (kind conditions or malicious - for his moral lesson ).

[iloveinfantiphagia]

>Existentialism is generally thought of as pretentious in today's society

>Uploaded by: indierockwhore

oh dear

[indierockwhore]

Believe me, I'm with you all the way

[sblaney66]

If we consider existentialism and its preoccupation with failure, dread, and death, Nietzsche can not be thought of as an existentialist.

[kvonmo]

Good little short... except for with the atheistic existentialists, there are theistic existentialists. It doesn't mean God does not exist or is dead. And with the different types of existentialism there is absurdity-- Albert Camus was NOT an existentialist but an absurdist which his novel "The Outsider" blatantly commemorates (here what Sartre has to say on Camus).

If you're going to try and educate people on a school of thought, you should probably know every nook and cranny first.

[Dextear]

"Good little short... except for with the atheistic existentialists, there are theistic existentialists. It doesn't mean God does not exist or is dead."

"If you're going to try and educate people on a school of thought, you should probably know every nook and cranny first."

Dude. SERIOUSLY? The entire point of existentialisms roots is the death of God, which results in a lack of objective purpose, morality and guidance.

[kvonmo]

Dude. I am like, soooo serious.

Read the "World View Summary of Existentialism". Existentialism has been broken into theistic and atheistic forms. Although both believe there is no transcendent truth, theistic existentialism insists that each person must take the "blind leap of faith" to believe in God. (It's a way of coping in not knowing the truth).

At least Google it.

[Dextear]

Which is unrelated to existentialism.

[archdeaconj]

No, no, no. The entire point of existentialism is the isolation of the individual.

[gzhuravlov]

This isn't a particularly great explanation of Existentialism at all... Free will for example is by no means universally accepted by all Existentialists... Sartre toned it down in later works and Neitzsche outright denied it. Pick up a copy of Penguin Dictionary of Phiolosophy...

[r33fermadness]

Neitzsche talked about not free will but strong and weak will from what i understand.

If there's no free will then what good is existentialism? To me it's about taking full responsibility for everything in life that you can control. Determinism doesn't fit this logic.

If you had to live your life an infinite amount of times would you be happy with your choices?

[built2spill03]

whats the name of the song used?

[indierockwhore]

It's called 'Monday' by Jon Brion, from the I Heart Huckabees soundtrack. Great film, great soundtrack :)

[TheCanadianPrairies]

The music is just sweet. :)

[TheCanadianPrairies]

This is a well made summary of Existentialism. Good work.

[TheCanadianPrairies]

Good video!

[whatatidymess]

Thanks for putting this together, it's a great help for the understanding the meaning for the word

[uplandmonk]

How many existentialists does it take to change a lightbulb? Two. One to screw it in, and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolises a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity, reaching toward the ultimate horror of a maudlin cosmos of bleak, hostile nothingness. Lol.

[indierockwhore]

I think I'll be using that! *ticks* haha

[TheCanadianPrairies]

lol. Any more philosophical jokes?

[EsamG]

And I said this many times the existentialism isn't a philosophy of despair, as most people believe that what create a cretin false understanding to the philosophy.

"I have never felt a day of despair in my life" -Jean-Paul Sartre

[EsamG]

"...in That it can destroy it, or make it stronger depending on your outlook"

Man that's what I'm trying to tell every single persona that I meet the existentialism isn't about the destruction of religion or about atheism, it is about the understanding of a personal individuality and the acceptances of his duty and purpose and neglecting all that proclaim divine or grater power that makes him supreme upon all individuals.

[mtz313]

good job. great video, i like that last quote.

[indierockwhore]

Thanks a lot for the comment- I don't get many, so I try to reply to all the ones I do get, haha.

[mtz313]

nice. did u do this for a school project or something.

[indierockwhore]

Yeah, Theology, looking for recent-ish changes in ethical/moral standpoints, and their effect on christianity. Knocked this up in about 20 minutes, haha.

[HonestySavesLies]

Great video.

[indierockwhore]

Thanks a lot- even with the misspelling of Nietzsche? Haha

[HonestySavesLies]

Oh I never noticed, haha... its not the easiest one to get right, and I knew who you meant anyway. Love that you used the I Heart Huckabees music! :D

[indierockwhore]

Nah, I'm just usually a stickler for spelling- no matter though! Yeah, can you think of anything that would work better? I don't think so.