Response to Existentialistcat: Existentialism [Closed Captioned]

The idea of any system containing a paradox does not indicate that the system is deficent. Rather, it is the hallmark of a complete system.

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[09jake12]

Is there a way to reconcile the conflicts between determinism and free will? Is there a paradox here as well which demonstrates a balanced completeness between the two? I would really appreciate it if you could make a video explaining this, I have been having some trouble grappling with this one.

[TheFaustianMan]

@09jake12 That is a tough one. I'll give it some thought, and if I can arrive at something I'll make a video on it. But it's just a weighty matter, it will be far off in the future, unless inspiration strikes. 

[Sconz32]

People who sacrifice themselves for the sake of others are few and far between, bro.

[TheFaustianMan]

@Sconz32 Thanks for commenting!

[vladislav0202]

wow.. excellent point on the explanation of a paradox in an any given system.. I've never really thought of it like that before, so Cheers to you for disclosing it! The first thing I though of was the dichotomy paradox by Aristotle.

Great post!

[TheFaustianMan]

Hello,

Thanks for the comment! Nice work on referencing the dichotomy paradox too!

Cheers!

[TheJovanist]

funny!

[jeromyrutter]

the problem is of relativity and consciousness. i have a unified field of vision where i relate myself to other objects, and those objects to other objects. we assume because of that unified field of vision that things are interelated when it is we that serve as nexi experientiae. we begin with "myself" and that "thing" verses that other "thing". they have nothing in common, but we see them in a single vision, which has a time disparity...the completion of perception and processing, post facto.

[jeromyrutter]

i ask about infinity because of your reference to space-time. einstein sought to find a theory of everything...as if it were unified. anything finite is held within something else, my cup in my house, my house in the atmosphere...all we really have is infinite expansion. and even if the universe is a whole, it is held by nothing...we turn to heidegger. what is nothing? we cannot give it attributes. why does infinite nothingness hold a pocket of something?

[jeromyrutter]

it's my opinion that the paradox is born because the mind itself is paradoxical. imagine a god existing in an abyss: it utters to itself "where did i come from?" who is it asking? how can it know where it came from if it doesn't know where it is now? is there a correct answer? among every possible scenerio it can think up, is the correct answer even present? we ASSUME there is an answer, but, unfortunately, every answer only creates new questions...it never ends. where would one place infinity?

[peacelily64]

@Sconz32 some peeps...feel good from helping others It gives them a purpose not so much from the ego but from the heart....it makes them feel ...

[natedaug1]

Good video, but there really are not many American existentialist. America was much more analytic than continental.