Existentialism

[@PolarSky]

I like how so many are complaining over a squeaky chair; even though they're getting a free university lecture!

[@ZombieLincoln666]

I used to carry a little can of WD40 with me to lectures for this reason lol

[@louie9373]

You like that or academia has trained you to understate all of your negative opinions so as to save face while allowing you to partake in a small release of misery?

[@MauricioACB]

It seems squeaky chair beats philosophy lecture, who would have known...

[@mrloop1530]

I'm in Denmark. All university lectures are free here.

[@graemelaubach3106]

Yeah for sure, but did you notice that squeaky chair tho??

[@TheCupCakeMaker6]

This man is great! He is passionate about his lectures and trying to explain it in a way that students who don't really care for the class can relate to and understand.

[@asaadalabody6444]

lbaca222 Can we say existentialism is a movement called for peace and justice ?

[@jkgkjgkijk]

Go back to sleep

[@koroglurustem1722]

I can relate to that, baby, what's your name ?

[@gerardo49078]

@@koroglurustem1722 Keep it in your pants, man

[@edplunk600]

If you don't care for class then flip burgers

[@krister6160]

You're the professor I am deprived of meeting in my entire university life. Glad to hear you on KZbin. Thanks!

[@tonyyounan9013]

Great professor, great lecture.

[@akhileshm.s7888]

Moral of the story - please be more like Analytic Philosophers, see what there is, then think about it and figure things out but don't forget to that it is a _theory_ and be open to changes to it. Don't instead start with preconceived ideas and expectations and then become Existentialists when the world turns out different to the extent of seeming cruelly indifferent and very baffling.

[@nickk.9111]

The way in which Daniel Bonevac explains Albert Camus' philosophy is so powerful, clear and inspiring. Thank you for sharing these ideas in such a crystal clear and passionate fashion.

[@JohnE2B]

I enjoy Bonevac’s lectures very much. They are some of my favorites right now on youtube, and there are so many 👍🏻

[@samychingon]

Oh captain my captain! I've been watching these videos since Quarantine started.

[@theaggrotravelersbucketlis5470]

D'oh

[@daviddawson1718]

Easy Walt

[@gepisar]

The stages listed in The Stranger are similar to the stages of loss: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. Just noticed that!

[@ytrichardsenior]

Alienation is something you either do or do not feel 'existentially'. It's unlikely a university professor will feel alienation, they spend their time amongst people very like them. But what if one day a university philosophy professor finds himself living amongst ordinary high school dropouts and working at McDonalds. People do not really become aware that life is absurd until the absurdity of life becomes impossible to ignore, often because of circumstance.

[@mattetherington6210]

I know I already made a comment, but that was part-way into the lecture. I've now finished it, and I have to say it's the clearest, most understandable coverage of existentialism that I've ever seen. And delivered with such obvious passion! Bravo, Prof. Bonevac! I'm a teacher myself, and I could have listened to you delivering a lecture 3x longer. Have a subscription :)

[@elijahmadar645]

Daniel Bonevac is a great teacher and a great speaker I really enjoyed this speech

[@swampy1234]

I Really appreciate how the lecturer went straight to the point with the definition, right off the bat. Love it

[@simonsjoquist6862]

Halfway through and I just have to say how fantastic I think this is. A proffessor with such passion for what he does. Would be awesome to have a teacher like that. Thanks, this inspired me.

[@NoZAutonomy]

Wow, you are a great teacher/professor, thanks for the free lecture

[@marineloosthuizen9295]

This presentation had me fascinated from start to finish. Your enthusiasm for philosophy and your sense of humor is admirable. Thank you for sharing.

[@curtcarpenter2677]

Existentialism is primarily a reaction (in my view) to the loss of certainty which began with the Copernican revolution -- and a broad recognition of the necessity of choice as the price each of us must pay for our short-term lease on existence. You are radically free, but the freedom is not unlimited: there is no escape, for example, from the need to make choices -- to love, to hate, to establish the "brotherhood of man" as an axiom to live by in a world of uncertainty and value pluralism. Let this good lecture be a starting point, not an ending, of your _own_ journey.

[@mattetherington6210]

I've read and watched plenty about existentialism, and this is the first time ever that someone has defined "essence" in a way that makes sense - intrinsic function. Humans have biological and perhaps psychological characteristics, but we have no intrinsic function *in the world*. This is why we must choose our own function. Thankyou, professor, for finally clarifying this!

[@sinisamajetic]

Students squeaking w chairs on purpose, they're like: "we paid so much money to listen to this and you f'ing youtubers want for free"

[@michaelsteven1090]

wow, real great, helpful comment..your supposed to listen to the lecture f'ing moron.

[@deeplorable8988]

@@michaelsteven1090 It was a great comment, punk...

[@hendynz6358]

excellent lecture but the noise is extremely distracting

[@llallogan]

Having taken classes in this room back in the day, the chairs are made so if you just barely move it squeaks lol it is annoying even in the room

[@Tsuruthargay]

Lol

[@covalentbros]

This was an amazing lecture. I'm currently working on a research project based on Existentialism, and this lecture gave me a massive insight as to what Existentialism is as well as the important figures who played a role in the movement. Thank you very much for this magnificent video!

[@schaturvedi729]

I loved the lucidity, the very simple way a profound subject was explained and of course the intermittent humour! Thank you, Sir.

[@apostalote]

Kierkegaard and Nietzsche do affirm that we have no essence and that it is up to the individual to affirm themselves through pathos. For Kierkegaard this is Christianity, for Nietzsche this is artistic self expression. You could maybe call Kant or Hegel a proto-existentialist, but Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are certainly focused on the question of existence and the intrinsic meaning of existence

[@tanmaybanerjee2773]

"Next monday no class. Wednesday we come back and talk. " That was deep.

[@cscott192]

Those damn chairs......

[@AizwellOfficial]

Emptier than my essenceless soul.

[@TheReaMrBurntSausage]

+Ha Kou well at least this video managed to add 40 000 more people sitting in those chairs

[@canadiannuclearman]

cscott Greas the chairs

[@julioenergy]

unwatchable because of all the shuffling around sounds. FACK!

[@williamsawyer9894]

@@julioenergy If a pin dropped during this lecture and no one heard it, would it really exist?

[@invisibleguest770]

this is surely so helpful, I must say. Thank you for posting this....... :)

[@emilysmallwood3803]

that was absolutely fabulous!

[@madmaxbocka]

Thanks for posting this for free

[@NobleAristotelian]

I wish my professor were like this guy he teaches so great! My philosophy professor used to be a cop in Jersey. He’s a very militant guy screams most of the time, super strict, and it feels like philosophy boot camp in the literal sense almost haha.

[@fustian]

Thanks for the lectures, Dr. Bonevac. For me, alienation to the circumstances of one's life as a result of being thrown into existence in a particular time and place is a consequence of knowing that the attachment that we feel to our circumstances is reflexive and not deliberate, since if we had been thrown into an utterly different time and place, we would reflexively feel an attachment to those circumstances as well. This part of existentialism to me seems to follow directly from the scientific image you like to start your lectures with, an image where earth is just another planet among many, sol another star among many, and my consciousness another consciousness among many, with no special status for me to appreciate intellectually and then find reasons to endorse. The fact of alienation in existentialism seems to me to be a requisite idea for understanding why existence is said by many existentialist philosophers to be absurd.

[@sharmashiva6217]

Thank you so much sir for this really fascinating presentation, indeed its very organized and comprehending

[@susannec659]

Thank you for this I've always grappled with the meaning of existentialism when really the word exist is in it. I can remember in French class we learned about this and it went over our heads

[@drvn8]

Fantastic lecture, very clear and engaging!

[@cidthekid4532]

Really enjoyed your lecture. I'm studying for my Psych GRE Subject Test and was trying to better understand existentialism. You really helped. THANKS! :D

[@rohxn6988]

did u finish it?

[@michellefrempong1496]

Oh my God ..Such a great deliver 💕💕..I am in love with his choices of words and his delivery 😫🥺💕..Thanks a lot professor

[@louiselarc9180]

LMAOOO

[@zainullahkhan3574]

great teacher,

[@waynemoss8145]

This guy is a great orator. And that's a good thing, because I had to watch this 4 times to understand what he;s saying. Now I want to hear him talk about free-will.

[@sangitabiswas2224]

Wow .It was so helpful .You made it so easy .Thank you sir.You are my new favourite professor.

[@susannec659]

We all struggle with the conflict between expansion and contraction meaning we are all one but then we have to have our boundaries for survival.

[@johnnyroycerichardsoniii3273]

Excellent lecture! Great professor!

[@AbhiBass96]

I wouldn't even miss a day of your lecture if I was enrolled there :D Love all your videos :D

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

Wow, thank you!

[@AbhiBass96]

@@PhiloofAlexandria Most welcome, sir! Your lectures are very inspiring. Can't wait to watch more of them during my Christmas break :)

[@JoshuaJohnson777]

Amazing! I recently went through a series of life changing events and stumbled upon your lectures at a very unique time. Thank you for sharing!

[@fixedhint796]

Honestly I think Aristotle view on existentialism is smarter. OK, we are free to define our lives and give it whatever meaning we want, but what happens when we fail (our plans fail)? Some existentialists might be frustrated and commit suicide. But most of them don't. And here is Aristotle's essence: we might have failed very bad, but we might choose to continue because we seek something else, way inferior to our initial plan - we failed to accomplish the great things but i still want to taste that BigMc at Mc'Donalds or see that movie or football match etc. And this is the essence we see in all people, no matter if existentialists or not. Is always there, in every human. And it is the thing that prevents the majority of existentialists of commiting suicide after a big fail. Many many thanks for your videos!

[@shaggystone6397]

Reading thru Heidegger's " being & time" u will realize that Sartre's " being & nothingness" is almost at certain points direct plagiarism of ideas. Sartre however adds an awsome level when he talks about the social dimension with " the look" & hell is other people. The other defines us & steals my freedom so i make the other realise themselves as being defined by me. All social relationships are based in conflict. Especially love. Thia professor is cool & it would be fun to go thru being & nothingness line by line to get a really good understanding of this. He only gets to skim the surface with this lecture but its still fun tho.

[@harshdhillon356]

Loving these videos. So much knowledge u have shared. Thanks :)

[@user-us1wg7zo8c]

I really enjoyed the lecture. Many thanks

[@K-gp3mz]

Very nice video, thankyou for this

[@Jaguadarte__]

Such a great lecture! Cheers from Brazil

[@Alaknanda2007]

Loved this lecture and very excited to discover your channel.

[@rgaleny]

The TAO is a a principal of Moderation and Temperance. Aristotle talks of the "Golden Mean" in judgement. Quality is the measure of all things.

[@overrooftops]

Great lecture. Annoying squeaking desk. So may times I was getting into what you said, there's this squeaking desk(chair?)! Get rid of that thing... or are all the desks that way?

[@nietzschescodes]

wow, i didn't know that channel Henri le Chat Noir. I have just watched some. I love it! thanks for the suggestion! (You said it was a cat with a French accent? The videos that I just saw were actually all in French with an English accent)

[@simeon24]

Great lecture, thanks for posting! Those chair squeaks though... :[

[@MindMasterJD]

You are a great professor... making the concept easy to understand.. I would love to be in your class for a day...

[@vloraboy2019]

If I was in that lecture, I would feel like clapping in the end.

[@bro_truth]

Them damn chairs!!!

[@alialrahahleh676]

Thank you, really simple and clean lecture

[@denizcokugras158]

He's just a simply amazing professor. Too bad when you're 20 you're too full of yourself to appreciate this kind of a lecture. I would have loved to hear the parts he skipped in detail as well. Totally brilliant!

[@LD-kz3ms]

"when I was 20 I was too full of myself to appreciate this kind of a lecture" Fixed that for you

[@denizcokugras158]

@@LD-kz3ms i was actually talking about the students who were playing with their chairs throughout the lecture but why not jump on an opportunity to criticize someone online when you have the chance, right? too bad there's no age limit for being a douchebag. there, i fixed it for both of us. :)

[@mikeoglen6848]

Yes, I found irt irritating that he skips some slides. Why does he do that, I wonder?

[@philip8908]

The squeaky chairs have no intrinsic meaning, only the meaning you give them. Sisyphus smiled while carrying the rock.

[@ahmadrezaeiii]

Wow, such a great presentation. Thank You so much :)

[@ev4757]

great video but I have to ask, is it sped up or is he on speed?

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

I’m from Pittsburgh. I talk fast.

[@ipdavid1043]

Thank you so much Professor...wonderful lecture...and funny (banana)

[@abhi4000]

Lol. That student who sighed "Everyday" when the professor said something about how we all feel like "I don't want to this anymore" or something like that. I can relate. x')

[@rgaleny]

The meaning of life is to stay alive. In Nietzsche there is the will to power over your native powers. Then in Aristotle first you become a specialist then you become a Liberal artist. In the Hellenistic age of Empire the later Stoics found meaning in an Ideal city, and an Ideal Man.

[@BobbySidhu101]

Great video. If Sartre and Camus felt that the right response to a meaningless world was to create our own meaning, avoid ‘bad faith’, and do as we please, does this not run the risk of individuals engaging in immoral behaviour? There was talk of Camus’ love letters and his desire for several women for example, but of course this is not good behaviour. If we create our own meaning in life, where does morality stand, and what did Camus/Sartre say? I have tried reading Sartre and struggle to understand him. Camus I don’t think morality is mentioned in The Myth Of Sisyphus.

[@liammurphy2725]

The chair cries out in pain, as it listens again and again.

[@ryue65]

Excellent.

[@teestaghosh9935]

Sir, YOU are a great inspiration..Regards at YOUR feet

[@kencarey3477]

i am. let go. just observe this moment with no judgement. act from your heart not your ego driven mind. totale freedom

[@hussamshamma3319]

!It was an honor to meet your Passion for who you really are

[@stephansmith7630]

You explained Camus' call to revolt against the absurd beautifully. I didn't quite understand what he meant by that before.

[@doyourealise]

have you ever been to NEPAL? amazing talk!

[@CheeseDota]

Thanks a lot for the lecture! ^^

[@TheDHCBO2]

His hand movements actually help keep up with his longer points.

[@rgaleny]

The knowledge of Good and Evil takes us out of the world, the relinking to life puts us back. "Let us tend to our garden." from Voltaire's Candide.

[@AnAwesomeHobbit]

Got a Jordan Peterson video recommended under this, which is really sad considering how many leagues are between the two professors understanding of philosophers and philosophical concepts. Wish the 700k views on that video went here instead.

[@gerardo49078]

Existentialism also exist in the manner of psychology, which is where Peterson excels. However, philosophical and psychological existentialism do not really differ greatly. The roots remain the same

[@alfredhitchcock45]

What life means What it’s all about What is the point of existing Alienation from the world as a whole Stranger in the world Absurdity Lack of meaning It has whatever meaning you give Humans are radically free Existence precedes essence

[@santillanmusic]

If I only had these types of Teachers as a kid...

[@3dprintertrainer204]

Brilliant Daniek Truly Talented speaker!! However the existential crisis in the room is the chair squeeking does it show that others aren't aware truly of their free will and that humans are unconscious beings squeaking in an auditorium, surely if not we they would be aware of the impact of their self awareness to be present and SIT bloody still!! Who am I really I am a squeaker!!!

[@freedomworks3976]

One of the best talks on existencialism I've heard. Short quick right to the point.

[@machinamonsterproductions9230]

Didn't Camus himself say he wasn't an existentialist? I was always thought that he believed life is inherently devoid of any meaning, and trying to give it meaning would fail, and that the existentialists thought that meaning in life had to be assigned by the self, not any outside entity.

[@nolongeranihilist1659]

MachinaMonsterProductions Camus called himself a nihilist.

[@Paul-js6iw]

This man has found his purpose!

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

Heraclitus, the stoics and Epicurus all offered individual freedom as an alternative to superstitious adherence to an imaginary absolute enforced by personified deities. Epicurus in particular suggested a morality grounded in common sense and self preservation rather than in blindly following tradition or living in fear of the Gods. I like Sartre a lot, but there wasn't anything particularly original about him. Every generation wants to try to come up with something new, and Sartre seems to have convinced many that he had. Good for him.

[@MrMarktrumble]

Ironically, I passionately choose rationalism, behaviouristically act rationally, train for logic with litanies of examples, and, acting like a pretentious French waiter become a stoic and a contemplative, creating the essence that Aristotle would assert was given before I was born as my final end. Good lecture. Thank you.

[@paladinsorcerer67]

Do we have the ability to define our own essence, if we don't have free will? I had a dream when I was young that before I was born, I was given the choice of the person I would be born as, so that my life has meaning because I must have choosen this particular life for a reason, which counters what Heidigger is saying. I think that we feel alienated existentially when we haven't yet chosen the meaning of our life, or when we feel lonely.

[@meghachoudhary5016]

Indebted to you professor..amazing lectures. Thank you so much!

[@upchhaya]

After reading the 'Idiot', i have reached to the previous lacture after some googling and then to here. Very useful to make head and tail of Dostoevsky and some of my personal questions regarding being and nothingness.

[@mrloop1530]

Great lecture and lecturer. Only disappointment was that there wasn't quite enough squeaking of that student's chair.

[@xDemonTech]

Thanks! You're a fun teacher.

[@jamieryan4666]

Love your passion for this!

[@saidabed4675]

I paused to go watch Henri the cat ^^

[@kallianpublico7517]

Physicists have a term called "initial conditions". Given the initial conditions of an object one can calculate the motion of the object using a formula based on the external forces acting on the object. One can "predict" the object's path or trajectory. Existentialism seems to me the realization that only living beings can contemplate. The realization of being free to choose against or apart from the external forces acting upon it. Such choice is petrifying. To contemplate any sort of doing is to put one's life in mortal and moral peril. Why? Because there is no guide beside one's own judgement: there is no comfort of external corroboration of right. No comfort in the fruition of one's effort. One can never know if one's choice will ever bear fruit or lead to failure and futility. If one's choice was right. Existentialism is this confrontation with futility; and the decision on what to do next is Absurdism, Sieze the Day, will to power, becoming a robot like Sisyphus: joining the "rat race", becoming a worthless, unknown, failed, artist, and so on. The strategy of following the prodding of the external forces of gravity and wind speed and direction has a final state that is predictable and comforting. Leaving gravity and wind behind has no comfortable and predictable fate. This fear is like stepping into deep water, one may not be physically or mentally fit to survive.

[@forestpepper3621]

Normal people cannot assign a meaning of their choosing to Life (as Camus argues), because biology overrides our wishes. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you can try to say to yourself: "This is exactly what I wanted, and it gives me great joy." In reality, you will feel intense pain in your shattered thumb, and no amount of philosophy will change the fact that you just want the pain to stop. Some people have a genetic defect so that they feel no physical pain; but I would think they can still experience emotional pain, like grief or fear, and the same argument would apply to such people. It is unrealistic to think that a person can just "choose" to be happy with whatever circumstances he must endure.

[@bigdoggs6629]

Great Great job

[@Music_Creativity_Science]

Great videos. From my point of view: 1. One can't find a real deep meaning with human life without believing in a creational force of the universe of some kind, with an intent. A pure random/accidental event has no purpose, like dropping an egg on the floor by mistake. It's not a religious view, it's an existential view. Why would a species evolve in such a way, that it becomes able to think about why it exists, and come to a conclusion that its existence has no basic purpose ? That it might as well have been the case that the universe existed for a zillion years, then ceased to exist, and nothing happened more than creation of time, space, matter and energy. It doesn't make sense, it is instead demoralizing with such thoughts/theories (and not beneficial for survival, goes against the basic principle of evolution). . 2. The basic purpose for modern humans, is to aim for immortality as a species, it has been the meaning all the time with our evolution process, an absolute truth independent of history of mankind, from my point of view. The way to do that now is to view human thought, creativity, visions, technology and energy development as forces in the solar system. One can say/think "I don't care so much, I just want to have fun in my personal life until I die" etc, but deep inside I don't think happiness can be found without trying to contribute with thoughts, knowledge and wisdom concerning how the human species possibly can survive "forever" (as long as the sun shines). That is what philosophy/science naturally should try to do. It will never find the complete answers, because the universe is not 100% logical (but it is reasonable) and can not be explained/described purely in mathematical terms. But science can hopefully find out enough to make this ultimate goal reality with a high probability (for example develop star power, fusion). And that is when I think the modern human species will "find itself", become a harmonic species, in sync with what it actually is. . A non-animalistic view on mankind also excludes just a "logical animal" robotic/mathematical view. For example, first reason about X, it makes sense. Then try to be logical about it, and you get absurdity. X: "this statement is not possible to prove" . If X would be true, then it obviously results in a contradiction. Because X can't be true (a fact), and impossible to prove at the same time. . If X would be false, then it also results in a contradiction. Because then X becomes possible to prove, and then X must be true (a fact). . Kurt Godel, burned holes in pure logic with his incompleteness theorems, and it will never recover (being 100% consistent). Humans are uniquely creative and are able to imagine and discover more and more of the totally unknown (Einstein for example), without reaching a full logical understanding. Robots are "only" logical/mathematical and can deduce from what they have been programmed with (which was known at that time). Basically, a robot can become a "logical animal", which can't think in the future in a flexible way, and can't discover/imagine more and more about the totally unknown.

[@sdianaj]

Talents, young artists, music charts

[@maxmusti8101]

12:30 Feeling alienated is nothing one can decide. "Why should..?" could thus only mean for what purpose. It is for the purpose of making situations important. One thinks about them more often.

[@pabloroblesgastelum7013]

any thoughts on Jaden Smith?

[@williamosinski1082]

Great lecture! Thank you!

[@reverendsteveii]

"I now have every discworld book." Sub'd

[@Crazeyfor67]

Explain what you mean please. Isn't Discworld a sci-fi book?

[@kigormley]

Doesn't Alienation manifest itself from birth, awareness of it developing from early infancy, side by side with self awareness? How the individual copes with this contributing to his/her development as a person through life?

[@queenethedoziem5473]

Can anyone suggest a good journal or book where I can research on this existentialism for my final research work?

[@dearservice1998]

"Nobody else is going to put any chains on me!" 👀 The rental market