How to overcome despair

[@julianphilosophy]

The book is titled “Hope without Optimism” by Terry Eagleton. Thank you for watching. If you’d like to support my work please consider becoming a patron. Thank you. www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy

[@Phone_device]

Thank you Julian. Your word shines on me when I am in deep darkness.

[@bemodular9348]

Between the genocide happening in Palestine and having a personally shit 2024 I really needed to hear this to kick off the new year. Thank you Julian for your thoughtful and nuanced philosophical explorations it’s oh so very much needed in times like these… salute from the Bronx!🫡

[@julianphilosophy]

Here’s to a hopeful 2025 🫡

[@unusualpond]

Very nice Video. This idea of having to plumb the absolute depths of something before it changes into its opposite is found in many areas that I work in as a psychotherapist. It is in Jung’s Enantiodromia, in Carl Rogers famous dictum “when I accept myself as I am - then I change” and in the first step of the twelve step programs. Powerful stuff.

[@lederpsta42]

I love your videos, Julian!

[@johnstewart7025]

I heard Eagleton say that accepting death changes it from a dead end to a horizon.

[@ranchytuna1518]

thank you big word man

[@mr-iz8cx]

Yes, we know precisely what we do. Ill order the book. Thank you

[@yazanasad7811]

Choosing hope (where all hope lost) over optimism (base happiness?).

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

*How to overcome despair in 2 words:* Not. Alone.

[@latedinn]

the elites will bury this

[@KoMerdan]

The only dance there is, RAM DASS

[@alexxx4434]

The hope is lacking in the current world

[@ribbrascal]

Gay