Notes: 00:00 What I really want is to find the truth which is true for me. Kierkegaard's journals 5:00 Biography of Kierkegaard "the Great Earthquake", "father cursed God at 11 years of age couldn't forget until death at his 70s" 11:00 Relationship with Regina Olsen 16:00 His bibliography/pseudonymous work. Make the reader find the truth himself 18:55 There are three stages: aesthetic, ethical, religious. His book: Either/Or exemplifies The Aesthetic ("A") and the Ethical (Judge Williams). *Aesthetic*: Don Juanism, life of "immediacy", a life of self indulgency and self centered pleasure. "A" develops a rotation method which is an intensive cultivation of amusement rather than extensive (changing the crops instead of using more of the same crop fields). He finds pleasure not in listening to boring philosophical lectures, but in focusing on the lecturer's beads of sweat. 30:18 Section of Either/Or. Diary of the seducer. A disturbing account of "spiritual rape" found by "A" written by a so called Johannes. May reflect Kierkegaard's break with Regina. But most importantly, it is a warning to aesthetes. 35:10 The Ethical (Judge Williams): Traditionalist, marriage, duty. He argues that the aesthete is bound to fall into despair, as he is constantly seeking enjoyment. The ethicist who does not focus on pleasure, but duty, actually receives more pleasure, beating the aesthete in his own game. "Happiness is one of those things that we're much more likely to find if we are not looking for it". Marriage is the ethicist's response to love. One enjoys and loves even more than the aesthete. When one chooses, one chooses absolutely. For choosing one thing, you dismiss all the other possibilities. "A's" Either/Or: Do it or don't do it, you'll regret it. Judge Williams' Either/Or: Aesthetic or Ethical. The latter being best. 46:00 Judge Williams mixed the religous into the ethical stage. Kierkegaard opposes this. Exemplified in his Fear and Trembling (Ethical/Religious stages). The biblical story of Abraham's sacrifice of his son Isaac (who was saved at the last moment by God). In the Ethical, he is a murder. In the Religious, he is the father of faith and knight of faith by virtue of the absurd in believing the impossible, standing in an absolute relation to the absolute "God". A critique of the ethical as it fills all of existence and even the religious sphere. It denies a relationship with God, and being ready to do anything he demands of you. One must choose absolutely to be in one concrete sphere (Aesthetic, Ethical, Religious). Johannes argues that a murderer is not Abraham. Only one who has faith can be approximate to Abraham. Abraham must not hate Isaac as that'd be murder (ethical stage) and not a sacrifice to God, since God wouldn't consider it a sacrifice if he does not care about his son (religious stage). It only converts to sacrifice (not murder) when Abraham loves Isaac very much. It is the Paradox of one's love of God and his son. This is known as the "teleological suspension of the ethical" 57:50 Book: Repetition published along with Fear and Trembling. Explores the theme presented in the latter further. Abraham had faith that he'd get Isaac back, hence the father of faith.
@Uikamamansnsnsnsj2 жыл бұрын
You have your own amazing channel, and you also make time to add value elsewhere through tremendously helpful KZbin comments...🙂 Do you mind me asking, do you like Kierkegaard's work?
@TheKingWhoWins2 жыл бұрын
Big thank you
@lifeofanenfj82887 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, this is truly beautiful. I have recently started to delve back into the philosophical understandings of existentialism and this is the best material I have ever discovered other than the original texts. Job well done 🙏
@kimsherlock89692 жыл бұрын
Soren Kierkegaard was a Bohemian of independent thought . Truth is something We must live. 💯
@RocketKirchner5 жыл бұрын
''God gave me the gift of intellect to destroy the illusion and assumptions of intellectuals '' Kierkegaard
@hanskung32784 жыл бұрын
Is that called a Paradox?
@battragon9 ай бұрын
LOL dumb.
@makeshiftaltruist75307 жыл бұрын
Kierkegaard's commentary on the boorish and greatly perspiring speaker was GOLD!
@abdullahalmubin6 жыл бұрын
cz the speaker is the Ben Hur: Charlton Heston
@gustavogomez73335 жыл бұрын
So deep the thoughts of Soren Kierkegaard.
@alexandrosaiakides45392 жыл бұрын
CHARLTON HEASTON. Charlton Heaston, to the desappointment of many rationalists, is the proper man to narrate a such controvertial subject in Christian theology. He claimed to be gifted, a special man to be allowed to walk on the mount Sina, where the god of the Jew walked, as hemself said in awe. That was the time of making the movie, The Ten Commandments. And that is a matter of psychosis !
@MrFrampo567 ай бұрын
What the fuck are you on about? Freak! Heaston ? Heaston ???
@dysvanlist Жыл бұрын
I used to listen to this when i had working as a cleaner.
@RocketKirchner5 жыл бұрын
according to SK - the leap of faith away from the universal /ethical to the individual standing in absolution relationship to the Absolute liberates the existent individual from the rotation method of temporal pleasure and vain repitition hence moving in process toward the most passionate inwardness that sustains faith .
@agnieszkakrupski9593 жыл бұрын
What na inspiring presentation of Kierkegaard, bravo!!
@Loenthall886 жыл бұрын
An excellent presentation by the great Charlton Heston.
@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz5 жыл бұрын
_peeeee-pul_
@Rico-Suave_11 ай бұрын
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 2:06:20
@drbonesshow12 жыл бұрын
Kierkegaard was full of ironies still his doctor gave him an iron supplement for his iron-poor blood.
@donalhughes98817 жыл бұрын
Shame so few of the 87 people in 2p14 have 'liked' the talk. :-D.
@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz5 жыл бұрын
_Existentialism is made of peeeee-pul!! It's peeeee-pul!!_
@Uikamamansnsnsnsj2 жыл бұрын
Exit stencilism is using tools and graphite pencils to sketch out an escape route from despaaaaaaaaiiiiirrrrrrr, des-paaaaaaaaaaaiiiiirrrrr!
@emmetcraig8289 ай бұрын
Where's the transcript...brilliant.
@hanskung32783 жыл бұрын
Pascal spoke of man's emptiness before Kierkegaard.
@patricks15606 жыл бұрын
Please ensble automatic English captions. Thanks. Hard of hearing guy.
@emmetcraig8289 ай бұрын
...not the library😅
@MrEhbaw5 жыл бұрын
11:20 lmao!!!! Bruh he got rejected hard
@abdullahalmubin6 жыл бұрын
OMG! It's Charlton Heston!!!!!!
@lynnfisher30379 ай бұрын
What does it matter?
@hanskung32784 жыл бұрын
I'd like Kenau Reeves to narrate this.
@satanscrow80164 жыл бұрын
Who wrote this? Heston is the reader, who wrote it?
@তপুরদিনকাল5 жыл бұрын
subtitle pls
@abc-hi6df5 жыл бұрын
P
@Humble_African4 ай бұрын
Who is the narrator?
@IToMoTI8 жыл бұрын
♥ ♥ ♥
@belfastholidaybreaks8414 Жыл бұрын
Grandaddy of Existentialism
@feliciamccarron3002 жыл бұрын
To summit up you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t lol or you will regret it either way... married or never married, to laugh or cry over the world 🌎 etc
@tomjames21222 ай бұрын
God-Abraham-Isaac - love-loyalty test-crazy stuff. SK should have married Regina, 'queen of my heart' as he calls her; and gone house hunting...
@hanskung32784 жыл бұрын
Pascal is the Father of existentialism.
@Uikamamansnsnsnsj2 жыл бұрын
No he isn't. But at least you've discovered your true self.