Kierkegaard Philosophy in 9 Minutes - The Father of Existentialism

[@ShamoaKrasieski-xm4ze]

Kierkegaard has become my favorite philosopher upon learning more deeply about his ideas and teachings.

[@kallianpublico7517]

What is the difference between existentialism and individualism? Does the answer lie in how one comes to accept or "reckon" with ignorance? Whether it presents itself as a mental or physical barrier? If it is a mental barrier then ethics might help guide, if you have a good memory. If it is a physical barrier, then fatigue should be a trusted warning signal, if your constitution is sound. Training the memory and physical exercise, that's all there is to it. Like brushing your teeth, you don't see the benefits when you're young but eventually you reap the rewards.

[@Dr.DaveRobbo2407]

Kierkegaard partly inspired my song, The Existentialist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h53dZ3WJf5aplZI Enjoy!

[@94shaco]

"Good job man!" I lose it. ty Ben, amazing content as always

[@eaae6380]

Thanks for the video, good job in explaining complex ideas of Kierkegaard using simple terms.

[@TannerPaladino]

Thank you for continual uploads! Quality and compact content! Cheers 🍻

[@adamlewis5459]

Helpful video and well presented. Thank you.

[@ellenjayne5573]

love your videos! thanks for compiling such a great intro to kierkegaard

[@TheFleshPrevails]

Love your stuff! Really makes it easy to follow!

[@Phil99470]

Thank you Ben. Of all the philosophers, SK seems to home in on most on who I am, especially his ideas on subjective truth.

[@stevehenderson9154]

Cuts thru the haze and mystery of so many of the incomprehensible philosophers I've read. many thanks

[@ripelodeon138]

Very well articulated and great information. Kierkegaard is the OG

[@klegios]

Any recomendation to start understanding kierkegaard more? i start reading kierkegaard with "Either/ Or" but i find it very complex at times, so is quite difficult to understand (sorry if my writting is kind of bad, but this is not my native language)

[@ralfrecknagel4760]

Klegios ... to put it in a nutshell, Kierkegaard had really funny enlightening new considerations about individuality and freedom, the deeper sense of happiness, despair and anxiety ... reflecting all bizarre personal circumstances. I assume, it's helpful to read Wittgensteins Tractatus logico-philosophicus before, or essays from Theodor W Adorno before, critizing less mindful use of language and selfish useless human culture. Kierkegaard was far ahead of his time.

[@MAX-tw3qz]

I love Kierkegaard, his journals took me on a journey of learning I still pursue. However, my own intellect struggles much to comprehend.

[@AlmightyAtlas]

I have been studying for my literature theory and criticism course in the college , the video has helped me greatly. "Good Job Man " ✌️

[@oreocarlton3343]

"Free indeed" made the best video on K in youtube, one of the few who understands him instinctually

[@natek3954]

Thank you making this!!

[@johnnysalter7072]

Thank you, very helpful. What translation would you recommend? What book to read first?

[@walacenogueiraobeid859]

Thank you very much for posting this video.

[@melihsoykan1820]

Great vid! Thanks for your effort

[@cutlerrox06]

Hey Ben, I'd love to see a very in depth video from you some time. Like one that was an hour long? I enjoy the shorter videos, but I think you might really make an impressive video with more screentime

[@wewatchmovies4446]

Thank you for the info sir

[@valen5567]

great content!

[@12q8]

Can you make a video about consciousness and the split brain experiment and its implications on consciousness? I always wondered whether we are alone in our minds, as in what if what we call our consciousness is only part of the brain, and not its entirety which the split brain experiment kinda hints. It feels to me that I am only partially in control of my brain, and the rest of the brain seems to be subservient to that part. But what if it was the other way around? Or maybe I am second in command without knowing it?

[@jakelamaota2373]

I think the disagreement with Kierkegaard that you mentioned at the end of the video mostly comes from egos and closed minds. Gods word is universal, not just relating to Christianity but seemingly to every religions path to enlightenment. A complete letting go of any control that you think you might have in the world...not saying that you shouldn’t try in life but true freedom comes from knowing that this isn’t your world to control but instead having faith and respect for the forces that did create it.

[@konyvnyelv.]

Kierkegaard is a fanatic who would have approved burning witches if he lived few centuries before

[@d.esanchez3351]

@@konyvnyelv. Well, atheist shot and burned many priest in the last century so... I dont think its about "religiosity" that people get intense.

[@DyarContreras]

@@d.esanchez3351As an atheist myself, I agree with your comment. There are good and evil people in every religious and philosophical community....atheists are not “off the hook” when it comes to this fact of life. Unfortunately some atheists are smug enough to foolishly believe that their lack of faith is somehow a “superpower,” that makes them inherently superior, or better than religious folks.... As an atheist who used to believe in garbage ideas like that, I am glad that I eventually decided to take a more moderate approach, and listen to the words of philosophers like Soren Kierkegaard. While I strongly disagree with his very specific, and logically unprovable idea that says everyone needs to have a relationship with the Christian god, I still think that Kierkegaard had valuable things to say on other topics.

[@abelwritesmusic]

I hope you don't believe that Christianity's values are seen in other religions' paths to enlightenment because you think Christianity is objectively better than many other religions. Christianity's good elements are good in themselves regardless of the validity of the bold cosmological claims of religion. Do the gods love the good because it is good or is the good good because the gods love it? --remember your Plato. Christianity is partially good because some of its elements are good and not because it is good as a whole because it isn't.

[@unfluster]

Great video!

[@drbonesshow1]

Kierkegaard's Cookbook was titled: From the Frying Pan to the Fire.

[@Dr.DaveRobbo2407]

Kierkegaard partly inspired my song, The Existentialist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h53dZ3WJf5aplZI Enjoy!

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 9:10

[@calvingrondahl1011]

Thank you Ben 🖖

[@NulJern]

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor”

[@bryanvillagran3972]

thank you. subscribed.

[@Music_Creativity_Science]

Yepp, it's important that we exist, and continue to do it. Philosophical anthropology is an incredibly interesting topic imo. In my COMMUNITY section: "The human evolution process, an essay with modern philosophical anthropology as a basis" I reflect on the modern human species and its relation to energy transformation and space exploration. My basic question is, should the modern human species still be called an animal, or is it now (soon) so different concerning its behaviour that it doesn't make sense anymore ? An animal has a brain mainly to control its body functions, a modern human is more and more developing towards a brain in focus which needs a body to survive, air and food. This brain is constructed to not accept total randomness and luck for surviving in the solar system, it can by transforming energy (then being able to deflect medium sized asteroids, survive in severe ice ages etc) and spreading out in the star system, willfully affect its own probability for survival. Then it has abandoned the main principle animal world, randomness and luck concerning survival in the long run. There can't, philosophically, be any greater difference than exist or not.

[@cailinslowik1136]

love this man because of how he influenced Camus

[@scottalexander4224]

Not all philosophers and people in academia disagree with Kierkegaard's religious beliefs/conclusions.

[@johnm.castillo3163]

Liked and favorite d! Thanks!

[@niceee0397]

What is his contributions in philosophy

[@banjoplayer1957]

I thought Kierkegaard separated from Olsen because he could not capture the same passion with her if he chose to marry her -> things would become monotonous. Am I mistaken?

[@OooooooooiiiiiooooooooooO]

Thank you

[@martinwarner1178]

Liked it..alot. Peace be unto you. Q. Who is your favourite?

[@herrweiss2580]

a lot

[@satnamo]

De knight of faith is a dancer with high elevation.

[@Stephen-zq2wf]

With the Creation of the Heavens & Earth together with the Creation of Man & Woman … God Set into Motion a “Grand Experiment”. God - Started by giving Each of Us > Freedom - of - Will… Free Will of “Personal” Choice. He then, Set Before Us … the Rules by Which He “Asked / Suggested” Us to Live By i.e. 10 Commandments and his Teachings. He then said .. Here are my Requests .. In “Our”, Grand Experiment i.e. Yours & Mine… You can Do with Your Lives as You “Free Will” Wish / Choose. But “Know This” … That Your - Eternal Life - will be Decided Not by Me, But by “Your Own Actions” in my Grand Experiment. You / The Basis of Your Eternal Life, Will be Judged … > Not Only On What You have Done > But Also, By What You have Failed to Do ! In the End, the “Free Will” Choice is “Yours” !

[@archieg8009]

Religion though? Why? Isn't that just following the herd too? I must not be understanding this correctly.

[@probmcgee]

To SK most “religious” people weren’t actually religious. He believed true religion, faith in the christian god, was the ultimate path to self-hood

[@Caligulashorse1453]

No because what he’s pointing to is a very personal relationship with the God of the universe it’s a very protestant theological thought. The idea is that the church is the people of God and that it’s up to the individual to interact with God though Jesus Christ. I’m going to be 100% honest with you I feel that because you view religion as merely following the herd you don’t have a deep understanding of religion especially Christianity I would encourage you to study theology if you get the chance especially people like Saint Augustine or Saint Jerome. Jon-ORU major in theology, minor in church history undergrad

[@108farley]

Moo!

[@laurenceschwartz8606]

The hidden inwardness.

[@MostlyPonies1]

Faith in the absurd simply means ceasing to question. If the ethical can be superseded by God on a whim then the ethical is meaningless, and only the arbitrary/contradictory will of God is what you're supposed to follow. No thanks.

[@tom-kz9pb]

No one who ever gave the time of day to religious B.S. like Kierkegaard could ever really be the "father of existentialism", because a large part of what existentialism is all about is the struggle of humans beings to deal with a world that is at heart meaningless, and therefore also godless, a situation that seems to make almost sadistic comedy and absurdity out of the most unbearable human pain.

[@surenderkumarohlayan6900]

You are too fast to follow you 😢

[@scotthullinger4684]

Based on some statements made here by Kierkegaard .. he surely seems self contradictory. Hmm ... such as having freedom actually produces more anxiety? Seriously? Uh, NO. Absolutely not. That's an asinine conclusion. If anything, then anxiety is produced ONLY when your personal freedom is limited.