Kierkegaard's Genius Philosophy of Existentialism

[@ReynaSingh]

Kierkegaard’s reluctance to be considered a philosopher is interesting. It made it impossible to tell if his conclusions were ironic, facetious, serious or poetic

[@rosscampb12]

Hi Reyna I looked at your channel. I was wondering why did you choose Beckett in your channel, what about other writers.

[@AlanPhan128]

TLDR: Kierkegaard's philosophy of existentialism emphasizes individual responsibility, freedom, and the struggle to find meaning in life through faith and personal choices. 1. 00:00 📚 Soren Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, used literature to revolutionize philosophy and addressed the concept of freedom causing anxiety, heavily influenced by Socratic irony. 1.1 Soren Kierkegaard, the first existentialist philosopher, used literature to revolutionize philosophy, became the father of existentialism, and addressed the concept of freedom causing anxiety, with a focus on his life and journey to becoming a philosopher and writer. 1.2 Kierkegaard's philosophy was heavily influenced by Socratic irony, and a single decision at 24 became the most important in his philosophical writings. 2. 02:39 🤔 Kierkegaard's relationship with Regine Olsen and his decision to remain unmarried were transformative in the philosophy of existentialism, reflecting his desire for freedom and struggle with life's purpose. 2.1 Kierkegaard's relationship with Regine Olsen was transformative in the philosophy of existentialism, as he proposed marriage but ultimately broke up with her a year later. 2.2 Kierkegaard's decision to remain unmarried was influenced by his desire for freedom and his struggle with his life's purpose. 3. 04:47 📚 Kierkegaard's existentialism challenges hedonistic love and encourages responsibility and sacrifice for religious conviction. 3.1 Kierkegaard's melancholic personality and rejection of love and marriage led him to focus on writing under different pseudonyms, distancing himself from the romanticism of the 18th century. 3.2 Kierkegaard's existentialism, outlined in his books Either/Or and Fear and Trembling, challenges the pursuit of hedonistic love and encourages taking responsibility and making sacrifices for religious conviction. 4. 06:59 🤔 Kierkegaard's existential philosophy explores the individual's search for god within themselves in response to societal debates on love, marriage, and religious sins. 4.1 Kierkegaard's anxiety over marriage and his writing on love and religious sins led to curiosity about why he, at 30, was not married in the 19th century. 4.2 Kierkegaard's philosophy focused on the individual's search for god within themselves, in response to the debate on the existence of god sparked by Feuerbach's influential book. 5. 09:01 🧠 Kierkegaard's philosophy emphasizes individual responsibility in defining religious convictions and life, while his financial freedom allowed him to write without concern for book sales. 5.1 Kierkegaard's philosophy focuses on the individual's responsibility for defining their own religious convictions and life, rejecting the influence of previous and future generations. 5.2 Kierkegaard's financial freedom from his father's inheritance allowed him to write what he wanted without worrying about book sales. 6. 10:39 🤔 Kierkegaard's philosophy challenges internal views, emphasizes individual responsibility in finding meaning, and seeks to free religion from the church. 6.1 Kierkegaard's indirect communication style, the use of pseudonyms, and obscure references in his writing matched his indecisive personality. 6.2 Kierkegaard's philosophy reflects the confusion and indecisiveness experienced in modernity, with the use of pseudonyms and incoherent arguments to challenge internal views. 6.3 Kierkegaard's existentialism focused on freeing religion from the church and emphasizing individual responsibility in finding god and the meaning of life. 7. 13:50 🧠 Kierkegaard's philosophy explores the conflict between reason, passion, and faith in modernity, advocating for individual responsibility and the liberating power of having faith in a divine power. 7.1 Kierkegaard's philosophy addresses the conflict between reason, passion, and faith in modernity, advocating for individual responsibility and the liberating power of having faith in a divine power. 7.2 Modernity has given us the choice, but our psychology is not ready for it, leading to anxiety and skepticism in decision-making. 8. 15:27 📚 Kierkegaard's leap of faith in God and emphasis on individual choices revolutionized philosophy and influenced existentialist thinkers. 8.1 Kierkegaard's ultimate answer to modern anxiety is a leap of faith in God, which had a significant impact on the Danish church and influenced other writers, making him the first existentialist philosopher. 8.2 Kierkegaard shifted the blame from external forces to individual choices, approaching philosophy from a literary perspective. 8.3 Kierkegaard's philosophy revolves around the idea that individuals have the freedom to make choices in life and must live with the consequences, leading to immense anxiety, and his style of writing was a departure from mainstream philosophy. 8.4 Kierkegaard used pseudonyms and a fiction writing style to present his philosophical ideas, which influenced existentialist philosophers and made philosophy more accessible to ordinary people.

[@MrKoalaburger]

Kierkegaard is my fave thinker. Such a fascinating and perplexing individual. And his writing style, while sometimes difficult and nebulous, has such a personal touch to it that I feel like I'm really peering inside the mind of the guy while reading.

[@ikramghauri9179]

Excellent narration. Thank you for explaining Kierkegaard's viewpoint on existentialism.. .

[@rosscampb12]

Brilliant video. I gained a new deep insight into Kierkegaard from this video. Very well explained and I like the way you incorporate his life into his philosophy as with other videos on the channel eg the one on Jung .

[@TEE19622]

Think not that the persuit of knowledge renders divergence to truth, entropy carries you helplessly toward chaos and death.

[@Sachie465]

“Subjective relations to Christianity” makes sense to us, but it must have been highly controversial back then. I’m looking forward to the discussion of his books.

[@cheri238]

Soren Kierkegaard, first and foremost, he was left family inheritance so he was able to write and I am so grateful that he did something with his time and opportunity to move man forward. Thank you again, Fiction Beast.

[@mintyartsy4346]

just a side note: "church yard" is a direct translation of Kierkegaard (kirke=church, gaard=yard/farm) but doesn't have any real meaning in danish, the proper translation would be graveyard or cemetery.

[@lintaobohan]

"Believe me, as surely as corruption comes from man, salvation comes from woman... for of a hundred men who go astray in the world, ninety-nine are saved by women, and one is saved by an immediate divine grace." - Søren Kierkegaard so our dude just wanna be save by God, just leave him alone.

[@mariannkristiansen6648]

Tusen takk 🕊️

[@someromantic754]

It's annoying how people want to separate Kierkegaard's philosophy from his Christian views and life. The reason he did and believed wrote everything that he did was because of his Christian faith

[@lameduck3105]

Kierkegaard (and Grundtvig) advocated a personal relationship with god rather than having it dictated by theologian scholars to the public. In that sense, Kierkegaard's christianity is a pursuit of personal freedom and belief, and not a faith you have to follow by theologian decrees or interpretation.

[@recuerdos2457]

Does it the same of what we say today that being spiritual but not religious?? Churches are used by scammers these days

[@VicEremita]

Exactly. His indirect communication method was pushing people to search for God within themselves. His whole life was centered on the idea of what it meant to be a Christian, yet this is just a side note in many discussions of his philosophy.

[@santosd6065]

Not convinced Hamlet was written 2 million years ago

[@atiphwyne5609]

Probably three.

[@stanislavstoimenov1729]

A blonde, blue-eyed, 170 cm. tall Nordic goddess -- another GREAT Danish cliché...

[@ChristianSt97]

time to do one on hegel. thank you

[@user-kehakvajbfk78646]

loved!

[@sigvardbjorkman]

Thanks for making this one

[@chahuncoller]

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[@gracefitzgerald2227]

Kierkegaard not only is the father of existentialism but he also sounds profoundly pragmatic.

[@hecstiroiavanblaise7833]

Konten yang sangat bermanfaat

[@lalsenarath]

People always believe in a degrading society, the reason for it is, people don't adhere to religion, simply put, fault is with people! My take on it is, if the religion cannot reform the society, it is not the fault of society, but the religion! We should either reform the religion or discard it. People think religion is absolute and always correct! But time changes everything, man and also religion!

[@MrSzeth]

“Any reformation which is not aware that fundamentally every single individual needs to be reformed is an illusion”

[@idicula1979]

It could be man inexhaustible and unceasing search for meaning created god, it created his structure. The search is noble till his very structure is his exhaust and his ceasing.

[@jamescareyyatesIII]

It's fashionable to call K. an existentialist, but where is the beef for this claim? Of course, Augustine is called a proto existentialist, too, by fashionable academics. The day is near when Jesus will be named the first existentialist. It seems neurotic and existentialist are easily confused.

[@MrKoalaburger]

Tbh the real first existentialist was Enhuduanna

[@jamescareyyatesIII]

@@MrKoalaburger Like the hammer who only sees the nails, the existentialist only sees existentialism.

[@thejils1669]

The very first existentialist was the first human that made fire. Fire=Survival!

[@stephendouglas4870]

He was Christian, a Protestant, and it seems that he is read in a slanted way by those attracted to Existentialism. Similarly, Dostoyevsky is misread by western Europeans who do not understand his discourse.

[@jasonrose6288]

​@@stephendouglas4870How do you understand it differently?

[@raystargazer7468]

Today I learned that Hegel was a big dude.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

WHY DO I FEEL THAT LIFE IS MEANINGLESS AND EMPTY"" "The word "meaning" is irrelevant to life. Life is neither meaningful nor meaningless. But for centuries man's mind has been conditioned to believe that life has great meaning. All that meaning was arbitrary. Hence only in this century, for the first time in the whole history of man, has the question, "What is the meaning of life?" become one of the most important, because all old lies are exposed. Life was meaningful with a God. Life was meaningful with a life beyond death. Life was meaningful because the churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, were continuously hammering the idea in man's mind. A certain maturity has come to man, not to all, but to a very small minority. I would like you to remember five significant names. First is Soren Kierkegaard. He was the first man who raised this question and was condemned universally, because even to raise the question created suspicion in people. Nobody had dared, ever, to ask, What is the meaning of life? Even the atheists who had denied God, who had denied the afterlife, who had denied the existence of the soul - even they had never asked what the meaning of life is. They said, Eat, drink and be merry - that is the meaning of life." It was clear to them that these joys - "eat, drink, be merry" - were what life is all about. But Soren Kierkegaard went very deeply into the question. He created, unknowingly, a movement: existentialism. Then followed the four other names: Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, and the last but not the least important - in fact the most important - Jean-Paul Sartre. These five people went on hammering on the whole intelligentsia of the world: that life is meaningless. Now, anybody who has some kind of intelligence is bound to come across this question, and he has to find some way to encounter it. I do not agree with these five great philosophers, but I give them the respect that they deserve. They were courageous, because once you take meaning out of life, religion disappears, because religion up to now has been nothing but an effort to give meaning to your life: to fill it so that you don't feel empty; to surround you with God and angels so that you don't feel lonely.... You have not been going to the church, the synagogue, and the temple without any reason .For thousands of years man has not been bowing down to the priests without any reason. He was gaining something. Of course they were exploiting him, but even in their exploitation man was finding a certain consolation. He was not alone, he was being looked after. Life was not futile, it had tremendous meaning, spiritual, esoteric, profound... so high and so deep that your intellect could not comprehend it. Still the majority of people, ninety-nine percent, are not bothered by the question. How can they be bothered? They easily find consolation from the dead past. To them it is not a dead past .I am not in favor of all these five "existentialists" - in quotes - because I am not even ready to call them existentialists. Kierkegaard never really lived, or if you call his life, life, then it was worse than death. He came out of his house only once a month, and the house was not much, just a small room. His father, seeing that his son seemed to be a little crazy - continuously reading and writing - tried to read his books, and threw them away because he could not manage to figure out what Kierkegaard wanted to say. And he goes on and on about nothing, much ado about nothing. Kierkegaard never got married. One foolish woman was in love with him... must have been foolish, because he was an ugly man in the first place, and a strange type, eccentric, who lived in the darkness of his room. Once a month he had to go out because his father, before he died, had put money in the post office and made an arrangement that every month Kierkegaard could draw a certain amount. He knew that Kierkegaard was not going to earn any money; he would simply die in his room, so his father sold everything and deposited it in the post office. That's why Kierkegaard had to go out once every month; the first day of the month he would go out. He lived in Copenhagen, and the whole town waited because it was a rare opportunity - Kierkegaard coming out of his room. The children used to follow him to the post office; it was almost a procession. And he had written a book, EITHER OR, which had just been published and that had become his nickname in Copenhagen. So the children would be shouting "either-or" - that was his real name to them - "Either-or is going to the post office!" It was a great insight on the part of the children to name this man Either-or, because he was exactly that. That's why he could not marry the woman, because he continued to think: either-or. All the favorable points for marriage, and all the unfavorable points for marriage all balanced out. He could not decide. The woman waited for three years, but he said, "Forgive me, I cannot decide. It is still either-or." Now, this man, who had never loved, who had not a single friend, who had not in any way contacted nature, who never communed in any way with existence.... If he feels life is meaningless, no wonder - it has to be meaningless. But he is projecting his feeling of meaninglessness on everybody. And then came these four other so-called existentialists. I am calling them so-called because they had no communion with existence at all. The only way to have communion with existence is silence; and they didn't know the language of silence - how could they commune with existence? So what were they doing? They were exposing the lie that the religious people have imposed on humanity." From a talk by Osho

[@recuerdos2457]

Like many philosophers had said, being alone is freedom, you have to understand not everyone agrees to live up the social standard that created by someone else. He didn’t get married was indeed his decision even thought you think the decision should have been married. I see his meaning in life, he s living for himself, his own way to do what he enjoyed without worrying if you accepted him or not. He s living a different life from what you could imagine, but he was living his forwarded life and was productive in his own way. Life is about experience, do not expect everybody cares what you experienced, same as what you don’t care what Kierkegaard had experienced… just sayin

[@RawanShenasi]

I love your content, and I listen to most of your videos, sometimes, multiple times, but one thing that bugs me as a woman is your frequent mentioning in a few videos about men and their sperm being the reason why they can't remain faithful. It is very deterministic as if they have no choice and biology to be blamed. If so, what do you think of women who are not faithful, even if low in numbers, remember we only got one egg :)... so?

[@Fiction_Beast]

Purely from biological perspective women want to secure the best sperm so women cheat with a man who’s usually better than their current partner. If you one egg to sell you want the best or highest bidder. Of course human society/ religion also plays a role in limiting the freedom for men to sleep around too much and women keep climbing up the partner tree.

[@RawanShenasi]

@@Fiction_Beast In other words, you are still sticking to the biological explanation only :) It is sociological too, men are "allowed" do things and reinforced by society. Take the word "Slut" when used for women it has negative connotation and when, occasionally, used by men has positive connotation, almost means conquering or "bagging" as they say. Therefore, it becomes psychological/rationalization for men to THINK they can sleep around because biologically they are wired so. In short, it may have biological basis, but sociologically/culturally they are enabled to do so- nature vs nurture. There is also variation among men, some won't do it at all without the strain of religion or culture, what would biology say in this case? Low sperm count? Hehe Anyhow, I love your content, please make more stuff on Persian literature as Farsi/Dari is quite rich in philosophy. Also, I wonder if you explore religious philosophies? I don't see it in your play list, but if you do, it would be great to hear your take on Sufism specially the work of Idris Shah and Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan or anybody else. There is a lot of storytelling in Sufism and it would be nice to hear your observations. Keep up the good work!

[@maximilyen]

He was a genius in his existentialist views but a stupid in putting god in his philisophy.

[@MrKoalaburger]

Not stupid, you just disagree with his solution to the existential problem.

[@maximilyen]

@@MrKoalaburger why stupid? Because god does not exist.God cannot solve our problems in this world, on the contrary he is creating more problems.

[@isaacisaac1130]

Everything in his philosophy revolved around God, so this statement of yours is rather stupid.

[@maximilyen]

@@isaacisaac1130 no everything did not revolve around god, do you know sophists? They lived in 400 BC. And they said , " Don't fool the people with gods, because they do not exist."

[@isaacisaac1130]

@@maximilyen I said "His" philosophy, you are on the wrong video.