The Philosophy of Existential Despair

[@Eternalised]

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Unfortunately, tragedy really is one of the only things that makes you look at things with the fondness you should've felt more of in the first place.

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[@gz6148]

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London.

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To merely exist, is misery. To live life, on the other hand, is lovely! ❤️🔥💯🤔🌹

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A life affirming hell yeah to everyday

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Live how? Being held down by a shitty retail job limits us

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Hm I heard this one in the new James Bond movie. Thanks for the reminder!

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Your videos have been a great tool to help me fall asleep for the past month or so. Your voice has the perfect tone for this. Of course also the philosophical content is impressive. Thanka

[@imadeyoureadthis1]

I was angry. Searched the word despair. Saw some videos, still felt angry. I thought this video was going to be the same. But it had 3 things that made me feel better. 1. Soothing voice 2. Relaxing music 3. Ability to make me daydream of the past because i remembered the feeling of reading some of the works of these writers. If i was in a room with my younger and older selfs, i wonder what present me would learn.

[@TouchOfMaddness]

I searched philosophy of death. After I typed the d and e despair appeared in the search

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[@ArchitectureUprisingIndia]

I understand this, and I observe people running everywhere for little things which don't really make difference when it comes to death...and life.... I am detatched from all this or at least I try to but then again I'm brought back.......

[@sean..L]

Despair is the spectre of our time and I think most people who live modern lives live in despair.

[@lizc6393]

Well said.

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I was thinking so many things as you explore with this video, recently I´m writing and trying to find the courage to start my own channel. You are one of my biggest sources of inspiration. Thank you

[@braintrosh1873]

Somehow, I know this is about to feel personal.

[@Anhedonxia]

Exactly like a message of god from or something

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This is so well structured that could easily be translated into a movie script The ending is superb

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This is deeply beautiful!

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Thank you!

[@johnedelmann6711]

Having meaning and fulfilment in your life can bring great happiness.

[@jonathanwoodvincent]

I don't think Kant said anything like "religion is within the limits of reason alone." His first critique's aimed, among many other things, to detail the limits of reason (he even says something like "bring reason to trial") and to "make room for faith"

[@williamtell5365]

Kansas view on religion was exactly the opposite, that God was utterly unknowable and unprovoked by human reason. That's basic to Kantian thought.

[@jonathanwoodvincent]

@@williamtell5365 exactly

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Just beautiful made me shed a tear .. really opened my soul up thank u

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This video is great and got me into philosophy .

[@TheExceptionalState]

Thank you for this sublime video. "The nightmare of Godlessness and unbelief". What a beautiful and tragic way to describe the plight of many modern people. Also brings to mind Goya's famous sketch "El sueño de la razon produce monstruos".

[@FelixSkura]

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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Thank you 🙏

[@ignassiaulys9160]

im afraid to fight a lion

[@bettermanchannel770]

@@ignassiaulys9160 start with a cat

[@satnamo]

@@ignassiaulys9160 I turn my back on a lion and walk away from a lion in my dream.

[@wendelsbruckenheimer4470]

Oh thanks I no longer feel despair. V uplifting.

[@paradoxward2533]

the ultimate tragedy of my existence is that I cannot get away from this sort of thing. I am obsessed with being 'awake'; and I am sickened by it, and long to sleep..., and cannot.., and so forth and so on.....,

[@yukinguye]

Thank you for your know🍎

[@bettermanchannel770]

Sometimes we must surrender the higher for the practical, to be lost in thought that is of no use is just as bad as being ignorant

[@humanity600]

Why must you surrender either of these though? Plenty of historical pioneers have contemplated both.

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[@BeanTownStevo]

1:21 hits different when you're about to fall asleep but you see a glimpse of this

[@HorizonXD]

Thanks, I did enjoy!

[@ws16-19]

You only value something after you become aware of that losing that something is a possibility, same goes for anything in existence if not existence itself.

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Truly great video

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Great videos..thankyou.

[@danielelagha6755]

really enjoyed this piece. thank you. could you name the artworks that you used? interested in learning more about them.

[@lateonaname]

I appreciate this and your channel :) I recently was looking into Spinoza and was feeling completely faulted as a rationalist- yes it’s logical and makes sense but it isnt ‘who’ we all can be and while it claims to encompass all of nature - we are human and subject to other humans who can’t account for logically causally all the time

[@ac-uk6hs]

Amazing...

[@stunningkruger]

we despair at the thought that we might one day disappear

[@satnamo]

Man’s despair is god’s opportunity because man cannot survive without a ray of hope. It is out of das deepest depth that das highest must come to his height

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Thank you for sharing. I enjoy your videos very much. 🙂👍

[@satnamo]

Me too

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Plz make videos on Bertarnd Russel.

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So very interesting.

[@SombraDelPiso]

I really enjoy your explanations about these different aspects of reality and the point of view from the writers. Tell me, where do you get the pictures from? The illustrations are great!

[@lukaradojevic7195]

Existentialism, fear of death and recoginzing suffering and despeair as fundamental components of life, is just begining of life itslef..

[@mikeoglen6848]

Who said that?

[@bettermanchannel770]

I like overcoming the fear of death.

[@lukaradojevic7195]

@@mikeoglen6848 i'm not aweare of anybody that put it that way,i'm sure that somebody did in one way or another,but i was writing what came to my mind at the moment..

[@satnamo]

Without life There is no death because without death There is no life. Death is de origin of life since gold is born out of supernovae

[@-____________873]

Nice work

[@theconnectorluis]

Soon you will have forgotten all things, and soon all things will have forgotten you.

[@PhilosophyToons]

Nice vid, I've always seen Shestov at the bookstore but never really knew what he was about.

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Very good.

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[@svetlana4121]

can someone please tell me what the piano music playing in the beginning is called?

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I first stumbled over his name in Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus. Always wanted to know what is his philosophy was like, but his books in German are extremely expensive. Thank you.

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Could you do one on the psychology of Accelerationism with emphasis on the early writings of nick land

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10:33 paino music name please?

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The music piece is called Stillstand by Myuu😊.

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I’m truly ready to go

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Anyone know the name of the painting 9:20?? *Soldier on the white horse in front of tombstone*

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Have you dived into Dostoevsky yet?

[@satnamo]

@@eudaimonia9260 yes

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@@eudaimonia9260 Dostoevsky seems awesome, got a list I wanna read of his works

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@@MrRubgov He's become my favorite author over the last year. Started with Notes from underground and loved it so much I binged all his major novels and am currently reading Brothers Karamazov!

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@@eudaimonia9260 i, too, would like to read notes From The underground.

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Shestov is a very interesting thinker. Greetings from Germany

[@satnamo]

Chao

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Where is He?

Do Mainlander's Philosophy of Redemption!

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[@silent_stalker3687]

There’s one guy I heard referenced but I can’t find where… He wrote a book “what is philosophy” and I can’t recall him 100%, if you know him or if you have a video of him I’d like to grab it

[@satnamo]

Filosofy is das love of wisdoms

[@charlesburns3946]

Maybe Pythagoras?

[@luciferangelica4827]

the philosopher that fell into a well? was that already extant when aristophanes wrote clouds?

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Your videos are always a welcome surprise. Do you have any advice for an aspiring philosophy KZbinr?

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I've wanted to ask the same thing

[@satnamo]

Just do it Thomas

[@bernardjackson6594]

"The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person." Ecclesiastes 12:13

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deep

[@mikaeljotsa2226]

Please what is the name of the painting on the thumbnail?

[@orca9781]

Jan Matejko's Stanczyk I studied that piece to death and was actively looking for your comment

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With money we are dragons, without we are bugs.

[@heather-celestephoenix4125]

My philosophy is pretty simple the meaning of life is to live. The center of the universe is life the purpose of life is to lead the next generation into a greater and better existence experience than what was available for ourselves this is an act of selflessness and selfishness.

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[@amaru4029]

The Universe asks nothing of us.

[@satnamo]

What does das universe demand of me ? You shall become what you are; You are a spark of das infinite that is functioning through this body+mind-complex.

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[@titaniumwolfdad]

I wonder, if anyone even pauses to look at the philosophical aspect of life, if they have not experienced near death ☠️

[@mega4171]

Is irrational belief in god / faith really the best way to pull ourselves out of despair? I find that difficult to believe now in the 21st century

[@nickhowatson4745]

remember the philosophy is old so it really doesn't apply today like it did back then

[@mega4171]

@@nickhowatson4745 Idk where in the world you live but where i'm at it's roughly over half of people that believe literally in a personal god and are convinced that there is an eternity of either heaven and/or hell. This allows for a type of misbehavior that needs more pushback and less positive reinforcement

[@batuayde2074]

Knowing gods existence is rational.

[@mega4171]

@@batuayde2074 yeah a deistic god perhaps. But a particular theistic god created by illiterate ancient peasants? Not so much. 😁

[@batuayde2074]

@@mega4171 so you accept a necessary being but reject that it has a role in what it caused including revelation.

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The Sleeper Must Awaken

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[@andredelacerdasantos4439]

It would be better, in my opinion, if you displayed the artwork in the video in its entirety, rather than having them cropped and moving around the screen; I find so for several reasons: 1. When viewing these kinds of videos, I often take screenshots to share with my friends. It's hard to know the names of all the paintings to search for. 2. Currently, there is no way for the viewer to see the full picture (literally). When viewing, The thought of "I can't see this whole painting and I wish I could" often distracts me from what is being presented. 3. The motion of the paintings has the flaw of consuming a bit of the viewers attention, and therefore, distracts them from the point you try to make.

[@satnamo]

Every thing I hear is only an opinion- not the fact. Every I see is only a perspective- Not das truth. Das truth is there is no such thing as discrimination

[@eddierushing5416]

It's a funny thing that when death comes we appreciate everything so much more. Life is a delicate thing that should never be seen as ordinary. I'm fascinated by nature and how we all survive day by day. In America with all the school shootings , there is deep profound void for meaning. The focus is on the weapon but what about the perp. I see the downfall as lack of communication within families and technology that embraces likes for popularity and lack of community as the reason for isolation. Of course there is the argument of toxic masculinity which is complete bullshit. Is the reason for mass killings because God is not in the schools? Nietzsche said once God is dead than the rest is nothing.

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😥

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It's not always like that, you can send them to prison without them knowing how!

[@seismicsurge]

This was beautifully scripted😖

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I wish I'd never been born

[@yukinguye]

Value chanel

[@easter_sunday]

Despair is nothing new. Much of your despair, if it vexed you, is based upon your ego and unfulfilled desires. Craving does indeed create suffering.

[@gv3870]

I admire Shestov for dedicating himself to philosophy, however, I do not agree with him when it comes to the matter of God. Once a person has witnessed death and its occurrence in seconds, in the most absurd, petty way, in the most meaningless manner, there is no chance of her in believing that there is something beyond the cause and effect. Whatever it is, It's here in this World in the concrete fashion.

[@Ghost-vg6iq]

Agreed

[@Mike9201984]

Although someone might become cynical and horrified by the world after witnessing the worst of mankind, how can you be sure the law of cause and effect as it relates to you does not extend beyond one lifetime?

[@andredelacerdasantos4439]

Did he actually write that he believed in an afterlife, though? (Genuine question, I've never read his work) Personally, I didn't get the impression that he necessarily believed in an afterlife from this video alone. Maybe I was distracted for a moment and missed it.

[@gv3870]

@@Mike9201984I don't think he talks about afterlife. But yeah I get your point and no, I don't agree with this circle working after life. What I am talking about is that when we do something, only then the things work. Things do not depend on something metaphysical. If I want to skip death in Covid, I'll have to take care of the precautions and whoever won't, no matter how much she is a good person, she'll die. And if someone says that sometimes miracle happens, it's exactly then that I believe in something called cause and effect. Suppose she helped a person once and that one turned out to be a good doctor and then takes her as priority and saves her who was otherwise dying. This way I believe in something called a circle of life. But haven't we all seen even a cruel person living a better life than many good people? So if this thing doesn't work in the same life, how can we know anything about afterlife? And what's this After Life anyway? Do we have any proof? And also yes we become cynical but it's also in this life that we start appreciating the true goodness only after seeing bad things. That's faith for me. Faith in oneself and in the impact of goodness

[@gv3870]

@@andredelacerdasantos4439 I don't think so. He does talk about faith and spirituality. In something beyond this world that may not make sense to us but brings us peace and goodness.

[@cbv7207]

Stanczyk

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