10 Life Lessons From Fyodor Dostoevsky (Existentialism)

In this video, we will be talking about 10 life lessons from the philosophy of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky was a 19th century novelist and philosopher and is considered to be one of the first writers to incorporate concepts of what we now know as existentialism.
So with that in mind, here are 10 life lessons from the philosophy of Fyodor Dostoevsky -
01. Excessive self-pride leads to isolation
02. Be better for yourself, not for other people
03. It’s more important to live life, than to think about life
04. Emotional intelligence is as insightful as rationality
05. Love life more than its meaning
06. Be virtuous and just
07. Fight evil with love and compassion
08. Moral freedom is no freedom at all
09. Compassion and love can break alienation
10. Learn to enjoy suffering
I hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope these 10 life lessons from the philosophy of Fyodor Dostoevsky will add value to your life.
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a 19th century novelist and philosopher, considered by many to be one of the most influential authors in all of world literature. Born and raised in Tsarist Russia, Dostoevsky was heavily exposed to the misery and injustice characteristic of his time. Among his more marking experiences, he spent four years in a Siberian labour camp, went through compulsory military service in exile, and had to beg for money while in Western Europe due to his gambling addiction. And yet, despite his first-hand experience of misery and suffering, Dostoevsky remained hopeful and optimistic about what life is. He is considered to be one of the first writers to incorporate concepts of what we now know as existentialism. Dostoevsky’s works revolve around a few major themes like the meaning of life, the constancy of suffering, the divide between rationality and emotion, spirituality, and the various sides of the human condition. Some of his well known novels and essays are Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground. Through his novels and essays, Dostoevsky tried to make sense of the suffering and misery around him, attempting to find meaning and hope even in the bleakest of times. His work represents a deep dive into human suffering, the evil surrounding us, and the problems caused by moral corruption and in each of the universes he created, he gave ways to escape the apparent constant suffering and torment of his characters through moral virtue, love, compassion, and one’s own sense of meaning. His writings were heavily influential for the existentialist current of philosophy, representing sources of inspiration for other consecrated authors like Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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  • @PhilosophiesforLife
    @PhilosophiesforLife Жыл бұрын

    Fyodor Dostoevsky says “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently”. We hope that you enjoyed this video and for more videos to help you find success and happiness using ancient philosophical wisdom, don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.

  • @hiraraton6979

    @hiraraton6979

    Жыл бұрын

    Can you talk about franz kafka

  • @marchowe1629

    @marchowe1629

    Жыл бұрын

    It was okay - neglected to dwell sufficiently on the fact that Dostoyevsky found the panacea to all of life's dilemmas in the Christian faith.

  • @ryanarwood2317

    @ryanarwood2317

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you familiar with Sigma. Frederick Nietzsche ubermensch is Sigma. How can you combine the two. Make a video with both breakdowns

  • @mariejimpowerful

    @mariejimpowerful

    Жыл бұрын

    It takes the emotional intelligence, not only the one from the brain!

  • @omaraboal-azm8705
    @omaraboal-azm8705 Жыл бұрын

    " The mystery of human existence lies not only in staying alive but in finding something to live for " fyodor Dostoevsky

  • @nrs6956
    @nrs6956 Жыл бұрын

    He dealt with timeless problems of life, still relevant today.

  • @jimmyhalperin7792

    @jimmyhalperin7792

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro, nothing has changed in mucho millenia

  • @aslansquotes
    @aslansquotes Жыл бұрын

    *_📌"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky_*

  • @ShannonJacobs0

    @ShannonJacobs0

    Жыл бұрын

    The original business model of KZread stank, but at least the ads were reasonable. New flood of invasive, repetitive, and offensive ads are EVIL. Google is now fully dedicated to doing any evil that seems profitable. And censoring complaints, too.

  • @Madasin_Paine

    @Madasin_Paine

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@ShannonJacobs0 I think a few deciding reasons these ads from Y T exist 1 Encourage people not to watch them and pay for their service beyond selling the clues to their life. The other is to make you hate these companies that advertise and their characters. Also, these ads are there to make us less than human. No doubt Y T somehow uses these ads for psychological research Note that the worst ads are for channels offering intellectual value not valued by TPTB that alter YT AI. Such channels are more likely demonetized. Thus they are like an infestation of a pest to the channel producer. Bottom line. Like 99c store, the lowest low is a revenue stream, when a tiny number is magnified by an enormous nonstop number. Like raindrops flooding rivers. For the asset caste, there inno such thing as too much, only the suicidal genocidal ecocidal NEVER ENOUGH, thus the opposite LIFE Dostoevsky aspired to and teaches, still. He lives! 1 certain physical death isn't enough for human kind. A capacity, a taste for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, a facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. - President Abraham Lincoln By three methods we may learn wisdom. First, by reflection which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is the easiest AND Third, by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. - author unknown Show me a person that hasn't made a mistake, AND I'll show you a person that's never made a decision. - author unknown SO. Surely God would not have created such a being as man . . . to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ~ President Abraham Lincoln Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, AND is determined in its actions by itself alone. - Benedict de Spinoza

  • @paulrichardson2578

    @paulrichardson2578

    11 ай бұрын

    🎉

  • @TommyPickIes

    @TommyPickIes

    8 ай бұрын

    That's profound

  • @djquinn11

    @djquinn11

    2 ай бұрын

    Your post was awesome, you must be a very wise and intelligent person, and I’m not saying that to simply flatter you.

  • @jimmyhalperin7792
    @jimmyhalperin7792 Жыл бұрын

    "The meaning of life is life itself." Good one

  • @rheacelis2092
    @rheacelis2092 Жыл бұрын

    Brothers Karamazov tells it all! A must read❤

  • @feralhamster2429
    @feralhamster2429 Жыл бұрын

    Love life more than its meaning. Really deep deep one.

  • @thedude4594
    @thedude4594 Жыл бұрын

    After the first few phrases of Crime and Punishment I was hooked!

  • @raskolnikov1461
    @raskolnikov1461 Жыл бұрын

    Absolute undisputed genius writer ❤ Characters have so much life it’s always a compelling read. His heroes and heroines more alive, vivid and real than people nowadays. Thank you Russia for Mr Dostoyevsky ❤

  • @ShannonJacobs0

    @ShannonJacobs0

    Жыл бұрын

    The original business model of KZread stank, but at least the ads were reasonable. New flood of invasive, repetitive, and offensive ads are EVIL. Google is now fully dedicated to doing any evil that seems profitable. And censoring complaints, too.

  • @OLGA_DV

    @OLGA_DV

    3 ай бұрын

    👍🤝❤ Россия, Дальний Восток

  • @antidepressant11
    @antidepressant11 Жыл бұрын

    This is above average impressive. I never got that much out of reading those books. So much wisdom. Deserves a million views.

  • @Madasin_Paine

    @Madasin_Paine

    11 ай бұрын

    You may find that rereading or reviewing something deep,10 20 years later, is NOT the same the second time. It's like one was asleep or unable to see. Something else dominated awareness. Need? Compassion? Wisdom? One has hopefully changed for the better but maybe one hasn't and in some way wasted decades of theirs most precious, LIFE LIVING TIME. Most LIFE LIVING TIME is sold or repaid to the asset and OTHER sado masochistic dysfunctional co-dependents. People as such, sitting "pretty" may appear indomitable to gain any useful insight or salvation from their profligacy. Indomitable Ignorance Indomitable Arrogance Indomitable Unaccountably Indomitable Indifference Life in THEIR bubble isn't so easy to maintain appearances, especially within looking in the mirror unpolished or not . Vanity, (en)titles, and dis-ease of polyhabitual addictions. Global PPP Party Addicts P ower P erversions of care & Nature & Its Immutable Laws P rotection Rackets Exploit Caste Hooked On THEIR M.E.D.S. Kaskistocracy on DOPE M oney E entertainment D rugs S exploitation All that complicates or makes interminable these afflictions aforementioned, and more. Men think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. - Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841

  • @heatherwright3953
    @heatherwright3953 Жыл бұрын

    I think I am in the early steps of growing up for the first time and not just growing older threw all others that abused me into such memory loss of a entire 45 year life. It is said that the most important tools to survival it is learning which comes from being allowed to fail. In my youth I had to be the good little girl that is seen not heard . Now I am dealing with the mess left behind . An awakening with no relation if you will .

  • @Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry

    @Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry

    Жыл бұрын

    It might help to check Anna Runkle or Patrick Teahan's channels, if you haven't already done so. Good luck!

  • @zsofiabacso1921

    @zsofiabacso1921

    Жыл бұрын

    Wish you good luck on your journey Heather Wright! I know this good girl type, you described well, need to be seen as good but not heard (I experienced it as be nice and comfortable and if you cant just hide it or fake smth else that dont bother the others)

  • @waynekasmar4401
    @waynekasmar4401 Жыл бұрын

    I haven't yet read any Dostoevsky, but I have read a lot of Swedenborg. Dostoevsky read a lot of him too.... and it shows big time.

  • @hanvour
    @hanvour Жыл бұрын

    Never knew that Dostoevsky’s books and philosophy are so true to the human conditions and to the wisdom in its salvation. I can confirm that it completely reflects the conclusions of my learning of Buddhism through the years. Thanks to this video, I can feel at ease now to embark on reading “Crime and Punishment.”

  • @CaIeb1

    @CaIeb1

    11 ай бұрын

    Dostoevsky was a devout Christian

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@CaIeb1Orthodox Christian

  • @WhatsWrongWithTheStreet

    @WhatsWrongWithTheStreet

    18 күн бұрын

    ​@@ElonMuskrat-my8jyNo less devout.

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    18 күн бұрын

    @@WhatsWrongWithTheStreet I was clarifying.

  • @kingoimkenya
    @kingoimkenya Жыл бұрын

    Well done. This lesson summarizes the teachings in Dostoevsky's work and beliefs very methodically.

  • @SoloMotivation
    @SoloMotivation Жыл бұрын

    *HOW TRUE IS THIS* 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

  • @markdavidignacio9073
    @markdavidignacio9073 Жыл бұрын

    A new video that I'll write in my journal. Thank you as always.

  • @danielagazzoli9889
    @danielagazzoli9889 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this wonderful message!

  • @reynardus1359
    @reynardus1359 Жыл бұрын

    "Exposed to misery and injustice of his time"???. Guess what, his works are timeless because many of us exposed to misery and injustice of our time.

  • @Consciously-curious
    @Consciously-curious Жыл бұрын

    Thank you soo much team. U all are amazing people. 🕺

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat Жыл бұрын

    Thank Alan …..love your presentation !

  • @viktorlafontaine6222
    @viktorlafontaine6222 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing. This 10 lesson from Dostojewski were very helpful to remain us how to be efficient and strong.

  • @Hi-xs7wm

    @Hi-xs7wm

    8 ай бұрын

  • @djquinn11

    @djquinn11

    2 ай бұрын

    Is Dostojewski an antiseptic comment? Grow up and stop hating.

  • @ryanarwood2317
    @ryanarwood2317 Жыл бұрын

    More than intelligence to act intelligently. Sense of it all.

  • @JoseVargas-bj1wd
    @JoseVargas-bj1wd2 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed listening to Crime and Punishment audiobook. Very insightful and so revealing of what human nature is like.

  • @nancysalgado1095
    @nancysalgado1095 Жыл бұрын

    I loved this video and took a lot from it. Thank you so much

  • @nfragala
    @nfragala Жыл бұрын

    I'm reading C&P now. Thanks for the vid!

  • @AppleCinnamon1
    @AppleCinnamon1 Жыл бұрын

    What a great video. Thanks for posting it.

  • @danu6718
    @danu67183 ай бұрын

    Stunning. I love this video. Thank you.

  • @velamentation
    @velamentation Жыл бұрын

    I've studied a lot from u , thank you

  • @natalya9821
    @natalya9821 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Hello from Moscow! Subscribed. Shared with my friends.

  • @origaminoh8995
    @origaminoh8995 Жыл бұрын

    Love so much your deep but clear voice :))

  • @kypie8
    @kypie8 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful & very interesting video! 💝Thank you for creating & posting this

  • @dmtdreamz7706
    @dmtdreamz77068 ай бұрын

    So the value of Dostojevskij is that it shows you the fluidity of consciousness. That's one of the key values, just the fact that you get to change states and change into very radically different states. That's a huge eye-opening experience. Do not underestimate the value of that. That alone right there will change your whole life. To be able to pop out of your life and look back upon it as though it was all an imagined hallucination. That's what it happens to be imagining right now. The next second who knows what it could imagine. It can imagine anything it wants but it just so happens that it keeps imagining something consistent so that we can get a sense of reality.

  • @MrAnindya
    @MrAnindya7 ай бұрын

    Beautiful bro❤...I just loved it

  • @claudiodeugenio
    @claudiodeugenio Жыл бұрын

    Very good list with insightful descriptions. There seem to be a lot of Viktor Frankl and Arthur Schopenhauer in Dostoevsky‘s thoughts.

  • @fraidoonw
    @fraidoonw Жыл бұрын

    great episode! thanks!

  • @angelinavysotskaya7847
    @angelinavysotskaya7847 Жыл бұрын

    That is amazing... Why i never knew this before

  • @friedrichnietzsche2557
    @friedrichnietzsche2557 Жыл бұрын

    My inspiration!!!

  • @Fiction_Beast
    @Fiction_Beast Жыл бұрын

    Finally, Mr D! Great video!

  • @origaminoh8995
    @origaminoh8995 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @louismaberry9683
    @louismaberry9683 Жыл бұрын

    OUTSTANDING JOB!

  • @annzabo518
    @annzabo5189 ай бұрын

    Genial auf den Punkt gebracht 😀

  • @pedrovelez3591
    @pedrovelez3591 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @leopemberton5439
    @leopemberton54392 ай бұрын

    Life is always NOW so we always have meaning Being gives meaning

  • @splendourjacob557
    @splendourjacob557 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, good morning

  • @user-wu7qg8xo2u
    @user-wu7qg8xo2u5 ай бұрын

    And that it is our relationship with God which needs improving.. more then anything else and this includes ourselves....and that knowledge leads us out of ignorance...as facts on the ground in truth..and in view of this ...what really gains our respect of it and what is lodges in our hearts... sincerely

  • @user-wu7qg8xo2u
    @user-wu7qg8xo2u5 ай бұрын

    In our actions we should not rush in or ignore the truth as passive by standards...and the middle ground is always important...to address the balance

  • @user-wu7qg8xo2u
    @user-wu7qg8xo2u5 ай бұрын

    In other words we should look always into original resources as much as we may...and Ultimately speaking our relationship with God

  • @monicanudelman
    @monicanudelman Жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏👏Thank you😍😍

  • @nanashinde9513
    @nanashinde9513 Жыл бұрын

    Hon Alan sir may undiscovered facts opened in a genius way it is diff thinking totally from common principles should understand deeply to apply are any books written by Dostoevsky thnx very much nice

  • @innov4u
    @innov4u Жыл бұрын

    Great presentation

  • @jonathancortez5179
    @jonathancortez5179 Жыл бұрын

    Bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏

  • @thegeorgemav
    @thegeorgemav Жыл бұрын

    amazing!

  • @GemSugar17
    @GemSugar17 Жыл бұрын

    I love his view of life

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    It's Orthodox

  • @ArmchairRamb0
    @ArmchairRamb0 Жыл бұрын

    Never take pride in Welath! Thanks for a swell vid!

  • @saeedahmed1261
    @saeedahmed1261 Жыл бұрын

    Good video,compliments.

  • @thistledownz.2982
    @thistledownz.2982 Жыл бұрын

    The virtue of docility is helpful.

  • @Godsglory777
    @Godsglory777 Жыл бұрын

    Dostoyevsky may have been an existentialist only in the sense that he highly encouraged the human to take their freedom and direct it back to Christ. He was more of an Christian existentialist, or just Christian because historical Christianity always promoted the freedom of the human will. Edit: great video BTW

  • @rusty_grove

    @rusty_grove

    Жыл бұрын

    Until very recently, Freedom and Christianity were antonyms.

  • @Godsglory777

    @Godsglory777

    Жыл бұрын

    Is that so? Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family Psalms 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound; Jeremiah 34:8 [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them Jeremiah 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name Ezekiel 46:17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God Corinthians-1 8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak Corinthians-2 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed And I got more of those in case your still not convinced. Both the old and new testament have always proclaimed the message of freedom and liberty.

  • @rusty_grove

    @rusty_grove

    Жыл бұрын

    “What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying”. Christian authoritarianism is the rule, not the exception, now and historically. - Who opposed gay marriage or even interracial marriage? - Who is opposed to abortion even if the mother's life is endangered or the fetus is not gonna make it? - Who is opposed to contraceptives? - Who is opposed to legal marihuana and drug consumption? The only freedom Christians approve of is whatever their religion considers as moral, which is not freedom at all.

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@rusty_groveHow can you justify morality or freedom in an atheist worldview? Your arbitrary opinion?

  • @jodie1997
    @jodie1997 Жыл бұрын

    What a great video! I am going to read Crime & Punishment. Thank you!

  • @patrickemmett6269

    @patrickemmett6269

    Жыл бұрын

    you'll be glad you did!

  • @relaxationmusicforsleepID
    @relaxationmusicforsleepID Жыл бұрын

    keep spreading kindness

  • @sabirsharif8767
    @sabirsharif8767 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @Etrehumain123
    @Etrehumain123 Жыл бұрын

    Yes I had this question, when people tell you (usually loved ones) that you are destined for greater things, how to react to that? It's impossible to believe but in the same time you would feel ashamed to miss out opportunity to do something. Having a stable life is already an accomplishment in itself, isn't it?

  • @ryanarwood2317

    @ryanarwood2317

    Жыл бұрын

    I would take it as an insult. What is greater? I am stable and it's nobodies business especially, those with fake flattery and free compliments. And those that tell you what they think you want to here. You can take for granted that family will say something like that whether you are poor or rich.

  • @doeeyeddevil4896

    @doeeyeddevil4896

    Жыл бұрын

    I like the old saying, “People’s opinions of you aren’t your business,” therefore they don’t matter! You can feel glee that you are ever inspiring to your loved ones & be gracious. However you can’t allow them to set the bar too high for you, for if you find yourself falling short of that standard you might feel not good enough or not take pride in the difficulties that you have faced. I think your own value should be determined only by oneself. Always keep in check that ego though! I think my ego did in some way, help me eventually save myself from a toxic, domestically abusive relationship. I experienced criticism on levels unimaginable to most. Now that I am free of such harsh judgement, I am learning of my shadow self now. ❤ Life is a journey and there is much to learn!

  • @ianwynne5483

    @ianwynne5483

    Жыл бұрын

    You can always prove them wrong.

  • @raskolnikov1461

    @raskolnikov1461

    Жыл бұрын

    If you an exceptional person no matter what people say it will not stop you. Pain will not stop you, traumas will not stop you but instead suffering will play a character building role. You will be solid on your own path. Russians are very strong minded people. Their literature is deep and heeling like no other ❤

  • @trumurray8033

    @trumurray8033

    Жыл бұрын

    I am being pulled down by my family (husband and son) my personality is being attacked, apparently I am too “aggressive” and I honestly don’t think I am. It is hard to hold on when your entire world is been pulled out from under you!!

  • @mbdogar2354
    @mbdogar235411 ай бұрын

    Excellent

  • @molesengmokgosi986
    @molesengmokgosi9865 ай бұрын

    amazing

  • @FaithfulMel
    @FaithfulMel Жыл бұрын

    Accept life as it is

  • @NjonjoNdehi
    @NjonjoNdehi Жыл бұрын

    Still slowly reading Crime and Punishment here in Kenya. My bro is a huge fan of Dostoevsky. Borrowed his copy.

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    Check out his other major novels if you can. I also highly recommend Notes From the Underground, Dream of a Ridiculous Man and White Nights.

  • @shineyourlightwithraz
    @shineyourlightwithraz Жыл бұрын

    Great..

  • @PippyPan
    @PippyPan Жыл бұрын

    Ahh Nietzsche, you missed the Forrest for the trees! A grand life requires much focus and attention to maintain. Thus, much of life is indeed passed or missed in said requirement.

  • @riccardo-964
    @riccardo-964 Жыл бұрын

    EXPREINCNE LIFE AT ITS FULLEST!

  • @33parthasarathighosh66
    @33parthasarathighosh66 Жыл бұрын

    There is a beauty in connection

  • @wakefieldsykes2383
    @wakefieldsykes2383 Жыл бұрын

    Loved it ( have to try to get through C&P again- all those Russian names!)

  • @bazhumke4040

    @bazhumke4040

    7 ай бұрын

    haha it is worth it to struggle through the raskolnikov/rodya/rodion romanovitch difficulties

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    Wait til you read Demons or Brothers Karamazov.

  • @dmtdreamz7706
    @dmtdreamz7706 Жыл бұрын

    On a certain level, we have a Dostojevskij in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out Dostojevskij can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs that Dostojevskij can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.

  • @franciskm4144
    @franciskm41447 ай бұрын

    🎉🎉🎉

  • @om9670
    @om9670 Жыл бұрын

    It's important to live a life rather than thinking about life...

  • @Hi-xs7wm
    @Hi-xs7wm8 ай бұрын

  • @user-wu7qg8xo2u
    @user-wu7qg8xo2u5 ай бұрын

    Today I want to expound on Kneecha and Dovskyetsky...as Crux of this matter and spiritually and how facts and knowledge coexist...the first question is..why should we believe them?

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 Жыл бұрын

    Wow ... terrific channel! I just found it. Curious about this topic. Naahh ... these ideas won't work. Not only does it rain on the just and unjust alike, the steep and thorny path of virtue will lead to much unhappiness because to be just in an unjust world is to be trampled upon and exploited repeatedly--not exactly a recipe for serenity and joy. Best be indifferent and stoic in an effort to preserve and value one's self.

  • @familyglover2997

    @familyglover2997

    Жыл бұрын

    Your comment show how reason always requires a trade off. I don’t know whether there’s a right answer to all these questions, but there is value in considering all of the many different perspectives. Thanks for your insightful comment.

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi Жыл бұрын

    pretty cool.

  • @KingJulius349
    @KingJulius34917 күн бұрын

    Dostoevsky one of the best Christian philosophers

  • @x_MrYAYA_x
    @x_MrYAYA_xАй бұрын

  • @zachsmith3376
    @zachsmith3376 Жыл бұрын

    In the movie "loro" a guy tells ex-italian PM "altruism is the best way to be selfish". That upset me for some reason.

  • @byron8657
    @byron8657 Жыл бұрын

    From the Psychologist Victor Frankl a survivor of the Nazis concentration camp wrote about how he survived inside the horrible things in the camp He said they can strip away all your honour your dignity your freedom and personal belongings but one thing they cannot take away from you its your Power of Choice! K

  • @tobyfitzpatrick3914
    @tobyfitzpatrick3914 Жыл бұрын

    4:48 What does "WELATH" mean? Did he not have spellchecker back then..?

  • @user-wu7qg8xo2u
    @user-wu7qg8xo2u5 ай бұрын

    For example..if someone tells you everything that goes on in your life is down to you or your own fault...why should we believe them personally or in respect of this subject matter..or invert this onto ourselves or for self improvement?

  • @aleksandar.zivkovic
    @aleksandar.zivkovic Жыл бұрын

    🙏🏽

  • @sheilameyers152

    @sheilameyers152

    Жыл бұрын

    Self pride to me is something we should all be proud of …….having pride in yourself is a lifetime desire! Keeping your pride intact is important so that other people see that! Model behavior happens then!

  • @KingJulius349
    @KingJulius34917 күн бұрын

    Bro twisted the book to his own world view wild

  • @deirdre108
    @deirdre108 Жыл бұрын

    Regarding suffering, some people don't know they're alive unless they are sitting on a spike.

  • @subskull6616
    @subskull6616 Жыл бұрын

    At 4:49 you misspelled wealth im not sure if you do revisions

  • @fipbip2794
    @fipbip2794 Жыл бұрын

    Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard seem to both come across as nihilistic because of their views on suffering when I read comment threads on videos about them but I think people are confusing hopeful optimism in times of tragedy for longing to live in tragedy. I wish this if anything could get through. I've had problems in life like everyone else but I have felt peace when realizing I'm in cruddy situations by turning to the simple appreciations I carry, relationships I get to experience and knowing how important they are. I know life's not easy and I do pay attention to that aspect of it but it keeps me honest about what really matters and there's always peace in that.

  • @arthurmorgan2781

    @arthurmorgan2781

    Ай бұрын

    Calling Dostoevsky a nihilist is a an offensive at the least

  • @fipbip2794

    @fipbip2794

    Ай бұрын

    @@arthurmorgan2781 it's a shallow interpretation imho

  • @arthurmorgan2781

    @arthurmorgan2781

    Ай бұрын

    @@fipbip2794 well Ik that but imho you either u haven’t read any of his work or u don’t know about his life it’s like me calling Nietzsche a Christian advocate when u call Dostoevsky nihilist

  • @fipbip2794

    @fipbip2794

    Ай бұрын

    @@arthurmorgan2781 well that was my point

  • @user-wu7qg8xo2u
    @user-wu7qg8xo2u5 ай бұрын

    It is said that God may keep us ignorance if we chose not to change our ways which can lead to our own destruction or stray from the path...what this means in the first place is who is our friend and who should we direct our worship to?...would be believable....and we're all attributes stem from....and all questions of chicken and the egg...as which came first...or crossing these road's....and who isn't going to hold us back...so we can truly move forward is that God is our friend

  • @joostvandervelden8777
    @joostvandervelden8777 Жыл бұрын

    isn't the idea from notes of underground that dostoevski doesn't agree with the underground man? so doesn't that mean that the things that are said in this video regarding notes from underground aren't dostoevski's ideas? correct me if i'm wrong tho

  • @thistledownz.2982
    @thistledownz.2982 Жыл бұрын

    Reading Crime and Punishment now...or rather having it read to me.

  • @rickkuhn6577
    @rickkuhn6577 Жыл бұрын

    Dostoyevsky's hope was in the resurrection read all the way to the end of Brothers

  • @tom-kz9pb
    @tom-kz9pb Жыл бұрын

    Sometimes religiously inclined people like Dostoevsky or Kierkegaard are considered as "existentialist", but that is probably outdated. You cannot really be "existentialist" until you have to confront a universe devoid of "meaning" in any human sense, which also involves rejection of most basic assumptions of human religions. The later existentialists tended to be irreligious. The lingering confusion on that point owes primarily to the fuzzy definition of the word "existential".

  • @troll707

    @troll707

    Жыл бұрын

    So many words are fuzzy today in politics and philosophy

  • @mayailusion5274
    @mayailusion5274 Жыл бұрын

    Suffering and joyful life continues too alter from one state to the other, that is the reality of the yin and yang principle. Life is vibrating on and off, life and death- front and back- good and bad- right and wrong- man and female …and all that’s seemingly is different but actually is one process. You can’t enjoy good if you don’t endure bad. Accept it ..and that’s the way to get rid of it. 😮

  • @familyglover2997

    @familyglover2997

    Жыл бұрын

    I like your comment. If it’s all vibrations and counterbalance then maybe being more tightly wound, we feel the tension and energy of life more intensely. A gift and whatever the opposite of a gift might be 😂

  • @chasevendetta6183
    @chasevendetta6183 Жыл бұрын

    Welath and pride.

  • @BlackFishNow
    @BlackFishNow Жыл бұрын

    dosto is the goat

  • @deanpapadopoulos3314
    @deanpapadopoulos3314 Жыл бұрын

    I never understood this author or why he is admired. He seems to take forever to say what he means and then it is intelligent but not earth-shatteringly insightful.

  • @childatheart
    @childatheart Жыл бұрын

    There were lots of wise persons in history. But couldn't find those today.

  • @Numpty-D

    @Numpty-D

    Жыл бұрын

    Jordan Peterson, William vervaeke come to mind

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    Fart sniffing, blabber mouthed gatekeepers.

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@Numpty-DEspecially Vervaeke. He speaks a whole college essay and doesn't say a damn thing.

  • @user-wu7qg8xo2u
    @user-wu7qg8xo2u5 ай бұрын

    So how can we tell difference between contemplation...our mind wondering or fantasy...and what is ignorant...or well thought out..in others or ourselves...could be called what is definition of what is discerning

  • @davidwalker5054
    @davidwalker50548 ай бұрын

    No one can look into the depth of the human Soul with the insight of Dostoevsky he knew we can be kind and compassionate one minute and wallow in the cesspit of depravity the next. There is no black or white. This or that. Or cardboard cutouts

  • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    @ElonMuskrat-my8jy

    2 ай бұрын

    He was familiar with the Orthodox ascetic tradition and met a living saint in his day, Ambrose of Optina.