Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible | Contingency and Groundlessness | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Leo Shestov's work All Things Are Possible, and discusses his treatments of radical contingency and of "groundlessness", including how we might approach both of them philosophically
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just picked a copy of this book and wow I'm enjoying it! I'm so glad you made videos on him because I hadn't ever heard of him.
@GregoryBSadler
3 жыл бұрын
He's not taught or referenced much these days. Glad you enjoyed the book!
Great, thanks!
@GregoryBSadler
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Wow. I'm loving this guy. And he's an aphoristic writer to boot.Nice.
@GregoryBSadler
3 жыл бұрын
He’s someone well worth reading
@HalTuberman
3 жыл бұрын
@@GregoryBSadler I am now reading All Things Are Possible"... thank you for introducing me. The writing is amazing. So deep and teeming with style. Seems like Nietzsche influenced his writing style actually... as well as his thinking. And your lectures on the book has given me a good outline of his ideas, which makes comprehension a bit easier.
@GregoryBSadler
3 жыл бұрын
@@HalTuberman Yes, I think there's some solid influence from Nietzsche. There were some other significant aphoristic writers before Nietzsche as well, like Lichtenberg
Had that experience recently when I watched the film "Come and See" for the first time. When a film reveals what reality doesn't, you lose the foundations that keep your senses together, just for a moment. (Concretely I'm thinking about all the horrors shown in media that you don't even bat an eyelid to, and suddenly you watch this film and it shakes your being)
yeaaaaaaah
Groundlessness nice
@GregoryBSadler
3 жыл бұрын
Or nasty, depending on what you make of it
Very edifying discourse on 'groundlessness' Thank you. When Lev uses human nature, Dr. Sadler, do you think he qualifies the complex of "phusis"?
@GregoryBSadler
3 жыл бұрын
No idea what “qualifies the complex of phusis” means
@Retrogamer71
3 жыл бұрын
Phusis as a term, its contingent factors. It's a Greek work in Philosophy, right. I'm like Dr. Sadler knows all the Greek words, right?
@GregoryBSadler
3 жыл бұрын
@@Retrogamer71 Still no idea what you're trying to ask. Spell it out clearly, without being elliptical, and I'll give it a shot
I never expected to here about the black pill here. I had a good laugh over that.
@GregoryBSadler
3 жыл бұрын
What a world we live in, eh?
Your intro drives me crazy in a bad way because I watch a lot of you videos on youtube and it has become so repetitive to me. Its slowly becoming like nostalgically attached to me or something like that but only because I've heard it way too many times. I wanted you to know that. I like your videos a lot. I particularly liked this series of videos on Lev Shestov and it has put his book on my reading list.
@GregoryBSadler
2 жыл бұрын
Why complain? Are you incapable of moving to the 45 second mark on a video?