The Germans: Kierkegaard

A review of the work and life of this unique thinker who has exerted an amazing influence on modern philosophy. Delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College

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  • @frankyslas2411
    @frankyslas24113 жыл бұрын

    The vast majority of people will willingly and happily give up their freedom if it means they obtain certainty, security, and comfort. I do think Kierkegaard was correct in the assertion that freedom induces anxiety because with complete freedom comes complete responsibility.

  • @adamokolicsanyi4774
    @adamokolicsanyi47744 жыл бұрын

    Love this plain and understandable language, these lectures are just great.

  • @FormsInSpace
    @FormsInSpace2 жыл бұрын

    correction : "being and nothingness" is sarte not heidegger. heidegger is "being and time"

  • @wezzuh2482
    @wezzuh24829 ай бұрын

    Denmark was not a backwater at the time of Shakespeare. The actual reason he set Hamlet in Denmark, is because the story was derivative of a much older tale which originated there. The first written rendition of the story is found in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum (Chronicle of the Danes), the first written history of Denmark.

  • @jessewallace12able
    @jessewallace12able4 жыл бұрын

    People will be listening to this in 100 years. Incredible job.

  • @thomasjdk

    @thomasjdk

    6 ай бұрын

    I am listening after 3 years.. not a 100 but hey 3% there

  • @JH-fz3hc
    @JH-fz3hc Жыл бұрын

    The is one of the best lectures on Kierkegaard.

  • @pianomanhere
    @pianomanhere2 жыл бұрын

    Around 23:00 -- Sartre wrote "Being and Nothingness" but Heidegger wrote "Being and Time."

  • @sachinaraszkiewicz785
    @sachinaraszkiewicz7854 жыл бұрын

    I cannot get enough of the way the lectures show how the human and the thought intertwine.

  • @xstephanx94
    @xstephanx944 жыл бұрын

    HERE IT IS !!!!!!!! 2020 LETS DO IT !!!!!!!

  • @JabbarRafique
    @JabbarRafique4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I’m sure I’m going to enjoy this series too.

  • @hejdingamleraev
    @hejdingamleraev4 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff. Always love your lectures

  • @davidcummings5984
    @davidcummings59847 ай бұрын

    What a fascinating thinker bar socrates possibly the greatest ironist. He had an unusual way of creating disjunctive sentences to create cadences, even sonic reverb . He wasn't a philosopher of eloquent wit or intricate nuances ,if anything, he was a tad blunt . But he cultivated a method of making the point realised by not emphasising the point being made . He once said something critical about the contradictory nature of the Danish Lutheran churches' stance on charity . I read it once 30 yrs ago, and it still continues reverberating in my head .

  • @garymorgan3314
    @garymorgan33142 жыл бұрын

    But he was Danish.....his great antagonist Hegel was German !

  • @untouchable9917
    @untouchable99174 жыл бұрын

    Thanks sir, your lectures are great

  • @alan2here
    @alan2here4 жыл бұрын

    He's saying "The measure is always god, giving a bases for argument, which is passion, which is important and human." But then he doesn't really believe?

  • @davidsanders6019
    @davidsanders60194 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot. Greetings from Holland😊

  • @MG-ge5xq

    @MG-ge5xq

    4 жыл бұрын

    Here is Austria. Thank you.

  • @End-Result
    @End-Result4 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant analysis. Also love the comparison with Stirner. Very on point.

  • @matmoly540
    @matmoly5402 жыл бұрын

    Just a small correction. Denmark was going through its Golden Age during the time Kierkegaard was alive, it certainly wasn't a land no one knew about. It was a hub for art, literature, and even philosophy and I would argue he was relatively well known in Germany while he was still alive, although I agree he was not taken very seriously and even characterized by his peers.

  • @markmyword8220

    @markmyword8220

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes. I also think it is an anachronistic mistake to call Kierkegaard a "Danish fundamentalist"

  • @Baltimore_Hood_Vines_2014

    @Baltimore_Hood_Vines_2014

    Жыл бұрын

    The state was literally bankrupt from war which included being firebombed in an act of terrorism by the British, and had to sell Norway.

  • @joejohnson6327

    @joejohnson6327

    9 ай бұрын

    Denmark was certainly not some weird, remote land for Shakespeare either. 🙄 It was the gatekeeper of the Baltic and the most powerful Nordic state for many centuries.

  • @sealedindictment
    @sealedindictment4 жыл бұрын

    Droppin’ som’ mo’ philosophy/history heat fo’ the 2020

  • @TheWhitehiker
    @TheWhitehiker3 жыл бұрын

    Clear but cogent--great change from other presentations from academe on K.

  • @justinpaul3110
    @justinpaul31104 жыл бұрын

    This was eye opening. I never realized that this guy's enormous footprint on our thinking.

  • @juvenalhahne7750
    @juvenalhahne77504 ай бұрын

    Você parece muito seguro em falar de Kierkegaard a partir de uma perspectiva toda sua que eu, pessoalmente, tenho dificuldade em aceitar. Para mim, Kierkegaard continua sendo meu maior desafio. Consequentemente, qualquer tratamento do que ele foi e é se me interessa, sem duvida, deixa-me igualmente apreensivo.

  • @juvenalhahne7750

    @juvenalhahne7750

    2 ай бұрын

    Acrescentaria algo mais agora a condição existencial do indivíduo, noção fundamental para Kierkegaard: não seria ele, o indivíduo, a negação da autoapropriacao conforme o conceito e o sistema necessariamente alheios a ele ou melhor a si mesmo? E o salto da fe a confiança portanto em se pôr nas mãos de Deus? Daí então que tomar a si o direito de critica-lo apenas legitimavel enquanto autocrítica de si mesmo?

  • @yasha12isreal
    @yasha12isreal4 жыл бұрын

    Would you ever get around to doing Albert Camus?

  • @rinkydinky78
    @rinkydinky78 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @joejohnson6327
    @joejohnson63279 ай бұрын

    Denmark wasn't a backwater when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet... It controlled all the straits connecting the Baltic & North Seas, & Copenhagen was so prosperous that it managed to establish a very important university in 1479.

  • @a.n.c.australia
    @a.n.c.australia2 жыл бұрын

    I'll put it like this.... There do exist people that walk among us, which are filled with goodness, believe it or not. By that I mean benevolence, etc... Fruits of the spirit. And the other people, the Boogie People, are filled with the opposite. And when we depart, we will possibly go to that place where these qualities are absolute. It's in your database. Do find out. As for myself, I've seen the illustrations to Dante, on Wikipedia.

  • @AliTheIrfan
    @AliTheIrfan8 ай бұрын

    Interesting 👌

  • @kekero540
    @kekero5404 жыл бұрын

    It’s 2:00AM and I have class in the morning.

  • @sachinaraszkiewicz785

    @sachinaraszkiewicz785

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, youare actually having a class right now :-)

  • @briancollins1296
    @briancollins12963 жыл бұрын

    Says Being and Nothingness was Heidegger, but that was actually Sartre. Heidegger did Being and *Time*. Not a surprising confusion in the heat of the moment, since Sartre's book is similarly titled and even takes inspiration from Heidegger's.

  • @yasha12isreal
    @yasha12isreal4 жыл бұрын

    32:47 I thought that was my phone. I have the same notification sound 😂

  • @Ggeorgiev89

    @Ggeorgiev89

    4 жыл бұрын

    selv centered comments albert

  • @yasha12isreal

    @yasha12isreal

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Ggeorgiev89 what

  • @yasha12isreal
    @yasha12isreal4 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe you've never did Albert Camus

  • @rammmin1

    @rammmin1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because he isn't in Philosophical level.

  • @yasha12isreal

    @yasha12isreal

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rammmin1 fym, he just said Kiekegaard was more of a poet

  • @johncalligeros2108
    @johncalligeros21088 ай бұрын

    You suggest the Reformation was the first cleavage in the Christian Church but well before the Reformation, it had already suffered a monumental schism into East and West: the split in 1054 between Greek speaking and Latin speaking Christendoms. Also Heidegger is not the author of 'Being And Nothingness' (L'Etre et le Neant); it was Sartre. (23.20). Heidegger wrote 'Being and Time' ('Sein und Zeit').

  • @lastruebeliever
    @lastruebeliever Жыл бұрын

    'Nietzsche' comes down the mountain 5.30 - Heidegger's work 'Being and Nothingness' 23.00 - is this guy for real?

  • @caroledrury1411
    @caroledrury1411 Жыл бұрын

    I also hear Beckett

  • @Kowjja
    @Kowjja7 ай бұрын

    do we know the reason of his early death?

  • @lynnfisher3037

    @lynnfisher3037

    26 күн бұрын

    I am studying Kierkegaard quite a bit and everything I've heard about his cause of death is highly speculative and not reliable fact. The late Dr. Michael Sugrue does an excellent lecture on Kierkegaard which is available on you tube BTW. Happy learning😎

  • @a.n.c.australia
    @a.n.c.australia2 жыл бұрын

    Just make a fully Kosher version of what them were doing, back then hopefully, and roll with it. I did found out all of this stuff by what looks like, here on Earth as... pure coincidence :) Ah, btw. you know there's absolutely more than one instantiation of the same type, right? Of the same ego. To me that comes very natural. And at the same time, there's uncountably many possible types... so maybe the world we inhabit is actually infinite, temporally speaking. :) I am glad we found a reason to keep improving ourselves... Yet, do work on the Kosher version I was talking about, so we are able to improve the sacred game of Cricket, Baseball, and Oina. Okay? Don't let people out on the essentials :)

  • @a.n.c.australia

    @a.n.c.australia

    2 жыл бұрын

    Come to think about it... I'm not even a Set Theorist. Something I always wanted to be.

  • @a.n.c.australia

    @a.n.c.australia

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not quite ;) Have you visited our Mountain? I haven't.

  • @a.n.c.australia

    @a.n.c.australia

    2 жыл бұрын

    This type of question is really hard... Where do we take it from here. It depends where you guys in America want to take it, over there. But you have to agree that this type of testing on populations is unacceptable. And history does indicate that the vast majority of the American public would agree with that... That's why it is important we are telling the truth, and there's no cover-up on this one. But I did say that some form of Panopticism can do the job.

  • @a.n.c.australia
    @a.n.c.australia2 жыл бұрын

    There's people going somewhere in order to observe the Sabbath.

  • @benquinney2
    @benquinney24 жыл бұрын

    Who? Where?

  • @karachaffee3343
    @karachaffee3343Ай бұрын

    Sometimes the problems of young men get writ large.

  • @benquinney2
    @benquinney24 жыл бұрын

    At parties

  • @JuliaHelen777
    @JuliaHelen7774 жыл бұрын

    00:18:35 --> insert song kzread.info/dash/bejne/iW2esqaqaM3Horw.html 🤗

  • @t.anderson9438
    @t.anderson94382 жыл бұрын

    Heidegger wrote being and time. Sartre wrote being and nothingness

  • @Stefanio64
    @Stefanio642 жыл бұрын

    The germans??? Actually he was danish.

  • @BayardRMiller
    @BayardRMiller4 жыл бұрын

    Addition to the list of people influenced by Kierkegaard: Elliott Smith

  • @asdkfjasdl_kfjas

    @asdkfjasdl_kfjas

    4 жыл бұрын

    In what way? :)

  • @oliviastanley4783

    @oliviastanley4783

    3 жыл бұрын

    his music gives me that hurts so good feeling ya know? ha i guess there could be a bit of an influence there....

  • @alan2here
    @alan2here4 жыл бұрын

    Take that pitiable lacemakers. Things were better when there was more getting other each other fired up. 🔥🙅‍♂️⛓🔥

  • @aurora3655
    @aurora36554 жыл бұрын

    You think St.Augustine was a Catholic staint? I don't think so, I think he was ngostic. I think he was incorporated into a combined faith/practice of many cultures by the Romans, to create a religion. Apparently there were 36 or 39 gospels, or something crazy like that. The melted it down into 4. With saints.

  • @a.n.c.australia
    @a.n.c.australia2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, okay... I'm worried a little about myself too, because if I am in fact to be compared to Ludwig, I do not consider I have produced a serious philosophical work as yet. So what I should be doing, would be to research, and write. And this issue does not seem to be understood by anybody.

  • @R_e_d_L_i_o_n
    @R_e_d_L_i_o_n2 жыл бұрын

    Anguish

  • @tonym6566
    @tonym65664 жыл бұрын

    Sounds a lot like jbp

  • @Finn-xw4vn
    @Finn-xw4vn3 жыл бұрын

    I like these lectures in general, but this lecture goes out of its way to reduce Kirkegaard's philosophy into a bunch of hot takes and reducing his views with motivism

  • @benquinney2
    @benquinney24 жыл бұрын

    Existentialism

  • @satanscrow8016
    @satanscrow80164 жыл бұрын

    This is not an honest, nor a fair hearing of Kierkegaard, or his thoughts. It is character assassination.

  • @satanscrow8016

    @satanscrow8016

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Ano Nymous I'd have to listen to it again to give you a more specific answer but the lecture obviously has no feeling for the man. Anyone who can say they looked around the world of their time and saw that it was full of crap_ "that to have courage is to risk, having to pay a ten dollar fine" and the like, is a person that deserves better treatment than this guy gave.

  • @Finn-xw4vn

    @Finn-xw4vn

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. I like these lectures a little, but this lecture feels like he goes out of his way to turn Kirkegaard's philosophy into just a bunch of hot takes and reducing his arguments by motivism.

  • @satanscrow8016

    @satanscrow8016

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Finn-xw4vn And I have learned way more about the man and his thoughts, since last I was this way. "K." is deep. He writes of being out on the town, one evening, being the life of the party, witty and charming, and then, he writes, when he went home he just wanted to shoot himself. This was a man, offended by pretense.

  • @andreacvecic
    @andreacvecic Жыл бұрын

    Not a German.

  • @jkovert

    @jkovert

    Ай бұрын

    German-ish

  • @paulnorthey6712
    @paulnorthey67123 ай бұрын

    Sartre NOT Heidegger Don Giovanni NOT Don Juan. Heidegger NOT Wittgenstein This lecturer gets details wrong, Wrong in details suspect in everything ... especially his thesis that because K. Wrote so much he cannot be truely a knight of faith....spurious with hidden assumptions😮

  • @picassomicasso1
    @picassomicasso111 күн бұрын

    Just tell us what he wrote not your opinions. These Americans man.

  • @benquinney2
    @benquinney24 жыл бұрын

    Psychobabble

  • @palantir6165
    @palantir61654 жыл бұрын

    He uses German in most of his books and is not a fundamentalist...

  • @cavaleer
    @cavaleer5 ай бұрын

    Great presentation but you’re really doing a disservice to Nietzsche. He was anything but an idealist.

  • @virgilioblanco5374
    @virgilioblanco53744 ай бұрын

    "GOD is dead" and "you can't get to HIM with "Reason" further shows that all this about the praising "Philosophers" is in fact celebrating structured ignorance that is handsomely rewarded in our internationally GODLESS world, by design.

  • @unsinnkim3690
    @unsinnkim369010 ай бұрын

    Kierkegaard was German? ...... uhm..

  • @Robertbrucelockhart
    @Robertbrucelockhart3 жыл бұрын

    Weak tea

  • @earlthepearl4062
    @earlthepearl40623 жыл бұрын

    This guy really doesnt know Kierkegaard very well, this is a very general and unsubtle introduction of him it is sad... Inte heller har du varit i Danmark Wes men talar som om du varit där!??

  • @alienuplift317
    @alienuplift3172 жыл бұрын

    What an insulting lecture. You don't understand Søren Kierkegaard at all. Downvote this video.