What makes us human?
We tell stories. I believe great works of literature tell the emotional tale of human existence as we try to make sense of our existence and the world we live in, thus I consider fiction a distilled form of truth, coming from the depth of our subconscious mind.
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Thank you so much! This was a really interesting video!
Lol no Muslim one although it solves most of philosophy
What absolutely wrong you are, stop looking at neitsche with your biblical lens
Just wanted to add that, The Romance of Three Kingdoms is not a book authored by one person - it's a collective work done by generations of story-tellers. It is truly a book evolved over time which contains some most prominent archetypal characters as embodiments of Confucius principles, aka, 仁义礼智信 (benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and believe). It has a special space in our culture. Really like your videos by the way. It would be nice to cover Wang Yang Ming, a Chinese philosopher who reinvented Confucianism by incorporating ideas from Buddism and Taosim. He is the one who influenced many Chinese intellectuals since Ming Dynasty, but I haven't seem him being introduced or discussed much in the west.
Thank you.
Leon was clearly some kind of alter ego/doppelganger for Ferdinand.
Clearly hesse went over your head
Can’t listen to this after a few minutes because of the ridiculously irrelevant music
Currently reading all of Hesse's work chronologically, and I keep coming back to this detailed analysis of yours of his life and work. Really helps me contextualize his writing and oeuvre. Thanks mate for putting the hard work.
He truly didn't know himself.
His writing's are popular for a reason.
I recently discovered your channel as I was reading Pushkin's drama Boris Godunov and I was really interested in getting to know his ideals regarding life. This is a really good video, very detailed but also covers the most important things for someone wanting to understand his writing. New subscriber!
Thank you for your work and research !
Coffee & Popcorn, excellent combo!
The music... The Music... THE MUSIC !!! @#% WTF... ThE FREAKIN' MuSiC ! ??????
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Correction, Pushkin is from Eritrea 🇪🇷, not from Cameroon origin
I’ve heard a version that he was from Ethiopia
@@degenerategang9153 ya, there was a complex history. Finally, in his literature, he mentioned his origin in a very small village in Eritrea. Now he has status in Asmara City Eritrea 🇪🇷 provided by the Russian embassy. He
Thank you for this wonderful video on philosophy 🙏🙏🙏
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I am Greek. I didn't know that Greeks were mentioned in Mem u Zin, and associated with logic! I am interested in the chess part of the story. Is this part unique to this Kurdish Epic or is influenced by other stories? A similar story from Greece (precisely, from the island Crete) is Erotokritos.
I might not agree with everything you say, but I must acknowledge that you don't shy away from having a personal opinion, which is really rare in this time of political correctness. Keep going!
One person alone could live a very simple life. A small hut and a piece of garden, with knowledges to enjoy the natural world. To be a thinker or practice yoga or Zen. But for a yong person with a family. It's a different story, live is to make a living.
Dangerous Liaisons is mainly about a man and a woman's duel, and it is not about their attempt to seduce as many partners as they can. Watch either of the movies, Valmont is the other. And I did read the novel.
1 Galelleo was not executed, he was placed under house arrest, where he continued his scientific investigations. 2 he was punished not for his beliefs but instead for publishing a dialogue, in Italian, which the common people could read and have read to them, instead of Latin, that mocked the Church's teachings.
I enjoy your work! I red The baron from thr three when i was a kid😅
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could you please include your sources, thank you.
I am troubled. Not two minutes and you've characterized Tagore as a representative of Eastern thought but characterized his subjectivism as being based in quantum theory -- maybe it was, but isn't that Chopra? -- and then reduced Jesus' mission to "confronting injustice," something He did, but that was not the purpose of His mission. It seems to me that you're trying to turn both of them into modern Western heroes, the subjectivist rebelling against the chains of so-called reality and the revolutionary breaking the chains of oppression.
Kawabata committed suicide, too.
Counter-intuitively, reality is all in the mind 😮
Is that Ayn Rand with a mustache?
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You say she was against the welfare state but accepted social security and medicaid. But those are paid in to by the worker themselves and the amount they receive is tied to their contributions. That is not welfare.
My admiration for you ❤📈.... Great...👍.... Appreciate your hardwork... ❤
I am from India. I studied FRENCH for 13 years at school. I have read almost all the books You mention. Merci Beaucoup.
hes not FRENCH hes ALGERIAN
awsome though 🙂 thanks for sharing n yur efforts sharing goodness in life ......was once under the spell of Dostoievsky ....hv visited Leningrad now st.Petersburg again n the places Dostoievky haunted ......
I indeed enjoyed this video. You selected some rational and emotional lines on balance
Thanks
Thank you! Appreciate the support.
Great insight...your reviews of great writers is creating a new literary world for me. Pls can you do a video on Jordan Peterson's Maps of meaning? Many thanks.
Dufuck did u do with Marx?
Gogol translates so well in English. Gogol is always a perfect read for a laugh 😂 Gogol was a genius!
Ayn Rand's philosophy nor her books made an impression on me. I lived in NYC in the 80s when she passed and I read "Atlas Shrugged" and "Fountain Head." I was very young, and I watched throughout the years some Republican politicians give "Altas Shrugged" to their interns to read, for example, Paul Ryan later on. He stepped down as Majority Whip of the Sentate after Donald Trump got in office and went to work for a lobbying firm. Really making good money there. Ayn, as we know, came from Russia. When one learns about her life history, if I remember you did on one of your episodes on that, one may conclude she was a selfish ego eccentric personality. (Me first and sexual freedom mixed in with those that she taught.) The one I had empathy for was her husband, who had to endure her choice of lifestyle and domineering personality. I am not judging her, one has to understand what makes a writer tick and get behind the psychology and philosophy. Do you think you could do one on Hannah Arendt's books? She was one of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century philosophers. An intellectual with a magnificent mind. At least important now, if has not read her books with such divisions in our world today, one may gain significant insights."The Life of Mind," vol 1&2, "The Origins of Tolertarism ,"Banaily of Evil." Thank you always Fiction Beast, for your dedication of great historical and philosophical books of reading of great writers.
Great and very informative video, I think there has been some misunderstanding about eastern philosophy, when you said eastern philosophy is more about accepting the environment and world around you and western is about to go through the environment and change it, the eastern philosophy is saying that first you need to have peace and beauty within yourself and find God within your heart before your external journey, this is my interpretation from fro example Zoroastrianism religion which has some commonality with Buddhism and some eastern philosophy
Catcher in The Rye wasn't Salinger's only book.He also wrote Franny and Zooey.
Your argument is solid other than the fact that Dostoevsky used religion as a place holder or security blanket. As you see in Brither’s katana’s it is the essential question of life. Will you take the oath of god or not. The result is what you talk about in humanism.
I have read Morphine (Морфий) by Bulgakov in 2016 while living in Hamburg for 6 months. That was a Saturday and I was planning to go to Reeperbahn (kind of like The Red Lights street in Amsterdam), but when I have finished reading Morphius, I closed the bottle of whiskey and decided not to go anywhere that evening. After a few months I completely stopped drinking alcohol. And now I’m sober for more than 7 years 😁 Just read this short story and thank me later.
Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergey Esenin are a must read. But I don’t think that any translations will give you all the beauty and depth of their poetry.
50 pages into Salammbo. Already one of my favs