Michael B Brezinsky, Ph.D.
Michael B Brezinsky, Ph.D.
Dr. Michael B. Brezinsky holds the Ph.D. in Philosophy from Tulane University, mentored by Dr. Michael E. Zimmerman. Prior to this, he earned the M.A. in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University under the tutelage of Drs. Michael C. Gelven, and Theodore Kisiel. There, he had the privilege of helping to compile the index to Kisiel's groundbreaking work, The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time, as well as assisting the Donald Cress translation of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy from Latin to English. Brezinsky specializes in Existential-Ontological thought and the History of Philosophy, and is particularly interested in the role and responsibility that Philosophical thinking might assume in the ongoing, critical phenomenon of human evolution. Currently Instructor of Philosophy at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Dr. Brezinsky dedicates these lectures to his students in the spirit of philosophical courage and wonder.
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My father has been talking about Heiddeger to me for the last 6 to 7 yrs. He passed away on 2nd July, so I was looking for some help to assist me while reading Heidegger, I am delighted to have found Brezinsky's lecture. My question is when Heiddeger says , only God can save us , does that mean things will take their course and there is nothing that we can do.
Thank you!
I get it thanks 😊.
1.75x speed is the only way you can hear this dude out
Your content is unsurpassed, But your audio sucks
Lewis Carrol did all of this in the mid-19th century, more brilliantly and with more humor...
Nicely explained, thank you. However, architecture of the mind must play a role in this process. Some of us find it impossible to grasp on that stick of comfort when we know that the stick can not exist, even at our most vulnerable. I pity those weak individuals who feel this necessity and despise those whom take advantage of the weak in this power dynamic.
A fabulous communicator, even when I disagree with his analysis of the work he is discussing. I don’t buy the “you do what you decide” argument. There are very strong societal, developmental, hormonal and neurological influences on us that mean individual free will to decide can never occur. Even if one excludes a wholly deterministic universe.
what do you think of ayn rand?
Upside down and in stop frame, a lecture on Nietzsche and surrealism in parallel😂 Wonderfully analysis of such beautiful prose.
What an effective way of covering the subject matter for his students, an able teacher is a rarity. Thank you for sharing. Has always seemed to me to provide the most accurate metaphysics. Except it does omit what we know to be true about the biological mechanics of genetic transfer, which is the only permanent output from existence of all living creature and explains all innate behaviours.
Thank you, insightful.
One of my preferred analyses, illuminating, thank you. If only we could wholly eradicate this creator b/s and face our mortality head on then the rate of change of our evolution as a species would be much enhanced. It would be messy but we would eradicate most of the issues that hang round the neck of our current civilisation, future generations would thank us for our sacrifices.
Well, socrates would be a damm good prompt engineer. Taking advantage of faulty hardware to promote his personal ideals is the crime. Can you really 'forget who you are' or are you just vulnerable? Exchanging one vulnerability for another is not the right answer. We truly live in a dark forest of intelligence. Socrates induce us to error so his diciples can dictate how should we improve non-existing things. Than the fool who belives this expend so much energy seeking the unnatainable that not only he cannot correct itself, but his diciples can forever stay on top. he is truly a terrifying man.
Man I sit here I drink wine I watch and I take it all in. Every night mostly, lately. Your lectures take me precisely where my life is right now in terms of the need for something to guide how its challenges can be mitigated with tools of thought.
Why did he stopped?
I just want to write down the exact verbiage you use, in each of the instances, to retain control of your lecture when a student interjects. Some excellent techniques, they’re all just incredibly useful in other life applications.
Hi Michael, new to the channel. Looking for the epistles of the Cynics for some light reading; looked online for a free pdf download but only got my hands on fragments. Also, out of curiosity, besides Descartes, who also Philosophized on the mind/Psyche?
You with high
I wonder why he stopped making videos?
Very well explained.
to what extent, if any, has Heidegger drawn from the work of Ernst Bloch and his notion of an anticipatory consciousness of yet to become, and the real possibilities of? See Volume One of The Principle of Hope.
it would Be IS only on Being in Silence, there's no time at all, awareness is a place for being-in the-world and not-self, IS and ISn't; Peter Harvey in the Selless Mind covers this well. Any conception is a conceit.
Great Professor! Cheers from Brazil
I have never been able to even be close understand Heidegger before now. One lecture and and it’s not gibberish all of a sudden. Thank you good sir 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Your lectures are so prescient. They distill all the truth in Kant so so clearly! I just graduated uni, but would absolutely go back just to take ur classes!
Your lecture is perfect like the world of Plato .
This seems awesome and stunning lecture, which is cleanly orchestrated! Hats off to Dr. Brezinsky.
Thanks for the passionate lecture!
Thank you. Very nicely presented and understandable.
Love from India
sincerely, greatly appreciate MB’s delivery at a pondered measured pace; MB is the first lecturer to welcome me in close enough to even attempt to grasp this iconic subject matter (which has, sadly enough, acquired a daunting aura of a reputation of being too-ethereal and overly-complex for common people to ever try to get into understanding the gist…) Bravo
Superbly clear explanation.
Enlighted.
simply amazing
Excelent! The link that you made between Kant's philosophy and the origins of the existentialist movement was brilliant. Actually, based on what I've seen, this is a pretty rare aproach to this topic, and I don't know why. I think that understanding Kant's conception of subjectivity is fundamental in order to understand many of the existentialist's themes. Very well done! Thanks for sharing this.
"Questioner: I am sorry for my lack of penetration of these mechanisms and I apologize for some rather stupid questions, but I think we have here a point that is somewhat central to what we are presently attempting to understand, so even though my next questions may be almost unacceptably stupid, I will attempt to try to understand what this power that our visitor [....] seeks is and how he uses it. It seems to me that this is central to the mind and the evolution of it, in which we are involved. As this entity that is our visitor increases his power through these works [through harming them] what is the power that he increases? Can you describe it? _Ra: I am Ra. The power of which you speak is a spiritual power. The powers of the mind, as such, do not encompass such works as these. You may, with some fruitfulness, consider the possibilities of moonlight. You are aware that we have described the Matrix of the Spirit as a night. The moonlight, then, offers either a true picture seen in shadow or chimera and falsity. The power of falsity is deep as is the power to discern truth from shadow. The shadow of hidden things is an infinite depth in which is stored the power of the One Infinite Creator._ _The adept, then, is working with the power of hidden things illuminated by that which can be false or true. To embrace falsity, to know it, to seek it, and to use it gives a power that is most great. This is the nature of the power of your visitor and may shed some light upon the power of one who seeks in order to serve others as well, for the missteps in the night are oh so easy._ 80.10 ▶ Questioner: Now, the fifteenth archetype, which is the Matrix of the Spirit, has been called the Devil. Can you tell me why that is so? _Ra: I am Ra. We do not wish to be facile in such a central query, but we may note that the nature of the spirit is so infinitely subtle that the fructifying influence of light upon the great darkness of the spirit is very often not as apparent as the darkness itself. The progress chosen by many adepts becomes a confused path as each adept attempts to use the Catalyst of the Spirit. Few there are which are successful in grasping the light of the sun. By far, the majority of adepts remain groping in the moonlight and, as we have said, this light can deceive as well as uncover hidden mystery. Therefore, the melody, shall we say, of this matrix often seems to be of a negative and evil, as you would call it, nature._ _It is also to be noted that an adept is one which has freed itself more and more from the constraints of the thoughts, opinions, and bonds of other-selves. Whether this is done for service to others or service to self, it is a necessary part of the awakening of the adept. This freedom is seen by those not free as what you would call evil or black. The magic is recognized; the nature is often not."_ The Law of One Ra Material (1981) (The archetypes spoken of are the major arcana. Seven there are for mind, seven for body, seven for spirit. Bet you didn't know that.) "It's all in the handbook!!! You probably haven't even read through the manual completely yet!!! This book reads like stereo instructions!" -- Beetlejuice
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Very good lecture. :)
Thanks
Officially binge watching this channel
bravo, the importance of philosophy and the forces that denied Socrates his last natural breath exists today. so good
Fantastic lecture
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I love what he's saying but it sure is killing me
A fundamental flaw in ol' Aristotle's thinking is that--while we're certainly more rational than, say, the sea otter--it's hard to know just what that's demonstrate, exactly. I mean, the sea otter's more rational than your living room sofa, right? So what's it mean? Add to which, if we're social in a way that animals supposedly are not, we should probably have devoted less time over the millennia to slaughtering one another in various wars and such--y'know?
Thank you for for shedding some light on this content.. honestly reading Nietzche's books didn't make a lot of sense to me but this makes it more comprehensible
your video do help me as well
I am there's for class