Sartre and Heidegger

So good. Thank you

Existencialism is what happens when God didn't kiss you on the forehead (or you've overcome a chimera of conscience and became a Nazi).

I finished reading Albert Camus - Myth of Sisyphus. I must say that I truly struggled with the ideas, the structure, the philosophy, the semantics, in every line was I compelled to read twice! Staggeringly brilliant work of Philosophy. I am proud to say that I got a lot from the book even though I spent interminable hours and pages trying to understand what he meant by 'the absurd'.

This man was created by God , to teach. What a gift for teaching 🙏🏿

What does it mean to be human ? . I believe it is a profound question that only the Bible can answer, and only Jesus’ claims bring peace and puts an end to our existential crisis 🙏🏿

It's hard to be an existentialist on a sunny day.

A weird interpretation of Heidegger. He's concerned about it means to be. His central preoccupation is an ontology of being in the world. The underpinning point for Heidegger is our finitude - death. The lack of time and thought existence gives being meaning for humans. It gives our lives meaning because what we can do is limited. The challenge is that to avoid our finitude we retreat into everydayness we pretend we can live forever and forget the possibility of death.

There's a link to a bigger metaphysical challenge to Plato and physicalism which is Heidegger ultimate motivation which is a challenge to Western metaphysics that Sugrue does describe well which is Neitzsche's which is the construction of a metaphysics of a bloodless rationality detached from the world.

Heroism?? That's not a word I would use to describe Heidegger! What a coward he was!

The metaphor of "playing tennis with the net down" doesn't allow the existential viewpoint to be properly understood. Existentialism leans into the forces which constantly erect nominal nets. The Dasein of existentialism is never forward of the net being down. The dialectic between existentialism and what existentialism intends to reveal as without ground, never collapses. It's not a situation which draws out despair, rather it draws out an active and singular Dasein (human agency). The heroism, if that is what it is, is to press forward despite groundlessness. Press forward into the Dasein which argues for ground, which never allows for there to be no net. The Dasein voice here, is both philosophical and poetic; why not use all resources which are to hand and possible. Michael appears to be thinking that humanity cannot cope with the individual being individual. The essence of existentialism is Dasein and how Dasein mediates being; a mediation which allows for being an existential individual, and allows for all else in which human occurrence has subsisted, currently subsists, and might subsist in a future. Michael is able to wonderfully depict existentialism technically, but is heart (his Dasein) isn't with the existential understanding, albeit he ends laying aside the existential viewpoint, but without revealing why, without revealing what alternative viewpoint (Dasein) he commits to.

It was vary presumptuous to assume that we needed God to get us to be good. After all, who or what is any god? Only an hypothesis, nothing more.

TY 🦉

Masterpiece of a lecture. Do not despair fellow philosophers. Good is real and it’s exemplified in this lecture.

Brilliant teacher. Thank you.

RIP one of the greatest

RIP Doc. Your thoughts through your words shared here online survives.

The great destructors of western intellectual tradition. One is a Nazi, the other supports mass murder through socialism. That is the gist of both people, they love killings.

Positivism ignores the human psyche? Really?
Real philosophy (as opposed to bad poetry masquerading as philosophy) picks up from the limits of where the sciences, such as psychology, anthropology, economics, political science, neuroscience and neurogenetics have taught us about the human psyche. Sure, sometimes we do need to think and talk about things that cannot be measured. This is precisely why we have poetry, music, dance, the arts. And there is superb poetry (Nietzsche, Camus), mediocre poetry (Sartre) and bad poetry (Heidegger). Feel free to disagree with my aesthetics but, thanks to science, we can talk about the True and the False of the human soul and understand each other.

‏‎یکی از تفکرات من در مورد شعور هستی و جریان آن به وسیله آب انجام می گیرد ! یک زمان ثابت خواهد شد که آب هم تصویر را در خود ضبط و ثبت می کند و هم صدا را ! آب از هر زاویه خود بصورت کروی هر جا که ‎باشد همه چیزرا به تصویر می کشد عکس همه چیز را از هر بعد در خود به تصویر ‎می کشد و به نوعی من آنرا جاسوس درون و بیرون می نامم ! مثلا انسان کنجکاو است که همه چیزرا ببیند اما نمی تواند زیرا در هر لحظه فقط نیمدایره ای از حقیقت را مشاهده می کند و از همان هم که در مقابل دید هست را فقط یک نقطه را آنهم در حال حرکت هستی در صورتیکه که در همان لحظه نیمه کامل حقیقت بطور کامل در نیستی و نبودن در هستی پشت سر ما می گذرد مانمی توانیم وارد بدن خود شویم و اطلاع از تمام اعضای درون بدنمان داشته باشیم ولی آب به بهانه نیاز ما و همه موجودات روی زمین به آن ، در درون آنها جریان دارد و هم در بیرون حیات هستی نیز همینطور و به نظر من شعور هستی را داخل و خارج می کند و بدن ما فقط کننده انجام آن شعور است و در موجودات انجام عملی شعور به محتوا و توانایی هر کدام تقسیم می شود و مغز ما گیرنده اطلاعاتی که آب وارد مغز ما می کند می شود و دستور داده ها را به اعضای بدنمان می دهد و گزارش داخل بدنمان را زمانی که از بدن ما خارج می شود در دنیای خارج از بدن ما به کل مکانهایی که سفر می کند می رساند وبالاخره زمانی که بخار می شود صعود می کند و با ارتعاشهای خود تمامی اطلاعاتی که در خود ضبط و ثبت کرده را در اختیار سیارات دیگر نیز قرار می دهد و اطلاعات جدید آنان را نیز در بازگشت دوباره در سفر به درون ما باز می گرداند شعور ما متعلق به من های ما نیست بلکه در جریان هستی در مکان و زمان است وجسم ما نیز فقط جزیی از مکان هستی برای عبور شعور در زمان هستی است !

Rest in peace you absolute legend

R.I.P professor

The great professor Sugrue ❤ thank you wherever you are now

Lmao @ this sheep calling not being told what to do and what to think a “problem”

I miss him.

It would be useful to analyze existentialism in light of process philosophy. Process ontology allows for a metaphysical system that doesn't fall prey to Heidegger's criticism of post-Socratic metaphysics and Sartre's criticism of essentialism. You will find that that the religious existentialists like Kierkegaard, Marcel, Jaspers, and Tillich are more at home with "atheist" existentialists like Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger. Your average theist (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) would consider religious existentialism heretical. I see process philosophy, pragmatism, and existentialism as the "three teachings" of the West analogous to Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism respectively. When Buddhism became religious and devotional (like in the Pure Land and Nichiren sects), the influence of Taoism on Buddhism led to Zen Buddhism. So yes, existentialism without process philosophy can sometimes sound like talking in circles or talking about nothing.

Man as social creature: Positivist
Man as individual creature: Continental

Man: Agents attuned to physiological individuality AND psychological sociality who is ultimately concerned with individual psychologies AND social physicality

Sugrue was a god damned genius.

Heidegger was an unrepentant Nazi, Sartre an unrepentant Communist. Are there any questions?

What a gift he left us with these videos. Rest in peace and thank you.

now...

Never heard such a critic of existentialism. Thank you very much for sharing this.

Hope you're resting easily in the Eternal Circle Dr. Sugrue. You gave us so much!! Thank you

Hope you're resting easily in the Eternal Circle Dr. Sugrue. You gave us so much!! Thank you

lmfao at “Dasein for heidegger is.. i dunno”

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I hope this doesn't seem like nitpicking, because I bow to no one in my admiration for Michael Sugrue. Bit for anyone who might be interested, here are a couple of minor corrections. It wasn't Allen Ginsburg who said, "Unscrew the locks from the doors! / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" It was Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself." And the unnamed "writer" to whom Professor Sugre attributes the quotation "The sleep of reason produces monsters" was in fact the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It's the title of one of his greatest and most famous etchings -- in Spanish, "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.

this is amazing! Thanks!!

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I like how the professor spent the entire lecture just trying to explain what existentialism is. An uncanny paradox 😂

Incredible, truly incredible

Bravery to stand outside others, stand outside received wisdom, even reason

The world isn't certain, what we are is less certain - no solution to meaning of being. At least confront dasein

Heidegger and existentialism - links to poetry/literature. Speaking to oneself. Be an individual.

I am so fortunate to be listening to Dr. Sugrue again starting very early in the morning on November 10, 2010.
How we all miss this ravenous mind who reveals truth to ourselves and the world around us by all of his lectures. ❤️

Sartre and Hedigger.
May we also place Frantz Omar Fanon's body of work, "The Wretched Earth," "Black Skin White Masks," plays, and poetry. He met Sartre when he left the island of Martinque and sailed to France, where he met Sartre.
"Orientlism " and other writings of Edward Said. What an important scholar he was at Columbia, University and his relationship with my favorite conductor Daniel Barenboim who was married in their early careers to the the flowering butterfly cellist, Judith Du Prey.

Do we understand that Said is using Focault's "Theory of Discourse?"
To write this book means teaching us how deep reading theoretical work ought to be conducted so we go into the linguistic part, but basically, the sign only means a sign system or a sign means whatt is not that its other right that's a crucial meaning to make.
So Europe needs the other because by itself it won't know itself so the Orient becomes the other so whatever Europeans think. Juxtaposed on to the orient is absolutely necessity we come to Focault's 'Theory of Discourse," especially later when he is speaking about govermentality.
The idea that every branch of knowledge a discursive framework has its enuciating subjects the researchers, the scholars, the philosophers who constantly produce knowledge within their own specialization and wht it does a perpatuation of objects to study so in a circular move then a discussion of framework then the object than the object of study are absolutely necessary for the existence of the researcher for the existence of the scientists, so similarly in this situation or west to stabilize to claim itself an identity.
It must perpetually create which all its ills can be impugned which becomes a cross contrasting image, a contrasting history, a contrasting system of government.
Focault: Subjugated Knowledge & Palestinian Struggle.
Focault said in 1980 that the role of the intellectual or the analyst or the scholar is not just epistemological that keep producing but it is their job to retrieve subjucated knowledges, silenced knowledges both aoti and so called naive and then opose them against to do the minent knowledge hence bringing the normalized discourse to a level of crisis.

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, and peace.
Philosopher: Alfred North Whitehead

So grateful to have access to Sugrue’s brilliant lectures!

Perplexity never goes away.

These lectures are incredible.

We are so fortunate to have these lectures as a resource.

I've read, & like Sartre's "Nausea" & 3 "Roads to Freedom" novels, but ... As prof. S. said, "with the net down", Sartre could choose Marxism (Maoism, that caused so much human suffering in China), & Heidegger National Socialism.