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Date of upload: Jun 27, 2022 ^^
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The algorithm has brought me to your channel and I am blessed. This is probably the best philosophy channel I have come across. I do not have Patreon or Discord but I will be happy to get to know it if it means having high-quality content plus a passionate community for a wide range of ideas. I am currently studying philosophy and I learn a lot more from your videos than I do from my Uni lectures. Thank you so much for doing this.
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I have actively been listening to as wide a range of thinkers and political spectra to try and break free of the cages of ideology I've often found myself in.
I see people lost in their own mazes and it scares me to think that I might be lost in my own hole and not know it.
I appreciate content of this nature i have to say!
Thank you!
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I hope you decide to continue doing this. I'm learning a lot from you, even though I've studied this while working on my degree. You offer a great perspective and I have a strong desire to understand the minds of these great thinkers.
When I first encountered Foucaut, for example, I was immediately put off. But this response alone encouraged me to dig deeper into what this was about. I ended up finding an amazing thinker there and now he's one of my favorites. The trigger is questioning my own response and exploring a bit of new ideas.
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Everything that brought me to philosophy was learning and reading perspectives regardless of my personal beliefs. I admire your willingness to indulge even in works you may not like. It's how I've always "tested" my own foundation to always ensure I can keep some sort of consistency especially in ethics and morals. Your videos on Camus brought me to your page. Thank you for sharing all your thoughts.
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I did a subject at university called 'Material Girls Material Boys: The Marketing of Bodies in the Media' where Judith Butler and others talked about attractiveness as though every type of conventional attractiveness were a power play. Because more attractive equals more social status and power. It did my head in.
At the same time though, I had never heard anyone summarize Foucalt's theory of power until I saw your video. So it was good to heard a succinct summary of the kind of thinking that subject was based off of.
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Love this channel and going to add myself as a Patreon supporter today. I have already learned so much. After a lot of reading and introspection I have come to see my polarized views were definitely driven by fear. So I have worked on that and gradually stopped seeing things as a "Left thing" or a "Right thing" or even (because I am a feminist) a "man thing" or a "woman thing". So many of the dysfunctional behaviors we see is the result of unacknowledged fear and this is something ALL humans struggle with, not just one side or the other. It takes deeper understanding and a willingness to let go of that fear to go above the polarity and start to see all the connections that provide a deeper understanding of human nature.
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I think that you are hitting the nail on the head. There really isn't a place where intellectuals from both sides of modernity vs postmodernity can really have a serious discussion. As a result of much of my study and this channel in particular, I have started to look at how these two ideas might have a role to play in accounting ethics. We will see where it goes, but it is definitely interesting ground.
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there seems to be a consistent issue surrounding the intense simplification and a stripping of nuance of philosophical ideas. I think upon inquiry this can simply be reduced to a kind of need so simplification and quick consumption of ideas, something that is very much trained by the kind of contemporary technological environments a lot of people tend to inhabit. I feel like it is fair to say that a step away from this kind of simplification would necessitate a return and retraining to appreciate and understand longer and more intellectually rigorous works with a goal of understanding and not a goal of disproving or rejecting. I really like the way you framed this interaction between Foucault and Jung and how this excites you as far as synthesizing figures who are commonly pitted against each other. I've really enjoyed your videos and am excited that you've decided to start a kind of online community to discuss these ideas. Keep up the fantastic work, my friend.
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What great content. I love the idea of "why it matters" videos, because it gives some insight into your motives. In my estimation, you seem to be motivated by something that appears uncommon in the world - understanding ideas in their "truest" form, without the need for a particular frame or morality. It is inspiring to see, but it is something that seems to quickly evoke hatred from others. I imagine they have a hard time seeing how someone could discuss such ideas without being a supporter of them.
The hatred evoked by such discussions should never be a reason to stop by itself.
Regarding Foucault, it seems to me that many people who speak about the nature of the structure of power in society get crucified, even in modern times. Thinking along the same lines of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
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@venkataponnaganti
1 year ago
Please do not quit YouTube. I regularly watch your enlightening presentations. Thank you.
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