Continuing to update my lectures from last semester. This is a fun one on the differences between Determinism, Fatalism, and how these arguments influenced Thomas Hobbes' view of "human nature".
Interesting, though syncopated, lecture! Followed! Looking forward to more!
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I just uploaded the Kierkegaard lecture, he really pushes the question of what it means to be Christian by way of challenging what it means to have "faith"!
Clearly, then, absent the consideration of the unverifiable character of the basic assumptions due to culture, history, and just plain semantic recalcitrance, transcendentalist doctrine is directly and explicitly antithetical to the 3 elements that fundamentally define "human nature" according to the points of materialist doctrine you included towards the end of this class.
Crap, philosophy always makes my head hurt, I'd rather just engage in bhajan.
Good class, by the way, you stay very engaged in the subject.
The occasional stumbles and pauses (the inadvertent ones) are going to get progressively worse as you age, and try your patience more and more as a teacher...
"I'm just doing my best to help make your life a little bit more miserable..."
A dear friend's daughter, many years ago (what a quick wit)...also, pretty much everything else in this universe of samsara.
Oh, and I studied ancient Buddhism and Sanskrit, while samsara is often defined as "suffering", the more accurate translation is "striving"; for what that's worth.
So, I'm not Buddhist, but what did he say about "striving", eh?
It was little Robin, and she was about 8 or 9 years old, yanking her mother's chain. All of us in the room nearly died laughing.
Striving in the sense that "life" demands actions. That is to say, one cannot be "alive" without having to "work". There has been some interesting research on how this is similar to the idea of being cast from the Garden in ancient Judaism, i.e., humans now must "work/strive" for their survival.
As I said, I'm not Buddhist,(loads of respect for the avatar of compassion), but didn't he teach detachment from that striving?
I'll take some aspirin for the Kierkegaard and check it out later this afternoon...assuming I'm detached enough from other samsara, such as working on the vehicles to make sure we can get to the temple tomorrow.
nice videos, im waiting next your video
Thanks, I have uploaded a couple since this one, you can see them on my blog page.
Interesting, though syncopated, lecture! Followed! Looking forward to more!
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Thanks! I will check that out for sure. And I just uploaded a new lecture on Kierkegaard, check it out.
I'm surprised no-one else has commented on this class, especially with some flame-wars about your observations of who was and wasn't a "Christian"...
I just uploaded the Kierkegaard lecture, he really pushes the question of what it means to be Christian by way of challenging what it means to have "faith"!
Defining what is typically an undefined term...
Kierkegaard's point is that people DO attempt to claim to "know" their faith is "correct". That is what he is attacking actually.
Clearly, then, absent the consideration of the unverifiable character of the basic assumptions due to culture, history, and just plain semantic recalcitrance, transcendentalist doctrine is directly and explicitly antithetical to the 3 elements that fundamentally define "human nature" according to the points of materialist doctrine you included towards the end of this class.
Crap, philosophy always makes my head hurt, I'd rather just engage in bhajan.
Good class, by the way, you stay very engaged in the subject.
The occasional stumbles and pauses (the inadvertent ones) are going to get progressively worse as you age, and try your patience more and more as a teacher...
lol. I memorize my lectures, so the "stumbles" are me rethinking what I was going to say more so than forgetting per se. But thanks for that ;)
"I'm just doing my best to help make your life a little bit more miserable..."
A dear friend's daughter, many years ago (what a quick wit)...also, pretty much everything else in this universe of samsara.
lol, I assume she was a teenager.
Oh, and I studied ancient Buddhism and Sanskrit, while samsara is often defined as "suffering", the more accurate translation is "striving"; for what that's worth.
So, I'm not Buddhist, but what did he say about "striving", eh?
It was little Robin, and she was about 8 or 9 years old, yanking her mother's chain. All of us in the room nearly died laughing.
Striving in the sense that "life" demands actions. That is to say, one cannot be "alive" without having to "work". There has been some interesting research on how this is similar to the idea of being cast from the Garden in ancient Judaism, i.e., humans now must "work/strive" for their survival.
As I said, I'm not Buddhist,(loads of respect for the avatar of compassion), but didn't he teach detachment from that striving?
I'll take some aspirin for the Kierkegaard and check it out later this afternoon...assuming I'm detached enough from other samsara, such as working on the vehicles to make sure we can get to the temple tomorrow.
If you really want your mind blown, I am about to upload a lecture on Kierkegaard! He will cause full on mental breakdowns for sure.