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Sigmund Schlomo Freud
May 6, 1865 - September 23, 1939 born in Freiberg in Mahren, Moravia, Austrian Empire & died in London, England
The Creator of Psychoanalysis, of course I have to start off this venture into the science world with Mr. Freud.
Education:
graduated with an MD from the University of Vienna in 1881, his studies included Philosophy, Physiology & Zoology
Popular Works:
On Aphasia, 1891 The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, 1905 Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood, 1910 Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics, 1913 The Ego and the Id, 1923 Moses and Monotheism, 1939
Ideas:
Stages of Psychosexual Development:
Oral Stage (birth to 18 months)
Anal Stage (18 months to 3 years)
Phallic Stage (3 to 6 years)
Latency Stage (6 years to puberty)
Genital Stage (puberty to adulthood
Structural Models of Personality:
Id
Ego
Superego
The Human Psyche:
Conscious Level: thoughts, perceptions
Preconscious Level: memories, stored knowledge
Unconscious Level: fears, unacceptable sexual desires, violent motives, irrational wishes, immoral urges, selfish needs, shameful experiences
Philosophy Tube
https://www.youtube.com/user/thephilosophytube
Philosophy Tube is a YouTube channel created by Olly Lennard. He posts new videos covering an array of philosophical concepts every Friday. Olly does a great job of discussing philosophy in an easy, fun, and humorous way. Not only has he so kindly categorized his videos in beginner, intermediate, and advanced playlists but he also answers questions his viewers leave in the comment box at the end of each new video. Ch ch ch ch ch check his channel out!
Favorite Videos:
Beginner The Six Philosophers You’ll Read in College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dft4NOmJOOM
Five Bad Arguments Against Being a SLUT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8O4ptxVxc
Intermediate Should Smokers Get Lung Transplants? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54X4ZHkSGMM
Should We Be Afraid of Death? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgZ2Tb2tkM
Advanced Do We Have Free WIll? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQxv_kzuTD8
Personal Identity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVFep0xFYs
WOODY ALLEN December 1, 1935 - present born in The Bronx, New York, New York
Non Philosopher Philosopher Woody Allen is not a philosopher; he started out in the show business writing comedies, moving on to stand-up, plays, short stories, and writing/directing movies. I am including him in my blog because a substantial amount of his work covers existentialism, mostly in a humorous manner. He himself is an atheist and has a lot of existential views on life. He often jokes about his fear of death. Woody Allen is by far one of my favorites and a genius with his work, definitely an artist worth admiring.
Education:
studied communication & film at New York University
briefly attended City College of New York
Comedy Works:
1950 started writing short jokes for Broadway writers Abe Burrows, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers & Peter Lind Hayes
1954-1959 joined the NBC Writer’s Development Program, The NBC Comedy hour, wrote for The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, Caesar’s Hour, Candid Camera, The New Yorker, and other comedic artists
1960-69 Allen worked as a stand-up comedian
Notable Playwright Works:
Don’t Drink the Water, 1966
Play it Again, Sam, 1969
The Floating Lightbulb, 1981
Bullets Over Broadway, 2014
Short Stories:
Getting Even
Side Effects
Without Feathers
Notable Filmography:
Take the Money and Run, 1969
Bananas, 1971
Play it Again, Sam, 1972
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), 1972
Sleeper, 1973
Love and Death, 1975
Annie Hall, 1977
Manhattan, 1979
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, 1882
Broadway Danny Rose, 1984
Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1989
Match Point, 2005
Vicky Christina Barcelona, 2008
Midnight in Paris, 2011
To Rome, With Love, 2012
Blue Jasmine, 2013
Further Reading: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen#Theatre_works
IMDb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000095/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Film Documentaries: Woody Allen: A Documentary Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzULP5CuCQ
Woody Allen: A Documentary Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydkJLPWbKzY
Woody Allen on Existentialism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB9afLhro3M
Simone Weil February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943 born in Paris, France & died in Ashford, United Kingdom
Education:
1928 received certificate in General Philosophy & Logic at the Ecole Normale Superieure
1931 received her agregation diploma at the Ecole Normale Superieure
Popular Works: Gravity and Grace, 1952 The Need For Roots, 1954
Ideas:
suffering is when one is most in touch with what is real
humiliation, degradation, slavery, sin & error are the experiences that humans most value
God has left the world after creating it to give people freedom
Uncreation: one’s attempt to purify oneself by withdrawing completely from the world because that is where God is
there is a perfect realm outside any sphere that is inaccessible to human faculty & a corresponding realm in one’s heart
we are tied to absolute good through our hearts & that is how good is entered into this world
Further Listening/Viewing: Simone Weil: Her Life & Philosophy by Wes Cecil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL_QEulh8_U
Gravity & Grace Part 1 by Gluffa Clow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8hZ_j0j5E
Ludwig Wittgenstein April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951 born in Vienna, Austria died in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Education:
1906 engineering at Technische Hochschule at Charlottenburg, Berlin
1908 engineering doctrine at Victoria University of Manchester
1911 University of Cambridge to study under Bertrand Russell
Popular Works: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1961
works put together from his notes: The Blue and Brown Books, 1969 On Certainty, 1979
Ideas:
any philosophy you can’t live is wrong
the form of language, not it content, is what allows something to be true or false
The Verification Principle of Logic: if you can get your picture of reality to line up with reality itself then it is true
what is dishonest is quiet, say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the proposition of natural science
meanings aren’t always related to causes: you cannot dismantle things into component parts & say behind every statement there is meaning, what you see in the world is what you get
Formalism: it works because it works, not because it means anything, their existence is their justification, there is no transcendental truth
people have a variable response to everything, the world contains all uncontrolled variables
live to embody what you believe
Further Reading: The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/wittgens/#H11
Further Viewing/Listening: Wittgenstein: His Life & Philosophy by Wes Cecil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNaBRR-XeAs
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Fredrich Nietzsche October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900 born in Rocken, Germany died in Weimar, Germany
Education:
studied Religion & Greek & Roman Classics
studied Greek & Language at the university until he was given a job as a professor without having to complete his degree
Popular Works: The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, 1872 Human, All Too Human, 1878-80 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883-85 On he Genealogy of Morality, 1887 Twilight of the Idols, 1888
Ideas:
God is dead
Dionysian & Apollonian, finding balance of the two
Slave Mentality is poison to the soul
suffering is necessary, suffering is human
without agon there is no challenge
notion of shaming people is not our right, not the government’s right
Eternal Recurrence, time is a flat circle, a test of one’s character
Further Reading: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/nietzsch/#H9
Further Listening/Viewing: Fredrich Nietzsche’s Life and Philosophy by Wes Cecil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1J7OoErWvs
Time is a Flat Circle? 8 bit Philosophy by WIsecrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6esRZLAR1Q
Does Christianity Make Us Weak? 8 bit Philosophy by Wisecrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaU8PD9P4ss
Jean-Paul Sartre June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980 born & died in Paris, France
I was around 21 years old whenever I picked up a copy of Sartre’s novel Nausea. I actually had experts from the novel read to me by a cute boy during a night of drinking, and perhaps it was the wine but Sartre’s words immediately resonated with my own feelings of being sick with my existence. I read the novel for myself and was infatuated. Sartre’s existentialist ideas on the human condition are brilliantly relatable to anyone who has ever contemplated and/or tried to discover the emptiness that comes with realizing you are the creator of your own choices and meaning. As I stated in my previous post, Sartre was romantically involved with Simone de Beauvoir. They’re unorthodox relationship was an influence and start to their existential beings. They were not monogamous and both agreed to continue living apart and never marrying. Sartre contributed greatly to the Western Philosophy of the 20th century. I hope you all fancy his work as much as I do.
Education:
received a degree in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure
1st place in philosophy aregation exam
Popular Works:
The Transcendence of the Ego, 1936 Nausea, 1939 Being and Nothingness, 1943 Existentialism is a Humanism, 1946 Critique of Dialectical Reason, 1960, 1985
Ideas:
existentialism
humans come into existence with no plan or history, our being precedes our essence
there is no meaning to life
“we get the war we deserve”
freedom comes from trying to understand yourself
imagination is one of the great powers of humanity
one can live in dialectical materialism because it doesn’t determine you, it recreates itself
Further Reading:
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/sartre-ex/
Further Listening/Viewing:
Jean-Paul Sartre, His Life & Philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzcPpJXkPLQ
Do We Enjoy Being Free? (Sartre) 8-bit philosophy by Wisecrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHrbeBTiO5w
Sartre Existentialist Ethics by Professor Zaldivar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs9D4vy2FHI
Simone de Beauvoir January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986 born & died in Paris, France Simone de Beauvoir is first rate, she is queen. One of the most brilliant persons I have ever had the pleasure to learn from (through books and the internet of course), Beauvoir made history in the philosophical realm with her What is Woman theories. Her eloquence emanates through all of her words, inviting one to experience her ideas in an undeniably intimate presence (perhaps more so if you are a female, not to say men cannot appreciate her work). She became romantically involved with Jean-Paul Sartre, a genius philosopher in his own work, during her studies in France, and they remained involved throughout their remaining life. Simone de Beauvoir embodies fearlessness and intelligence, therefore I have chosen her to be my first philosophical icon to share on whynotphilosophy. Enjoy!
Education:
1925 passed baccaluareat exams for mathematics & philosophy
1926 achieved Certificates of Higher Studies in French Literature & Latin
1927 Certificates in History of Philosophy, General Philosophy, Greek & Logic
1928 Certificates in Ethics, Sociology, & Psychology
1929 2nd place in philosophy aregation exam
Popular Works: The Second Sex, 1949 The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1947 The Mandarins, 1954 Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, 1958 The Woman Destroyed, 1967 Letters to Sartre, 1990
Ideas:
being a woman is not a natural fact, it is the result of a certain history
woman is “other”
woman is oppressed if she has no legal and economical rights
feminism brings communication between women & could change society as a whole
to be human is to be free & to be free is to make choices for yourself
only the individual can know what is right & wrong
face, accept & acknowledge the human condition
Further Reading: The Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/beauvoir/#H1
Further Listening: Wes Cecil lectures a biography of Simone de Beauvoir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efWqbzRB-1k Why I’m a Feminist: Interview with Simone de Beauvoir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRQIm1ug3q4
What is Woman? Wisecrack 8-bit Philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kCJvfo28w
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