The Madness of Modern Philosophy

Hello and good morning everyone, in today’s lecture I’d like to explain Slavoj Žižek’s stance towards the Cartesian cogito, and what he calls “The Constitutive Madness of Modern Philosophy.”

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[julianphilosophy]

The lecture brings at 3:17

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[Liisa]

What a complex way to put the fact that thinking is difficult. It only starts when you begin to truly question your own "thinking" and notice that actually you have been just following the mass. It is a painful realization that introduces the individual to the solitude of existence. From then on you will be the "enemy" of any crowd, you will be out from the garden - as you are one of the minority that can see that the garden is not a garden at all, but a wasteland.

[Nasir_.]

Light’s place is good now, the previous ones were even hurting my eyes.
From Afghanistan by the way, keep up the good work man

[raymondmartini]

From Melbourne, Australia, as a novice, I am seriously grateful!

[devilishegg]

Feedback: it took 3 minutes to get to the content of the video. This makes it hard to focus on the actual content since the intro items may or may not apply to the person watching.

Thank you for putting this out!

[davidwright]

From a philosophy course taken now 6 decades back (!) I got the impression the 'cogito' was Descartes' answer to the question, 'At absolute rock bottom, being aware that 'I am', how can I know (in the sense of 'correctly confirm') that this is so? Evading (putative) Demonic temptation to belief about my nature. My own take on Descartes (subject to change, after argument!) is that he was interested in anchoring his own existence, not in promulgating an Enlightenment view of this, based on healthy skepticism and empirical investigation.
Of course I no more 'do' psychoanalysis, than I 'do', god. Nobody's given me any - let alone a convincing - account of what a 'psyche' is, and how it might be analysed. And into what?

[franciscobermejo]

I get It, both the cogito and the unconscious are fruits

[andrewcraig]

This is such good overview and analysis, I appreciate it, I’ll subscribe

[mdialidadi]

Thanks! Living in Melbourne, Australia, but grown and educated in Iran

[kimwelch]

The reliance on Freud's formulation of the unconscious is a mistake. Freud saw the unconscious as only a store of repressed thoughts. His idea of the unconscious is smaller than the ego-consciousness. The Jungian formulation is the unconscious as both the content that is rejected by the ego, and a universe of content that has never been and may never be conscious. Jung's idea of the unconscious is larger than the ego, and carries more of the individual's behavior. This comports more closely with experimental evidence. We are legion, and sometimes, more often than we like to think, the legion gets the upper hand.

[christopherjones]

This is also described back in Platos apology. These ideas are not new nothing is. We are a needle and thread with no knot to hold the patch together, humanity will forever seek security against our will as individuals. And what we fear most is what puts us farther ahead

[samstewart]

Can’t wait to understand this one 🙌. One day…

[LostSoulAscension]

I'm realizing that I'm not so into the philosophical contents of philosophy, but more so the philozophization of philozophy.

[hear]

In the metaphor of excrement, I think that Zizek is critical of Luther rather than Calvin. Calvin says that god has predestined humans to go to heaven. God is good and there is no reason to doubt god's wisdom. Luther says it is by good work that we go to heaven. Since Zizek says that we can't do good work because we are full of ****, Luther condemns us all to hell. And we must conclude that god is **** for letting that happen.

[totonow]

I have benefited a lot from Todd McGowan, Richard Boothby and Ryan Rngley.

[aleksandarignjatovic]

From I think therefore I am DOES NOT FOLLOW I do not think therefore I am not. but I am not therefore I do not hink (counter position). These are two different things.

[Azupiru]

The Symbols of these Classical Orders are actually traceable in the material culture from Sumer, to Akkad, to Phoenicia, to Israel, and all around the Mediterranean, and they still stand as your reigning Corinthian Order, going over 2000 years strong, with its thorny acanthine concealment of the source of the volutes represented in previous Orders (see the proto-Aeolic capitals of the City of David...). This is the *patterning* of your civilization, things you hardly notice (floral patterns, rosettes, architecture, mosaic motifs, etc.), but if you trace these to their source, and you consider the entirety of the Constructed Hebrew Language games and the Classical Syriac response in the translation of the Peshitta (consider how bizarre the following example is in Classical Syriac, אכרוך כרכין, which means, "I bind/roll books/scrolls" and "I circle fortresses"), you learn exactly what the "Apocalypse" is about.

When you follow the chain of referents (it's not even really that long. I'm kind of surprised I'm the first person pointing this out), it points to one flower, the Saffron Crocus.

Seriously. I don't think your Civilization will be able to bear the weight of the truth.

The Orders are collapsing.

[marcsilverstein]

How does the Freudian unconscious relate to the Kantian Ding-An-Sich?
I feel like theres a connection in the sense of the inaccessible or unknowable barrier or limit

[tomfreemanorourke]

Madness is a metaphysical existential reality of 'cogitor' ergo sum.

[docjaramillo]

Did Kant actually write, “I think therefore, I am” … I can’t find it in his work.