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sweetlullabyebye · 1 year

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Dead Poets but as philosophic stuff because I'm desesperately trying to learn this shit and nothing is sticking to my brain:

Neil: existencialism, specifically absurdism. Basically, life has no meaning, so you can either accept it or not. There is no greater goal or anything. Includes thinkers such as Camus or Sartre.

Todd (mostly at the start of the movie): determinism, which is kind of the opposite of existencialism, since the idea is a 'everything was planned out before and you cannot change it' type of mindset. It excludes freedom of choice, since your decisions have very little impact over everything. You're just in a boat in a storm and you have very little control over anything.

Charlie: hedonism, which is the pursuit of pleasures and the avoidance of pain. According to this idea, you'd take action depending on how much pleasure or pain you'd get from it.

Cameron: utilitarianism, or acting in a way to maximize happiness for the biggest amount of people. Includes philosophers such as Bentham or John Stuart Mill. Examples of utilitarism could be: if you were a train conductor and you had to either

stay on tracks, do nothing and hit a group of people that were on the rails

change your trajectory and instead hit one person

what would you do? Well according to utilitarism you would change trajectory, as it would benefit the greatest amount of people.

Meeks: rationalism and consequentialism. Tbh I don't really understand rationalism, but from what I know, its basis is that reason is a source of knowledge and stuff. Consequentialism is interest in the consequences of one's actions; realistic consequences. So before you act you think of the consequences kind-of-thing.

Pitts: solipsism, according to which the only thing that exists for sure is the thinker. I don't really get how it's different from Descartes 'i think therefore i am', but so solipsism would mean that you can only be convinced of your own existence.

Knox: idealism; reality, perception, ideas etc are all linked, and ideas represent a reality. I didn't really listen during this part of the lesson tbh -which is why I have to revise now using things like this post-.

Mr. Keating: stoicism; accept that some things are out of control, and act in a way so to do right by others and stuff. A stoist philosopher was, for example, Crysipus, who died laughing at his own joke.

Chris: eudaemonism, which is similar to hedonism, except that happiness is seen as a logical finality and it's basically a fact that most people want happiness. So it's happiness instead of pleasures that is pursued, with philosophers such as Epicurus.

Mr. Perry (not a Dead Poet but the only person I could think of for this): deontology, which is like a set of rules around duties and obligations, and has as a goal to preserve future generations. Idk he doesn't totally fit deontology but I had no one else in mind. Anyways I hate Mr. Perry and I hate learning philosophy.

#dead poets society #philosophy #i am not ready for this exam #neil perry #todd anderson #charlie dalton #cameron #dps #steven meeks #gerard pitts #knox overstreet #john keating #chris noel #mr perry #philosophers #dead philosophers society #existencialism #absurdism

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jasonjournal · 18 days

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I just watched Dead Poets Society for the first time and I just -

#this movie wrecked me #but in like a philosophical way #dead poets society #dps #dark academia

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hiyutekivigil · 1 year

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serial experiments lain (1998)

#serial experiments lain #lain iwakura #lain #anime #japanese anime #philosophical anime #psychological anime #academia #academia aesthetic #dead poets society #dead poets society aesthetic #japan #hiyutekivigil

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commonghost · 11 months

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my toxic trait is that i do, at my core, really like dark academia. like i am aware at the multitudes of problems within it and/or that are inherent to that kind of aesthetic but goddamnit i see a grandiose school with cool uniforms that probably has a mold and/or mouse problem and i start frothing at the mouth. it's my biggest guilty pleasure. i keep it under wraps mostly but the grip it has on me is staggering.

#i like pretty things and unfortunately i was raised by a fucking philosopher so movies like the dead poets society are tailor made to #make me mentally ill about them. it's a shitty situation all around.#dark academia #cg.txt

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nymphpens · 11 months

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Philosophers and Gays on a random Tuesday:

#nymphpens #dark academia #poets on tumblr #dead poets society #relatable #tumblr text post #philosophers #gays #dying #barbie memes #barbie 2023 #barbie movie #pride month

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theladwhoisweird · 4 months

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Always the angel, never the god

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lesewut · 1 year

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‘It can be considered as a sad disaster, that no philosophy, no religion, no ideology, lead to a peaceful and healthy world.’

"Nietzsche and his Christian Worldview“ is presented by Karl Jaspers in 1938 (a lecture in the context of Wissenschaftlicher Predigerverein Hannover), who was pen pal of Hannah Arendt and mental Student of Max Weber. The other book is a collection of selected writings of Nietzsche, also published in 1938. Both not of antiquarian value, but can be used as credentials to underdraw the failure of all promises of salvation.

'In truth,there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.'

Every try to draw near to Nietzsche‘s philosophy and opinion, will stay insufficient. For understanding Nietzsche it is obligatory to understand his contradiction, to understand the discrepancy as a pretence-function. The 'completeness' of his philosophical claim, can just be expressed in this way of antinomy: Between drastic apodictic claims and endless dialectic of all abolishing possibilities.

Nietzsche also saws his current epoch in a crisis. The sinking of culture The replacement of education by merely knowing about education The permanent search for ways to compensate the mental loss of substance („seelischer Substanzverlust“) Universal acting and Living in the 'as if' (das Leben im „als ob“) The anaestesia of boredom by rush and sensation […] and in the noise of mind-simulation, everything is talking, all is ignored and missed by non-existent listeners, all is 'over discussed' to the point of losing importance and significance. And in the dullness of breathless acquisition, in the clamour of the masses, which are feeding the machinery that will in the end consume them, nobody is noticing the big event:

God is dead.

This phrase was too often miscontrusted as godlessness, it has to be seen more as an ontological perception of human existence in so called modern world.

Why is God dead? Should be the next question and Nietzsche would answer:

Because of Christianity.

In Nietzsche’s world-view, the interaction of Christian values and methods to 'overcome' the lies and hypocrisy are not to underestimate.

As Nietzsche himself had both parents descend from pastor families, he explains the distance from Christian Religion, especially the inner scepticism of German protestants, by the fact that they have lost their believe as they noticed the errors of what was preached and what was put into practrice.

But Nietzsche’s hostility is not holistically integrated into his basic experience, as he is using Christian value system for his theory of world-history:

The Universality, Unity, Coherence, Will for Truth (as a Symbol between Logos and Alogon, here the antinomy again) and the Christian Propulsion as the energy for break with all the falseness, because the deeply relfected thinker reveals this fanatism of rigid adherence on a world-immance of the One, that does not exist.

The reflected person, educates himself and is willingly disturbing the sure thought being.

With his restless thoughts, that will not give him comfort in determination, because the human will percieve a higher essence of being in „Nicht-Festgestelltheit“ (~ Not-Determinedness)

The Human will be alone, but he will reach new highs without a goddess, all beauty and all knowledge will be brought back to him, to us (auf-uns-Selbst-zurückrufen), he himself will be brought back into himself.

Out of the deepness of historicity of humanity, there will be fullfilled freedoms, because he will be the present, brought back into himself (sich-Selbst-geschenkt-werden).

Not only for Nietzsche is the distortion of Christianity, the reverse of what was true for Jesus.

It is generally underrated how Nietzsche is drawing an Image of Jesus, to exhibit defects of what the Christian Religion did with the ethical rules of behaviour Jesus exemplified.

„Im Grunde hab es nur einen Christen und der starb am Kreuz.“

Whereas Jesus embodied the ressentiment (of all Humiliated and Insulted, the resentement of the Powerless, the decandence of those, who will ruin themselves „Sich-Selbst-zu-Grunde-richten“),

the later Interpretation reduced the Symbol of a new humanistic ethic into faith.

Faith turned into doctrine and the symbol 'anouncement of the infinite bliss' was decreased into „lauter Sachen und Personen, statt der Symbole, lauter Riten und Dogmen, statt einer Praxis des Lebens.“

With Paulus impact Jesus was turned to the figure of the saviour, in the foreground the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. And because the disciples of Jesus searched for an Explanation, because earthly Born can not bear the bottomless and the inexplicable, they searched for ways for atoning the crime, a method for expiating the sin, so they asked how could have this [injustice] happen?

It has to happen this way, God gave his son as a sacrifice for our sins.

„Nichts ist unchristlicher als die kirchlichen Kruditäten von der Gott als Person, von einem Reich Gottes, welcher kommt von einem Himmelsreich, jenseits, von einem ‚Sohn Gottes‘, der zweiten Person der Trinität … Das ist alles im welthistorischen Zynismus die Verhöhnung des Symbols.“

Nietzsche situates the destructive lie in Christianity, that made the Ancient Greek wisdom in vain, destroyed the Imperium Romanum, annihilated the progess of Islam scholarship and wisdom, the progress and humanistic ideas of the Renaissance and is till today blurring the striving of the individual to forefeel the truth, because the Christian demand on historical Totalwissen is paralyzing by tracing the Golden Age back to a long past time (ironically Nietzsche also, as he is proclaiming the historical highlight of humanity in pre-Socratic Greece, the up-lifting era of tragedy).

Nietzsche wants to establish a new philosophy, a countermovement, the nihilism for washing the humanity pure from all the attached and purported sins and fictions. Following the esperance to give the human an higher self by finding himself, without searching for himself, by drawing near to truth, without fixing and degenerating it. And Nietzsche is detecting, like other Übergangsmenschen, that science will also be instrumentalised and its content filled like previous dogmatic doctrines.

Now a personal train of thoughts: It gives me a feeling of unease, when ´Modern world´ is praised and labelled with concepts, which lack more and more authorization in the practice.

When neo-liberal economy, military re-armament, increased importance of biopolitics, parliamentary reduction of jurisdiction, hypersensitization of (mental) diseases […] are considered as absolutely necessary for maintenance of democratic governmental system, a more or less reflecting human-being is seeking for a debate culture, a professional (and thereofore unbiased) exchange of interdisciplinary methods of analysis.

It will remain difficult to establish a criticial discourse, even till today propagandistic instruments are used for formation of opinion, not just in countries like China, Russia or Turkey, but also in countries we would consider as intented to ensure freedom of speech, as economic interests are dictating the course and purposely replacing fundamental ethical principles (war and aggression are always to condemn, every armed conflict is a sign of humaneness failure !!! )

The world of our humanity is still not able to find sustainable solutions for the majour issues (Global Climate Crisis; rising gap between rich and poor; imprudent consumerism; Extensive Surveillance & Big Data, just to name a few...) of our future.

It can be considered as a sad disaster, that no philosophy, no religion, no ideology, lead to a peaceful and healthy world.

It could be so easy, if basic maxims, would have born in fruit. If the `Golden Rule´, which can be traced back till Ancient Egypt and India, would have been truely assimilated into soul and heart.

`Thou shalt not kill‘, but still today, mothers lose their children and women become willows.

O- we have wonderful definitions of peace and harmony, we were endowed by evolution with this present called reason, to order and tame the forces of nature, to make our lives more and more comfortable.

Equal we are born, but the place of birth is separating us, no equal chances and opportunities to actively improve our way of living, pushing the envelope with sincere effort to the limit of our mental and physical flexibility.

Indisputable are also the systematical limitations, in the modern world, science will be exploited for politcal and economic concerns. In a world, where 'God is Dead' , the seeking human can not find rest bottomless and abysmal, as long as he is not able to find home within himself.

It seems that science will constantly shoulder more and more responsibility and this development could improve prudent valuation and therefore a healthy basis for all live on earth.

But as science is the daughter of Philosophy, it must be reviewed and verified by Ethics Council (my Suggestion: Compiled by financial-independent international supervisory authorities of all areas of life and different vocational sectors, crossing all cultural and age-group section). It will stay a dream, to imagine a world without wars and greed, but if every single one could end the war within himself, I think there would be no war outside the own body and mind.

'Error is something rare in individuals, but it is the rule in groups, parties, peoples, times.'

[Trying to fix a conception of how an individual can improve himself. No Completeness, very messy, here and there some teardrop disturbing the scripture !!! :') Never meet my own requirements :( ]

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theres-whump-in-that-nebula · 1 year

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Okay. I’m going away again; bye!

#the second I start typing modified versions of blocked tags into the search bar is when I know it’s time to go #The slothful inaction on this site is appalling #if maybe one tenth of the userbase’s creativity dedicated to discourse were directed toward mass-reporting ACTUAL problems like…#oh… idk…#(each number is a letter of the alphabet) 13.14.19.6.23 #(not to say that the other things people argue about are inherently stupid in terms of content…#it’s just that 13.14.19.6.23 is a grievous problem specific to social media with such an immediate non-philosophical solution)#Not to say that people who aren’t involved in discourse should trigger themselves to fix problems #but if you’re engaged in discourse to such a degree that you have an entire blog dedicated to it and it is impacting your ability to live #you are ALREADY triggering yourself; so if you’re hellbent on triggering yourself like that at least do something useful with it #I talk like this because I #1.) have purposefully gone into the 13.14.19.6.23 tag so I could find and report blogs #(…yeah… not a great experience)#2.) work in a profession where all I do is help people *all day long*#And I’ve done other things which I will not list #but you can probably guess #anyway I’m not a hypocrite #but literally anything you do to benefit society helps; I am on my hands and KNEES begging you bastards to start doing things #caring is not enough #I hate to quote the Bible but “Faith without works is dead” rings very true here #actively do things #And the addictive drivel that is Tumblr is preventing me from doing everything I can. I’m fucking done. with. it #I will come back when and *if* I learn how to use this app recreationally instead of compulsively #I loathe this website (not the people on it; just the website)#(okay… some of the people on it… but none of my moots or followers ily <3)#PEACE!

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dreamerwholikescoffee · 2 years

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"Pardon my sanity in a world insane."

-Emily Dickinson

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hiyutekivigil · 1 year

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present day. present time.

どこに行ってもみんな繋がってる

#serial experiments lain #lain #lain iwakura #anime #japanese anime #academia #academia aesthetic #dead poets society #dead poets society aesthetic #japan #psychological anime #philosophical anime #hiyutekivigil

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mybibliophileheart · 2 years

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After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

-Albus Dumbledore

#harry potter #potterhead #Dumbledore #dead poets society #booklr #bookworm #books & libraries #philosopher's stone

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chriscarpediem14 · 1 year

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Todd Anderson was right; truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold - which is why I use *a second blanket*

#is this philosophical?#Probably not #It could be if you squint #this makes no sense but neither do socks #dead poets society #todd anderson

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edettethegreat · 2 years

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Philosophy final essay prompt: “Write about what you’ve learned this semester and whether you agree or disagree”

Me: ok. Sure. I can do that.

Me: *disagrees with everything*

#I hate philosophy #I hate it so much #I despise it #not a single philosopher said a single thing that I agree with #I mean a lot of it make me go “well that’s *technically* true. But. Why would you think that way in the first place”#Someone should go get Kierkegaard a therapist #And then someone should pay that therapist greatly for making them suffer through listening to Kierkegaard #I mean yeah Kierkegaard is dead but still #At least he’s not “in a constant state of despair” anymore #Why’s he so needlessly depressing #And Descartes. What’s with him.#Quit questioning everything and get a real job. Become a functional member of society #tbh I don’t know if Descartes had a job outside of “philosopher”#If not he shoulda gotten one #You can’t just sit in your room all day *thinking*#Listen listen you can still think while being employed #Do your philosophy while filing some taxes or something #AND SPINOZA. What’s with him and what’s with his beef with free will.#I hate to break it to you Spinoza. But I’ve got lots of free will.#I get what he’s saying. But. It’s just so. Unnecessary.#It’s like the whole “everything is conditioning and everything you do is something you’re conditioned to do” thing #No nevermind it’s LITERALLY like that. That’s Spinoza’s great big hot take on life.#*Technically* yes. But actually? No.#And Heidegger. I bet someone once asked him What came first- the chicken or the egg.#And then he spent the rest of his life stuck on that one.#My guy. It’s ok. The answer doesn’t matter. None of this matters.#Go take a nap and wake up and forget about trying to wrap your head around circular concepts like that.

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ivan-fyodorovich-k · 1 year

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now I can’t even remember why I went to youtube

#it just seems like it's bad to encourage people to execute criminals #even if the confrontation began as self-defense which is legitimate #you want to be cautious about how you philosophically think about anyone using lethal force #including private citizens #but Ivan if a guy breaks into your house and you only injure him in self defense he's going to sue the shit out of you #if a guy tries to rob you and you only injure him in self-defense he's going to sue the shit out of you #that's true #but that's different from like 'oh what a based hero for executing a criminal'#you just oughtn't talk like that #it matters how you talk about and think about the things you do #today a man executing a robber is a based hero #then that gets out #then tomorrow executing...I dunno #then tomorrow executing a trump supporter is based and heroic #because the trump voters are existential threats #so goes the thinking #and you know #I do just wish I was dead because it's all so tiresome #it's really weird to feel oneself kind of ejected from the main two battle lines of your society that is killing itself #like I'm not interested in killing or dying for either of these configurations #so I just kind of... watch it happen #which puts one in the ridiculous position of attempting to referee almost? which is pointless #like you feel like you would just like both groups to be less insane #unfortunately this sickness is terminal #everything is doomed and nothing will be spared

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willknightauthor · 1 year

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What happens in the Dolorian church in Martinaise is a profound bit of worldbuilding. At first Elysium seems like a normal, secular world, and if anything it's surprising how absent religion is from it. Liberalism has become the religion. The only real reminder that Moralism was once a fully functioning world religion is the abandoned and broken church west of the lock.

But learning about the pale point, the history of the churches, it makes sense now. The pale is directly interacting with human thought and society because they are both manifestations of information in the universe, in an evolving dialectic. Dolores Dei pulled information from the future and literally expanded the world by inspiring others with her dream. She was, by the standards of our world, a prophet. The churches, built around nascent points of pale particles, are a social attempt to control the pale through the collective act of ritual dreaming. By dreaming the divine, humanity pushes back the death of the world, for a moment.

By the time the game takes place, that side of Moralism is long dead. The churches have been abandoned and their function forgotten. Moralism has degenerated into liberalism. The Revolution was a moment of mass dreaming, of the future manifesting itself. It was the best hope to push back the Pale, but the MoralIntern crushed it, and restored global stagnancy. Growing entropy is accelerating the consumption of the world by the Pale, and no-one knows what to do because there is no future, only past.

Harry though, depending on how you play him, has the potential to start the reversal of this process, if just in Martinaise. The man who has effectively dedicated himself to a kind of monastic worship of the Pale (unknowingly) is the first one to start the process. (Never give anyone too much credit, even Harry.) But if Harry helps the homeless ravers start a club in the Church, he is effectively helping to start a new ritual community with the same properties as the old Moralist Church, right under the pale point.

If you get Noid to warm up to you, you learn he's a kind of organic existential philosopher. He even discourses with Tiago. He and the others don't just party as a hedonistic act, they maintain partying as a kind of ritual act of life affirmation and contemplation, an attempt to transcend themselves and realize something new and powerful. In short, they are reaching into the future to create something new. It's ridiculous 90s Euro club music, but the way they do it it's as ritually powerful as any church service.

This ties into the more general theme of Disco Elysium, that the human power to dream of a new future and then collectively act to bring it about is a powerful act of creation that pushes back the boundaries of the universe, and is necessary for our species to even survive. To crush the revolution, to crush democracy, is to crush the future. Elysium has killed God, but they haven't gotten to the next stage of becoming gods.

Dolorian humanism ironically does not end up elevating human beings. Only the communards had a chance at elevating humanity to a level of creative consciousness that would allow them to tame the Pale the same way they used to with religion. And the revolutionaries, even though the Moralists never recognized them as such, were likely pulling from the future as much as Dolores Dei. Kras Mazov will never be recognized as an Innocent, but in terms of prophesying and inspiring people with a dream which could push back the Pale, he effectively was.

Now with the revolution at a low point, the world is in a kind of existentialist limbo, lacking the conviction of faith in either the divine or the future. The old is dead, but the new cannot be born. What happens in Martinaise is the beginning of the return of that faith.

#Disco Elysium #philosophy #religion #existentialism #Friedrich Nietzsche #Kras Mazov #Harry du Bois #Noid #Tiago #Dolores Dei #socialism #capitalism #liberalism #writing #worldbuilding

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