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For this project I ended up assigning myself little time to complete it. I found the editing process to be the most challenging. Part of the difficulty was the fact that I did not rehearse the video well enough. Therefore, I talked with a lot of long pauses. I ran out of time to edit… Continue reading YouTube Video Essay Reflection

0:00-3:00 – Intro Hook: We’re all familiar with the big question: What is the meaning of life? But we often also ask a similar question: What is my life’s meaning? In this video I’m going to help you figure out not what the answer is, but how to answer it. To start, let me tell… Continue reading YouTube Video Essay Template

We’re all familiar with the big question. What is the meaning of life? Sometimes we ask what is the meaning of my life? And this question is a pretty big question. We usually really want an answer to this question in moments where w e feel terrible. The moments where we wonder what’s going on.… Continue reading Existentialism vs. Nihilism

What do you think when you hear the word existentialism? You probably tie it to the common phrase: existential crisis. And an existential crisis carries with it a pessimistic meaning of not knowing oneself, or even worse, the idea of never being able to know oneself. Surely, those who study existentialism are miserable people, pursuing… Continue reading Existentialism isn’t miserablism

We have our freedom but we can never have it fulfilled. We don’t justify our living by saying it will allow us to fulfill our freedom. At least, this is what Beauvoir claims. And she explains this with two interesting examples. One is with art. Think about the art the Egyptians made, or the art… Continue reading Living in the present is freedom

We are existing and we have freedom. However, Simone de Beauvoir (along with Sartre) says we can only act as though we portray one of those qualities at a time. This is what she calls ambiguity. You are a fact–you exist as an object. But you are also free–you can become something, come up with… Continue reading Are you one of these people denying freedom?

Have you ever been walking around minding your own business? Maybe you’re walking to your office, your classroom, your house, the store, or some other destination. You’re looking at the ground or you’re looking to the side noticing the world around you. Then you look slightly to the left and someone else is walking the… Continue reading The look they give you

In Being and Nothingness Sartre argues that everything and nothing are tied together. By saying there’s something means there was the possibility of there being nothing. Even before you said there was something, there could have been nothing. The idea of you reading this implies the idea of you not reading this. And how is… Continue reading Sartre: nothing, nothing all around

Here’s a take on what Nietzsche was talking about in his second essay in his Genealogy of Morals. If it’s absolutely wrong then at least I’ll be part of the group of people who can’t read Nietzsche. If there’s some right in it then Nietzsche was definitely being very cynical about Christians. What a madman.

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a number of aphorisms, or briefly-stated “truths.” Here are 5 of them with commentary. 51: Sense of truth. — I think well of all skepticism to which I may reply: “Let us try it.” But I no longer want to hear anything of all those things and questions which do not permit… Continue reading Aphorisms of Humor