History of Philosophy Audio Archive

#116 - The Meaning of Existentialism: Hubert Dreyfus on Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Artificial Intelligence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Human Nature

Oct 5, 2024

01:52:40

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I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

-Albert Camus, The Stranger, trans. Stuart Gilbert, 1942.

All chapter titles and source material credited to the phenomenal YouTube channel Philosophy Overdose. The episode art is a still from Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece The Seventh Seal, 1957.

00:00 Socrates & Plato on Knowledge

10:18 Aristotle on Knowledge

12:41 Inner Self & External World

33:30 Heidegger & Kierkegaard

36:42 Kierkegaard & the Infinite

38:43 Kierkegaard: The Temporal & Eternal

48:01 How Do We Encounter Reality?

52:43 Merleau-Ponty & the Intentional Arc

54:22 Meaning in Life - From Heidegger to Dostoyevsky

58:13 Getting in Contact with Reality

1:01:14 Sartre's Being & Nothingness

1:05:15 Human Nature - From Ancient Times to Pascal