I am 80. I taught philosophy for 47 years. You are an excellent teacher, but you already know that.

As a fellow university lecturer in Philosophy (and Religious Studies) I have to say your work on this channel is amazing! Thanks for the great content you provide for us, Ellie.

Love the explanation on this one, especially the relation of freedom and nothingness. I was always afraid when reading Heidegger, even more than I was afraid of vases!

Anxiety, despair and nothingness, all key concepts in Existential philosophy! This continues to be my favorite schools of thought.

This type of anxiety happens all the time to me since my childhood, but I couldn't put into words.

Wow this video is amazing! I've never thought of Anxiety this way before and it actually is really helpful to learn this in my life right now! Keep up the great work on your channel!!

I am one of the hundred that came here to thank you. You simplify with such a wonderful way , terms that you cannot find an understandable explanation for someone who is not studying philosophy or being an academic. Thank you

Best explanation i have ever seen and heard. Thank you sooooo sooooo much

Hello professor. Thank you for doing this. Many of us need you.

It seems I've finally got the algorithm perfectly tuned to recommend me THE BEST CONTENT. This is amazing.

Meticulous building of meaning between concepts. Thanks for the presentation.👏🏻👋🏼

This is the first time I've heard someone discuss Heidegger in plain English. I love it!

What a masterful explanation,as her usual.

Your lectures are excellent. There are a lot of videos out there and they give numerous informations as well but they don't know how to teach; you do excel in that field. Thank you 😊

thank you so much. this was so elaborated, well explained and so helpful.

Great video!! Would love a longer format lecture/video on Heidegger from you.

Thank you so much. As far as I got your words, the anxiety in Heidegger perception is the price we pay for being free of whatever the society has determined for us in the hope of reaching freedom or creativity. Staying in this position could be dangerous as it holds us crippling in nothingness. This may explain why many citizens tend to cling to social norms to stay calm and in peace without having to question whether there are any other better paths to take.

this video made me anxious and I loved it

Thank you for this--I really enjoyed it.

Ellie thank you so much for your content. You are one of the best out there, and personally my favourite. Please consider one day explain the concept of uncanny of Freud and the Real of Lacan. This is what it thought the most during your video.

Simply put, it is the difference between common anxiety about something versus existential anxiety about everything (Unheimlichkeit or alienation) without going nuts. Coming to terms with this kind of anxiety is liberating.

This was fun, thank you!

This short lecture is everything to me.

Never heard before such complex concepts explained so clearly, yet not simplified. Brilliant, thank you!

Thanks for this explanation. Maybe one of the most concrete I have seen.

my girl loved ur channel and also me too. im majoring math and she's in physics eng. we never seen a professor like you. thank you for the content. we love you

Thank you for a clear articulation of the concept Dasein

Thank you, you explaine it really well, clear to the point and above all with best simple examples we all face daily.

Beautifully put.

Another way of putting it is to say anxiety is the fear of being, which, as Heidegger suggests, we experience more readily in the dark because that's when we get past the state of distraction that characterises our being in the world on an everyday basis and closer to the nothingness that haunts us at the core of our being. Paradoxically, then, it is the fear of nothing (and the fear of freedom) that can cripple us. So, KEEP CALM AND READ HEIDEGGER. Thanks for the lovely video.

Thank you for this marvellous lecture

Excellent ! Thanks much for this , I really enjoy your videos .

binging your videos and been really heplful!

Your insights are beautifully explained and make some elusive ideas accessible. .Thank you.

I watch your videos with ambient music in the background its so good

Having an anxiety disorder myself looking into Heidegger really made the connection between what I was experiencing. I hate the state I am in, I am beginning to grow resentful of my general life in its entirety. But to experience this in the first place I had to feel comfortable with my daily life. It reassured me that i am not fundamentally opposed to the way things are going, but that I may have to reevaluate some aspects so I can return to my state of emotional equilibrium.

Thanks for your work Ellie. I´ve just seen the actual page of the podcast and it has much content, the episodes has each suggested bibliography. Im very thankfull to you, actually after watching your videos im more ineterested in studyng philosophy, and now i know what to read, im more orientated . Again thnaks, also, tryinng to write in english, hope is not confusing. My best desires to you and David

There is a real professor in the room, SALUTE WITH GREAT RESPECT!

That was a flawless, perfect explanation. So I want to say that I felt a litle beat disappointed when you said, "we are afraid that we couldn't find a job". I mean, we are afraid of our own freedom, so I think we are afraid even to find a job or to choose one for ourselves. Just an idea, no ofens. You are almost perfect teacher and I'm very grateful for your videos

The “unhomeliness” explanation coupled with pebble in shoe unlocked something. It’s that feeling of realizing your house has been broken into while you were gone. Total environment shift.

I like your presentation. It's an eye opener for me. I just came from Jordan Peterson explaining Nietzscha but his attitude and your attitude is totally different, you're more direct and more refreshing.. Thanks from India 🇮🇳

Some of the clearest, yet not over-simplified, explications of Heideggerian terminology on KZfaq. More Heidegger lectures, please.

Thanks for the great content ! The explanation helped understand anxiety through a new lense.

I have watched this video twice. I think Heidegger is beautiful because the truthfulness behind his profound work

This is why I start to like Continental philosophy for the simple reason that it is relevant to one's own life and it deepens one's understanding of oneself vis-a-vis the world in which one is immersed. In a word, it speaks to our intimate inner world. In this case, existential anxiety is really a weird mode because it appears fully only if one's consciousness has no particular object as happens in deep meditation where the self or the "I" that observes the objects of consciousness is itself been collapsed and vanished in whatever is observed resulting in a whole consciousness with no division. In this moment, there is a peace but afterward, there is an anxiety unlike any normal anxiety. It is an empty anxiety. One feels totally empty literally which causes confusion and it may lead to dread and drive one to be attached to something to fill in that emptiness.

Well done Ms Ellie. Those moments of strangeness & anxiety when we are shaken out of the supports of routine into that feeling of nothingness which requires intention & action to be or do something seem like something more philosophers should focus on.

Brilliant. I haven’t read Heidegger in 30 years and you just brought it all back as eloquently as Professor Dreyfus used to. Even better.

Very well explained great job

Thanks for clear explanations.

Dear Professor Ellie.-- Probably, you get this a lot, but your videos are really amazing. The way you explain concepts and ideas makes me think that I am indeed having a dialog with the philosopher you are referring to. I have recommended your videos in Oxford, and I hope someday you can visit us there. Keep up the good work! and thank you for your videos, which are indeed: art!

thank you so much for this :") i wish i watched this video before reading my philo reading

Thank you, very interesting explanation!

This was oddly calming. I finally get it now. I get life.

This was an amazingly enjoyable piece of work, Professor Ellie. Thanks a lot, I also enjoy other works you post on the channel. especially existentialism as I am clearly in my astethic stage of life according to father Søren K. I see some books on Ego back there, and that's something I think I struggle with. Also, understanding why humbleness has good fame and ambition, pride, and arrogance are "the enemy." I am a fan of drive and ambition, but when accomplishment comes after that, I struggle to manage Ego. some titles on ego and/or the value of humbleness would be highly appreciated if you want to recommend on a comment below :) Have a great one Proffesor.

Thank you this was very helpful

I'm a clinical psychologist and did my thesis on the daseinsanalytic school in Switzerland. Their theories based on Heidegger have turned out for me to be very useful in treating my patients. I often combine an explanation of the functions of basic emotions in an evolutionary context with roughly explaining how Geworfenheit by itself is extremely scary and hence we need a certain grade of illusion and remotion to be able to pretend to have enough control over our life to feel safe enough to keep going.

absolutely brilliant

excellent explanation in content and delivery

Good stuff, about individualization process of anxiety and offered freedom in the face of absence of determined objects of fear, or impossibility of fleeing into the familiar gratification of pleasure, when nothing offers this familiarity of behavior, in these periods, the field is cleared for pure space, and there's nothing else.

beautifully narrated

Anxiety is the sensitivity to universal entropy applied to oneself. feeling the flow from a less ordered state into a more chaotic state, which we are usually unaware of. It’s Acknowledging you are a vessel for free energy, navigating a bottomless ocean. And it is also the nostalgia for one’s distant past, when everything was at equilibrium. a sour mixture of past and future, at odds with the present.

i really like your channel. thank you

Awesome explanation

Thank you, Elle, for your fantastic breakdown of Dasein!

Thank you so much

you speak so clearly and precisely it's refreshing and you're clearly highly intelligent. I am happy to have discovered your channel

So great...your channel has really been of help to me as I put these thoughts about life togethere...I took my first philosophy course 60 years ago...my first existential college course, 47 years ago....you have hel;ed me reviewl that I forgot and I appreciate it..I love the study of Satre in particular...Kris krisoffesen wrote one of my best lines in a song...."Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"....(Me and Bobby McGee)

This cured me of my anxiety

Love your channel! You make me wish I'd been a philosophy major. Do you have any videos or are you planning on making any on Marion, givenness and the saturated phenomenon? Also, I see Sources of the Self on your shelf, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Charles Taylor. Thanks for making these videos, I'm looking forward to checking out your podcast!

This is perfect.

Very clear and interesting.

More Heidegger, please!!

Thanks, Dr. Anderson, for bringing light also to my reading of Much Ado about Nothing, by Shakespeare!

Thanks so much-I’m really enjoying the clarity of your explanations

Such a good class

thank you!

Best serving of Heidegger I’ve had in a CLIP My Sista! 👍🏿

Danggg. I was reviewing for my phenomenology class and came across this video. At the beginning I just thought it's just all bullcrap. But you video made a lot sense to me! Good you illustrate with all the examples! Kierkegaard is just so much clearer to me now. "Anxiety as the dizziness of freedom" ---Indeed. The ending of the video almost feels like a meditation. Good video. Thxxx

I grew up reading philosophy and contemplating it. Now, 30 years later, coming back and listening to this lecture, makes me feel like coming back to the source that shaped me.

ELLIE YOU ARE SO GREAT AT EXPLAINING SUCH COMPLEX IDEAS . YOU MAKE PHILOSOPHY ACCESSIBLE AND SO CLEAR TO EVERYONE WHO LISTEN TO YOUR PODCAST. 👍👍

Thank you.

Thanks!

Thank you

Best video ever watched. Every sigle word is so well pronunced, concept so clarely explained. Thank you! Brilliant indeed!

I enjoyed this in a totally copacetic way.

I’ve travelled the world many times. Seen more than most people who have EVER lived. Yet the knowledge and possible wisdom of this young woman stops me in my tracks regularly.

I am struggling with exactly this!

This is excellent! Grüß Gott from southern Germany.

wow, thank you.

Peter Sellers's last movie and one of his greatest -- Being There.

Thanks

You explain things beautifully. You remember me of another youtuber Trevor Bazett. I honesly think is kind reductionist of thinking anxiety like this, but it is a interesting perspective.

It might prove interesting to note that many probably most long term meditators experience this lightness of being or cheerfulness (although not a goal) along with the disassociation or lessened identification with one's thoughts. Like "oh I have thoughts but I'm not my thoughts"

Is there anything which can be eliminated from existence?? Everything is in existence!!! One can say "non-existence" is not included in existence but then non existence does not exists!!! Heidegger's philosophy of Dasein is wonderfully vedantic and gives reminiscence of the Ashtavakra Gita. I'm just so amazed to see how a person can possess so much wisdom and yet somehow remains to be such a fallible being.

Martin Heidegger was a beautiful mind

SHE IS A GENIUS !!!!

This would require redefining the common day use of anxiety to match Heidegger's ideas. It would also require accepting the position that moods can reveal the Nothing and that you can use your moods and emotions to understand such a thing

"but...I could *not* go to that meeting" 😅 powerful ending~

I read the titles in the library behind you.

Damn I wrote a paper on the section of sein und zeit. You make it look so easy lol