Hi all! Thanks for watching, I hope you found the video enlightening in some small way! If you'd like to help me to make more videos like this, and to influence what topics I cover next, then I've just launched a Patreon. I'd love it if you'd check it out and, if you're able, to consider supporting my channel. Thanks! Tom. www.patreon.com/tomnicholas

Okay, now I feel ready! time to crack open some Heidegge- *oh god*

In my experience time doesn't fly when you have fun as fast as it does when you have to meet a deadline.

I’ve learnt more in these 9 minutes than listening to an hour lecture at my university. Excellent work! 👍

the dunkirk example was very helpful!

Hope this has helped some of you understand Phenomenology a little better. Let me know if there's any other theories you'd like me to create a What the Theory video about!

I immensely enjoyed Heidegger’s Being and Time. I remember waking up at 3am for weeks so I could process the material. It had a huge impact on my practice and it’ll continue to be something I will revisit for years to come

I feel like all of these abstract concepts in my brain just locked into place, and everything suddenly makes so much more sense. Thank you! Subscribed :D

This was amazing, so so helpful; also it’s interesting to realise the understanding of these concepts has existed in your consciousness for years but without names so it’s great to deconstruct what we see, and analyse and articulate. Thank you! ☺️

This is such a good introduction to a very complex subject, you describe it really well. Thanks for making the vid! :)

just started reading at the existentialist cafe and came here and this guy just brought up my one of my favorite movie as an example to describe phenomenology, your sick

It was a form of genius to connect Dunkirk's storytelling with phenomenology.

I'm a visual arts grad student in the US, and a lot of the critical writing that I'm coming across presumes familiarity with a lot of the concepts you are so helpfully introducing. Whether it's phenomenology, semiotics, or even postmodern theatre and dramaturgy...I've kept cringing at my poor education as I nervously tiptoe around terms that come up again and again. Interestingly, the book I'm reading about the sculpture work of the artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres goes so far as to actually include essays by Brecht and Barthes, as they are so pertinent to appreciating the work. So I went to Google and ended up on your channel. These little introductions are incredibly helpful! Long comment, but I thought you might enjoy the testimony. Thanks a lot.

Forever helping me out along my postgraduate journey🙏🏽 thank you, Tom.

Currently finishing my Anthropology degree in the US and turned to your channel (specifically this video) after becoming confused when reading a literary piece about Phenomenology. Your video does a superb job of explaining and demonstrating the philosophical study of phenomenology. Thank you!

This video was recommended to me as part of resources for my masters in psychotherapy. Great work Tom!

Thank you Tom. Great presentation on a tough subject. Love the Dunkirk example for the explanation of time phenomenology. You have scripted and explained it superbly.

1:51 I forogt that this was recorded years before the lockdown and so this scene seemed perfectly normal, if a tad silly.

Your videos are so clear and concise. I really appreciate you making these!

The best explanation of phenomenology I have seen on KZfaq, using words whose meaning has been defined, something rare among professional philosophers.

honestly this is one of the best explanations of phenomenology, thank you!

Hey Tom . Well done for tackling what is a challenging topic . Your enthusiasm and style are very self evident and as a student of psychology the dunkirk example was brilliant . well done . thanks for sharing yourself and your hard work with the rest of us. Today you made the world a better place ! keep it up :))

Dude this is the easiest-to-understand explanation out there! Thanks a lot.

This video was so helpful, thank you for taking the time to make it :)

Thank you so much!!!! This was the clearest description I have heard yet. It finally makes sense!

This was very informative and easy to understand. Well delivered, thank you!

Amazingly helpful explanation! Thanks so much!

Thank you for such a great insight in a short space of time - making it understandable! My first insight into phenomenology.

Thank you :) Your video is great. I started to discover phenomenology for my studies and you helped me grab the definition of it.

Superb video, thank you for taking the time to put it together.

Good stuff Mr Nicholas. Useful pieces of my particular puzzle. Thanks and keep doing what you're doing.

way more helpful than listening a college professor give a lecture for 2 hrs.

This is awesome... You managed to give an idea of phenomenology and that example was great too ❤️

A truly excellent channel, with great introductions into very complex topics! My suggestion is to make a video about Husserl's epoche as a sort of part 2, as that might further clarify the method behind phenomenology. Briefly, when doing phenomenology, we are supposed to disregard the natural attitude that ascribes existence to the external world, focusing only on the meaning-giving and structures of experiences and meaning that we find in our own consciousness. There's also the discussion of the transcendental ego, which is the condition for experiencing as such, and is in that sense "outside of the world", something that cannot be objectified since it is the condition for the idea of objectivity itself.

I'm taking my first Phenomenology course as a junior in college and to be honest I feel SO LOST! This video has helped immensely. Great Job!!

Wow, thank you so much. I'm trying to understand enactivism, and I saw that phenomenology is one possible first step to it. The video was very helpful!

I've learned a lot on this video because his explanation is clear and also he explained about the Cartesian approach.

It would be a great help if we could have another video only about heidegger concept of dasein. Tnx for your great videos :)

Perfect lecture in a small amount of time!

Thankyou. Really good description analogy and application.

Great explanation, thank you, it helps a lot with my architectural project!

You explain this so well! Thank you!

Thanks for explaining this in an engaging and enthusistic manner. I'm such a fan of your explainations as a fellow theatre kid ❤

Good Job with such a dense subject!!

it was really helpful for me to grasp this concept of phenomenology, bundle of thanks

Wow! Great example to explain the phenomenology of time. Thank you.

Thank you! I have just started a MSC in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health and I'm struggling to decode a lot of the language and terminology used. This helped enormously and I will definitely look in your patreon. x x

Hi! Wow, I never saw Dunkirk that way. I'm gonna rewatch it just in case my brain decides to cooperate for understand this topic. A lot of thanks for the further reading section, too. Kisses!

Thank you for the amazing video. Your talk is so understandable and a pleasure to listen to. Somehow, it is fun. I don't know why it is so fun. Maybe it's because you don't flatter the audience but you care which part might be hard to listen to/understand for the audience. That is, you are a kind lecturer as well as a learned person.

This is excellent. Thank you. Lucid and insightful.

This was a great explanation! Thank you

Brilliant explanation! Thank you. The time time is perceived can impact your day.

using the Dunkirk film as an example of how we experience time was clever and I enjoyed it. Thx.

Among my academia colleagues, I always joke that if you find some theory hard to digest, go to KZfaq. Someone gonna explain it in plain and simple English. Well today I had a hard time trying to understand my colleagues who research "phenomenologically". Then I found this video. Now I understand what they do.

thank you for this. I have a presentation on phenomenology in my theories of theatre class on Monday and I understand the concept in a much better light

I watch a lot of videos like yours, but I love the unique way you Recommend a movie that would help with understanding something very complex. Thanks for the tip.

Great video! Enjoyed watching it! Thanks!

Love these videos -- thanks Tom.

The opposition with Descartes’ vision of the world was a game changer for my understanding of phenomenology. Thanks!

A lot of this is a really great way of explaining phenomenology to those who may be struggling with it. I really enjoyed this video! However, while time is viewed phenomenologically via the way we experience it rather than through a quantified Cartesian sense, this explanation of our being (Dasein) and our experience of time is simplified and distorted to the extreme. For example, Heidegger's conception of time as experienced by Dasien is not that it can sometimes feel shorter than it is or longer than it is, but rather that it is linear from one point to another. Heidegger has trouble with viewing time from a past-present-future perspective and believes that they are interlinked in our experience more than what is classically understood. Both human history and our own personal histories have a direct effect on our being, the relationship we have to the future also has a distinct effect on this as well. Being and Time is supposed to illustrate that time is connected to our being in a way that it motivates and is involved in our being, and consequently as a result of this gives meaning to our being. Although it is correct that phenomenology seeks to understand phenomena from our experience of it and indeed we do experience time in varying ways, this is not the core of Heidegger's phenomenology. Heidegger would also take issue with your usage of the word consciousness as well, as this is not a concept Heidegger deems necessary in any way for the purposes of onotology or phenomenology.

Thanks a lot man, this was so helpful

Tom, darling, I've been loving your videos! Though sometimes you have to sacrifice the explanation of concepts to make it short. A question on (the concept of) "consciousness": is it (1) an entity (like an object) with dynamic capabilities or is it (2) a loose set of processes?

Well done, thanks for this.

Great explanation, Thank you

Great way of explaining this! I will watch this video a few more times. New subscriber here 🙋🏻‍♂️

Thank you so much for this! Finally makes sense!

Thank you! Trying to get this I think I understand now 🙌🏼

this was really useful, thank you

Using the Dunkirk film was a great example, thank you!

Great work, Tom, such a nice balance of thorough explanation, succinct (not not rushed) narration, compelling examples, and all without falling back on dense inaccessible language -- the "brick wall of text" you have mentioned elsewhere. Out of curiousity, your analogy of Dunkirk -- did you develop that or come across it somewhere?

THANK YOU. It finally makes sense!

Very good description of Phenomology.

Loved this one !

Two thumbs up, great video, thank you!

This was very interesting and your great at explaining everything! I've subscribed to your channel :)

Finallyyyyyy I got it. Thank you!

Enjoyed the lecture.

I really enjoy watching this video, it's helpful......thanks

Thanks for a educational content.💗

This was helpful. Thank you! Prior to watching this, the term "phenomenology" was lost on me.

Related to time being "squishy": When sundials were the primary tool for marking time, the day was divided in 12 hours. However, in the summertime, those hours would be longer than in the wintertime. So an hour was 1/12 of daylight, but in the summer that would be 1 hour and 20 minutes and in the winter that hour would be 40 minutes long (I'm just using example numbers. The actual durations would depend on one's location).

Thanks for letting me understand this "phenomenology", your video was dope. Although i am still a bit confused to relate it with my current study of psychiatry. 😂

i really appreciated your video. Was introduced to phenomology through music ( Sergiu Celibidache)

Hi! Amazing video, thank you very much!

I love what you do! Keep it up you're awesome :D

Amazing, please please keep up the good work. Might help me pass my degree!

this is absolutely spectacular, so clearly and concisely explained and very interestingly aligns quite well with Buddhist philosophy.

This is an incredible explanation. Condensed yet both copious and compelling! Thank you! I would be forever grateful if you could dig into Martin Heidegger’s article: Building, Dwelling and Thinking!🙏🏼

Bruh you put the Pepsi commercial in it LMAOOOOO You had me chuckling lol

The explanation with Dunkirk was very clever and helpful, excellent narrating skills though. Thanks!!!

amazing content m8!

I loved "conciusness is situated", I´ll use it after the "history writting is situated" that I allways tell my students

Very good. Definitely help me Understand phenomenology a bit better

excellent video. will be citing you in my research for my honours degree

Not sure if you're still checking these comments, but how would you compare this particular phenomenology of time to the way Bergson (and then later Deleuze in Cinema 1 & 2) define time? This question is open to anyone still reading this! Thanks!

Really good work young fella 👍👍

Legend! Great video.

Very, very good explanation. Congrats

Ridiculous that a ten minute video can hammer into my brain these concepts that my university reading list is majorly failing at

Very good, thank you!