what can dissolve the individual?

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IdeasInHat

IdeasInHat

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We often think every choice, belief, or action of ours belongs to us; however, there are worldviews that would allow for that to not be so. In some worldviews, the individual is negated or dissolved by something; which means, our actions and choices are not our own. Here is an overview of such a worldview.
00:00 intro
02:24 internalization of societal standards
03:51 instincts or human nature
05:26 the denial of will
06:30 the denial of the subject-object distinction
07:36 obligations
08:16 neurosis or mental health problems
10:00 outro
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@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
what are some things that you think can negate someone's individuality?
@barrichello83
@barrichello83 2 ай бұрын
Being preoccupied with the external world / externalities. For example too much focus on the past, what others do or should be doing. This hinders self-reflection and action. Or would you put this under neurosis?
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
@@barrichello83 I think it depends. If it comes with an intense anxiousness about being incomplete, maybe. But, generally, I agree, too much external focus can result in an insufficient amount of time dedicated to one's self; which means, our actions are motivated from things other than our own self-reflection.
@Carnyx_1
@Carnyx_1 2 ай бұрын
A pathological tendency to intentionally or unintentionally ignore the reprocussions of your actions.
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
@@Carnyx_1 is this like the idea that if you lie enough you believe it yourself as well?
@niki3205
@niki3205 2 ай бұрын
The dissolved individual is a person that leads an more unconscious life. Following that something like meditation or mindfulness can be a tool to get back more of your individuality. That's kindy my insight from the topic.
@samibabar
@samibabar 2 ай бұрын
You are secretly becoming my favorite youtuber, keep it up bro!
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
Thank yooou!
@peterSobieraj
@peterSobieraj Ай бұрын
So if you nice do things that satisfie your short term gols, then you are disolveing your individuality. But if you do you obligations, to satisfie your long therm gols, then you are dosolving your individuality as well. I'm confused.
@weezerdog3
@weezerdog3 2 ай бұрын
So, I have an interesting theory of selfhood that might be worth consideration (through which you can integrate or rebel against the points I make to better define your own theory of selfhood, I guess): The self is nothing but a conglomeration of outside objects, like a shopping cart at a grocery store. As we go through life, we have things inherent in us (our genetics, place of birth, historical events beyond our control, etc.) that form our selfhood (as the shopping cart). We can change some of these things (we can change our gender or hair color, for example), but some things, due to being temporally unreachable (for instance, the impact I had on someone's life at age six), can't be changed. Now, disregarding the things we can't change, many facets of our personality are things created by society that we pick off the shelf and integrate into our presentation and our lifestyle. If we like grunge music, we might learn guitar or wear ripped jeans and flannel shirts. From that day forward, we are a grunge person, and that is part of who we are to others. Similarly, we could say we like Jeeps, throw that into the cart, and be known to other people as a Jeep person. Catchphrases, languages, aesthetics, mannerisms, relationships with other people, food, music, television, books, all these things we can like and dislike are part of who we are and how we define ourselves, we become a conglomeration of outside objects. Upon our death, we leave the shopping cart in the store. People can examine it, write about it, take things out of the cart for themselves, or worship it for its uniqueness or some other admirable quality, or model their own life after ours. Nobody will ever assemble a shopping cart quite like ours, but most of what we are is just interchangeable parts and shared cultural objects that we played almost no role in creating. We are woefully unoriginal, despite being exactly unrepeatable (in that nobody can live our lives the exact way we did given the same coordinates in time and space). Edited because my auto correct thinks it can read my mind, but it can't.
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
It seems like you are mixing a lot into this paragraph. It is hard for me to parse what you really mean. There seems to be some epistemic notions of self, that is the methods by which we acquire specific features or notions that define self. For example, "many facets of our personality are things created by society that we pick off the shelf and integrate into our presentation and our lifestyle". And then there is also some ontological claims about self, meaning what the substance of self actually is. For example, "The self is nothing but a conglomeration of outside objects, like a shopping cart at a grocery store". Is your worldview more akin to this? the self is just beliefs about who we are, and those beliefs are formed by our associations and relations to objects around us
@weezerdog3
@weezerdog3 2 ай бұрын
@IdeasInHat I guess so? I guess my thesis would be that so much that we associate with our "self" originates from outside the self, yet we claim that it represents us. My belief being that there is no large self that includes these objects, but a much smaller self that is tied to them, with the objects remaining outside in the shared reality. Edit because it was too long :(
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
@@weezerdog3 I think I understand now. I agree to some extent, I would add that "self" should be consciously defined at some point to make it meaningful to us. Otherwise, we will have a naturalistic notion of self, which is not bad but also not as fun of a model.
@theadhdviking8218
@theadhdviking8218 2 ай бұрын
As someone with bipolar I disagree with the notion that this nurosis is something separate. Having gone through manic episode the nurosis affects your self reflection. Your train of logic is altered entirely. Your concious choices are altered. It left me with a profoundly altered notion of who i am and what that really means.
@Pharmacylectureinhindi
@Pharmacylectureinhindi 2 ай бұрын
What if we don't buy products than what happened to economy it will survive and any book they predict this problem and my school mate use chat gpt for copy the homework did chat gpt is good for study
@redditionzyad946
@redditionzyad946 2 ай бұрын
If you’re familiar with her texts, I would be curious to hear your thoughts on the philosophy of Ayn Rand. I have nothing against passionate arguments, but in her case, it’s just difficult to find a fair assessment of her ideas that doesn’t fall into some sort of anger-filled vitriol. I always find it suspicious when an author gets systematically dismissed by critics who have nothing to show but a mix of gut feelings, personal attacks, and vague accusations. It means the discussion reached something profound.
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
I am not prepared to pick up atlast shrugged at the moment, lol. My Afghan history book is already 800 pages. Does she have a smaller book you would want me to read? I am willing to review something of hers.
@redditionzyad946
@redditionzyad946 2 ай бұрын
@@IdeasInHat You can start with one of her essay collections, they’re less than 200 pages. “The Virtue of Selfishness” could be a nice entry point. If you wanna dig deeper you can try her “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology” or “Philosophy: Who Needs it”, to explore the metaphysical views underlying her ideas.
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
@@redditionzyad946 I will grab an essay collection, that sounds palatable for my current free time levels, haha. Might take me a bit for the book to arrive and be read, but I will try! Going to look for a collection now.
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
@@redditionzyad946 just bought 3 books of her essays. I saw a blackwell companion was also published on her. Will try to read them soon.
@redditionzyad946
@redditionzyad946 2 ай бұрын
@@IdeasInHat I got many of her books at TLB in LA. They usually go for dirt cheap in second-hand bookstores. Thanks for the Blackwell tip, I’ll pick it up for sure. Hope you’ll get around to explore her fiction works at some point…
@Mustachioed_Mollusk
@Mustachioed_Mollusk 2 ай бұрын
Look into the lsd experiments for that answer lol World governments had a huge esoteric interest during ww2/coldwar
@Pharmacylectureinhindi
@Pharmacylectureinhindi 2 ай бұрын
Do you know osho a philosophy and he create a city ir real?? And some controversy around him ...
@IdeasInHat
@IdeasInHat 2 ай бұрын
I know Osho, and I know some story about him cutting a finger. But I never read anything by him. You have a suggestion?
@Pharmacylectureinhindi
@Pharmacylectureinhindi 2 ай бұрын
@@IdeasInHati asked same question ok when you find tell me also
@glenbateman5960
@glenbateman5960 2 ай бұрын
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