00:00We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion.
00:03The great task in life is to find reality.
00:07This is a course about the entire set of intellectual developments throughout the 20th century.
00:12A huge historical change was taking place.
00:15I want to talk about the movements that led to that, some of the key ideas of it.
00:19You will learn some of the most important developments in literature, in history, in philosophy, in the arts.
00:26Some of them you're going to like.
00:27Let's think about what it is to be a human being.
00:30Some of them you're going to think are insane.
00:32There is no objectivity.
00:34There is no external existence.
00:36I think we can't understand who we are and how we got here unless we understand some of these ideas.
00:44You can learn a lot by looking at the great minds of the past.
00:48The metaphysical question of our ability to find reality is not only a deep metaphysical question, it is a deep
00:54moral question.
00:55Read literature, study history, study philosophy, and think about things from different points of view.
01:01What does thought have to do with reality?
01:03What does language have to do with reality?
01:06I want people to understand themselves better and their world better, by understanding where it came from.
01:12I want people to guess, in time.
01:16First of all, students have to see the Morgenstern beauty mission and do that.
01:19People accept experiences, they have to understand themselves better and their idea.
01:19Forри was one of the most important things that I think was a constante of search.
01:19If you were one of the most important things that I would bring on their portfolio,
01:20They won't be the same- THEY dont cough pain.
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