[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.08,0:00:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we know that we are real Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.84,0:00:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we actually exist? Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.04,0:00:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sure, we can look at ourselves \Nin the mirror, pinch ourselves Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.00,0:00:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or bang our heads against the wall, Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.00,0:00:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even that, could just be \Nsomething that we imagine. Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.62,0:00:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, how are we able \Nto imagine something, Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.91,0:00:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we don't exist? Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.44,0:00:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's how we get to the \Ncrux of the matter: Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.92,0:00:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we question reality, \Nif what we are seeing Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.50,0:00:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is real or not, there is always us. Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.60,0:00:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That isn't up for discussion. Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.48,0:00:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how can we be \Ncertain of our existence? Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.05,0:00:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Precisely: Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.23,0:00:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be or not be,\Nthat is the question here! Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.26,0:00:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The concept of `being' has the broadest \Ndefinition by far, Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.17,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it relates to \Neverything conceivable. Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.36,0:00:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To our house, our boat, \Nour investment advisor Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.10,0:00:55.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, of course, ourselves! Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.44,0:00:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Everything that is conceivable,"\Ntherefore also means: Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.70,0:01:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that "is not" isn't. Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.72,0:01:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of that combined \Nis infinite! Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.32,0:01:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boldly stated: \Nnothing exists outside of being, Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.88,0:01:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as everything that exists \Nis part of being. Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.98,0:01:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that is only half the battle Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.04,0:01:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because being isn't \Nequal to existence. Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.56,0:01:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Middle Ages, "existence" was\Ndistinguished into that Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.32,0:01:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was essential which was the\N"necessary existence". Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.97,0:01:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That which was essential for \Neveryone and everything Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.68,0:01:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the basis for everything\Nthat existed, Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.77,0:01:28.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was naturally called God. Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.93,0:01:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There where the necessary exists, \Nthe unnecessary doesn't seem far away. Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.40,0:01:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus the 2nd kind of the existence \Nwas defined as "not necessary"... Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.46,0:01:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply things which nobody needs! Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.24,0:01:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,USB ashtrays, inflatable cell phone \Nholders, breakfast egg heads, Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.52,0:01:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pasta in a cooking bag,\Nmicrowave slippers.... okay. Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.83,0:01:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apart from that which no one needs,\Nthere is also the existence Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.81,0:01:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that which can be almost impossible: Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.68,0:01:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "impossible existence". Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.60,0:01:56.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that mean that God\Nis unable to create a rock Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.41,0:01:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he himself cannot lift!!! Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.46,0:02:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then how can something exist \Nthat is more powerful Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.32,0:02:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the necessary existence? Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.60,0:02:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kant then proposed sensuality\Nand experience... Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.32,0:02:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his sources of understanding! Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.38,0:02:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Should that then mean, Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.49,0:02:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that things appear to exist, \Nbecause of the way we experience them. Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.98,0:02:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His colleague Hegel saw it like this: Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.91,0:02:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The unity of essence \Nand appearance, Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.68,0:02:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of essence and existence is reality. Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.92,0:02:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the essence must appear, \Nthen the being is essence Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.61,0:02:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the essence is being....\NUh…Wait a moment Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.13,0:02:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, to summarise: Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.46,0:02:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the essence of being \Nis essential being. Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.07,0:02:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plain and simple, the existence. Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.87,0:02:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kierkegaard saw it differently yet again \Nand thus Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.29,0:02:42.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became the founder of the \Nphilosophy of existence: Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.09,0:02:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Being itself, to which the mode of being\Ncan behave in a particular way Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.39,0:02:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and always behaves in one way or another, \Nwe call existence". Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.58,0:02:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By this he means that this existence\Nis quite sufficient. Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.99,0:02:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It relates only to itself and \Nnot to a great absolute. Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.76,0:03:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am myself and I am responsible \Nfor getting along with my own self. Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.24,0:03:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What else is …., I don't care! Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much to existence. Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.15,0:03:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to not exists at all? Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.48,0:03:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin Walser once said: Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.46,0:03:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Nothing is true without\Nits opposite" Whoa! Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.94,0:03:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's that simple then.