[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 actually exist Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.84,0:00:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we are real? 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: 0,0:00:17.38,0:00:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or bang our heads against the wall, Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.05,0:00:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even that, could just be \Nsomething that we imagine. Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.68,0:00:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, how are we able \Nto imagine something, Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.91,0:00:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we don't exist? Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.64,0:00:28.92,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: 0,0:00:37.63,0:00:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how can we be \Ncertain of our existence? Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.06,0:00:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Precisely: Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.77,0:00:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be or not be,\Nthat is the question! Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.12,0:00:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The concept of `being' has the broadest \Ndefinition by far, Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.82,0:00:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it relates to \Neverything conceivable. Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.99,0:00:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Relating to our house, our boat, \Nour investment advisor Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.66,0:00:45.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, of course, ourselves! Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.92,0:00:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Everything that is conceivable,"\Ntherefore also means: Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.62,0:00:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that "is not". Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.84,0:00:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of that combined \Nis infinite! Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.60,0:00:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boldly stated: \Nnothing exists outside of being, Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.90,0:00:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as everything that exists \Nis part of being. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.98,0:00:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that is only half the battle Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.52,0:00:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because being isn't \Nequal to existence. Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.44,0:01:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Middle Ages, a distinction \Nwas made, that "existence", Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.78,0:01:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was necessary was the\N"necessary existence". Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.30,0:01:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That which was essential for \Neveryone and everything Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.80,0:01:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the basis for all existence Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.34,0:01:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was naturally named God. Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.76,0:01:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There where the necessary lies, \Nthe unnecessary isn't far removed. Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.98,0:01:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus the 2nd kind of the existence \Nwas defined as "not necessary"... Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.24,0:01:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply things which nobody needs! Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.88,0:01:22.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,USB ashtrays, inflatable cell phone \Nholders, breakfast eggplants, Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.08,0:01:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pasta in a cooking bag,\Nmicrowave slippers.... okay. Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.66,0:01:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides that which no one needs,\Nthere is also the existence Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.53,0:01:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that which is impossible: Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.10,0:01:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "impossible existence". Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.60,0:01:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that mean that God\Nis unable to create a boulder Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.24,0:01:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he himself cannot lift!!! Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.44,0:01:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then how can something exist \Nthat is more powerful Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.74,0:02:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the necessary existence? Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.51,0:02:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kant then came up with sensuality and experience... Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.56,0:02:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his sources of understanding! Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.34,0:02:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Should that then mean, Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.44,0:02:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that things appear to exist, \Nas we experience them. Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.19,0:02:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His colleague Hegel saw it like this: Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.18,0:02:16.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The unity of essence \Nand appearance, Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.93,0:02:20.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of essence and existence is reality. Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.82,0:02:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the being must appear, \Nthen being is existence Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.09,0:02:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the existence is being....\NUh…Wait a moment Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.71,0:02:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, to summarise: Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.16,0:02:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the existence to which the being \Nattributes itself is the essential being. Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.64,0:02:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simply put, the existence. Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.07,0:02:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kierkegaard saw it differently yet again \Nand thus Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.11,0:02:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became the founder of the \Nphilosophy of existence: Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.46,0:02:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Being itself, to which the being behaves\Nin a particular way Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.45,0:02:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and always somehow behaves, \Nwe call existence". Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.20,0:02:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By this he means that this existence\Nis quite sufficient. Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.84,0:02:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It relates only to itself and \Nnot to a great absolute. Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.93,0:02:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am me and I am responsible \Nfor getting along with myself. Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.98,0:03:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What else is …., I don't care! Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.24,0:03:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much to existence. Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.17,0:03:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to not exists at all? Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.11,0:03:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin Walser once said: Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.73,0:03:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Nothing is true without\Nits opposite" Whoa! Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.40,0:03:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's that simple then. Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.12,0:03:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,