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Was ist Idealismus? Philosophisches Kopfkino (3sat)

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    How do we really know, that that
    which we see,
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    touch and taste really exists?
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    What is reality?
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    The objects or how we perceive them?
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    Do we see the world as its is,
    or is the world what it is,
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    because we perceive it as such?
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    Let's imagine the following:
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    We are in a cave, deep underground.
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    There is no visible daylight.
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    In this cave, people are tied
    to chairs in such a way
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    that they can only look at the cave wall.
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    From the time
    they are born,
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    they are shown black-and-white
    movies continuously.
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    The audience believes that the film
    is a true reflection of reality.
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    What sounds like an experiment
    from the 3rd Reich,
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    is actually a 2000-year-old mind game,
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    conceived by Socrates' star pupil:
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    Plato!
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    Now suppose,
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    that one of these bold youngsters
    actually escapes from the cave
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    and sees the three-dimensional, colourful
    world for the first time.
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    How would he feel?
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    Probably similar to the brave Keanu Reeves
    in the "Matrix",
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    in the scene where he wakes up in
    real world for the first time.
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    And worst of all,
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    if our ancient Neo were to
    return to his friends
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    and tell them that the world
    as they know it
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    isn't real…
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    then he would be dismissed as a madman.
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    According to Plato, our reality
    is based on 'ideas'
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    Objects, and how we experience them,
    are only their images.
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    However, for Plato the term 'idea'
    represented more.
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    It was about the essence of all things,
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    that which we saw
    as part of an ideal world
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    and that which we recalled from memory.
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    What he pioneered with this is a doctrine
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    called "idealism",
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    to which Leibnitz and Kant
    later also subscribed to.
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    However, this does not mean
    diligently donating
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    to victims of natural disasters
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    or serving soup to the homeless
    at Christmas.
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    Just as the real meaning of "materialism",
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    isn't the "My house, My boat, My
    investment advisor" song sung by Madonna
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    or the meaning of the Yuppie Lifestyle.
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    Materialism is the philosophical
    countermovement to idealism.
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    Idealism sees the origin
    of reality in the "idea",
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    whereas with materialism "matter"
    is decisive.
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    Thus, reality arises due to the
    effect of the environment
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    and not by the way in which
    we perceive it.
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    To the question "What is?"
    materialism answers:
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    Only matter.
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    The world exists how it is
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    and we must conform to its laws.
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    Sounds bleak in the long run, though,
    doesn't it?
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    So, are we just the ball
    in a cosmic pinball machine then?
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    So where does reality lie?
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    Within us or out there?
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    This game ends in a draw
Title:
Was ist Idealismus? Philosophisches Kopfkino (3sat)
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German
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Duration:
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