The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel Zapffe

Check out my Substack - https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/ Request personal videos on Cameo - https://www.cameo.com/gregorybsadler Get Zapffe's The Last Messiah - https://openairphilosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf Support my work here - https://www.patreon.com/sadler or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM Philosophy tutorials - https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials/ Take classes with me - https://reasonio.teachable.com/ This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker. This Core Concept video focuses on Peter Wessel Zapffe's essay The Last Messiah, and discusses the first portion of the work, where he sets out the human condition as he sees it, where as a species the trait that was our great advantage, consciousness, has become too developed in us, leading ultimately to a "cosmic panic", which we attempt to set aside through four main "suppression mechanisms": isolation, attachment, diversion, and sublimation. If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers: https://www.patreon.com/sadler You can also make a direct contribution to help fund my ongoing educational projects, by clicking here: https://www.paypal.me/ReasonIO If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me - especially on Shestov's thought and works - click here: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials/ You can find a translation of Get Zapffe's The Last Messiah here - https://openairphilosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf #Zapffe #Philosophy #pessimist #pessimism #humanity #ethics #nature #consciousness #suppression #mechanism My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation (Amazon links are associate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases)