Today Hank begins to teach you about Philosophy by discussing the historical origins of philosophy in ancient Greece, and its three main divisions: metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. He will also introduce logic, and how you’re going to use it to understand and critically evaluate a whole host of different worldviews throughout this course. And also, hopefully, the rest of your life.
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If logic (the tools) is a deterministic way to get from an assertion A to another one B , than there must be a true way towards "reality"
Philosophy – the study & pursuit of Truth
Hank and I will never part ways unless this youtube channel somehow disappears but that is unlikely
Thank you for the arabic translation and for the amazing video
Scientists ask "how".
Philosophers ask "why".
Wish this series came after Avengers:Endgame. There would’ve been some amazing analogies.
Im Tony brady. glade to see others like me.
YOU NAILed IT?
Amen. Is this Wittgenstein
I just realized that I am a philosopher
“Why YOU think YOU are right” . Worlds problem right there
philosophy gives me anxiety
How do I know if I know how to think?
You're actually a very interesting lecturer 👏🏾👏🏾
Hahaha…honestly…when i was a little kid i thought i was the only REAL person on earth with like…a conscience and everything. I thought everyone else were robots, or phantoms in human husks, placed there by some greater power to amuse or antagonize me. People thought i was just egotistical, which makes no sense since i was an introvert with confidence issues. Anyway, I'm glad there is PHILOSOPHY (yay) to possibly help me figure out the cause of the thought process of younger me 😀
Could you please speak a bit faster… I I can almost understand what you are saying!
Read Quraan for one time.
U will know the answer, why we r.
Star Wars prequels look like Oscar material in comparison to the sequel trilogy!!
Though I was hoping for golf tips.
And your speed is best.,
Thank you, Hank. This doesn't suck.
who else is here because your r.e teacher set you online homework
<3
Premise 1-to do is to be. Premise 2 -to be is to do. Conclusion-do be do be do
I am thrilled to find this course and look forward to taking it!
So nobody's mentioning fungi? Smh
I keep getting distracted by Nietzsche and Socrates head on the right
Music 💯🔥
Philosophy is an attempt to understand the world around us and the reasons for it and us and the things that we do. A lot of it can be introspective and deals with questions as to the ideal society and the motivations of people and why they do things. Whilst I like philosophy there exists a caveat within it for me as a central issue:
Namely, Philosophy can encourage apathy as regards too much thinking and not doing, or not putting ones thoughts into a physical manifestation in the real world, this is of course where philosophy can encounter the realms of politics, economics and sociology. But I find for my own introspective analysis that philosophers as a whole tend to to be sterotypically disconnected with real world issues and more focused on spouting platitudes and stoking their own egos. An idea is nothing if not acted upon, Plato took no action to create his republic of ideal guardians, Machiavelli espoused his theories but did not connive and manipulate to put them into effect, Locke took his notions of a liberal or liberated society of freedom but did he campaign for it, did he issue speeches or create a movement or cause to do so? One may of course retort that he practised it by allowing others to do as they do, to which I say the ideal or idea not put into affect is nothing, and less than nothing it detracts. I may have the idea of making a sandwich to appease my hunger, but without the inclination or will to do so i shall remain hungry.
Buddha drew an interesting parallel here when he described a person shot by a poisoned arrow, he states that the man could enquire from whence direction the arrow came, where it was made, what it was made from, who shot the arrow, what is the poison etc etc, but only by dealing with the arrow, i.e. by acting upon it can he affect his life. Thus whilst I admire philosophy and love it myself, I find that most take no action from it, worse they may become armchair philsophers, worse still they may stoke their own egos and platitudes and lastly they may, surrounded only by followers lose touch of the real world they once tried to understand. Wisdom can therefore be a snare, for it is not a conclusion that is important, indeed only dead fish swim with the stream but the evermore exploration and continuance of the journey, once one reaches a definite conclusion and no longer takes an action, is it not that he/she is indistinguishable from the corpses of those laid to rest in previous generations? he/she that states that they now know truth are thus now nobody, for they have stopped action, thus it is that to know, or truly know is to know that you know nothing and thus one lives by continuing on the journey of trying to understand. Philsophy is therefore a journey, for which the action of walking that path IS the aim, the quaint phrase: It is not the destination but the journey that matters springs to mind.
Ugh….you now have me getting philosophical…ah well, here's to more understanding and more wisdom. Have a nice day anyone who reads this.
My brain is gonna explode trying to understand every meaning of the branches of philosophy..
Questions sometimes do matter more than answers. 🙂
Man, i love this crash course already. The matrix and Descartes joke was funny. I can't wait to watch all of this.
Wish this course had notes that I could refer to.
The opening theme is so spacious now. I like the way they use sounds to fit their lessons.
For me, the best definition I've ever come across for philosophy was "the activity of trying to work out the right way to think about things." The keyword in that definition is "activity," because part of what makes philosophy so rewarding is engaging with the ideas of different philosophers and interrogating our own ideologies and biases in order to better ascertain whatever the truth is. If all we're doing is learning what others have said and simply repeating it, then we're little more than contemporary sophists.
i keep asking and never find answers