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Maybe this girl had only read about Socrates before the class and never heard his name pronounced? “I’m sorry if I’m pronouncing these names wrong.” -video poster 🤨😉😂 Sorry to rip you. Great video, great book. Thanks for your hard work.
Hey, thanks for this video. I'm reading History of Western Philosophy right now, loving it I should mention. I hope your channel continues to grow! You're a captivating speaker. With practice will come polish, and you have a great base to build on. Best wishes from Maryland
Hey! Thanks for the supportive comment! I know, it's such a great book. Rereading it for this video was so fun. Russell was a legit genius and champion for education even if I disagree with a ton of his philosophy. Also, want to thank you for your contribution to the internet with your educational videos. Most people do nothing with their knowledge, and just you teaching math has separated you from the pack. Keep going and sharing! Hope this channel continues to grow too lol! Best wishes from Las Vegas! PEACE
I'm new to Philosophy and I've only read Plato so far. Do you guys recommend I read this book first to get a good general overview of philosophy or should I continue reading books individually?
Get "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant. That's the best place to start IMO. I know PHD's in philosophy who learned a bunch from it. The relation between philosophers is more important at the start than what each one thought.
The story of philosophy by Will Durant! Learn to write essays really well. An element of that is a small mastery over a certain part of philosophy. I would pick a couple Nietzsche books and academic criticism books on Nietzsche. That unlocks Heidegger, post-modernism (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Ponty) German Idealism (Hegel and Schelling), Schopenhauer, Heraclitus, Spinoza, psycho-analytic thought (Freud, Jung, Rank, and Reich and a bunch of other fun thinkers who built off Nietzsche. That's a good first frame that will make your degree more fun. You'll have to read some Plato, Aristotle, and a few others along the way to understand the thinkers above too. Look at the lineage chart in "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant and pick what philosophical lineage you want to focus on first! You may want to base this on your professors. You need to learn them all eventually!
So, I have History of Western Philosophy, but haven’t gotten to reading it yet, but regarding the Christian philosophers taking it to the next level, does Russell mention the Islamic and Jewish Philosophers? Aquinas and Augustine are more well known to us in the west as Christianity has dominated culture for centuries, but Avicenna, Ibn Rushd, Al-Kindi, Maimonides, Philo all come to mind as those who were pushing philosophy forward at that time too, and influencing the likes of Aquinas, or Scotus, though Augustine would’ve been prior to all the above besides Philo. I’m glad Russell treats the Christian philosophers well though, as Russell maybe isn’t my favorite philosopher
Here is all that Russel says about Jewish and Islamic philosophers at that time in this book. "Arabic philosophy is not important as original thought. Men like Avicenna and Averroes are essentially commentators. Speaking generally, the views of the more scientific philosophers come from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists in logic and metaphysics, from Galen in medicine, from Greek and Indian sources in mathematics and astronomy, and among mystics religious philosophy has also an admixture of old Persian beliefs. Writers in Arabic showed some originality in mathematics and in chemistry - in the latter case, as an incidental result of alchemical researches. Mohammedan civilization in its great days was admirable in the arts and in many technical ways, but it showed no capacity for independent speculation in theoretical matters. Its importance, which must not be underrated, is as a transmitter. Between ancient and modern European civilization, the dark ages intervened. The Mohammedans and the Byzantines, while lacking the intellectual energy required for innovation, preserved the apparatus of civilization - education, books, and learned leisure. Both stimulated the West when it emerged from barbarism - the Mohammedans chiefly in the thirteenth century, the Byzantines chiefly in the fifteenth. In each case the stimulus produced new thought better than any produced by the transmitters - in the one case scholasticism, in the other the Renaissance (which however had other causes also). "
@Christian F He's very much a product of his time lol Understanding this helps reading some of the crazy stuff inside. It's funny how he talks about Modern Day Germany lol But I'm very curious in regards to Islamic culture and history, specially that of the area in Bagdad or Sumer
I'm wondering how you completely read this! Actually I had philosophy as a core course I'm my post graduation. It took long time to understand one philosophy but you have read whole book. That's great. Thanks for the review. Better I try to read the book which is sleeping in bookshelf after my semester exam 😂. Thanks man.
Thanks man, convinced me to buy. Wanna know what happened with that girl lol. Small note - Russell was English and you're saying Bertrand wrong. It's pronounced BERTrund. Keep grinding bro!
Things that Bertrand and Foucault could never dream about happened... But, it ended with her ghosting me and an ounce of my pot missing 😂 Thanks for the support and corrections. This video is one reason I don't record after 9PM anymore. A lot of mistakes happen at 1AM when you try talking about philosophy 😂
@@WriteConscious LOL nice one. Can't have it all haha. All good re: small mistakes! Actually ended up getting Durant's instead in the end but heard about it here first.
