Critical Thinking: Value Judgements 

Thanks! These were actually my first foray into lecture capture. You can find Ethics, Intro, and now Existentialism course videos over on my personal channel

I'm really enjoying this series, its like being in college again. I'm stuck home a lot during the C19 pandemic and wanted to try to learn something, figured a class in critical thinking might come in handy and I didn't get to tale it when I was in school.

You're welcome, and I'm glad to hear that they can be helpful -- even with another profs classes. My students make some contribution here -- questions, energy, discussion. I'll be continuing to video these for the rest of the semester.

Sure, of course facts presuppose matrices of value judgements -- but this was a 100-level Critical Thinking class, where they're already quite fuzzy about even "facts", let alone the simplified range of value judgements we introduce them to here, so I kept it as simple as I could for them. In a more advanced class, or later in the semester, another story. . . .

This is completely unrelated to the lecture, but when you pulled out your iPhone I was astonished at how different they look now, 13 years later. I’m only 15 so maybe that made it more surprising for me haha. Hey, maybe this was an aesthetic based value judgement, because I am more fond of how they look now than they did then.

Thanks! I'll be talking them up with other professors, and maybe some of them will decide to produce some. I'll also be videoing a few guest lectures from other profs' classes -- different topics than Critical Thinking

I have been watching a lot of your lectures. Very useful and interesting. Intend to watch all of them. Thanks for posting them.

Thanks for these lectures. I am taking critical thinking online and looked on here for some help. I have watched a number of these videos and find that they have really helped me as an addition to what my professor has given me.

We should have more on this subject in our schools in Argentina ! ( Practical value ) Very interesting lecture and lecturer!

This is a really informative series. Wish I was taught this in Uni

Please can you inform me of the textbook that was used for this course? Thank you

Is it valid to map moral judgments onto aesthetic judgments? Is it valid to map "right on wrong" onto "this looks pretty"?

Moral judgments can influence our aesthetic judgments though. Some Muslims for instance would not like songs in the premise that they are Haram.

Did you ever discuss Batman Vs Joker for moral judgments in the classroom?

is "you are stupid" and "you are scary" a moral value judgments?

At the point where he mentions that some people hate nature it made me wonder whether or not there might be individual less cognizant animals that also hate nature. Because for me, I love nature, love to get out in it as much as possible; so to hate nature - in my eyes - seems, well, unnatural. But if there are humans who hate there own natural environment, perhaps there too are animals that do also.

Wanting to be a good person is a value judgment in itself. How does one begin to argue for or against subjective claims using other subjective claims?

Soldiers are heroes. The unemployed are lazy. = Aesthetic value judgment. I earned my benefits by being a soldier. = Practical value judgment. Unemployed people haven’t earned their benefits. = Dissenting practical value judgment. Everyone deserves security. = Moral judgment.

There are bigger concepts in history than location.

Tell me if anyone on here predicted that he would start talking about spanking?

There's no moral relativism. Because if we relativize morality we can no longer know what is right or wrong; and then the society will colapse, surely.

Oh, okay, nevermind. You just answered it..

Morals, not right and wrong, but good and evil. Right and wrong are more properly describing accuracy. In this particular setting/context, a class on critical thinking, proper terminology is essential, not trivial.