Bravo --- stellar video on all levels, After I studied Ethics during my university days, I tried to follow Kant's "Categorical Imperative" in my 20s, but i failed numerous times :( Keep forging on --- you've launched a provocative, informative and entertaining channel📖📖📚📚👏👏 Also excellent intonation and vocal delivery -- you're a polyglot.
I hear his critique of the classic Utilitarianism, but it's always bugged me that people use that one weakness to throw the whole thing out rather than simply add the consideration of all people as an end as part of the consideration of how "good" any given action is, but...oh well.
Same goes for Hedonism. The Epicurean school is more complicated than solely 'pleasure for me good, more please'. It also took into account overall wellbeing, long-term effects and the feelings of others. Even intellectuality and an interest in the arts was important to them. Kant howevers denies that things can be 'good', in a moral sense. This seems true, but in another sense all things are good, in as much as they can be desired (like health, a loved one, or food). Also it would make sense that good-willed intentions are also good (in a derived sense). The way Kant uses it seems a bit limited
I respect Kant I really do, but I do question the ‘untold perfect’ capacity he seems to suggest humans have for following rational duty. Just as an example, you don’t cure a depressed person by saying ‘don’t be depressed’ and importantly this is because they don’t have control over that, if they did life would be easy, you could control your emotions and thus only take action according to rational duty. This shows Humans, try as they might, can not completely cut themselves off from emotional influence. In fact in order to continue following rational thought you might first have to do an action which fixes your emotional state ready for identifying duty again.
Kant is emphasizing that humans are very prone to following their emotions and inclinations, he‘s not saying that we are easily capable of acting rationally
A day on earth Every day I see the world I am forever amazed by its unending wonders And all the beauty of everything around me Each blade of grass, every pebbles, shoot and twigs Drops of dew as diamonds in the morning sun The fresh scent of renewed hope in the early breath The promises of life awoken Riches and abundance and rewards near I am so very small - this world so big Though I look and look I cannot see very far But I can see I belong here That I belong to this here The new day also brings hurdles and sorrow Streams to cross, treacherous and menacing covers I am just a solitary little mouse trotting along In this immeasurable field I call home And no matter the dangers and the threats However unkind the weather and cold the nights And the friends lost and the dark days I am grateful for this ground I walk on I am the life given to me Like a voice needs a listener And the dream a dreamer This earth comes alive under my tiny little feet I am bound to it as it is to me Here and now I belong To this life given to me I am a voice, I am a dream, I am a breath I am just a little mouse
I have to agree ':/ The script is great, though! But I do struggle with hearing a lot of the sentences. For me, I think, the challenge was words with the English consonant sounds “th” and “r” in particular. (I think neither of these sounds exist in German?)
