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John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty” is huge in politics and criminal law: but what are the limits of freedom? And how does the history of the British Empire in India come into it?
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@zeckura 9 месяцев назад

as an a-level politics student i LOVE you for this. thank you abigail!

@bankafouf 6 месяцев назад

The same old Abi ? ... Nice

@quehablo 5 месяцев назад

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@MrBillcale 6 лет назад

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

@LordRahl 8 лет назад

"How long is your nose mate?" Lost my shit right here!!!

@moshedixon8232 4 года назад

Absolutely fantastic video, thank you so much! Really helped me hone in on the more interesting aspects of Mill's "liberalism" outside of what we're taught in class (basically just the harm principle)

@holyghost_963 4 года назад

I have been watching this channel for about a year now, and I have been told to watch this video as part of my Politics A-Level. It it weird to see these videos without the dramatisation.

@PhantterY 8 лет назад

Thank you for the video! This one helped me clear my thoughts on a few things that have been on my mind recently.

@cshahbazi1220 8 лет назад

Seriously? I want both episodes!!! Coincidentally they're both present questions in my mind.

@kalinwarner415 5 лет назад

Thanks for saving me on my Philosophy exam

@Th3GArts 8 лет назад

"Can art be defined?" Please! Great video, by the way.

@Claudia-Jotun 5 лет назад

What a joy it is to find such a good video in the youtube jungle. Thank you!

@jonascarrillo8699 2 года назад

Abigail I am really happy to have found your channel. This video alone made me see more things a bout ethics than a full course at my university. Thanks a lot for sharing it and for your dedication on the produccion of really good films specialy in your later videos.

@JonSebastianF 8 лет назад

Impressive! That whole legacy discussion was well-put an unusually nuanced for youtube. You are taking this channel to new analytic heights. Keep up the enlightening work!

@bradjohnson4714 4 года назад

Thanks for the video and for bringing up Mill's historical context!

@herodot0348 2 года назад

Super video! This saved my school assignment! You explain the content in a good and clear way, with good examples. ;)thank you

@mugenxero 8 лет назад

I'd love to go with "Can art be defined?". I appreciate your videos.

@rdcd378 4 года назад

This is especially relevant now in light of the pandemic ...

@chloebrunak6790 4 года назад

how so?- I am genuinely curious, please respond. I think I somewhat understand , but I would appreciate explanation

@dereckmj23 4 года назад

Now leaving home with no reason or without mask is considered 'harm' to others.

@mockingbird3099 4 года назад

@@dereckmj23 Although it is not harm but merely presumed or potential harm to others, leaving off the mask which obstructs natural breathing.

@dananskidolf 4 года назад

@@mockingbird3099 The mask might not really do as much as some people assume, but I think there's a general precedent that 'probable to cause harm' counts as causing harm. You could wander down the street juggling chainsaws and not harm anyone, but the general perception is that you shouldn't, and the police would want you to stop.

@wildfire9280 2 года назад

Anti-maskers: the highest order of pretentiousness and gross disregard for human life imaginable. …Next to anti-vaxxers I suppose.

@kimberlytokome-maua5831 7 лет назад

From the 6:26 - 11:46 minute mark, I fell in love with what you said.

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@asmatpandith8180 5 лет назад

Please do make videos on Hobbes ,machaivelli and others it truly helps Love from india

@arklestudios 8 лет назад

I vote "Ethics of Collateral Damage," or rather what we should never have stopped calling them; civilian casualties.

@mayjeganmogan4514 3 года назад

ty for this the professor who did this lecture explains things in the most roundabout way possible and i actually understand it now

@AlanKey86 8 лет назад

I'd like to know about the ethics of colateral damage.

@iananderson12796 8 лет назад

This is an interesting query

@BobWidlefish 8 лет назад

You accept collateral damage, and you are morally right too. If harming one potentially innocent person saves 7 billion people you would have to be a monster to let so many people die. The only question is how much collateral damage you should accept.

@AlanKey86 8 лет назад

+BobWidlefish It seems very clear in the example you give (1 innocent life lost to save 7 billion) that collateral damage should be *accepted* but does that make it *right*? Also, how do we determine the number of innocent lives it is acceptable to sacrifice to save others? e.g. is it ok to kill 4 innocents to save 5? What if those 4 innocents are children? What if the collateral damage does not directly lead to loss of life. What if civilian houses are destroyed or infrastructure? Such things won't kill civilians straight away but will likely make them refugees.

@TaylorjAdams 8 лет назад

+BobWidlefish There's also the level to which you are harming that one person. Is it okay to continually torture 1 being for years on end, even decades, for the safety of, say a country of people (ie Doctor Who (2005) S05E02 "The Beast Below")

@aaaaaaaa12225 8 лет назад

+BobWidlefish I think an even more intriguing scenario is when you are pitted as the one that is the collateral damage. I.e., martyrdom to save x amount of people. Some would argue no amount of lives saved is never enough to trump your own interests.

@FuaadHersi 7 лет назад

This is by far the most informative video of J.S. Mill ive seen lol You got my sub :)

@PhilosophyTube 7 лет назад

That's awesome! Welcome!

@sarahhardridge2392 Год назад

I've watched hundreds of Phil lectures and this one very accurately describes Mill and the overarching instructions of Utilitarianism and Colonization. It is fair and balanced by weighing the truth against what has become the new "normal" truth. VWD

@giffica 8 лет назад

Just subbed to the channel. Really liked some of the videos that I saw. You seem like one of the few actually educated people.

@PhilosophyTube 8 лет назад

+Giffica Welcome to the little community!

@peytonsmithiv8786 8 лет назад

Collateral damage ethics sounds super interesting. That's my vote.

@samaasc9182 5 лет назад

This was very informative and understandable. Thank you.

@joshplaysdrums2143 8 лет назад

Both are interesting topics for next video, but I think I rather the art one. Thanks for always posting thought provoking content!

@abdelrahman2348 3 года назад

Nice discussion and analysis of the first chapter and I expected to watch the discussing of the rest of the book!

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@stevenmiller9030 6 лет назад

You helped me write a paper for my class on this. Thank you so much!

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@achilleus9918 8 лет назад

i'd love to hear about "can art be defined?" :)

@cynthiadefillippi3749 8 лет назад

I appreciate the work you do. Thank you.

@maddylovesmychem 7 лет назад

This really helped me out. Thank you x

@alexbensen2821 8 лет назад

Glad I found this channel

@alexandrakaske1092 3 года назад

In other words "What is the scope of the criminal law" < extraordinarily well said. thank you

@clarylawson2161 8 лет назад

I'd love to see a video exploring the definition of art!

@TaylorjAdams 8 лет назад

I vote for Can Art Be Defined. I have my own ideas and have had discussions on the subject with other philosophy students when I was a student, but I never actually took a philosophy of art course.

@devinpetersen7884 8 лет назад

I'm down for hearing you talk about collateral damage, can't wait to hear about the world wars damage on the land and monuments.

@christietucker8029 5 лет назад

Very helpful, thank you for this!

@demoninbed 8 лет назад

I'd appreciate Can Art be Defined?

@XxDuckofDoomxX 8 лет назад

If I were a superhero, I'd be Collateral Damage Man

@MonkeyPunchZPoker 8 лет назад

+XxDuckofDoomxX And I'd be your arch nemesis, Art Definition Man

@agiar2000 3 года назад

There's a video game "Megaton Rainfall" (2017) that seems to be all about collateral damage. The player character is, as far as I'm aware, absolutely invincible, and the object is to use one's incredible destructive power to rescue the inhabitants of various Earth cities from invading extraterrestrial aliens. The big challenge is in minimizing collateral damage while still destroying the enemies quickly enough to keep innocent deaths to a minimum.

@quaesitrix881 3 года назад

Or « Demolition Man » ? (Five years late, I know... but I just couldn't resist ! ^_^')

@420StonerComedy 8 лет назад

ethics of collateral damage sounds very interesting! would it be about collateral damage in war or in ambitious progression of society (ie. cars can be useful but cause many fatalities every year)? love the show Olly!

@kiloalphahotel5354 4 года назад

Thanks for the vid. Always great.

@kikiyuan8115 5 лет назад

Thank you so much for making those videos!!!!!!!

@TheLionElite 8 лет назад

Really insightful video :) 'Can art be defined?' please!

@CharleyvanderSalm 7 лет назад

I would like to know more about the ethics of collateral damage! You explain very well by the way! Keep on your good work! Maybe you can tell something about Jeremy Bentham too? Or have you told something about him yet? Then I just haven't found him yet between all your videos! Thanks for helping us through this with your great explaining!

@ThePointMutation 8 лет назад

Keep up the great work!

@JayPendragonWatches 8 лет назад

Very insightful video! I'd love to see what you have to say on "collateral damage" :)

@vophie 4 года назад

You’re so good!!

@dmartin1650 8 лет назад

'The ethics of collateral damage' please.

@robsyko7783 5 лет назад

Very helpful video, thanks!

@koyubass 3 года назад

Great video! Focusing on the new aspect which other videos don't emphasizes..

@najia4631 3 года назад

"But we're not worried whether we'd be comfortable having him around at the dinner or not, right? He's dead." 😂😂 So blessed to have come across your channel, you explained it so skilfully, thanks a bunch!!

@DocEonChannel 3 года назад

I'd be more worried about Jeremy Bentham coming around for dinner, honestly.

@johncooke229 5 лет назад

You’re amazing mate, thankyou! 😊👍🙏

@JDowdle97 8 лет назад

The ethics of collateral damage sounds really interesting, that please!

@jontyroy1723 6 лет назад

Thank you. This helped me understand his ideas better. :)

@deltax930 8 лет назад

I don't understand the significance of the Mill's ideas about colonialism. Why can't the harm principle be revised to exude some of the exceptions Mill made? I was kind of hoping you would bring up some objections to the harm principle itself, rather than just the implications of the exceptions.

@52darcey 6 лет назад

Delta X couldn't agree more....also the case of assisted suicide wasn't the best example if it is only being done at the behest of a patient - then it is surely self-inflicted harm and therefore admissible. More problematic is measuring and drawing lines for harming society rather than specific individuals.

@AFamiliarForeigner 8 лет назад

Both suggested topics sound fascinating, but I'm gonna have to go with "can art be defined". I'm really interested in hearing the different opinions and attempted definitions philosophers came up with over the years.

@angelabenigno 8 лет назад

Useful, as usual!

@HaydenX 8 лет назад

"The ethics of collateral damage" would be an intensely interesting (and relevant to modernity with drones especially) video.

@podpoe 2 года назад

I miss these straight up informational videos sometimes! love her new stuff too but im bad at intepreting metaphors lol

@jesserukin6925 2 года назад

Thank you. Nicely explained

@0ffirfriedman 8 лет назад

i really liked you showed big parts from the original text. + can art be defined

@federica394 8 лет назад

"Can art be defined?" would actually be really interesting

@zakariabajwa2482 7 лет назад

Thankyou very much!Its quite helpful!

@apocalypseniksa975 8 лет назад

I do like your videos. :) Next time I'd like to listen to something about the ethics of collateral damage ^^

@JohnnyL337 8 лет назад

I would very much like to hear your thoughts on whether or not art can be defined.

@adamr5333 8 лет назад

Please do can art be defined? That was a question at my Cambridge philosophy interview and I argued like Hume that an aesthetic expert should be consulted. Love the show!

@qazrockz 8 лет назад

@philosophytube Hank and John Green also started philosophy on their crash course channel. It would be cool if you could collaborate with them.

@PhilosophyTube 8 лет назад

+Xavy Johnson Tomy If they ever answered their emails, yeah.

@emperorxenu519 8 лет назад

+Philosophy Tube comparing your videos and their "Crash Course" videos, I suspect that you could make an entire 1:1 series refuting and expanding on whatever they say.

@jamiedorsey4167 5 лет назад

Are we allowed to pick and choose ideas from thinkers of the past or do we need to take them as a whole? If I like some of Mill's ideas am I required to adopt some I don't? Conversely if you don't agree with some of his ideas are you allowed to use some of his ideas you do like or are those now off limits to you?

@laurav.2646 8 лет назад

Ethics of collateral damage please!!

@Joe0Alt 8 лет назад

Ethics of Collateral Damage, please

@coreycox2345 7 лет назад

Thank you for this. When I first studied John Stuart Mill in college, I was a young person who had grown up in a British Commonwealth country. I remember so much of what he said that I love, and I did not even notice a colonial attitude. I might now. I am glad that I watched and will read "On Liberty" again.

@TheRedViper100 8 лет назад

Great vid as always :D I vote ethics of collateral damage I think.

@martinbennett2228 4 года назад

"What has made the European family of nations an improving, instead of a stationary portion of mankind? Not any superior excellence in them, which when it exists, exists as the effect, not as the cause; but their remarkable diversity of character and culture."

@appleslover 4 года назад

An American would call all you described as "white culture"..

@martinbennett2228 3 года назад

@@appleslover This is a direct quotation from 'On Liberty'. Mill is specifically denying assumptions of European (so white) superiority. In 'On Liberty' Mill makes a powerful case for how everyone stands to benefit from diversity.

@appleslover 3 года назад

@@martinbennett2228 everyone benefits from diversity when they are in the process of killing it

@appleslover 3 года назад

@@martinbennett2228 my comment a year old, how did it get to your notifications?

@martinbennett2228 3 года назад

@@appleslover The video came up as a recommendation, then I saw that I had put a comment. I think at the time I considered writing much more, because the presenter is misreading Mill to some extent. Mill has great reliance on and belief in education. The way he uses te word 'barbarian' is more or less synonymous with uneducated. Of course you could reply that Mill's concept of educated is very Eurocentric, which I suppose it is. By the way, I do not understand your previous comment, I guess it is sarcastic, but on the internet one cannot be sure.

@rydrbrummett7335 4 года назад

Love you Ollie 🥰

@adamvlogging11 6 лет назад

Great video very clear

@freeintellect 5 лет назад

Would be nice if the book On Liberty was discussed in this video.

@Bridge2110 8 лет назад

For the bit about the harm and the doctor's with terminally ill patients, at least a part of it is that some of the terminally ill patients could be misdiagnosed, but probably the biggest reason people find it wrong is that there seems to be an intuitive difference between intentionally killing someone and having someone die without that intention. That and that it makes everybody uneasy that there is somebody killing people which is a minor part of the harm it does.

@johanmedrano1924 8 лет назад

Hello Olly. How are you? I am a fan of philosophy tube and I have learned a lot about philosophy with you videos. I am from Costa Rica and I speak Spanish, I would like people that speak Spanish to have access to your videos by adding subtitles to them, so it would be awesome if you can help me add them. Please contact me if you are interested. Thank you for your time. Tus vídeos son demasiado buenos, sigue haciendo gran contenido en youtube jajaja.

@Waine2000 8 лет назад

I would rather Can Art be Defined? But both are very good themes to be discussed And if Mill's definition on liberty and law isn't sufficient, what are the others criterias we should use to define the limit between liberty and State intervention?

@sarabizarro 3 года назад

What are some references on defining harm? Does anyone have anything to suggest?

@linguaphilly 8 лет назад

Oh my, you slipped some alveolar taps in there, fancy

@ridgidrumors 8 лет назад

id love the art video honestly :D

@cjfield123 8 лет назад

Great job

@987861 8 лет назад

the best video I've ever watched thank you

@PhilosophyTube 8 лет назад

+hamad alshehi Wow, high praise!

@hreskerms 8 лет назад

The ethics of collateral damage sounds cool. I think I have to rewatch the video to be sure I completely get what you are saying but that is the great thing about the video format. About your example wouldn't drinking yourself to death cause harm to your family and friends, the people who love you? I would like if there was some more Albert Camus coming in the future I think and hope that might help my existential crisis a bit

@user-le2bv1jp1z 7 лет назад

This was an excellent lesson. Thank you!

@abbymeyer5604 8 лет назад

Could you do a video on Slavoj Zizek? :)

@landsea7332 Год назад

0:21 When can the government legitimately restrict your freedoms . " The Social Contract " - The rights a person gives up to the state , in order to live is structured society . Hobbes and John Locke wrote about this subject . Rousseu coined the phrase . .

@padraigmcgrath3876 2 года назад

In Mill's formulation of the "harm to others" principle, he held that the government could legitimately coerce you only if you harm somebody else TO A DEGREE WHICH WOULD OUTWEIGH THE HARM DONE BY CURTAILING YOUR FREEDOM. The reason why this final sub-clause is important is that Mill believed that the exercise of liberty was of value because it enabled human beings to grow. Depriving a person of their freedoms was sometimes a necessary evil, but was nonetheless still an evil. because it stunted human moral and intellectual growth. Therefore, in Mill's argument, it was not enough merely for me to be harming you before the government could legitimately intervene - it was necessary for me to cause harm to a certain non-trivial degree. The way Mill saw it, there was a threshold-level of harm which had to be met before the criterion became relevant.

@Lobsterist 8 лет назад

great video. one recommendation, take this style of analysis, apply it to Falguni Sheth theory.

@Lobsterist 8 лет назад

also would you be OK with bringing up that Marten Luther King was a drinker and cheated on his wife? how about Tesla's mystic beliefs? Newton's alchemy? Malcolm Xs black superiority? I didn't think so.

@PhilosophyTube 8 лет назад

+Dumb Philosopher Colonialism wasn't shaped by any of those though. Like I said in the video, it's not about Mill's character but his legacy.

@hankonfire 8 лет назад

+Dumb Philosopher Your assertion that King drank and was unfaithful to his wife may or may not be true. However given that the source of these allegations is J Edgar Hover's FBI that was intent upon discrediting King,unthinking acceptance of these allegations is pretty............DUMB

@Lobsterist 8 лет назад

+hankonfire on the MLK point yes the FBI did try to spread slander, sometimes you can find it on conspiracy theory blogs and with hardcore racists. I've read a good bit of it, it has no such subtleties. they accused him of being a serial rapist, an atheist, and a communist. yes those are outright fabrications. but as for some Union leaders and close friends he did drink a bit more then he should have and he did vary much enjoy the company of younger woman. if anything knowing these things make MLK more reliable, more human to me, not some distant demigod.

@Lobsterist 8 лет назад

+Philosophy Tube I'm a little confused, we don't judge him differently based on the time period? but hold him partly responsible for the time period? or don't we? I'm lost.

@MrPrometheusTitan 8 лет назад

I owuld like to talk about art defintion. Seems more intersting as art can be made by each citizen in a constructive way while collateral damage will be a talk about destruction. One discussion will able us to inv-crease creation while the other may alow us to decrease destruction.

@robertjarman3703 6 лет назад

Singapore is operated much according to the ideas Mill thought needed for colonies. But an important part of what happened to Singapore was the final moment of it's most famous leader, Lee Kwan Yew. It still maintained what had to be in place for at least Singapore to not backslide and to have the potential to move forward. Most of the Greats of history haven't been able to do this for the most part. Tito, arguably a great leader, had Yugoslavia backsliding after his death, Alexander the Great had the same. Wen, one of the Chinese emperors, had the same.

@tomrusack3266 Год назад

It’s interesting that you ignore government as being exempt from ˋdo no harmˋ.

@InsightfulZen 8 лет назад

Ethics of collateral damage sounds really interesting

@XenaBe25 4 года назад

Nice :) It would seem that the people who taught me about Mill were among those you mentioned, who do all of that clever skimming. I always liked that he was one of the first suffragette friendly men in the canon. But I will most definitely have to read more about this Colonialist Lite belief structure of his. Paternalistic concern trolls are among my least favourite people to deal with. At least with a blatant Nazi, we're justified in connecting our fist to their nose. But those Dolores Umbridge types are maddening.