Видео

Interesting. I see you put the quotes behind you. I like it. However, you are covering parts of it sometimes.

Great content, as always! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

Very intriguing! I'm thinking these dilemmas will continue to stay relevant in spite of whichever paradigm we tend to favor at any given point in history. The discussion itself could, perhaps, one day be enriched with an experimental branch: were we to make contact with an alien civilization that independently developed their flavors of math, logic, philosophy and history, what would these look like? Do advanced civilizations even *require* all of these? I'd missed Husserl's episode, so I'll be heading there next.

This is awesome and super relevant to stuff I've been working on and thinking about. Thank you.

Heyo, I love your work! Just discovered last month or so and have learned a lot! Hey, if you are taking suggestions for future episodes for "Today in Philosophy of History" can I suggest three people. The first is Charles Taylor. I think talking about his understanding of intellectual/cultural history, how and why social change happens, the origins of ideas or of the modern self, and of course his illuminating discussion on a "secular age" and secularity will be helpful for many people. Second, is Roger Griffin on fascism of course. With the re-election of Trump and continued ascendancy of far-right parties across the globe the word "fascism" will be used more and more, and not necessarily in constructive ways. Griffen offers a great overview of fascism as both an ideology, but also a historical phenomena that has to be understood by the environment it emerged out of. Plus, its a nice parallel to Gentile the quote-on-quote philosopher of Italian fascism. The third is not one person, but someone I know has to be out there. There is a philosophy of fiction as a discipline out there. A youtube channel/podcast called Parker's Pensees has a lot of long form discussion on the subject matter. The idea is finding someone who has explored the concept of "fictional histories". Histories that are made and understood as complelty fake, but yet are full of depth, and care in how they are made and received. I think something interesting in our contemporary world is the amount of fictional histories from the lore of LOTR to Star Wars and how big and important they are in our current culture. I think it would be fun to discuss it.

The non-philosophical part: When Charlemagne died in 814 only one of his sons was still alive, Louis the Pious. Louis died in 840. His three living sons split up the empire in 1843 in the Treaty of Verdun. Another three divisions followed, in 855, 870 and 880. Large parts of contemporary France and Germany were decided over in the last treaty, with France and Germany still fighting over border areas during WWII.

Toynbee gained insight into the dynamics of world history through acquiring a perspective above that which is attainable by a human being working on his own (as a separated ego cut off from the whole). In other words the ground of Toynbee's work is divine revelation. And such is the case with all genuine innovators.

I discovered your channel two weeks ago and I love it. Maybe using a powerpoint may be a good idea to solve your issues. You could put the quotes there.

<<re-enacting of lived experience>> is not an original idea of Dilthey but he contribute to its development. Any individual engage in a conversation with another person or reading his writing is more or less aware he is re-enacting live experienced. The existence of a Narrative, of any historical narrative is precluded on the capacity to interpret this narrative (hemeneutic) thus re-enact this experience. The philosophical tradition in modern time onto which the german tradition which elaborate on this began with Giambatista Vico which is the see the core flaw of the rationalistic philosophies of the enlightment all based on scientism, the notion that ultimatly any philosophical understand fully developed will be a scientific one. No it is not and most understanding in life, in philosophy is not and will never be scientific and thus can go much beyond such understanding. This is this large counter enlightment philosophical movement that Dilthey contributed making him very difficult since since the last 200 years we have further spilal down the materialistic hole and are less and less able to escape the gravitational field of this black hole.

I second the other commenters, your work is outstanding. Though I fully understanding the vexation from the lack of views or feedback, I don't think it's fair by any standards to attach the word'"failure" to it, the failure is the platform's. I look forward to more content in 2025, and I'm particularly excited to hear of plans to cover the longue durée future of Space Exploration, which could become a natural continuation of your excellent posts over at Centauri Dreams. Happy New Year.

Well done, Nick. I have a hard time diving into philosophy, but I like to listen to ya. I can't judge the quality of the videos, but it sounds very honest, pure and right from the heart to me. Keep it going, mate. Have a good one!

Great stuff. I always liked how she, like others, demonstrate the difference between authority and violence or coercion. It shows our debasement of our understanding of authority. Ratzinger, MLK Jr. or Elizabeth II had authority, whilst a fellow like Putin only has the coercive violent arm of the Russian security state to get people do do what he wills.

Great thumnails

Determinism and Essentialism, I am slowly putting the pieces together in this facinating field of phylosophy. Nice to see Collingwood make an appearance again... Here is a request for some future episode, 'Pre-history' what is it? Professor of History, Ann McGrath, Australian National University, uses the term 'deep history'.( Here in Australia the history goes way deep) On the other hand, Professor of Archaeology, John Mulvaney, Co-authored an and increadible book, The pre-history of Australia. I have read, history did not exist in Australia prior to colonisation, 1788. (oral history was to tradition, set in memory by singing and dancing knowledge into existance...and more) Thanks for listening Nick. Your Channel is itself a gem...

I really appreciate your videos! Your channel is probably the best resource of its kind of philosophy of history on RUclips. Thanks for a year of great stuff!

I remember having the distinct pleasure of being introduced to this guy in a History of Economic Thought class. We read a review of the Main Current in Marxism book since we were learning about Marxist economics.

confession much appreciated N. looking forward to next years reviews

Your work is amazing. Big congrats to you for persevere for whole year and big hats off, that you stayed true to your self. You would deserve much, much bigger audience.

Your content is a triumph. It deserves a bigger audience, but popular is not the same as important. your work is very important to me.

Enlightening. ' Being remembered for 4 words' but, 4 words which sparked so many words... Very good. I learn more each episode.

Go to learn History back, or rewrite the title. Karel was the king of the Francs, and even had no castle, no palace, no capital ... Otton was the first Roman Catholic Emperor. Karel was allie of the dwarf of Rome and the Abbaside Harun Er Rachid against the Omeyades AND Constantinopolis... The Abbaside slavetraders came to by the slaves - Avars, Wende, Saxons - even in Valenciennes and Metz ... and the representant of the family of Karel was Isaac the Jew. Question of course what is the link with Judith, the woman of Karel de Kale ( Charles the Bald) .... ( not Kalonymus ? A bald coudn't be king... Wasn't it a kippa ? )... Later "victory" of Rome, administrating the domination of the dynasty could easily explain the creation of a legend , unifying the slavehunter and a corrupt bisshop ,becoming the Christina Emperor and the Pope...

Great job. History as it should be. I am a big fan of so called "old school knowledge" even if my history channel is created by AI.

The world needs fools who rush in. Someone's got to be dumb enough to try. I appreciate the effort.

The director of this video did a good job ;-)

"a history of Europe' is going on my reading list.

Great talk! A series of talks on Turner’s Thesis would be great. Genesis, evolution, authenticity, critique etc. Thank you

Thank You, for Your line of work !

Third listen, and really liking this Hook character. I am partial to a bit of Popper. This guy is like a bit of soda and lemon to go with that Whiskey.

Does Hook offer specific examples of the "agonizing moral predicaments" where the groups survival (and does he mean the survival of all the members of the group, or the survival of the group idenity? The death of a group could mean a variety of things, at one end of the spectrum we have an exile scenario, where a groups members scatter, but they all survive, but the group does not, and at the otheer an extermination strategy, where the groups members are actually all destroyed, as well as the group itself? Are the sacrifices being made for the group, or for the members of the group?

Excellent analysis as usual and about an influential philosopher in NYC where I grew up. However, the reading of the well thought out text was marred by an abundance of misreadings, many of which you caught and corrected---but not "they believe some animals to be scared" when you meant "to be sacred". Have you considered having all your videos read by a young actor? It doesn't matter if he didn't understand the abstract ideas, but he'd read it correctly. In return for the exposure, he'd do it for free, The only place he'd need help would be in pronunciation of some names and foreign or classical terms.

Do you westerners have a heightened fear of decline than other cultures? From my knowledge of Chinese or other spcieities decline does not seem to be that big of a theme. I think ever since Gibbons or even going back to Virgil there is a big theme of decline. Personally, I think it goes back to how the "fall" of the Roman Empire has been popularily understood over the centuries. Gives the impression any large scale complex society can "collapse" whilst ignoring the actual reasons the Western Roman Empire did witheraway, and their simularities and differences to present and other realities.

Is not the mere fact that this age system - based on the advance of technological stages - is the kind of standart understanding of history for the average man an indicator of the technical hypertrophy of modern man ? A consequence of our obcession with the domination of nature ?

how different the world would be if our leaders still held the fatalistic majesty of alexios and his learned daughter

Your videos are usually quite informative, but you are driving away listeners by your inexplicable tendency to mispronounce the names of your subjects. This has happened in already in at least 5 to 7 videos. You don't even bother looking at other RUclips videos on the same person to see how the name is pronounced. To be sure, most of those names you mispronounced on other videos are French or German, but this one is English. It's pronounced Oak-Shot, NOT Oak-Uh-Shot.

Huizinga's critique of Spengler is spot on. Thank you for this.

Since 1972, a Dutch newspaper organizes annually "The Huizinga Lecture" in his honor.

Augustine, the beggining, and from there incrementally evolves the Phylosophy of History. Interesting to learn about the dark ages. How the Roman classical world transmogrified into Christendom.. And also interesting how Gofart urges... (appologies could not resist) Seriously though, Very interesting episode. Paul

You'd have noticed the Carlyle quote in my recent essay... so he's influencing some!

Thank you. Subscribed.

So this was an especially interesting one for me. The reason I really started paying attention to your channel was comments you made about the "dark ages" being the appropriate term. In fact it might be that I first found you while searching for defenders of that term, because there are so many pop-history videos recycling the fashionable academic nonsense that the dark ages "weren't that dark". What's interesting to me, though, is that to me this revisionism, recasting them as a period of "transition" rather than "collapse" seems to flow entirely out of the post modern, politically correct, ethos where nomenclature is subordinated to political aims. The point is not to use words clearly, but to use them to empower people. So retarded becomes special, becomes exceptional, crippled becomes disabled becomes differently able, primitive cultures, as in those with only one generation of knowledge or technology at a time, without metalurgy or writing or the technologies that allow societies to bank knowledge and wealth over generations, build up an infrastructure base, and flourish, are called *anything but primative* (which just means in a first, or original state, i.e. how humans have always lived before something new started happening with technology). And so, the same logic says that we musn't say the Dark Ages because that's casting a moral judgement, which is bad, unless the judgement you are making is about someone elses judgements, when it's fine. My response to this is basically a more left wing version of the anti-postmodern stance taken by Sugrue, and Hicks - though not as far left as say Socal, who is, as far as I know, still a socialist (he went to teach maths in nicuragua under the sandanistas out of solidarity). But, despite watching maybe a hundred of your videos since then and engaging with you in an email discussion on the notion of progress, I am not clear where you stand on the modernist-postmodernist debate. Perhaps you are a metamodernist? I look forward very much to your planned content laying out your own philosophy.