@@joskojansa1235 I'm not sure what you point is but as far as I know Goebbels was not a philosopher, he had a Ph.D. in history and literature, yes his novel Michael and his diaries deal vaguely with religious-philosophical ideas but with no real aptitude, his great power lay in his masterful ability as an orator. If you could show me evidence of this reputation as a highly repeated philosopher then I would be very interested.
Conning from the same position, but I've gotta say i don't think much is really mafe for that platform yet. Wheeling a tv in to discuss a movie can be distracting, and the projectors now have a strong semblence to classic chalk boards or marker boards. Students should be given a way to interact with the material through the touch boards available now.
Depends on the subject. Sometimes you need exact quotes and formulation (like mathematics) that would take too much time of the lecture. In this case it is easier to present it on a powerpoint. But then more elaborate examples and such will be taken on the board.
@@ErkaaJ Math and logic are best demonstrated as a performance, though I have found that power point is excellent for extended quotes and the reconstruction of arguments.
its amazing seeing people in their professions like this guy with philosophy and seeing them be so passionate it makes things so much more interesting especially when they teach it in fun ways
$3-4,000 a class is not an exaggeration. I am a university student, I see the prices everyday. Textbooks for a class like this can easily be $300-400, and often times they force you to buy a particular edition that you couldn’t otherwise find online
I have found many people (college students and non students) take notes on RUclips videos and lectures such as this. It’s all self knowledge. A degree doesn’t necessarily mean you learned anything, it means you passed the tests and got the points, which now a days is very easy to cheat
I used to be student in engineering, but now I am a stduent in philosophy. Though I don’t focus on analytic philosophy, I do believe I need to have a serious study of it. Now here comes to chance. Thamk you, professor Bonevac.
@Language and Programming Channel well there would be no problem with that, axioms are highly probable assumptions themselves other that I think therefore I am that is the only thing we 100% factually know. I wouldn't be fallacious since altruistic traits can be observed.
Even though this area of philosophy can quickly become extremely complicated Bonevac, kept it human and understandable. If you are young pray for a teacher of this quality. I needed a few courses to finish off a degree in my early 30s and had to suffer through a course in prepositional logic.. ugh.
🐟 02. A BRIEF EXPLANATION FOR “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle object within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the senses, plus the subject (the observer of all phenomena) - is what most persons actually refer to when they use the term “GOD”. REAL God is Impersonal Absolute Nothingness (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera). “God” is One Reality, but just as a knife cannot cut itself, or fire cannot burn itself, “God” cannot know Himself (or at least EXPERIENCE Himself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Himself. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness. N. B. The word “God” is, by definition, a title of the male Deity, and is not to be taken literally here. Apparently, this phenomenal universe was “created” (within Consciousness) with the initial act (the so-called “Big Bang”), and from that first deed, every action that has ever occurred has been a direct or indirect result of it. Just as every particle of matter in the universe was once contained in the ’singularity’, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the Big Bang, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (‘all this is indeed Brahman’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are that! Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a consequence of that initial manifestation. That is the most accurate and logical explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human (and non-human animal) was determined by those two factors ALONE, thus free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Because we are temporarily residing within this dualistic universe, we experience both pleasure and pain. Suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal doership - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts and deeds. There are five MANIFESTATIONS of suffering: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including us humans, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The human organism is simply a biological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements. So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (supposedly) material universe, you are now able to be liberated from all forms of suffering, RIGHT? WRONG! It is imperative to find an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another. Even if you follow a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life (all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course). Furthermore, if it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to accept discipline from a truly enlightened master, and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by practicing at least one of the four systems of yoga (religion) described in the Holy Scripture, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”. Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and happiness! “The meaning of life is life itself.” ************* “A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'. In other words, we are not separate.” Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts, British-American Philosopher. (06/01/1915 - 16/11/1973). “What you seek is seeking you.” Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. (30/09/1207 - 17/12/1273).
Adriaan de Jager To read the remaining twenty-nine chapters of “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, which are the most authoritative, accurate and profound spiritual precepts so far in human history, Email: prophet4god@icloud.com with the acronym “FISH” in the subject field. 🐟 “The gateway to KNOWLEDGE is ignorance”. 🤓 CONTENTS: 00. PROLOGUE 01. PREFACE 02. A BRIEF EXPLANATION FOR “LIFE” 03. CONCEPTS Vs THE TRUTH 04. SCIENCE Vs RELIGION 05. THE PHENOMENAL UNIVERSE 06. CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS 07. GOD (OR NOT) 08. KARMA (ACTION & REACTION) 09. REINCARNATION (OR NOT) 10. EGO (THE SENSE OF SELF): 11. FREE-WILL Vs DETERMINISM 12. LAW, MORALITY, & ETHICS 13. SIN (MISSING THE MARK) 14. DIVINE & DEMONIC NATURES 15. SUFFERING & HAPPINESS 16. YOGA/RELIGION 17. AWAKENING, LIBERATION, & ENLIGHTENMENT 18. THE THREE MODES 19. THE FOUR SOCIAL CLASSES 20. THE PRIESTHOOD 21. THE MONARCHY 22. NON-MONARCHICAL GOVERNANCE 23. THE BUSINESS OWNERS 24. THE WORKING-CLASS 25. THE ROLE OF FEMALES 26. FEMINISM 27. MARRIAGE 28. SEX & TRANSVESTISM 29. SOCIAL ETIQUETTE 30. FOOD AND DIET
I found the whole 48 minute lecture very intriguing. I heard every word. Everyone has their own perspective on reality because of their upbringing. E.g. the people they talk to, the place they live in, how they were raised, etc,etc. The things you mentioned like about God, religion, law, those are just different types of realities that we accept and perceive differently. Very thought provoking, very enlightening to who we are and very interesting indeed. Thanks for the lecture.
@@Zumastraphy Hrithik Ravi deleted his comment, but he is the one who said moron, not me. I tried to explain it to him. I told him that he does not need to say moron.
WHAT A KNOWLEDGEABLE LECTURER AND WONDERFUL CONTENT FROM SOCRATES,PLATO, ARISTOTLE TO AL GHAZALI,AVICENNA, AVERROIS TILL NOW PHILOSOPHY IS LEARNING OF HOW UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES+CONCEPT MAKE OBJECT,LOGIC,REASON AND THOUGHTS
Such a great lecturer. I can't recall very many lecturers teaching with this sort of engagement with the class. A real asset to UT, to philosophy and to students. I wish he'd teach a course in LOGIC!
"Thinking about thinking" is the correct answer. But I love when student see philosophy as epistemology. Then they get me for intro to logic and learn very quickly there's more to philosophy.
Professor Bonevac, you are one of the most engaging, coherent and educative people one can find. The only thing - sound. This video too to an extent but specifically with the Fall 2016 videos which are the most informative and easy to digest lectures on philosophy you can dream to find. Especially when you are not facing the cam and you are at some distance from it you are really barely intelligible and for someone who is not a native like me (despite my level steadily approaching nativeness) and doesn't naturally fill in all the blanks that can't be heard it is hard to go through the videos. Please either edit out the ambient noise and bump up midtones or consider using a microphone, a pilot/telemarketer one, not a classic TV reporter stick with a ball.
I'm glad this lecture series is free. Learning the fundamentals of the analytic tradition is the modern day equivalent to studying the forms and Plato as a pre-requisite to entering the philosophical dialogue.
Bertrand Russell put one thing out nicely. Philosophy is the third wonder, after religion and science. Thanks so much for these classes for public access. made free.
A very stimulating and thought provoking yet still accessible lecture. Thank you for posting this, I will have to replay a few times to truly grasp all the concepts.
A reading list for the lectures would be nice. I've been looking for a detailed lecture series on the analytic tradition so thanks a lot for uploading!
Philosophy is NOT a single subject. Philosophy is a means of, or approach to a particular topic or subject that incorporates or involves the asking and attempting to answer certain questions, just as science is a method of study in order to (both quantitatively and qualitatively) ask and answer certain questions.
Philosophy is an intuition about reality ever-formulating itself in thought sculptures. In the senses of a real intuition, reality as an intuition, and an intuition of reality.
According to Plato ( c.428 - c.348bc ), when we are born we fly over the back of heaven and see all these perfect forms, such as a perfect chair and a perfect bed etc, but when we are born we lose this vision, but the one perfect form in heaven as on Earth is love, which gives an inkling of perfect forms in heaven. Unlike materialistic objects which are perceived with the senses forms such as goodness and honesty etc are understood only by reasoning which is why philosophy is so important.
Something that has occurred to me is that the "psycho-sociological-economic" dynamic of the classroom teaching "form"-itself-sheds light on this philosophical concern with the understanding of forms. If the class was instead a gardening class, and the goal to grow a garden, the "meaning" of the forms would necessarily be taken for granted in order to effectively accomplish the planting of the garden. By observing the philosophy class, and then the gardening class, and then contrasting the "thought exchange" in the philosophy class with the "action exchange" taking place in the gardening class, we may, here, find our answer to the question of the truth about forms. Not in the contemplation of ideas, but in their planting,
dit is een voorbeeld dat je met een goede voorbereiding bijna alles kan creëren : een marketingcampagne/een college - kunst. Zolang je maar goed na denkt wat maakt "iets" en wat maakt datgene "goed"/"waardevol"/ het waard te horen #ditisergoptimistischmaa inmijnogendewaarheid
When this gentleman was in elementary school music class as a pupil and they handed him the triangle to play it may have sounded like a certain John cage piece of music ,however it may have gone on far longer than 4:33. Excellent lecture really enjoyed it, best regards from the UK
We don't see packaged goods on store shelves as trash until the contents have been removed like from a bag of chips or a beverage. Most of the physical possessions we buy may have been bound with a rubber band which we typically would throw away without hesitation; but we still would buy a pack of 50 rubber bands only when we need at least one from that pack...
In my deep intellectual debates among myself. I have asked that same question of clear communication on complex levels between humans. I have concluded the base of the issue Arises from language. As lanuage itself has a limited compasity of expressing what Emotional feelings encompasse. Entertain the notion for a moment. Extretrestreal life's basis of communication is presumed to be telepathic. If thisbe the case, It would make sense that language is a inferior form of communication. At least upon the subject of exchanging understanding with others.
A good story is an excellent way out of the problem. It offers much more to chew on than concepts that are too precise and therefore disconnected from actual life.
Very nice to see the upload! As well, excellent work on the recording layout. Appreciating too that you have to work with the classroom and many were designed without uploading in mind! Keep up the excellent work professor!!!
Having watched up to your lectures on Russell: Given this really excellent introduction and your explanation that analytic philosophy is a kind of 'rebellion' against the post-Kantian/post-Hegelian understanding of the relation between mind and world as a 'hall of mirrors', so to speak, I was expecting a stronger criticism of that tradition. I don't see how you can go from Kant to proposing something like the correspondence theory of truth - it's just a regression into naive metaphysics, as far as I can tell. Am I wrong about that? What's the catch here? Would be very thankful for a response.
I wish i could have a chance to attend this wonderful class. But thanks to RUclips. Because at some point i really imagine myself sitting there. And in my thoughts, philosophy is knowledge. it is wisdom.
Philosophy may also be said to be the (high level) study of the essential characteristics of the material world around us and then trying to see whether these essential characteristics of matter are sufficient to provide a logical and convincing explanation regarding who we are and what our mind is made of, relating the external features to the anatomy of our body and considering, above all, the essential characteristics of consciousness and the conscious personality.
''we're striving aimlessly to discover SOMETHING that's already found us with it's own different dimension , our unfounded fear of 'end' and irrational greed for truth and answers to questions will be our undoing!'' Jim Morrison.
Dan Bonavec is a great teacher; I love the unfailingly supportive way he interacts with "the kids," and theway the kids are often thoughtful and insightful. However, I wish both Prof. Boravec and the kids were more aggressive in challenging the many dogmas and aeeming absurdities of analytic philosophy. E.g., "No, Lou, we are not about to disband the High Table."
good overview of the concepts thank you. It didn't look like they solved the problem of form, they just described it in different ways or dismissed one element over emphasis on another element, which still doesn't solve the problem. I hope there is a continuance to the next attempts. It gave me the idea of nature vs nurture what Plato said. I would have used the example of animals about how they are born with instinctive knowledge, where the food is, mating rituals, other things seem not learned but instinctive. We're animals so we must have some instincts we were born with. I was thinking that our brains have the ability to understand concepts, to see patterns, to learn language constructs. I could see where philosophy broke away from theology ans physics in this lecture as well. The last point scrubs out physics and just keeps philosophy in the realm of thought experiments and perceptions of the real world and how to acurately describe the world in a way we can all agree on.
I think rather than rationalism vs empiricism vs skepticism, the more fundamental distinction is idealism vs dualism vs materialism. I am comeple noob, but i think the former are epistemological stances and the later metaphysical. I feel like the criteria for knowledge should depend on the metaphysical premiss. Let's say we can chose arbitrary metaphysics. Then it should entail whether knowledge is possible and by which means etc. I think subjective idealism, starting from the solipsism is the easiest, because every experience is then directly an existent and there is no existent beyond that. So we have absolutely certain metaphysical facts of the present moment and can build any criteria for knowlege on that - like say to know something about the world is to find some relationship between multiple "bundles" of experience. If we start from materialism on the other hand, we have no metaphysical facts about the world and we have to hope that our methods of finding knowlege will conincide with the metaphysical reality (we have a very little segment of reality which is the state of our mind, but we never can know for sure how that is connected to the rest of the world).
0:20 "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." Ludwig Wittgenstein ( 26 April, 1889 - 29 April, 1951 )
I watched this I believe a year or so ago but never realised that you are doing the Plato and Aristotle pose from the famous painting "The School of Athens." In your thumbnail.
In the beginning of this lecture all I could was Kurosawa’s Rashomon. Inreliability of witnesses. And something I think of a thing is obviously different from the other person and all the other people as well. I don’t know if that makes any sense.
It fascinates me to see myself taking so many things so granted as I am going through life. When I see a table, for example, I think nothing much... Or maybe that´s table, next thought. Yet when I stop and think about it there is much to it. It is made up of various materials, someone has thought it up and had it created, it had to be shipped etc. This goes with things, people, situation etc. When we stop and contemplate, really sit still and inquire we will find that life is much more of a mystery that we usually give it credit for. Like for real... What is life? What is this body? Who am I? Am I the only person that feel confused about these questions? People act like they know who they really are, like they have it figured out... But have they really? Have you? Well I havent and I am curious to find answers to these questions. Leave me your thoughts!
Over this past year, philosophy has really appealed to me, and like yourself, I was very suprised about how I took everything for granted. It made me, not only question everything, but appreciate everything a lot more. For example, a car. It is a machine that we sit in, drive and bam, we have arrived at our destination in lightspeed compared to walking. Yet, it is a complex machine with complex parts, sophisticated mechanics and a product of intelligent minds of the past who decided to build such a machine, in which the majority of us don't have a clue about and of which, I assume don't care! It has made me appreciate so much more, and has allowed me to take a step back and appreciate how far we have come on this Earth; enjoying the little things in life.
Why do people act like they have it all figured out? Because they don’t, and that is the true meaning of knowledge, less is more. Questioning only leads one to figure out that not questioning is better
It doesn't really matter if 'the stamp' from the 'evil deceiver' is right or wrong (about 26:05) by what we human perceivers decide as right or wrong it only matters that it's consistent. This is the whole problem with humans as told in the first temptation story in Genesis. I.e. it's a story about a self definition of what is good for me rather than relying on an external constant, even if that constant may if fact turn out to be an 'evil deceiver.'
Questions that flowered the discipline of philosophy some maybe most people would call absurd perhaps. But, in my own life anyway they are the only questions truly worthy of both wanting as well as needing an answer to. It's understood, these questions are a luxury of leisure. Human beings are the only animals which have had this opportunity. You can survive without asking these questions, but only humanity has asked them, only humanity can. It's a departure from all of the requisite 'hows' in life. Once humanity arrived, philosophy-proper could finally ask the 'why'. No apriori jokes.
I am familiar with Aristotle's primary qualities, but upon seeing Locke, I am completely confused. Locke's primary qualities aren't anything like Aristotle's primary qualities that gave existence to the elements. Are Aristotelian qualities not in away related to Locke's ideas of primary qualities. Locke says they "are not perceivable" if I am understanding properly. Heat, cold, moisture and dryness in various mixtures create secondary qualities. That makes perfect sense to me. For example, the quality of hardness is mixtures of mainly cold and moist. So what is Locke trying to say?
From my perspective, I believe that philosophy brings about change and circumstances. We develop inquisitive ideas about philosophy by explaining it in depth and gradually seeking answers through religion. I'm quite the spiritual type of person, who has an excitement for the Arts of Philosophy. My understanding is very small but my hunger for it is very strong. I need brief description of the matter. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Theory has experience of conscience..but to develop conscience is to study compassionately..and concept of truth is to devide what's reason..you have to live and breathe philosophy of quantum..but seriousness of conscience..is to manipulate the quality of experience..so to condemn what's ventured through your mind is to calculate the consumption of infinity..so to think fast is to exult the truth of content..and to resolve what's going around in your head is to confiscate the exception of contrast
Something that you guys should keep in mind is the fact that whatever lecture you listen to, dealing with philosophy, or engaging activities about philosophy doesn't mean more than just time-consuming. Philosophy is just an byproduct of advancement of science technology and discoveries. Not the vice versa.
This is a great playlist, it would be awesome if you could write a history of philosophy for beginners It's a bit hard to follow 48 minutes and retain everything. Also you skipped over a big challenge to plato's 'forms' before descartes, namely nominalism.
Nothing like a free education.
Adam Bell As it should be
@@nasaman23 completely agree
It is not free. Someone else is paying for it.
damn skippy
college is just paying for the degree the knowledge is “free” via the internet and/or library
A good teacher makes any subject ten times better. No need for a powerpoint, he's engaging folks.
Goebbles was highly respected as philosopher, before 1936. Respected by american mainstream inteligentsia.
@@joskojansa1235 I'm not sure what you point is but as far as I know Goebbels was not a philosopher, he had a Ph.D. in history and literature, yes his novel Michael and his diaries deal vaguely with religious-philosophical ideas but with no real aptitude, his great power lay in his masterful ability as an orator. If you could show me evidence of this reputation as a highly repeated philosopher then I would be very interested.
It's been a year ,Josko,waiting.....
I’m not even in college... I’m just really bored so I decided to learn about philosophy.
Fuck yea boi
y ,no shit
Same
We need to be taught by good teachers.
😂😂😂
When you find someone like your favorite professor at university.
Teaching different subjects.
RUclips is gold.
I like blackboard lectures. No need for fancy projectors and boring power-points.
agree with you
Conning from the same position, but I've gotta say i don't think much is really mafe for that platform yet. Wheeling a tv in to discuss a movie can be distracting, and the projectors now have a strong semblence to classic chalk boards or marker boards.
Students should be given a way to interact with the material through the touch boards available now.
Why not both?
Depends on the subject. Sometimes you need exact quotes and formulation (like mathematics) that would take too much time of the lecture. In this case it is easier to present it on a powerpoint. But then more elaborate examples and such will be taken on the board.
@@ErkaaJ Math and logic are best demonstrated as a performance, though I have found that power point is excellent for extended quotes and the reconstruction of arguments.
its amazing seeing people in their professions like this guy with philosophy and seeing them be so passionate it makes things so much more interesting especially when they teach it in fun ways
I AM A STUDENT OF HISTORY BUT THIS LECTURE IS AN EYE OPENER TO ME IN HISTORY AND HENCEFORTH, I WILL ALWAYS APPLY PHILOSOPHY INTO HISTORY LESSONS.
WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!
I hear voices
Will you always shout your way through life?
@asala bayo I hope your education has done you well to this day. How are you doing?
THATS GOOD TO HEAR BUDDY!!!
We need more great teachers like this in our universities ..
This is such a beautiful explanation of the things that happened in philosophy and leaves you questioning
"what is reality and who am I?".
Modern day college charges $3,000-4,000 for this class, plus a $500 text book.
RUclips- free
Well yes. This class and 20 others plus the three papers you write (which NO ONE will write after watching a RUclips video). You get what you pay for.
Exaggeration, usually thats the price of one year, and a textbook can be bought for less than $100 or 200 depending if it's used
$3-4,000 a class is not an exaggeration. I am a university student, I see the prices everyday. Textbooks for a class like this can easily be $300-400, and often times they force you to buy a particular edition that you couldn’t otherwise find online
I have found many people (college students and non students) take notes on RUclips videos and lectures such as this.
It’s all self knowledge.
A degree doesn’t necessarily mean you learned anything, it means you passed the tests and got the points, which now a days is very easy to cheat
@@mrpinkpony same
I used to be student in engineering, but now I am a stduent in philosophy. Though I don’t focus on analytic philosophy, I do believe I need to have a serious study of it. Now here comes to chance. Thamk you, professor Bonevac.
Man, I actually am in the same process. Electrical Engineering student wanting to study philosophy. How was it for you?
@@Danielle-rs4bk Philosophy is great. But studying Evolution is even better. The source is rich.
@@comdrive3865 lol rich?
You both got bored of engineering?
0:20 "Philosophy is thoughts that are at rest."
Socrates ( c.470 - 399bc )
Philosophy is existentialism.
@@spiritualopportunism4585 yes we think deeply because we find value in surviving objectively or not, we are an organism after all.
@Language and Programming Channel well there would be no problem with that, axioms are highly probable assumptions themselves other that I think therefore I am that is the only thing we 100% factually know.
I wouldn't be fallacious since altruistic traits can be observed.
@@spiritualopportunism4585 existentialism is a form of philosophy
@@KingBullet123 please bitch, linguistics alone do not refine knowledge -- nor do you assert philosophy via words.
Even though this area of philosophy can quickly become extremely complicated Bonevac, kept it human and understandable. If you are young pray for a teacher of this quality. I needed a few courses to finish off a degree in my early 30s and had to suffer through a course in prepositional logic.. ugh.
Lies again? Vigrx Plus
How did things turn out?
I was gonna pop this on to help me relax and fall asleep but this guy is just too good of a lecturer
this is the farthest down the rabbit hole that i have ever been.
....and i want to keep going.
🐟 02. A BRIEF EXPLANATION FOR “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle object within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the senses, plus the subject (the observer of all phenomena) - is what most persons actually refer to when they use the term “GOD”.
REAL God is Impersonal Absolute Nothingness (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera).
“God” is One Reality, but just as a knife cannot cut itself, or fire cannot burn itself, “God” cannot know Himself (or at least EXPERIENCE Himself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Himself. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness. N. B. The word “God” is, by definition, a title of the male Deity, and is not to be taken literally here.
Apparently, this phenomenal universe was “created” (within Consciousness) with the initial act (the so-called “Big Bang”), and from that first deed, every action that has ever occurred has been a direct or indirect result of it.
Just as every particle of matter in the universe was once contained in the ’singularity’, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the Big Bang, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network.
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (‘all this is indeed Brahman’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace -
and you are that!
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a consequence of that initial manifestation. That is the most accurate and logical explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human (and non-human animal) was determined by those two factors ALONE, thus free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe.
Because we are temporarily residing within this dualistic universe, we experience both pleasure and pain.
Suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal doership - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts and deeds.
There are five MANIFESTATIONS of suffering:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including us humans, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is simply a biological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements.
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (supposedly) material universe, you are now able to be liberated from all forms of suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to find an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another.
Even if you follow a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life (all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course).
Furthermore, if it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to accept discipline from a truly enlightened master, and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by practicing at least one of the four systems of yoga (religion) described in the Holy Scripture, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”. Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and happiness!
“The meaning of life is life itself.”
*************
“A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'.
In other words, we are not separate.”
Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts,
British-American Philosopher.
(06/01/1915 - 16/11/1973).
“What you seek is seeking you.”
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
(30/09/1207 - 17/12/1273).
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Kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
@@TheWorldTeacher YOU have a better understanding of life than me
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CONTENTS:
00. PROLOGUE
01. PREFACE
02. A BRIEF EXPLANATION FOR “LIFE”
03. CONCEPTS Vs THE TRUTH
04. SCIENCE Vs RELIGION
05. THE PHENOMENAL UNIVERSE
06. CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS
07. GOD (OR NOT)
08. KARMA (ACTION & REACTION)
09. REINCARNATION (OR NOT)
10. EGO (THE SENSE OF SELF):
11. FREE-WILL Vs DETERMINISM
12. LAW, MORALITY, & ETHICS
13. SIN (MISSING THE MARK)
14. DIVINE & DEMONIC NATURES
15. SUFFERING & HAPPINESS
16. YOGA/RELIGION
17. AWAKENING, LIBERATION, & ENLIGHTENMENT
18. THE THREE MODES
19. THE FOUR SOCIAL CLASSES
20. THE PRIESTHOOD
21. THE MONARCHY
22. NON-MONARCHICAL GOVERNANCE
23. THE BUSINESS OWNERS
24. THE WORKING-CLASS
25. THE ROLE OF FEMALES
26. FEMINISM
27. MARRIAGE
28. SEX & TRANSVESTISM
29. SOCIAL ETIQUETTE
30. FOOD AND DIET
Philosophy is the study of the presuppositions of every field of thought.
Sings: “It ain’t necessarily so...” 🎤
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In the two years since writing your comment, have you heard any convincing rebuttals/amendments?
I've listened to this lecture like, 8 times. It's very informative. It's a good training tool rather than just a teaching tool.
I found the whole 48 minute lecture very intriguing. I heard every word. Everyone has their own perspective on reality because of their upbringing. E.g. the people they talk to, the place they live in, how they were raised, etc,etc. The things you mentioned like about God, religion, law, those are just different types of realities that we accept and perceive differently. Very thought provoking, very enlightening to who we are and very interesting indeed. Thanks for the lecture.
Grest teacher of broad ideas with challenging questions - his ideas just flowed. Wonderful.
this guy is a better professor than I've ever had.
This is the type of teatchers the world needs!
Teachers* you shouldn’t be watching college lessons if you can’t spell words that you learn in kindergarten
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Yout holiness.
The way you encourage students alone is a huge build of confidence! Truly incredible stuff!! Thank you so much
0:20 “The Love of Wisdom”
-the literal meaning of the word
Loved your style of teaching.... Felt as if I am sitting in a classroom
@Hrithik Ravi He felt as if he is "sitting in" a classroom. No need to say moron.
@@keishaleitogores3344 you’re a sad human
@@Zumastraphy What did I do?
@@Zumastraphy Hrithik Ravi deleted his comment, but he is the one who said moron, not me. I tried to explain it to him. I told him that he does not need to say moron.
WHAT A KNOWLEDGEABLE LECTURER AND WONDERFUL CONTENT FROM SOCRATES,PLATO, ARISTOTLE TO AL GHAZALI,AVICENNA, AVERROIS TILL NOW PHILOSOPHY IS LEARNING OF HOW UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES+CONCEPT MAKE OBJECT,LOGIC,REASON AND THOUGHTS
I like that this dudes passionate 👍
there should be more passionate teachers^^
Not too "passionate"
@@RicStaR2410 hahaha
He tries simplicity,
but gets confusion
He really loves what does. I really appreciate it ♥️♥️
I'm so happy I found this video! I was upset when I found out I didn't need a philosophy course for my major. Thank you!!
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The whys and the hows of human actions and thoughts
according to berkeley ideas are
1 concrete
2 abstract
3 both
It is so terrific to watch a good teacher. So engaging.
Such a great lecturer. I can't recall very many lecturers teaching with this sort of engagement with the class. A real asset to UT, to philosophy and to students. I wish he'd teach a course in LOGIC!
"Thinking about thinking" is the correct answer. But I love when student see philosophy as epistemology. Then they get me for intro to logic and learn very quickly there's more to philosophy.
Professor Bonevac, you are one of the most engaging, coherent and educative people one can find. The only thing - sound. This video too to an extent but specifically with the Fall 2016 videos which are the most informative and easy to digest lectures on philosophy you can dream to find. Especially when you are not facing the cam and you are at some distance from it you are really barely intelligible and for someone who is not a native like me (despite my level steadily approaching nativeness) and doesn't naturally fill in all the blanks that can't be heard it is hard to go through the videos.
Please either edit out the ambient noise and bump up midtones or consider using a microphone, a pilot/telemarketer one, not a classic TV reporter stick with a ball.
The world would be a much better place if education like this didn’t lead to a 20-year debt.
I'm glad this lecture series is free. Learning the fundamentals of the analytic tradition is the modern day equivalent to studying the forms and Plato as a pre-requisite to entering the philosophical dialogue.
Finally some lectures on the analytic tradition!
Bertrand Russell put one thing out nicely. Philosophy is the third wonder, after religion and science. Thanks so much for these classes for public access. made free.
A very stimulating and thought provoking yet still accessible lecture. Thank you for posting this, I will have to replay a few times to truly grasp all the concepts.
A reading list for the lectures would be nice. I've been looking for a detailed lecture series on the analytic tradition so thanks a lot for uploading!
Philosophy is NOT a single subject. Philosophy is a means of, or approach to a particular topic or subject that incorporates or involves the asking and attempting to answer certain questions, just as science is a method of study in order to (both quantitatively and qualitatively) ask and answer certain questions.
Philosophy is an intuition about reality ever-formulating itself in thought sculptures. In the senses of a real intuition, reality as an intuition, and an intuition of reality.
Still the goat lecturer and lecture... watched this... and been crazy in philosophy ever since haha
According to Plato ( c.428 - c.348bc ), when we are born we fly over the back of heaven and see all these perfect forms, such as a perfect chair and a perfect bed etc, but when we are born we lose this vision, but the one perfect form in heaven as on Earth is love, which gives an inkling of perfect forms in heaven. Unlike materialistic objects which are perceived with the senses forms such as goodness and honesty etc are understood only by reasoning which is why philosophy is so important.
Something that has occurred to me is that the "psycho-sociological-economic" dynamic of the classroom teaching "form"-itself-sheds light on this philosophical concern with the understanding of forms. If the class was instead a gardening class, and the goal to grow a garden, the "meaning" of the forms would necessarily be taken for granted in order to effectively accomplish the planting of the garden. By observing the philosophy class, and then the gardening class, and then contrasting the "thought exchange" in the philosophy class with the "action exchange" taking place in the gardening class, we may, here, find our answer to the question of the truth about forms. Not in the contemplation of ideas, but in their planting,
An actually substantive lecture on philosophy, by someone who obviously knows the material well.
Anyone who hasn't studied philosophy before, this is perfect! Awesome...
Thanks for uploading these lectures, they are great. I love how you drew a straight line through the history of philosophy.
Just keep in mind that Bonevac is a Tump Supporter
well it was nice to see this.u r a great teacher sir.we all need ur support and ur guide for our future
looking forward to watching the whole series!
Thanks fo the upload
dit is een voorbeeld dat je met een goede voorbereiding bijna alles kan creëren : een marketingcampagne/een college - kunst. Zolang je maar goed na denkt wat maakt "iets" en wat maakt datgene "goed"/"waardevol"/ het waard te horen #ditisergoptimistischmaa inmijnogendewaarheid
goede observatie!
i like this format. we can see the screen and you. Nice video sir.
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I watched this video on LSD and I now Understand what life is .. god bless
When this gentleman was in elementary school music class as a pupil and they handed him the triangle
to play it may have sounded like a certain John cage piece of music ,however it may have gone on far longer than 4:33.
Excellent lecture really enjoyed it, best regards from the UK
We don't see packaged goods on store shelves as trash until the contents have been removed like from a bag of chips or a beverage.
Most of the physical possessions we buy may have been bound with a rubber band which we typically would throw away without hesitation; but we still would buy a pack of 50 rubber bands only when we need at least one from that pack...
He is enjoying so freaking much that I am also enjoying watching him
this channel is wonderful to listen while working! Thanks for sharing.
Siddhartha Gauthama was the Enlightened one, the Greatest philosopher the human civilisation, humanity has seen known so far.🌹
In my deep intellectual debates among myself. I have asked that same question of clear communication on complex levels between humans. I have concluded the base of the issue Arises from language. As lanuage itself has a limited compasity of expressing what Emotional feelings encompasse. Entertain the notion for a moment. Extretrestreal life's basis of communication is presumed to be telepathic. If thisbe the case, It would make sense that language is a inferior form of communication. At least upon the subject of exchanging understanding with others.
His laughter is filled with that dear delight.
I've been exploring similar ideas in my recent videos. It's always inspiring to find others who are just as passionate.
A good story is an excellent way out of the problem. It offers much more to chew on than concepts that are too precise and therefore disconnected from actual life.
For a syllabus with a list of readings in the course, see philosophical.space/327.
Thanks a lot Dr.!
Could I ask you to enable to add automatic captioning on all of your analytic tradition course?
Daniel Bonevac
Daniel Bonevac
Sir do you have anything on Foucault’s power and knowledge.
Archaeology and genealogy as critique framework.
Great lecture. Not enough on my guy Spinoza but towards the end we are ideas in a world mind nailed it.
I'm on my break at work....love it
Very nice to see the upload! As well, excellent work on the recording layout. Appreciating too that you have to work with the classroom and many were designed without uploading in mind! Keep up the excellent work professor!!!
Having watched up to your lectures on Russell:
Given this really excellent introduction and your explanation that analytic philosophy is a kind of 'rebellion' against the post-Kantian/post-Hegelian understanding of the relation between mind and world as a 'hall of mirrors', so to speak, I was expecting a stronger criticism of that tradition.
I don't see how you can go from Kant to proposing something like the correspondence theory of truth - it's just a regression into naive metaphysics, as far as I can tell. Am I wrong about that? What's the catch here? Would be very thankful for a response.
I'm getting the understanding of it now, you explaining really well, and thank you
I really like the way this was laid out. I’m most likely getting ahead of myself, where does intent become a factor?
I want to take a teaching profession after seeing you sir.
I wish i could have a chance to attend this wonderful class. But thanks to RUclips. Because at some point i really imagine myself sitting there. And in my thoughts, philosophy is knowledge. it is wisdom.
Philosophy may also be said to be the (high level) study of the essential characteristics of the material world around us and then trying to see whether these essential characteristics of matter are sufficient to provide a logical and convincing explanation regarding who we are and what our mind is made of, relating the external features to the anatomy of our body and considering, above all, the essential characteristics of consciousness and the conscious personality.
''we're striving aimlessly to discover SOMETHING that's already found us with it's own different dimension , our unfounded fear of 'end' and irrational greed for truth and answers to questions will be our undoing!'' Jim Morrison.
Thank you so much for this generous resource.
Love the energy from this guy.
Dan Bonavec is a great teacher; I love the unfailingly supportive way he interacts with "the kids," and theway the kids are often thoughtful and insightful. However, I wish both Prof. Boravec and the kids were more aggressive in challenging the many dogmas and aeeming absurdities of analytic philosophy. E.g., "No, Lou, we are not about to disband the High Table."
How could I find your lectures or articles in text like pdf
This video changed my mind about philosophy.
good overview of the concepts thank you. It didn't look like they solved the problem of form, they just described it in different ways or dismissed one element over emphasis on another element, which still doesn't solve the problem. I hope there is a continuance to the next attempts. It gave me the idea of nature vs nurture what Plato said. I would have used the example of animals about how they are born with instinctive knowledge, where the food is, mating rituals, other things seem not learned but instinctive. We're animals so we must have some instincts we were born with. I was thinking that our brains have the ability to understand concepts, to see patterns, to learn language constructs.
I could see where philosophy broke away from theology ans physics in this lecture as well. The last point scrubs out physics and just keeps philosophy in the realm of thought experiments and perceptions of the real world and how to acurately describe the world in a way we can all agree on.
Thank you for this fantastic series, you are a great lecturer.
I think rather than rationalism vs empiricism vs skepticism, the more fundamental distinction is idealism vs dualism vs materialism. I am comeple noob, but i think the former are epistemological stances and the later metaphysical. I feel like the criteria for knowledge should depend on the metaphysical premiss. Let's say we can chose arbitrary metaphysics. Then it should entail whether knowledge is possible and by which means etc. I think subjective idealism, starting from the solipsism is the easiest, because every experience is then directly an existent and there is no existent beyond that. So we have absolutely certain metaphysical facts of the present moment and can build any criteria for knowlege on that - like say to know something about the world is to find some relationship between multiple "bundles" of experience. If we start from materialism on the other hand, we have no metaphysical facts about the world and we have to hope that our methods of finding knowlege will conincide with the metaphysical reality (we have a very little segment of reality which is the state of our mind, but we never can know for sure how that is connected to the rest of the world).
0:20 "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
Ludwig Wittgenstein ( 26 April, 1889 - 29 April, 1951 )
Sherlock : philosophy is the over-thinking of a simple thought!
Loki (1815)
@@Loki1815
Lol! But perhaps some truth in that statement too.
I watched this I believe a year or so ago but never realised that you are doing the Plato and Aristotle pose from the famous painting "The School of Athens." In your thumbnail.
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Great lecture, I learned because it was so interesting. Daniel you are enthusiastic, thank you.
In the beginning of this lecture all I could was Kurosawa’s Rashomon. Inreliability of witnesses. And something I think of a thing is obviously different from the other person and all the other people as well. I don’t know if that makes any sense.
It fascinates me to see myself taking so many things so granted as I am going through life. When I see a table, for example, I think nothing much... Or maybe that´s table, next thought. Yet when I stop and think about it there is much to it. It is made up of various materials, someone has thought it up and had it created, it had to be shipped etc. This goes with things, people, situation etc. When we stop and contemplate, really sit still and inquire we will find that life is much more of a mystery that we usually give it credit for. Like for real... What is life? What is this body? Who am I? Am I the only person that feel confused about these questions? People act like they know who they really are, like they have it figured out... But have they really? Have you? Well I havent and I am curious to find answers to these questions. Leave me your thoughts!
Over this past year, philosophy has really appealed to me, and like yourself, I was very suprised about how I took everything for granted. It made me, not only question everything, but appreciate everything a lot more. For example, a car. It is a machine that we sit in, drive and bam, we have arrived at our destination in lightspeed compared to walking. Yet, it is a complex machine with complex parts, sophisticated mechanics and a product of intelligent minds of the past who decided to build such a machine, in which the majority of us don't have a clue about and of which, I assume don't care! It has made me appreciate so much more, and has allowed me to take a step back and appreciate how far we have come on this Earth; enjoying the little things in life.
Why do people act like they have it all figured out? Because they don’t, and that is the true meaning of knowledge, less is more. Questioning only leads one to figure out that not questioning is better
@@generichomosapien4666 So do you believe that to not question, is better than to question?
@@danielfontain150 more like nihilism
I watch your lectures for entertainment, as well as education, wonderful.
It doesn't really matter if 'the stamp' from the 'evil deceiver' is right or wrong (about 26:05) by what we human perceivers decide as right or wrong it only matters that it's consistent. This is the whole problem with humans as told in the first temptation story in Genesis. I.e. it's a story about a self definition of what is good for me rather than relying on an external constant, even if that constant may if fact turn out to be an 'evil deceiver.'
Great teacher. He reminds me of Ray Manzarek from The Doors
Manzarek was my idol in high school; I played keyboards and learned a bunch of the Doors songs!
Philosophy is the contemplation of ideas, principles and problems,etc...
Questions that flowered the discipline of philosophy some maybe most people would call absurd perhaps.
But, in my own life anyway they are the only questions truly worthy of both wanting as well as needing an answer to. It's understood, these questions are a luxury of leisure. Human beings are the only animals which have had this opportunity.
You can survive without asking these questions,
but only humanity has asked them, only humanity can.
It's a departure from all of the requisite 'hows' in life.
Once humanity arrived, philosophy-proper could finally ask the 'why'.
No apriori jokes.
I am familiar with Aristotle's primary qualities, but upon seeing Locke, I am completely confused. Locke's primary qualities aren't anything like Aristotle's primary qualities that gave existence to the elements. Are Aristotelian qualities not in away related to Locke's ideas of primary qualities. Locke says they "are not perceivable" if I am understanding properly. Heat, cold, moisture and dryness in various mixtures create secondary qualities. That makes perfect sense to me. For example, the quality of hardness is mixtures of mainly cold and moist. So what is Locke trying to say?
From my perspective, I believe that philosophy brings about change and circumstances. We develop inquisitive ideas about philosophy by explaining it in depth and gradually seeking answers through religion. I'm quite the spiritual type of person, who has an excitement for the Arts of Philosophy. My understanding is very small but my hunger for it is very strong. I need brief description of the matter. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Theory has experience of conscience..but to develop conscience is to study compassionately..and concept of truth is to devide what's reason..you have to live and breathe philosophy of quantum..but seriousness of conscience..is to manipulate the quality of experience..so to condemn what's ventured through your mind is to calculate the consumption of infinity..so to think fast is to exult the truth of content..and to resolve what's going around in your head is to confiscate the exception of contrast
Something that you guys should keep in mind is the fact that whatever lecture you listen to, dealing with philosophy, or engaging activities about philosophy doesn't mean more than just time-consuming. Philosophy is just an byproduct of advancement of science technology and discoveries. Not the vice versa.
science doesnt answer all the questions in life
What a gift this video is.
im literally in middle school, but i LOVE philosophy 🤷♀️
judging by the use of emojis, you dont know anything about philosophy
Philosophy is about primal human behavior inside and outside the laws of nature.
My philosophy: Point the camera at the subject.
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You’d enjoy Deleuze
Hahaha Good one!
the side angle is more sylistic
where can I find the full course or something like this? This is one of the best descriptions of the reason behind Philosophy.
This is a great playlist, it would be awesome if you could write a history of philosophy for beginners
It's a bit hard to follow 48 minutes and retain everything.
Also you skipped over a big challenge to plato's 'forms' before descartes, namely nominalism.