Alright, here's the next installment. You guys may actually find this one interesting. It's on the analogy of attribution. This covers cases like "med...
The most "serious" atheist philosopher, in my view, is probably David Hume. Problem is, his arguments only work against the moderns. They don't really...
I don't think it right even to consider Epicureanism a serious philosophical sect. The real philosophers (including the Stoics) were all basing themse...
The way that Aristotle is treated, taught, etc. in contemporary settings generally isn't very good...generally speaking, contemporary philosophical ed...
Epicureanism is so utterly ridiculous that it's probably one of the few, maybe perhaps the only, "mainstream" philosophy that Plotinus simply ignores ...
1. So, if you watch the video,I specifically did not psychologize either set of views. Imho, the psychological question isn't philosophically interest...
On the Berkeley discussion: I actually think that Berkeley is underrated. He had probably the greatest insight of the modern period, and I rarely hear...
I have to disagree on Plotinus. He's easily one of the most underrated philosophers around, not one of the most overrated. The problem with Plotinus i...
The "footnote to Plato" thing is mostly accurate, though, at least if we're talking about philosophy posterior to Plato and prior to Descartes. The en...
Renee Descartes. The dude was a complete amateur. He did his undergraduate in philosophy with the Jesuits, subsequently forgot everything, and then st...
For someone on a philosophy forum, that strikes me as uncharitable...and that's all I have to say on that matter. I'm aware that there's not much cont...
Fair enough. I'm ABD for a philosophy Ph.D. Heaviest areas of competence are medieval and classical philosophy. The analogy material falls under my co...
How do you understand "authority"? Do I know what I'm talking about? To the extent necessary for the content of the videos? Yes. Are there objective "...
Terrapin: I do have to admit though. The thought of a high school student going onto youtube wanting to remember what the difference between metaphor ...
Terrapin: LOL. What's funny is that I actually am going to cover metaphor in the video I make on the analogy of proper proportionality. Jeremiah: An a...
Hanover: If you don't want the video, then you certainly don't have to watch it. In fact, I find it strange that you would even comment in a such a th...
Terrapin: General audience. The intended prerequisite for understanding the analogy video is that you've watched and understood the univocity video. I...
Terrapin: It's each additional addition that makes it progressively more unlikely. I had in mind the Sam Harris interview on The Young Turks. Basicall...
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