Philosophy was not meant to be hard and not able to be understood. Your videos are doing an excellent job bringing an interest to this important subject. Thank you.
Roberto Rodriguez-Nunez Thanks a bunch for the kind words! I have absolutely no formal training in philosophy - I'm a historian with a general interest in the subject and believe strongly in its value to the human mind. I'm hopeful that people with a casual interest may watch some of my videos and be drawn to more advanced studies as a result.
Roberto Rodriguez-Nunez Doing okay... Focusing now on Reformation Theology, which I guess is a branch of philosophy. Hoping to turn out more philosophy videos once I hit my rhythm with these history videos I'm trying to produce each week.
I always feel like a poor 2nd-rater, because my classical education is so weak. I sort of skim the highlights. Richey's enabling my willful ignorance with Cliff Notes versions of these matters. But then, not many people know what a topological vector space is, which I know a little something about.
zuckerwattenzauber I'm from India and yes, your way of teaching is really lucid and humourous. Thank you! and yes, English is not my first language too.
I just want to thank you so much for brilliantly summing up Hobbes and Locke in under 20 minutes whereas I have stumbled through it for two weeks to no avail. Awesome job to say the least
Nate Washup Glad I could help! As far as turning the lectures into podcasts, I'd have to figure out some stuff about how to do that with Apple... but I may make some of these lectures available in audio format on my website.
It's been ten years since the original upload and I have to say that this is the best video I've seen on the topic thus far. Thank you again for making this. I want to highlight to people that sometimes you don't need really badly animated videos to talk about philosophy. You can just be a human being and bring information to people in an effective and timely matter. Your notes/lecture are helping me get through my Ethics and intro to philosophy class in Community College. Thanks again. - Bob. : )
From Monty Python's "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" Transcribed by John Daley jdaley@picasso.ocis.temple.edu Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable, Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table, David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the turning of the wrist, Socrates himself was permanently pissed... John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, with half a pint of shandy was particularly ill, Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day, Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram, And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am." Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed. Read more: Monty Python - Immanuel Kant Lyrics | MetroLyrics
HA! Glad you approve! This is my most popular video and I can't make a dime off of it because I sampled Mastodon's music, but I wouldn't do it any differently if I had to do it over again. I love me some Mastodon - thinking about going to their listening party in Atlanta for the new album on Monday!
''Those of you that have trouble with the English language and would like to see it translated into Latin..'' haha, this seriously made my day! I have an essay due on the differences and similarities between Locke and Hobbes in 5 hours, and used this video as extra, last minute research. After reading countless books and articles for weeks on end, this basically summarised everything I needed to know. Thanks for sharing!
A question of utmost importance to philosophy: Why do you leave the tea bag in and allow your tea to become bitter? What is the meaning of bitterness, and why do you like a taste that exists as a mechanism to prevent you from ingesting poison?
+James Connolly Tea ought to be bitter! The bitterness is essential to tea flavor! I don't know why tea bitterness is so good, it just is. Blame the tastebuds.
+James Connolly Bitterness is to discourage eating unsafe food. However we also have the ability for acquired tastes if what we're eating isn't harmful, the more you drink black coffee the more you'll like it. That's another advantage instilled in us, to take more enjoyment in a food if it turns out not to be harmful.
Good Ben Afflect: the prequel to Good will Hunting - set in the 17th century where he was Hobbes' lamb. Hobbes really got his ideas from a lamb name BA - Ba ba ba ba ba
Thanks, Hamish! OMATS is no Blood Mountain, but there are some good tracks - especially Chimes at Midnight and Diamond in the Witch House. I'm watching your album review now!
From one teacher to another...kudos! I keep telling people, there's no reason to even go to college anymore, except to get that piece of paper and of course if one isn't motivated to study all this independently. This helps me get to essence of what I want to teach my students.
The difference I find with both philosophers is that Hobbes believed that humans were naturally born evil, and Locke thought that humans were originally born as 'tabula rasas', a state of mind where knowledge is completely nonexistent. Locke thought of them as innocent beings; neither good or evil. That is what I remember from a couple of years ago.(This video brings back the nostalgia I had when I was in high school learning this, and I still know a lot about it now. I remember getting an A- in that English class. Hopefully, I preserve this knowledge so that I can help my younger brother get a more educated understanding of this lesson later on when he's in middle school.)
Man, your explanation is amazing!! I'm brazilian and i'm going to have a test in 2 hours in my college and u just told, brightly, what i needed!! Thanks!!
I used your videos all the time last year to prep for AP Euro (got a 4!) and came back for this subject for my government class in college... so much nostalgia for AP classes in high school. Thanks for the great content!
I love using dynamic vids like this to illustrate points to my students. Tom, you manage to make works like this *WITHOUT* resorting to cheap tricks like profanity, double entendres or scatalogical humor. You instead use a relaxed, gentle wit and confident knowledge to get your point across. There's no need for me to worry when I show your vids to my students- even those who don;t like Mastadon say you're better than John Green. :) Take care, JM
greetings from Morocco, great video, loved the last table comparing the two, very helpful, would love to see their ideas versus rousseau and more recent social contract philosopher (proudhon, rawls ...). love the mastodon hints. great help
I gotta thank you man I've been studying for my history final with no hope in sight it's currently 2am and now im starting to see the light!!! You are an amazing person keep doing what you do brotha man!
Oh My Goodness! This was such an entertaining and informational video. My history teacher just spits out information at us, but you make it fun and manageable. Thanks so much!
Man, Thank You! Currently pulling an all nighter for a modern political thought exam in the morning, shout out from Ireland, decent taste in tunes too :)
Thoroughly enjoyable lecture and presented very clearly (and nice use of humour). I'm sure you helped that student out! :) And Mastodon is awesome. Thanks for your efforts.
I'm studying him right now, and he explicitly states we should stop obeying in two cases : 1) The sovereign's behaviour threatens our right to self preservation (aka he tries to kill you or he stops you from having access to enough food) 2) The sovereign is not powerful enough as an authority to prevent the state of nature (People are killing and stealing from each other, and the state isn't doing anything about it). These are two very extreme cases, that wouldn't have justified the English Civil war that took place at the time when the Leviathan was written. :)
Finally you got the facts correct. Amazing! This reminds me of myself a sophomore student correcting my modes of reasoning professor about deontology, where many human rights principles like going against capital punishment and etc were based upon. :).
I don’t think Jefferson was worried about plagiarism when he changed property to the pursuit of happinesses. I think it’s more plausible that he didn’t want poor people thinking that they had any right to land. Just my opinion! Loved the video and the sound track lol🤘
Hello sir, I am Abhilasha. I closely follow your videos on Political science. They are very very very interesting. I would like to request you to please make a video on Rousseau and about the General Will.
The best online series I've come across thus far. Richey you absolutely are the best tutor after myself of course. Yes I too teach history and found you so outta world. Just one suggestion is that try to incorporate as much dimensions as you can accommodate because they fetch more marks in spite of being obvious and useless.
Education is the journey towards a future job; it doesn't need to be boring or reflect the potential negative aspects of the working world. Don't be so pessimistic and start looking at the positive side of everything ;)
So, I, now, understand! Thank you so much Tom, this was so helpful! My exam is on Monday and I feel more confident about it now. Greetings from London.
Julio Larios Thanks a bunch! I'm a history teacher dabbling in political philosophy, but I think that makes it more accessible to a lot of people. It's been great to see this video connect with so many people!
This video got me through both history and English. I'm sure I'll use it through college as well. Thank you for being so amazingly clear and concise and for that fantastic soundtrack. Top notch video.
This was a HUGE help! Especially understanding background of Hobbes seeing his king of England being beheaded AND Locke saw the American Revolution and saw people working together. That background gave a HUGE picture between "Leveithan moster ruler" for Hobbes and for congress like Locke. Thankyou! Super helpful
I am a graduate student of Public Policy, and once in a while it is nice to step back from the academically dense texts I have to digest, and see it all laid out like this. Thanks for the videos. They lend depth to my studies.
Sir I’m from 🇵🇰 Pakistan my Law exams are going to start in few weeks and I couldn’t understand Thomes Hobbes theory but after watching ur video I feel so relaxed now because now I know the whole concept of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke only because of you. This video is old but new for me and I just want to say that u are the best teacher🌷 God bless you . Thank you sir❤️
+Stephen Coleman nope. according to hobbes in leviathan, the sovereign's authority is absolute but not limitless. when the sovereign fails to protect, it's authority is relinquished. It would be a matter of a broken social covenant.
+Nebojsa Galic The right is to flee the monarch and return to the state of nature, because the soveriegn has already returned you to the state of nature by making a direct assault on your right of nature: self preservation.
+Nebojsa Galic My understanding has always been that Hobbes does not give the right to rebel against a monarch. The catch is--and I recognize this is contradictory--that in the event that the people DO attempt to depose the sovereign, it is legitimate if they are successful. So, basically, they have no right to do it...unless they win. This is based on the idea that, if the people are successful in deposing the sovereign, it must be because the sovereign was illegitimate--i.e., the sovereign was weak and could not perform its function, thus was illegitimate.
Tom, tell other college professors to teach like you. Thank you for your clarity and for truly teaching - not showing off how much you know. What Julia Child is to teaching cookery - you are to teaching philosophy. You both have a generous spirit of sharing what you know and respect for the listener. Thank you Enjoyed this so much.
its not that i dont trust anybody, its just that i dont trust some people and since im not sure who those people are i must act the same with all people just in case.
Fantastic video and a great help! My professor at university enjoys this subject a lot but goes off topic a little bit and his slides are not great. This has cleared up a lot for me in time for my exam. I love your style of teaching, very easy to listen and understand :) thank you so much!!
I like a lot of Hobbes' premises, but not his conclusions. As much as it would be great, do not see it as realistic for there to be a benevolent dictator (which if it were, would help overcome problems of democracy that Socrates identified).
This video is awesome Mr.Richey! To the point and so effective. It lends great depth to my studies. Thanks a million from a norwegian college student :)
Wow i just realized by watching your video that my college professor basically copied everything you said in the manner you said it, INCLUDING some of your jokes.. smh
Hello from Northwestern State University in Louisiana! Our Lit teacher linked to this video, and I could listen to you lecture with Mastodon all day! \m/
Why do you lock your door? We lock our door against the one, not against the many. Whenever I have left the door open and unlocked, nobody has even tried to violate my peace. Thus I would say that the many are good, but the one among the many may wreak harm, not because the one is necessarily evil by nature, but poverty, especially poverty which results from bad government, may drive one to desperate acts. Poverty is a subsidiary evil, which derives from the one primary evil, bad government. [Love the dialogue. Many thanks.]
Please cite a peer-reviewed source for this. The imprisonment rate of the poor is disproportionate, not the rate at which each socioeconomic class commits crime. Speeding is a crime, I would imagine the affluent are much more capable of committing this crime than the impoverished. You've no parameters set to your argument, and it is also a false notion that poverty is the motivator for criminality; if that were so--a critical mass of impoverished persons would be criminals, and not a minority.
JMM4886 Look city by city within the US, its undeniable that poverty mixed with dense population is the driving force behind crime and murder, has nothing to do with guns, guns are just a tool of choice criminals use to commit the crime , not what gives them the intent. Ban guns and criminals will not only still get guns, they will start using other weapons, and it will be easier for them to prey on people because they will feel safer acting on their intent. Only .002 % of people who buy a gun legally go on to use it in a crime, 98.8% of guns purchased legally are never used in a crime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate_(2012) When a criminal feels safe, they commit more crime. Research conducted by Professors James Wright and Peter Rossi,6 for a landmark study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, points to the armed citizen as possibly the most effective deterrent to crime in the nation. Wright and Rossi questioned over 1,800 felons serving time in prisons across the nation and found: 81% agreed the "smart criminal" will try to find out if a potential victim is armed. 74% felt that burglars avoided occupied dwellings for fear of being shot. 80% of "handgun predators" had encountered armed citizens. 40% did not commit a specific crime for fear that the victim was armed. 34% of "handgun predators" were scared off or shot at by armed victims. 57% felt that the typical criminal feared being shot by citizens more than he feared being shot by police. Professor Kleck estimates that annually 1,500-2,800 felons are legally killed in "excusable self-defense" or "justifiable" shootings by civilians, and 8,000-16,000 criminals are wounded. This compares to 300-600 justifiable homicides by police. Yet, in most instances, civilians used a firearm to threaten, apprehend, shoot at a criminal, or to fire a warning shot without injuring anyone. Based on his extensive independent survey research, Kleck estimates that each year Americans use guns for protection from criminals more than 2.5 million times annually. 7 U.S. Department of Justice victimization surveys show that protective use of a gun lessens the chance that robberies, rapes, and assaults will be successfully completed while also reducing the likelihood of victim injury. Clearly, criminals fear armed citizens.
***** Criminality is not driven solely by poverty, poverty may be a contributing factor, but criminality across the board is relatively equal. If you're referring to incarceration rates, then yes, the poor are regularly incarcerated more than the affluent and middle class. There are a number of reasons why: social ties within the community, ability to afford good legal representation, types of crime ranging in severity of criminality due to arbitrary MMS (i.e. possession of "crack"--commonly attributed to be a drug of the less affluent, and possession of cocaine--commonly a drug attributed to the more affluent; 1g of crack is a felony while 1g of cocaine is a misdemeanor [in GA]). If poverty were the motivator for criminality, there would be relatively little "poor" people on the streets, and in the communities and cities of the United States. Secondly, I have no idea where your firearm rant came from. I agree with your sentiment, but it is all moot as it has nothing to do with the discussion here within this comment thread. And, I would not use "wikipedia" as your primary source of reference. I know of a professor that purposefully alter facts in Wikipedia just because.. not to mention what the average internet user does to the information within. Lastly, I'm not !00% certain on the number, but most murders are crimes of passion (a.k.a. heat of the moment). Poverty does not make one more susceptible to passion.
Hi, new subscriber here. By the way, I'm from Philippines. Thanks for this informational video. This'll surely be of great help for me in my upcoming board exam.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!! Im writing you from Uruguay (Latin America). Im studying to be a History Professor, I will graduate in 1 year. Tomorrow I have a test of Modern History and I have to study the origins and characteristics of the Modern State, the Absolutism Political theories (Bossuet and Hobbes), Mercantilism and the Protestant Reform. Your videos really helped me!!!! thanks!!! keep making them!!! loved them! This year I am also studying USA History so I will check upon those videos from your playlists as well :-)
You're doing a wonderful job Tom. I am watching your videos from Québec, a province of Canada inhabited by french speaking people. But even my knowledge of english is realy bad, it is quiet easy for me to understand your crystal clear explanations. Keep it going.
My Social Diploma exam is tomorrow and I think I'm a little more prepared now. Thanks so much for making this content! Also, you have awesome taste in music =]
I've literally watched ALL your videos.. Thanks Sir!! Politics exam tomorrow! Your videos are very Educational and Easy to understand.. I recommended you to the entire Politics Class..lol
this will surely help me on my essay! will definetly continue watching your videos of philosophy lectures and what you say is very helpful. Thank you for your educational videos!
This video really helped me to understand what I was reading for my class. I could not understand anything I was reading, until I watched this. I actually understood it and wrote 3 long paragraphs for my answer, then edmentum timed out and erased it all before I could turn it in. 🙃
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Philosophy was not meant to be hard and not able to be understood. Your videos are doing an excellent job bringing an interest to this important subject. Thank you.
Roberto Rodriguez-Nunez Thanks a bunch for the kind words! I have absolutely no formal training in philosophy - I'm a historian with a general interest in the subject and believe strongly in its value to the human mind. I'm hopeful that people with a casual interest may watch some of my videos and be drawn to more advanced studies as a result.
Greetings Tom, how are you doing with philosophy...?
Roberto Rodriguez-Nunez Doing okay... Focusing now on Reformation Theology, which I guess is a branch of philosophy. Hoping to turn out more philosophy videos once I hit my rhythm with these history videos I'm trying to produce each week.
I'll be looking forward to your new lessons. Any in particular your working on?
I always feel like a poor 2nd-rater, because my classical education is so weak. I sort of skim the highlights.
Richey's enabling my willful ignorance with Cliff Notes versions of these matters.
But then, not many people know what a topological vector space is, which I know a little something about.
That moment, when you are from germany and understood an english video better than you understood your history teacher
LOLZ WOW THAT IS AN HONOR TO HEAR! I'm really awed to have such a growing audience in Europe!
Tom Richey Your Videos are just perfect! You tell every important facts and you are very funny:'D
zuckerwattenzauber Same here, and I'm from Portugal x'D
+zuckerwattenzauber You just gave me all the info I needed in 16 minutes that I couldn't get in 45
zuckerwattenzauber I'm from India and yes, your way of teaching is really lucid and humourous. Thank you!
and yes, English is not my first language too.
I’m glad you could do in 17 minutes what a veteran professor could not in 2 months
OOF!
Most of them are 'educated'(/indoctrinated) far beyond their capacities for intelligence.
You're a low-key OG history teacher. Thanks for making exam season less terrifying.
You make me sound so gangster - such kind words! :D
Hi-Key
I just want to thank you so much for brilliantly summing up Hobbes and Locke in under 20 minutes whereas I have stumbled through it for two weeks to no avail. Awesome job to say the least
Nate Washup Glad I could help! As far as turning the lectures into podcasts, I'd have to figure out some stuff about how to do that with Apple... but I may make some of these lectures available in audio format on my website.
Awesome!
I am from Africa and i appreciate your work... u got fans from across the continent...
Thnx Richie!!
From Kenya
great video from germany!
As if Africa was one country
Another fan here from england
It's been ten years since the original upload and I have to say that this is the best video I've seen on the topic thus far. Thank you again for making this. I want to highlight to people that sometimes you don't need really badly animated videos to talk about philosophy. You can just be a human being and bring information to people in an effective and timely matter.
Your notes/lecture are helping me get through my Ethics and intro to philosophy class in Community College.
Thanks again.
- Bob. : )
How dare you as a philosopher drink tea rather than whiskey.
Whiskey you say? I've been doing it wrong my entire life!
+Erian "Two great narcotics of corruption, alcohol and christianity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
From Monty Python's "Live at the Hollywood Bowl"
Transcribed by John Daley jdaley@picasso.ocis.temple.edu
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the turning of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, with half a pint of shandy was
particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.
Read more: Monty Python - Immanuel Kant Lyrics | MetroLyrics
SparkyonPC
“Some people are naturally superior than others”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm going to have to disagree with all of you. Best for philosophy is sleep deprivation, coffee or amphetamines, and cannabis.
"Rest in peace, my pony" is the most metal thing I've heard all day.
Philosophy and mastodon in the same video
HA! Glad you approve! This is my most popular video and I can't make a dime off of it because I sampled Mastodon's music, but I wouldn't do it any differently if I had to do it over again. I love me some Mastodon - thinking about going to their listening party in Atlanta for the new album on Monday!
Do it man. It should be well worth it
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Entertaining and enlightening.. You killed it.
Thankyou :D
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''Those of you that have trouble with the English language and would like to see it translated into Latin..'' haha, this seriously made my day! I have an essay due on the differences and similarities between Locke and Hobbes in 5 hours, and used this video as extra, last minute research. After reading countless books and articles for weeks on end, this basically summarised everything I needed to know. Thanks for sharing!
Adoraa Jane Glad I could help you so efficiently! And you never know if there are still a few Latin speakers out there. lol
Tom Richey, I took Latin in high school and university. We still exist. Scientia potentia est!
Eryn P. O. I'm studying Latin too! =)
Eryn P. O. Caecilius in horto est, k?
thanks for doing what you do, i don't know why someone would dislike this video
A question of utmost importance to philosophy: Why do you leave the tea bag in and allow your tea to become bitter? What is the meaning of bitterness, and why do you like a taste that exists as a mechanism to prevent you from ingesting poison?
I'm drinking herbal tea in this video so bitterness is not a factor. Glad to run into a fellow tea enthusiast!
+James Connolly Tea ought to be bitter! The bitterness is essential to tea flavor! I don't know why tea bitterness is so good, it just is. Blame the tastebuds.
lillian sunhine Tea is not supposed to be bitter.
Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword
Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)
Lemony Snicket
+James Connolly Bitterness is to discourage eating unsafe food. However we also have the ability for acquired tastes if what we're eating isn't harmful, the more you drink black coffee the more you'll like it. That's another advantage instilled in us, to take more enjoyment in a food if it turns out not to be harmful.
Matt Damon, yes?
HAHA! Yeah, I get that now and then!
Good Ben Afflect: the prequel to Good will Hunting - set in the 17th century where he was Hobbes' lamb. Hobbes really got his ideas from a lamb name BA - Ba ba ba ba ba
Heck yeah.
Tom Richie, you have just saved an Argentine student's life. THANK YOU!
Thank you for your clarity.
I appreciate your letting history teach us rather than any personal agendas.
I'm glad you liked the video! I'll keep trying to be as clear as possible!
i just looove how he simplifies philosophy!!! like OMG !! i just wish we had teachers like him here in Algeria, thank you so much for this lecture :3
An incredibly informative video. The Mastodon inclusion was great, I hope you are enjoying their new album!
Thanks, Hamish! OMATS is no Blood Mountain, but there are some good tracks - especially Chimes at Midnight and Diamond in the Witch House. I'm watching your album review now!
this video posted 9 years ago is saving me so much time right now...thank u Mr. Richey
From one teacher to another...kudos! I keep telling people, there's no reason to even go to college anymore, except to get that piece of paper and of course if one isn't motivated to study all this independently. This helps me get to essence of what I want to teach my students.
The difference I find with both philosophers is that Hobbes believed that humans were naturally born evil, and Locke thought that humans were originally born as 'tabula rasas', a state of mind where knowledge is completely nonexistent. Locke thought of them as innocent beings; neither good or evil. That is what I remember from a couple of years ago.(This video brings back the nostalgia I had when I was in high school learning this, and I still know a lot about it now. I remember getting an A- in that English class. Hopefully, I preserve this knowledge so that I can help my younger brother get a more educated understanding of this lesson later on when he's in middle school.)
+Lord Freeza ... thank you for this explanation.
Man, your explanation is amazing!!
I'm brazilian and i'm going to have a test in 2 hours in my college and u just told, brightly, what i needed!!
Thanks!!
Glad I could help, Gabriel!
That's a cop out lad
I hace an exam tomorrow and have lots of books with academics who write far toooooo much, your summaries are really helpful . Straight to the point
I'm a philosophy/theology major and let me tell you Tom, you're on it dude...
I used your videos all the time last year to prep for AP Euro (got a 4!) and came back for this subject for my government class in college... so much nostalgia for AP classes in high school. Thanks for the great content!
I love using dynamic vids like this to illustrate points to my students. Tom, you manage to make works like this *WITHOUT* resorting to cheap tricks like profanity, double entendres or scatalogical humor. You instead use a relaxed, gentle wit and confident knowledge to get your point across. There's no need for me to worry when I show your vids to my students- even those who don;t like Mastadon say you're better than John Green. :)
Take care,
JM
it’s 2022, i’m from Brazil studying for a test and you might’ve just saved me man, thanks ❤
You are a good teacher, very entertaining as well. Bravo
+Charlie Cruz Thanks! ☕️😆👍🏽
indeed
Thanks, I'm the process of writing an essay and this quick overview jogged my memory of what I learned earlier this semester.
greetings from Morocco, great video, loved the last table comparing the two, very helpful, would love to see their ideas versus rousseau and more recent social contract philosopher (proudhon, rawls ...). love the mastodon hints. great help
I gotta thank you man I've been studying for my history final with no hope in sight it's currently 2am and now im starting to see the light!!! You are an amazing person keep doing what you do brotha man!
ricardo villacreses I LOVE RHYMING COMPLIMENTS! Hopefully, you ended up getting some sleep and doing well on your final!
Oh My Goodness! This was such an entertaining and informational video. My history teacher just spits out information at us, but you make it fun and manageable. Thanks so much!
Man, Thank You! Currently pulling an all nighter for a modern political thought exam in the morning, shout out from Ireland, decent taste in tunes too :)
Thoroughly enjoyable lecture and presented very clearly (and nice use of humour). I'm sure you helped that student out! :) And Mastodon is awesome.
Thanks for your efforts.
You're great! =) I'm an Italian studying also Latin and Greeck. I understood the whole video! It's simply useful and fab! ;) Thank you!
Wow, this was astonishingly helpful! Thank you so much
Can you belive it, I'm actually writing my exam next week and wooooow! I'm appalled. THIS CONTENT HAS BE SPO HELPFUL
Really helpful for my studying. Thanks a lot!
You're welcome! Glad I can help you!
Hey, Tom! Thanks to your video I passed a test. It was really helpful!
I never thought meeting Matt Damon teaching Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes actually did beleive that the people had the right to rebell if the monarch neglected his duties.
no that's not true, he believed in absolutism, he hated seeing the civil war and all sorts of revolutions.
I'm studying him right now, and he explicitly states we should stop obeying in two cases :
1) The sovereign's behaviour threatens our right to self preservation (aka he tries to kill you or he stops you from having access to enough food)
2) The sovereign is not powerful enough as an authority to prevent the state of nature (People are killing and stealing from each other, and the state isn't doing anything about it).
These are two very extreme cases, that wouldn't have justified the English Civil war that took place at the time when the Leviathan was written.
:)
Finally you got the facts correct. Amazing! This reminds me of myself a sophomore student correcting my modes of reasoning professor about deontology, where many human rights principles like going against capital punishment and etc were based upon. :).
I don’t think Jefferson was worried about plagiarism when he changed property to the pursuit of happinesses. I think it’s more plausible that he didn’t want poor people thinking that they had any right to land.
Just my opinion!
Loved the video and the sound track lol🤘
I'm from Slovakia, studying anglophone studies and thank God for this video! I finally understand this topic. Thank you!
Hello sir, I am Abhilasha. I closely follow your videos on Political science. They are very very very interesting. I would like to request you to please make a video on Rousseau and about the General Will.
The best online series I've come across thus far. Richey you absolutely are the best tutor after myself of course. Yes I too teach history and found you so outta world. Just one suggestion is that try to incorporate as much dimensions as you can accommodate because they fetch more marks in spite of being obvious and useless.
Loved it! History has never been illustrated so clear !!! :-)
school can be - and should be - entertainment as well as preparation ;)
Education is the journey towards a future job; it doesn't need to be boring or reflect the potential negative aspects of the working world. Don't be so pessimistic and start looking at the positive side of everything ;)
Love the FFA in the background thanks for making this so much easier to understand!
So, I, now, understand! Thank you so much Tom, this was so helpful! My exam is on Monday and I feel more confident about it now.
Greetings from London.
Elitsa Yordanova I'm glad I could help! I hope your exam goes well tomorrow! :D
simple, interesting, informative and humorous....a cool combination.... keep up the great work....
I like your pronunciation of Bossuet! :)
(From a French Canadian ! )
Bossuei.
Outstanding channel! Many years trying to bring to simple terms the enlightenment theorists and you have done it brilliantly and simple. Thank you.
Julio Larios Thanks a bunch! I'm a history teacher dabbling in political philosophy, but I think that makes it more accessible to a lot of people. It's been great to see this video connect with so many people!
You're a life savior man !!!! keep rockin'!
This video got me through both history and English. I'm sure I'll use it through college as well. Thank you for being so amazingly clear and concise and for that fantastic soundtrack. Top notch video.
you just saved my ass with this bro, good shit I aced that exam.
GLAD TO HEAR IT!!!
+BLUE PRINT Of course he likes your ass...
This was a HUGE help! Especially understanding background of Hobbes seeing his king of England being beheaded AND Locke saw the American Revolution and saw people working together. That background gave a HUGE picture between "Leveithan moster ruler" for Hobbes and for congress like Locke. Thankyou! Super helpful
British Pakistani guy speaking here (with a pure British accent and Asian impressions) - I think your accent is utterly brilliant! =D
Wildly entertaining and gloriously informative. First class job Mr Richey!
Thanks, my friend!
pov you came from Mr strerretts philosophy class 😑
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I am a graduate student of Public Policy, and once in a while it is nice to step back from the academically dense texts I have to digest, and see it all laid out like this. Thanks for the videos. They lend depth to my studies.
Marie Scott This is a high compliment! I often hear from college students, but not often from people pursuing graduate study. I'm honored!
Oh my goodness guys, we might get to see the Leviathan in our lifetime... oh boy!
Sir I’m from 🇵🇰 Pakistan my Law exams are going to start in few weeks and I couldn’t understand Thomes Hobbes theory but after watching ur video I feel so relaxed now because now I know the whole concept of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke only because of you. This video is old but new for me and I just want to say that u are the best teacher🌷 God bless you . Thank you sir❤️
Actually Hobbes, as far as I know does give people the right to depose a monarch if he starts outright killing them.
+Nebojsa Galic That's what The School of Life said in their video about Thomas Hobbes.
+Nebojsa Galic Nope Hobbes believed that once you submitted you STAYED submitted. NO NATURAL RIGHTS to individual rights.
+Stephen Coleman nope. according to hobbes in leviathan, the sovereign's authority is absolute but not limitless. when the sovereign fails to protect, it's authority is relinquished. It would be a matter of a broken social covenant.
+Nebojsa Galic The right is to flee the monarch and return to the state of nature, because the soveriegn has already returned you to the state of nature by making a direct assault on your right of nature: self preservation.
+Nebojsa Galic My understanding has always been that Hobbes does not give the right to rebel against a monarch. The catch is--and I recognize this is contradictory--that in the event that the people DO attempt to depose the sovereign, it is legitimate if they are successful. So, basically, they have no right to do it...unless they win. This is based on the idea that, if the people are successful in deposing the sovereign, it must be because the sovereign was illegitimate--i.e., the sovereign was weak and could not perform its function, thus was illegitimate.
Tom, tell other college professors to teach like you. Thank you for your clarity and for truly teaching - not showing off how much you know. What Julia Child is to teaching cookery - you are to teaching philosophy. You both have a generous spirit of sharing what you know and respect for the listener. Thank you Enjoyed this so much.
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irintheutubefan Legen... wait for it... DARY!
I have a quiz tomorrow on Hobbes and Locke and this has enlightened me. Thank you!
Glad I could help... and GOOD LUCK!
Glad I could help! :D
its not that i dont trust anybody, its just that i dont trust some people and since im not sure who those people are i must act the same with all people just in case.
I think Hobbes could get to his same conclusions from that starting place.
Thx richey i just took my exam and it totally helped me out even doe i dont need these vids ever again i will always recommend any one to u!
What I took from this is that while you wouldn't drink the blood, you would still slit the throat. Huh.
Bro still clutching up 8 years later thanks man
I didn't appreciate these ideas enough back when I learned them in AP Euro. Now I'm relearning them again out of interest. Thank you for your videos!
Fantastic video and a great help! My professor at university enjoys this subject a lot but goes off topic a little bit and his slides are not great. This has cleared up a lot for me in time for my exam. I love your style of teaching, very easy to listen and understand :) thank you so much!!
I like a lot of Hobbes' premises, but not his conclusions. As much as it would be great, do not see it as realistic for there to be a benevolent dictator (which if it were, would help overcome problems of democracy that Socrates identified).
This video is awesome Mr.Richey! To the point and so effective. It lends great depth to my studies.
Thanks a million from a norwegian college student :)
Øyvind Helseth Glad to hear I'm helping folks even in Scandinavia!
thanks, that was really helpful!
+legofan431 Glad to hear it!
Great lecture, *****! Translated Hobbes and Job 41 with theme music..awe-inspiring! BEST video lecture on the TCTC HIS 101 Test IV playlist.
Reading a Passage with a Mastodon in the background. EPIC
That's how you should read the Bible people!
@@BBQcheese Fuck off. Even if you aren't Christian, the Bible is still a great work
@@BBQcheese IF you're watching philosophy videos, and havent yet adressed the bible in your worldview, your worldview is entirely incomplete
love this video, very vivid, Tom's sense of humor is a real plus for learning ! Thanks Tom, thumb up!
i believe youre a vampire..
Made me pass my philosophy exam with your videos 👏👏. This one was especially helpful cuz the prof rlly liked to ask questions about Hobbes and Locke!
Wow i just realized by watching your video that my college professor basically copied everything you said in the manner you said it, INCLUDING some of your jokes.. smh
He's learning from the best! Did he threaten to slit your throat? lol
Hello from Northwestern State University in Louisiana! Our Lit teacher linked to this video, and I could listen to you lecture with Mastodon all day! \m/
Why do you lock your door?
We lock our door against the one, not against the many. Whenever I have left the door open and unlocked, nobody has even tried to violate my peace. Thus I would say that the many are good, but the one among the many may wreak harm, not because the one is necessarily evil by nature, but poverty, especially poverty which results from bad government, may drive one to desperate acts. Poverty is a subsidiary evil, which derives from the one primary evil, bad government. [Love the dialogue. Many thanks.]
Criminality is proportionate across all socioeconomic strata (in the US). I would disagree that poverty is the primary motivator for criminality.
JMM4886 Statistics clearly show poverty (greed or want for luxury items) as the greatest cause of crime, followed by population and diversity.
Please cite a peer-reviewed source for this. The imprisonment rate of the poor is disproportionate, not the rate at which each socioeconomic class commits crime. Speeding is a crime, I would imagine the affluent are much more capable of committing this crime than the impoverished. You've no parameters set to your argument, and it is also a false notion that poverty is the motivator for criminality; if that were so--a critical mass of impoverished persons would be criminals, and not a minority.
JMM4886 Look city by city within the US, its undeniable that poverty mixed with dense population is the driving force behind crime and murder, has nothing to do with guns, guns are just a tool of choice criminals use to commit the crime , not what gives them the intent. Ban guns and criminals will not only still get guns, they will start using other weapons, and it will be easier for them to prey on people because they will feel safer acting on their intent.
Only .002 % of people who buy a gun legally go on to use it in a crime, 98.8% of guns purchased legally are never used in a crime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate_(2012)
When a criminal feels safe, they commit more crime.
Research conducted by Professors James Wright and Peter Rossi,6 for a landmark study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, points to the armed citizen as possibly the most effective deterrent to crime in the nation. Wright and Rossi questioned over 1,800 felons serving time in prisons across the nation and found:
81% agreed the "smart criminal" will try to find out if a potential victim is armed.
74% felt that burglars avoided occupied dwellings for fear of being shot.
80% of "handgun predators" had encountered armed citizens.
40% did not commit a specific crime for fear that the victim was armed.
34% of "handgun predators" were scared off or shot at by armed victims.
57% felt that the typical criminal feared being shot by citizens more than he feared being shot by police.
Professor Kleck estimates that annually 1,500-2,800 felons are legally killed in "excusable self-defense" or "justifiable" shootings by civilians, and 8,000-16,000 criminals are wounded. This compares to 300-600 justifiable homicides by police. Yet, in most instances, civilians used a firearm to threaten, apprehend, shoot at a criminal, or to fire a warning shot without injuring anyone.
Based on his extensive independent survey research, Kleck estimates that each year Americans use guns for protection from criminals more than 2.5 million times annually. 7 U.S. Department of Justice victimization surveys show that protective use of a gun lessens the chance that robberies, rapes, and assaults will be successfully completed while also reducing the likelihood of victim injury. Clearly, criminals fear armed citizens.
***** Criminality is not driven solely by poverty, poverty may be a contributing factor, but criminality across the board is relatively equal. If you're referring to incarceration rates, then yes, the poor are regularly incarcerated more than the affluent and middle class. There are a number of reasons why: social ties within the community, ability to afford good legal representation, types of crime ranging in severity of criminality due to arbitrary MMS (i.e. possession of "crack"--commonly attributed to be a drug of the less affluent, and possession of cocaine--commonly a drug attributed to the more affluent; 1g of crack is a felony while 1g of cocaine is a misdemeanor [in GA]). If poverty were the motivator for criminality, there would be relatively little "poor" people on the streets, and in the communities and cities of the United States.
Secondly, I have no idea where your firearm rant came from. I agree with your sentiment, but it is all moot as it has nothing to do with the discussion here within this comment thread. And, I would not use "wikipedia" as your primary source of reference. I know of a professor that purposefully alter facts in Wikipedia just because.. not to mention what the average internet user does to the information within.
Lastly, I'm not !00% certain on the number, but most murders are crimes of passion (a.k.a. heat of the moment). Poverty does not make one more susceptible to passion.
This is way more understandable than any article I've read on this topic...and I'm German. Thank you!
Paco TH-camG4mers AWESOME! I'm still amazed every time I hear from someone watching my videos in Europe!
Awesome video! You're a great teacher and have helped me prepare for my Philosophy midterm!
Hi, new subscriber here. By the way, I'm from Philippines. Thanks for this informational video. This'll surely be of great help for me in my upcoming board exam.
You have done a beautiful job at explaining these two philosopher's ideas, kudos to you!
Tom Richey, you are such a better resource for notes than the cruddy textbook my school gave us. thanks so much
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!! Im writing you from Uruguay (Latin America). Im studying to be a History Professor, I will graduate in 1 year. Tomorrow I have a test of Modern History and I have to study the origins and characteristics of the Modern State, the Absolutism Political theories (Bossuet and Hobbes), Mercantilism and the Protestant Reform. Your videos really helped me!!!! thanks!!! keep making them!!! loved them! This year I am also studying USA History so I will check upon those videos from your playlists as well :-)
You're doing a wonderful job Tom. I am watching your videos from Québec, a province of Canada inhabited by french speaking people. But even my knowledge of english is realy bad, it is quiet easy for me to understand your crystal clear explanations. Keep it going.
My Social Diploma exam is tomorrow and I think I'm a little more prepared now. Thanks so much for making this content! Also, you have awesome taste in music =]
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Found this when searching "John Locke." Not prepping for an exam, just want to grasp what it really means to be "Liberal." Love what you're doing!
Thank you so much for making this kind of content, this video helped me greatly, you are a fantastic teacher!!!
I've literally watched ALL your videos.. Thanks Sir!! Politics exam tomorrow! Your videos are very Educational and Easy to understand.. I recommended you to the entire Politics Class..lol
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this will surely help me on my essay! will definetly continue watching your videos of philosophy lectures and what you say is very helpful. Thank you for your educational videos!
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This video really helped me to understand what I was reading for my class. I could not understand anything I was reading, until I watched this. I actually understood it and wrote 3 long paragraphs for my answer, then edmentum timed out and erased it all before I could turn it in. 🙃
Your videos really are the best, thank you for making this hard class just a little bit easier!!!
Thank you SOOOO much. My finals are coming up and this was perfect for me. It answered every one of my questions
Brilliant video. Clarified the key issues and has made the contrast between the two eminently clear.