Heyy, I just discovered your channel totally by chance. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I've been loving the videos. I'm glad your channel reached me here in Brazil! 🥰
The TH-cam algorithm has blessed me. As a beginner interested in philosophy, what light hearted books or material do you suggest to get started in the area of philosophy?
I would recommend starting with Plato’s dialogues. They are a nice introduction for thinking philosophically. Euthyphro and the Gorgias are the best to start with. Dialogues are easy to read but they make you think. Another easy practical work I’d recommend is St. Augustine’s confessions. It’s a biographical genre but it introduces many key philosophical insights while being an enjoyable and accessible read.
So the explanation has shortcommings At the beggining you say that realism is a older trend beggining in aristotle. Then, in the midle, you say that plato was an idealist. In fact, it is possible to argue that those philosophers were neither cause the debate was not there. By the same token, if you say that the debate need not be there explicitly, then is possible to identify both idealism and realism early on on the continental tradition. More than that, you seem to confuse realism with empiricism. Direct access is not the same, to many, as direct access to reality (the same holds for indirect access). Realism can be thought of as epistemogical and/or ontological and have many shapes. The sane with realism. For example, the idealist trend after Kant in some extents is read as idealism without noumena. So Idealism in this tradition cannot be defined by the notion of noumena. More than that, Husserls idealism can also be identified as a "idealism withouth noumena". We can argue that another error appears when you say that all medieval philosophers were realists. In fact realism were a ontological position that was disputing place with nominalism and conceptualism in a way that we can see that is not thr case that the enemy of realism is always idealism. The definitions need refinment. Realism and Idealism can be opposed in the question of the place of the subject. But even here the lines get blurry since it is needed to find a palce for the subject in reality. I recomend you to read the new trends of realism that come from Speculative Realism and New Realism, specially: Quentin Meillassoux's "After Finitude" (2007); "Speculative Realism" the trabscript of the symposium in Collapse vol 3 Editted by Robin Mackay (2007); Markus Gabriel's "Why the world does not exist" (2013) and "Fields of sense" (2015); Finally Graham Harman's "Object Oriented Ontology" (2018)
I understand the frustration with generalizations made. My intention for this channel though, if you saw my first video, was not to make high academic lessons. That is for the classroom and seminars. But I made this channel for my friends who have never studied any philosophy before. So I apologize for the generalizations but I also want these videos to be very very introductory and thus, broad. That being said, I am impressed with what you are reading and I encourage a further study into the study of reality and its correlation with the subject.
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This is a great channel
The table must exist (and in particular its appearance must correspond to the object itself) because I touched it QED
Brilliant video, love your way of explaining this
Heyy, I just discovered your channel totally by chance. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I've been loving the videos. I'm glad your channel reached me here in Brazil! 🥰
I am glad you have been enjoying the videos! Let me know if there is any philosophers you want to learn about.
You have a pleasant voice, subscribed! 🙏
Thenk you professor so much ❤.
The TH-cam algorithm has blessed me. As a beginner interested in philosophy, what light hearted books or material do you suggest to get started in the area of philosophy?
I would recommend starting with Plato’s dialogues. They are a nice introduction for thinking philosophically. Euthyphro and the Gorgias are the best to start with. Dialogues are easy to read but they make you think. Another easy practical work I’d recommend is St. Augustine’s confessions. It’s a biographical genre but it introduces many key philosophical insights while being an enjoyable and accessible read.
Both! The terms are somewhat ambiguous... Cosmic "idealism", with relative "realism", along the lines of (Aristotelian) Neoplatonism...
So the explanation has shortcommings
At the beggining you say that realism is a older trend beggining in aristotle. Then, in the midle, you say that plato was an idealist. In fact, it is possible to argue that those philosophers were neither cause the debate was not there. By the same token, if you say that the debate need not be there explicitly, then is possible to identify both idealism and realism early on on the continental tradition.
More than that, you seem to confuse realism with empiricism. Direct access is not the same, to many, as direct access to reality (the same holds for indirect access). Realism can be thought of as epistemogical and/or ontological and have many shapes. The sane with realism. For example, the idealist trend after Kant in some extents is read as idealism without noumena. So Idealism in this tradition cannot be defined by the notion of noumena. More than that, Husserls idealism can also be identified as a "idealism withouth noumena".
We can argue that another error appears when you say that all medieval philosophers were realists. In fact realism were a ontological position that was disputing place with nominalism and conceptualism in a way that we can see that is not thr case that the enemy of realism is always idealism.
The definitions need refinment. Realism and Idealism can be opposed in the question of the place of the subject. But even here the lines get blurry since it is needed to find a palce for the subject in reality.
I recomend you to read the new trends of realism that come from Speculative Realism and New Realism, specially: Quentin Meillassoux's "After Finitude" (2007); "Speculative Realism" the trabscript of the symposium in Collapse vol 3 Editted by Robin Mackay (2007); Markus Gabriel's "Why the world does not exist" (2013) and "Fields of sense" (2015); Finally Graham Harman's "Object Oriented Ontology" (2018)
That said, really liked the content and subscribed 👍🏻
I understand the frustration with generalizations made. My intention for this channel though, if you saw my first video, was not to make high academic lessons. That is for the classroom and seminars. But I made this channel for my friends who have never studied any philosophy before. So I apologize for the generalizations but I also want these videos to be very very introductory and thus, broad. That being said, I am impressed with what you are reading and I encourage a further study into the study of reality and its correlation with the subject.
materialism > idealism
I’m dead 😂
Read Nargajuna
Where are you from?
So this 'world' humano can't access is only conceive by faith? We Just habe to believe that exists?
Are you mexican?
only realism is the idealism
You're a realist? Ok name every possible experience. Check and mate, read some Kant.
I’d recommend comparing Kant’s idea of judgement as presented in his three critiques with Von Hildebrand’s What is Philosophy.