I really like this video, it has a cool aesthetic (including the vocal tone) and the critique of Philosophy vs Self Help is timely. One place you could look is the whole stoicism thing, the people who are now obsessed with it (mostly young dudes) don’t understand that they have been sold a very corrupted form of the philosophy. I look forward to more videos.
True. Philosophy is sort of a like a practice run if you're aiming for a new record. Just because you made a new record out of only one of the multiple runs you've practiced, doesn't render the past runs as useless. One good thing about philosophy is it isn't some sort of proclaimed self-help doctrine; and although it may play a part in a person's development, it isn't to be looked at as some supreme ideology; because one thing about sovereign ideals is that they eliminate the person's ability to think critically. Philosophy is, in some sense, not something you do only once you're a critical thinker; philosophy is what turns you into a critical thinker. And that's, at least in part, why there are so many varied schools of philosophy.
After re-watching my video I feel as though I misconstrued my point. Philosophy can help us in many ways. Ethics forms our laws. Epistemology helps improve psychological study and diagnosis. Metaphysics provides comfort in the face of existential dread. But it's main purpose isn't to give us a creed and provide answers about life. Fistly, the answers it provides are as varied as the star in the sky. Secondly, these answers operate under hypothesis that have yet to be proven. Thirdly, it is practically impossible to prove a hypothesis centered around metaphysics. And so, when it comes to philosophy, the average person shouldn't concern themselves with adopting the creed or answers provided by some author. Nor should they mistake that creed as sound advice to aid our mental well-being, that's the purpose of psychology, not philosophy. Instead, philosophy should be used as a tool to advance our critical thinking so that we may make better decisions in our day to day. Philosophy is the study of everything. Critical thinking is the only thing that can enable us to improve our thinking about everything. So in a way, the purpose of philosophy is just to think better. I am typing this while eating a burrito. My fingers are covered in cheese.
No. That's stupid. I refuse to believe this. I refuse to believe that you ate a burrito whilst typing all that out. That's madness. You stupid f**king pr*ck.
Well first off, you provided 3 points about how philosophical answers to existence and nature shouldn't be religiously followed. But these aren't axioms that have been deduced by logic, you smelly burrito eater, these are just things you deduced through intuition alone. If not, then why haven't you provided a proof? Can you even break those statements down in their logical components and create a discrete mathematics proposition such as A -> B but B !-> A? OF COURSE NOT! If you had been able to do so then you would have done so in the first place! This is all slander I tell you! This is nothing more than garbage, like your wasted burrito!
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I really like this video, it has a cool aesthetic (including the vocal tone) and the critique of Philosophy vs Self Help is timely. One place you could look is the whole stoicism thing, the people who are now obsessed with it (mostly young dudes) don’t understand that they have been sold a very corrupted form of the philosophy. I look forward to more videos.
True. Philosophy is sort of a like a practice run if you're aiming for a new record. Just because you made a new record out of only one of the multiple runs you've practiced, doesn't render the past runs as useless.
One good thing about philosophy is it isn't some sort of proclaimed self-help doctrine; and although it may play a part in a person's development, it isn't to be looked at as some supreme ideology; because one thing about sovereign ideals is that they eliminate the person's ability to think critically.
Philosophy is, in some sense, not something you do only once you're a critical thinker; philosophy is what turns you into a critical thinker. And that's, at least in part, why there are so many varied schools of philosophy.
After re-watching my video I feel as though I misconstrued my point. Philosophy can help us in many ways. Ethics forms our laws. Epistemology helps improve psychological study and diagnosis. Metaphysics provides comfort in the face of existential dread. But it's main purpose isn't to give us a creed and provide answers about life. Fistly, the answers it provides are as varied as the star in the sky. Secondly, these answers operate under hypothesis that have yet to be proven. Thirdly, it is practically impossible to prove a hypothesis centered around metaphysics. And so, when it comes to philosophy, the average person shouldn't concern themselves with adopting the creed or answers provided by some author. Nor should they mistake that creed as sound advice to aid our mental well-being, that's the purpose of psychology, not philosophy. Instead, philosophy should be used as a tool to advance our critical thinking so that we may make better decisions in our day to day. Philosophy is the study of everything. Critical thinking is the only thing that can enable us to improve our thinking about everything. So in a way, the purpose of philosophy is just to think better. I am typing this while eating a burrito. My fingers are covered in cheese.
No. That's stupid. I refuse to believe this. I refuse to believe that you ate a burrito whilst typing all that out. That's madness. You stupid f**king pr*ck.
I HAVE SPOKEN.
Well first off, you provided 3 points about how philosophical answers to existence and nature shouldn't be religiously followed. But these aren't axioms that have been deduced by logic, you smelly burrito eater, these are just things you deduced through intuition alone.
If not, then why haven't you provided a proof? Can you even break those statements down in their logical components and create a discrete mathematics proposition such as A -> B but B !-> A?
OF COURSE NOT! If you had been able to do so then you would have done so in the first place! This is all slander I tell you! This is nothing more than garbage, like your wasted burrito!
A -> B but B !-> A because A B&C & !A. (this means nothing btw i haven't even stated what A, B, and C are; the set of all whole numbers?)
An imaginary dialogue that proves the author's point, that's old school philosophy!
And self-help isn't necessarily philosophy either