This is so great. Thank you for posting these videos. For many of us this is as close as we will ever get to being able to take a philosophy class. You're winning ;)
Hahaha no, not like him, the real winning. You just totally cracked me up when you mentioned him in a video. You are winning though. People like me, who are quite ordinary and never had a chance to study philosophy, can and have learned a lot because of the videos you post for us. I have a very young child (1), and I am older (41), because of you I will be better able to teach her how to live life, and I will be more interesting to her as well. Also, it will also be easier for me to calm my anxiety about leaving her when I die because of your series on Epictetus. Like you, I was raised by people I was not related to by blood, but they were much older than me, they are long gone. I have had to navigate this life by myself for a very long time. It did not go well all of the time. Had I had known what you have shown us in your videos, I believe I would have been able to exercise more control in and over my life. For as long as I am here, I will now be able to teach my little one these things, so, if I should leave she will be better armed than I was. That means so much to me. In my book, you are a winner because you do what you do. Thank you.
In your original question "What drives Injustice?" Poverty. If someone's situation only allows socially reprehensible behaviour to get by, which is the greater injustice? The fact they are in the situation or the fact that they resorted to that kind of behaviour?
@doctordoctordocism Well, I used to, but it ended 4 years ago. Getting involved? Not the easiest thing to do as a job -- because most states have really cut back their prison ed programs. There are usually many volunteer opportunities available though. I'd look into some of those in your area -- and keep in mind, each state has a prison system and each county a jail system, and they vary greatly
@doctordoctordocism It's possible to have a mistaken evaluation about the value of something and about why it's valuable -- and that's how Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, etc. see those who lie, cheat, steal motivated principally by money. Put another way: the person committing fraud thinks that money -- what it represents in itself -- is The Good. So, he or she acts accordingly. But, he or she is mistaken about what The Good is, and where money fits into the picture.
If advertisers inflame my appetite, then what will inflame my spirit and rationale? It seems like I need to read Plato every once and a while to do this. Thanks for the insight.
This is so great. Thank you for posting these videos. For many of us this is as close as we will ever get to being able to take a philosophy class. You're winning ;)
Hopefully, not in the Charlie Sheen sense of "winning". . . .
Hahaha no, not like him, the real winning. You just totally cracked me up when you mentioned him in a video.
You are winning though. People like me, who are quite ordinary and never had a chance to study philosophy, can and have learned a lot because of the videos you post for us. I have a very young child (1), and I am older (41), because of you I will be better able to teach her how to live life, and I will be more interesting to her as well. Also, it will also be easier for me to calm my anxiety about leaving her when I die because of your series on Epictetus.
Like you, I was raised by people I was not related to by blood, but they were much older than me, they are long gone. I have had to navigate this life by myself for a very long time. It did not go well all of the time. Had I had known what you have shown us in your videos, I believe I would have been able to exercise more control in and over my life. For as long as I am here, I will now be able to teach my little one these things, so, if I should leave she will be better armed than I was.
That means so much to me. In my book, you are a winner because you do what you do. Thank you.
In your original question "What drives Injustice?"
Poverty. If someone's situation only allows socially reprehensible behaviour to get by, which is the greater injustice? The fact they are in the situation or the fact that they resorted to that kind of behaviour?
Yep, that's one popular explanation. It's not Plato's
@doctordoctordocism Well, I used to, but it ended 4 years ago. Getting involved? Not the easiest thing to do as a job -- because most states have really cut back their prison ed programs. There are usually many volunteer opportunities available though. I'd look into some of those in your area -- and keep in mind, each state has a prison system and each county a jail system, and they vary greatly
You're an awesome philosophy prof. I wish I could sit in your class.
+Ashlee Ganton Well, I do teach online classes, which include weekly video-conferences, for Oplerno and for the Global Center for Advanced Studies
@doctordoctordocism It's possible to have a mistaken evaluation about the value of something and about why it's valuable -- and that's how Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, etc. see those who lie, cheat, steal motivated principally by money. Put another way: the person committing fraud thinks that money -- what it represents in itself -- is The Good. So, he or she acts accordingly. But, he or she is mistaken about what The Good is, and where money fits into the picture.
If advertisers inflame my appetite, then what will inflame my spirit and rationale? It seems like I need to read Plato every once and a while to do this. Thanks for the insight.
+Thomas O'Shaughnessy You're welcome
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Hahaha! Yep, they're not always the hardiest bunch. And, it seems, once something starts going around campus, they all seem to get it!
I don't know how to continue this :( , the sniffing all the time is so obnoxious
Then by all means, don’t.
@@GregoryBSadler I'm afraid I have to. I still enjoy your teaching.
excellent class, but a bunch of sick students there... chicken soup not only for the soul this time, but also for the body!!!! lol