Mate you are an absolute treasure. I just discovered your channel and I'm going through all these videos and there is just so much here. Positive and inspiring and clarifying. My new favourite yt channel. Than you so much!
Great series. Thanks for what you do. And thanks to all the people who actually pay for these courses, and yet let us freeloaders come along for the ride.
That Hitchhikers Guide part where every time someone gets an idea they stand on a rake lying in the grass and it smacks them in the face. Can we get something like that for every time someone says "everyone knows…"?
I love 💕 this the courage to examine My values and finding inspiration to to think and b the deferent than the things given to me really like freeing up to make changes to your destination than you
The series starts with Nietzsche's challenge let's say. He states, somewhere (Gay Science 269), that he believes "That the weights of all things must be determined anew.". That is a challenge! I am not a philosopher, I have no formal training, just an interest in that sort of things, but I'm studying economics, and the two areas are very closely connected. I miss economic insight in your lectures a lot, starting from the notion that market is a mechanism which cannot be replaced by socialist planning (market utilizes dispersed knowledge, which cannot be efficiently centralised, beside problem of incentives and so called economic calculation). Now, not only economy but a society is a complex system in which we benefit from what other people know, so every single individual have so little Knowledge (big word!) yet we can coordinate it because we've discovered the mechanism to do so (that is market). Now when you'd judge (40:13) that entrepreneur you have to take into account that he is a part of the mechanism. The mechanism operates more or less like natural selection: you make profit or you lose money - He'd stay with his business - someone else would employ people in India and so bankrupt the first businessman and so on. Now what about our values (rules which we want or are made to obey)? Well it's similar, they are coordinating our actions, our lives in the complex socio-economic system, they evolve and they proved to be useful (so they survived) and they have more functions than we tend to atribute to them (like profit tells one that society needs his product). That idea is coming from Scottish Enlightment. It should make us careful when changing rules of the game, so not to distort the social cooperation. On the other hand our enviroment is changing faster than ever before, by that I mean the technology mainly. And the question is: will our morals survive?
Mate you are an absolute treasure. I just discovered your channel and I'm going through all these videos and there is just so much here. Positive and inspiring and clarifying. My new favourite yt channel. Than you so much!
Wes Cecil low key saved my life
The best channel. Wes Cecil rules. Can't wait for the germans in the next series.
Great series.
Thanks for what you do.
And thanks to all the people who actually pay for these courses, and yet let us freeloaders come along for the ride.
Thanks for putting these lectures out for all of us to hear, learn and share ... Thats value.
this series was so mind blowing and absolutely wonderful to listen to! thank you for your wisdom, wes
Thank you, this is likely my favorite series yet!
Wes did a wonderful job with this series!
Bless you, Wesley!
That Hitchhikers Guide part where every time someone gets an idea they stand on a rake lying in the grass and it smacks them in the face. Can we get something like that for every time someone says "everyone knows…"?
I love 💕 this the courage to examine My values and finding inspiration to to think and b the deferent than the things given to me really like freeing up to make changes to your destination than you
Thank you.
26:00 Cool you mentioned Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thanks cecil, waiting for german series
Have you ever looked at Gurdjieff? krisnamurti x 2, new idealism, sufi, castenada
Did someone say Cider
The series starts with Nietzsche's challenge let's say. He states, somewhere (Gay Science 269), that he believes "That the weights of all things must be determined anew.". That is a challenge! I am not a philosopher, I have no formal training, just an interest in that sort of things, but I'm studying economics, and the two areas are very closely connected. I miss economic insight in your lectures a lot, starting from the notion that market is a mechanism which cannot be replaced by socialist planning (market utilizes dispersed knowledge, which cannot be efficiently centralised, beside problem of incentives and so called economic calculation). Now, not only economy but a society is a complex system in which we benefit from what other people know, so every single individual have so little Knowledge (big word!) yet we can coordinate it because we've discovered the mechanism to do so (that is market).
Now when you'd judge (40:13) that entrepreneur you have to take into account that he is a part of the mechanism. The mechanism operates more or less like natural selection: you make profit or you lose money - He'd stay with his business - someone else would employ people in India and so bankrupt the first businessman and so on.
Now what about our values (rules which we want or are made to obey)? Well it's similar, they are coordinating our actions, our lives in the complex socio-economic system, they evolve and they proved to be useful (so they survived) and they have more functions than we tend to atribute to them (like profit tells one that society needs his product). That idea is coming from Scottish Enlightment.
It should make us careful when changing rules of the game, so not to distort the social cooperation. On the other hand our enviroment is changing faster than ever before, by that I mean the technology mainly. And the question is: will our morals survive?