Yours is the best channel I've found in a looong time! Excellent content. The old books series has infinite potential. This time I couldn't really understand some of the major the points because I don't get kantianism. I don't get the appeal and I think the thinking that's downstream from Kant is basically always muddled and confused.
The excerpt of poem by Andrew Marvell (1621 ~ 1678) is deeply fascinating. This lines are prescient centuries later with layers of meaning. Reminds me of the Seventh Seal another thought provoking insight into human condition.
His uncle’s indirect influence on the Milner Group (by virtue of having been Milner’s absolute best friend since boyhood) cannot be understated, according to Quigley.
Good video - you also like good games like Kenshi and Planescape. I am very interested in your opinion of Oswald Spengler - because he has a very unique view of History.
Absolutely, I may do a video on him, or more generally a video on mimesis. Good ear on recognizing the soundtrack! Those games have excellent immersion and PT has great writing
"Will eventually crumble into dust"? I think it already is doing, and is doing so in part because it abandoned the moral structure it held to over the past several centuries.
Does this explain why we feel threatened by China and to some extent Russia. India too in some sense. As a westerner, their societies appear to me socially and cultural strong thought perhaps morally dubious. It is these nations I feel will do well as we progress through the century
Hegel focused on the same thing a century before & in a much more depthness, so much that it was the fundament for Marx's work, "Capital"; bringing Kissinger to the level of this man is an insult to him (T)
Toynbee was a typical Anglo Saxon and Western bourgeois, unable to look critical towards 19th century colonialism, industrialism, militarism, nationalism, causing WW1. The spiritual division between FASCISM and COMMUNISM generated WW2, and after the war the COLD WAR/ KOREAN WAR/ VIETNAM WAR and the rise of the UN. THEN THE US RIGHT-WING NEO-CONS DID TAKE OVER; BELIEVING IN DEMOCRATIC-CAPITALISM, CAUSING THE ISRAELY/ IRAQI/ SYRIAN/ AFGHAN WARS AND THE TOTAL MORAL DECAY OF THE US. CHINA, IN CONTRAST TO THE WEST UNIFIED, GOVERNED BY RATIONAL ADMINSTRATORS, NOT COLONIALIST AND MILITARIST, DID RISE AS THE HUMAN CIVILIZATION OF THE FUTURE....... ALL CIVILIZATIONS HAVE ONE METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS PURPOSE.
Thank you. Above and beyond your articulate details China seems to be following the same arc as that of the West. I'm reminded of George Orwell's line, 'Some people are more equal than others.' The decline in nations seems built-in and all the plans to re-do and reinvent mere bumps in the road towards change and extinction. Toynbee is right that Civilization is only one of several measuring sticks available to us. Another key seems to be Mythology/Religion. Where is the world view that we are one and that we're always morphing? There's a realization that there's this 'oneness' that has flared as Sumerian then French then British then Chinese then Japanese and on and on. (Not in this order of course; just listing some civilizations)
Cheers, Philo! I had never heard Toynbee speak before, should check out more of those interviews.
P.S. nice touch of Ralph Vaughan Williams ;)
Yours is the best channel I've found in a looong time! Excellent content. The old books series has infinite potential. This time I couldn't really understand some of the major the points because I don't get kantianism. I don't get the appeal and I think the thinking that's downstream from Kant is basically always muddled and confused.
Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
An all too common nuisance with music, disturbing interesting talks and the active listening experience.
Man this is excellent! You're good at this Philos!
You may want to mention Will Durant large project on Civilization. Maybe even more classic. I read through it in my teens.
The excerpt of poem by Andrew Marvell (1621 ~ 1678) is deeply fascinating. This lines are prescient centuries later with layers of meaning. Reminds me of the Seventh Seal another thought provoking insight into human condition.
His uncle’s indirect influence on the Milner Group (by virtue of having been Milner’s absolute best friend since boyhood) cannot be understated, according to Quigley.
I completely agree after ww2 scholarship takes a radical turn downward
Wow -- this is the most interesting video I've seen in years.
Really good, truly intresting
Some people think Kissinger is a war criminal. Toynbee, not so much.
I’m one of those people
Good video - you also like good games like Kenshi and Planescape. I am very interested in your opinion of Oswald Spengler - because he has a very unique view of History.
Absolutely, I may do a video on him, or more generally a video on mimesis. Good ear on recognizing the soundtrack! Those games have excellent immersion and PT has great writing
@@philosmiscellany6186 Excellent immersion indeed. PT is one of the best games ever. Keep up the good work 👍
"Will eventually crumble into dust"? I think it already is doing, and is doing so in part because it abandoned the moral structure it held to over the past several centuries.
Does this explain why we feel threatened by China and to some extent Russia. India too in some sense. As a westerner, their societies appear to me socially and cultural strong thought perhaps morally dubious. It is these nations I feel will do well as we progress through the century
Hegel focused on the same thing a century before & in a much more depthness, so much that it was the fundament for Marx's work, "Capital"; bringing Kissinger to the level of this man is an insult to him (T)
Toynbee was a typical Anglo Saxon and Western bourgeois, unable to look critical towards 19th century colonialism, industrialism, militarism, nationalism, causing WW1. The spiritual division between FASCISM and COMMUNISM generated WW2, and after the war the COLD WAR/ KOREAN WAR/ VIETNAM WAR and the rise of the UN. THEN THE US RIGHT-WING NEO-CONS DID TAKE OVER; BELIEVING IN DEMOCRATIC-CAPITALISM, CAUSING THE ISRAELY/ IRAQI/ SYRIAN/ AFGHAN WARS AND THE TOTAL MORAL DECAY OF THE US. CHINA, IN CONTRAST TO THE WEST UNIFIED, GOVERNED BY RATIONAL ADMINSTRATORS, NOT COLONIALIST AND MILITARIST, DID RISE AS THE HUMAN CIVILIZATION OF THE FUTURE....... ALL CIVILIZATIONS HAVE ONE METAPHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS PURPOSE.
Thank you. Above and beyond your articulate details China seems to be following the same arc as that of the West. I'm reminded of George Orwell's line, 'Some people are more equal than others.' The decline in nations seems built-in and all the plans to re-do and reinvent mere bumps in the road towards change and extinction. Toynbee is right that Civilization is only one of several measuring sticks available to us. Another key seems to be Mythology/Religion. Where is the world view that we are one and that we're always morphing? There's a realization that there's this 'oneness' that has flared as Sumerian then French then British then Chinese then Japanese and on and on. (Not in this order of course; just listing some civilizations)