I had been pondering on exactly this topic for the last few years, feeling irritated that awful human beings like Marx and Rousseau had so much influence on today's society in negative ways. Thank you so much for sharing this lecture. It is a goldmine of information.
1:15:50. Why do I wish to accelerate the course of history? So that I may enjoy the immeasurable benefits of the creative reasoning of my fellow humans.
If determinism were true, human beings would all create the same thing and they would do so repetitively, never innovating or progressing, the way beavers build dams or bees hives. Now there have been cultures where people chose to do that, such as ancient Egypt, which remained in an arrested state of development for three thousand years. In the case of humans, we can contrast that with the Neolithic and Industrial Revolutions, the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and so on. The evidence for volition is abundant and overwhelming.
A philosophy doesn't need to be formal or have a following. It is first and foremost individual. A person's views about the kind of world he is in, how he can know about it, and what should he do, form the basis of his actions, including any production.
You don’t have to read one book on philosophy to have one. Through speaking and living and observing you create your own philosophy. Everyone has an idea of the nature of reality, everyone has an idea of how they know reality and everyone has an idea of how they should act in reality.
I've known this since 1975 or so By 1973, I was a Objectivist for 5 years. At that time I was majoring in Psych and at that time, I took the 20 credit 4 semester at Providence Collage, from which I got m BA Then I got my MA at Rhode Island Colletge. By mid '78 I had defined "Psychohistory is the science that studies the past in terms of the rules of behavior, to evaluate the present, to predict, influence and ultimately control the future" Now that last would be "to create a future". Philosophy can be considered, in computer terms, "the human operating system". It programs perception, computation and evaluation. The results of this is that the answers manifest themselves in actions in the social and economic realms. The First Lsaw of Behavior is "Reinforcement increases the likelihood of the repetition of that behavior. Punishment decreases the likelihood of the punished behavior" (welcome to the root of economics), Which you choose to operate under will come from your philosophy, mostly implicit, Now which of these parts of the First Law of Behaviour does Objectivism use? Also, a system creates the conditions to promulgate itself through the Law of Identity. How would the First Law of Behvior act to promote wealth or poverty throughout the land? Newt Gingrich fancies himself a Hari Seldon. Do we have any quiestionsns as to which philosophy would generate the Psychohistory that Asimov only dreamed of ahving had Mankind "realize the value of mental activity" in the 20th+ millennium?
Peikoff's formal lectures on the History of Philosophy changed my life for the better. They are clear, 'hang together" well and are decisive.
I had been pondering on exactly this topic for the last few years, feeling irritated that awful human beings like Marx and Rousseau had so much influence on today's society in negative ways. Thank you so much for sharing this lecture. It is a goldmine of information.
Proud of the advancement from founding of ARI cited at 1:09 to establishment of ARU announced last year.
1:08:47 Neat idea, I hope it works out.
1:15:50. Why do I wish to accelerate the course of history? So that I may enjoy the immeasurable benefits of the creative reasoning of my fellow humans.
Thank you
that's Emanuel Kant on the right and his words/writings match his looks
Ayn Rand Institute is a reason center in Irvine.
If determinism were true, human beings would all create the same thing and they would do so repetitively, never innovating or progressing, the way beavers build dams or bees hives. Now there have been cultures where people chose to do that, such as ancient Egypt, which remained in an arrested state of development for three thousand years. In the case of humans, we can contrast that with the Neolithic and Industrial Revolutions, the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and so on. The evidence for volition is abundant and overwhelming.
Great topic. How does one explain pre-historical modes of production if philosophy dictates the economy and not the other way around ?
A philosophy doesn't need to be formal or have a following. It is first and foremost individual. A person's views about the kind of world he is in, how he can know about it, and what should he do, form the basis of his actions, including any production.
You don’t have to read one book on philosophy to have one. Through speaking and living and observing you create your own philosophy. Everyone has an idea of the nature of reality, everyone has an idea of how they know reality and everyone has an idea of how they should act in reality.
I've known this since 1975 or so By 1973, I was a Objectivist for 5 years. At that time I was majoring in Psych and at that time, I took the 20 credit 4 semester at Providence Collage, from which I got m BA Then I got my MA at Rhode Island Colletge. By mid '78 I had defined "Psychohistory is the science that studies the past in terms of the rules of behavior, to evaluate the present, to predict, influence and ultimately control the future" Now that last would be "to create a future". Philosophy can be considered, in computer terms, "the human operating system". It programs perception, computation and evaluation. The results of this is that the answers manifest themselves in actions in the social and economic realms. The First Lsaw of Behavior is "Reinforcement increases the likelihood of the repetition of that behavior. Punishment decreases the likelihood of the punished behavior" (welcome to the root of economics), Which you choose to operate under will come from your philosophy, mostly implicit, Now which of these parts of the First Law of Behaviour does Objectivism use? Also, a system creates the conditions to promulgate itself through the Law of Identity. How would the First Law of Behvior act to promote wealth or poverty throughout the land?
Newt Gingrich fancies himself a Hari Seldon. Do we have any quiestionsns as to which philosophy would generate the Psychohistory that Asimov only dreamed of ahving had Mankind "realize the value of mental activity" in the 20th+ millennium?
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29:00 Claim: Philosophy is a rationalization, not the cause of history.
I wish you didn't have that picture of Hitler, I hate that guy!
Well he is hardly the worst Man. Stalin was far worse. They just hate him because he is German.
@@federalisticnewyorkians4470 Genghis Kahn was pretty terrible too
@@trygveskogsholm5963 If you think he’s pretty terrible you should meet my wife.