The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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So, who was this Presocrates guy? Just kidding!
Long ago, some philosophers worked very hard to separate myths from what they actually knew about nature.
Thales theorized that everything in the world is made of water. Pythagoras was a mathematical-mystical vegetarian. And Democritus, we all know and love as the Atom Guy…
Meet the Presocratics!
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The little giggle before he said "This is so great" made me smile ear to ear. You can FEEL how much he's loving this series and I'm so glad that he's sharing this awesome passion with us!
Crash Course is amazing, and I'm really glad that they're doing History of Science.
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You know it's not normal for people to give themselves a Glasgow smile without getting cut you should see a doctor 😀
Not just Crash Course, but everything the Green Brothers touch becomes instant Gold.
I can't stop watching crash course, you people are simply awesome and this is a very big hello from tunisia, your courses surpassed borders and seas
Maybe we can help spread it further by translating the subtitles.. I see this one have no Arabic subtitle yet, 🤔
@@armanke13 there is a version of crash course world history in arabic, with a different host who is I assume a native Arabic speaker, just an FYI
I'm 23, kinda done with studying for a bit... and at school I DIDN'T always love studying (which was how it felt...as opposed to learning) and now I can't stop watching your videos and I'm so restless, I wanna learn so much! About math, science, philosophy and everything under the sun! All of this made me a much better person and thank you for sparking this interest in me (or making me realise how incredibly nerdy I am... I don't even enjoy mainstream cinema anymore... only documentaries.. I think this will continue until I feel at least a little satiated with knowledge)
You truly make this world a better better better place! Thank you
I love how the intro goes through freshman, sophomore, and junior years, but doesn't show a senior year. Science is still changing, and we haven't graduated yet!
If this was true we haven’t even started first grade 😂
@@bantober careful now, rhetoric like this is used by clueless people to dispute well established scientific facts like the theory of evolution for example. Of course, there is much to learn, but we also know a lot, for example we know how to communicate via computer which is essentially magic.
Nero Vuk yea sorry for my complete ignorance how could I be so blind it’s cause this beep boop I am using to talk to you on is weird lol. The pixie dust on the inside needs a refill. Also my use of this lexicon is not up to par with yours however I will try my hardest
To communicate at a level above that of mere humonculus.
@@bantober what
Nero Vuk what part it’s all satire
Crash Course is a national treasure. They should definitely do a series on logical reasoning. Everyone needs to know that. Like how to read and write.
And international...
+Olivia Agreed
@Olivia Mercer you took the words out of my mouth! :D
Fire. Earth. Water. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in ignorance. But then, everything changed when the Presocratics attacked.
But I believe Socrates can save the world
'Presocratic Attack' is gonna be my new band name.
Only Socrates, master of all that is logical, could bring enlightenment. But when the world needed him most... well he wasn't born yet.
Vampyricon this so funny and I know it’s from the last air bender
Vampyricon or that’s what I think it’s called that
HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF THE SQUARE ROOT OF TWO IN MY BEAN LESS CULT!
How is this wonderful comment not drowning in praises?
This comment deserves to be preserved in a fragmented form for the archaeologists and scholars of the next millennium to ponder.
This Most-Worthy Comment will remain unknown to them until a determined deserter releases it from its eldritch brotherhood, saying, "Kill me though they may, the people deserve to know!"
The comment will rest in the desk-drawer of a narrow-minded official who will laugh and think nothing of it, until ten years later his daughter discovers it one day, saying, "The world is not ready for this."
"This comment cannot exist, it cannot be" will be the only words of her otherwise speechless colleagues. They will deliberate many months how to let it spread and take hold among the public before the authorities have the chance to quench it.
"Is America ready for this comment?" will be the headlines of mainstream news stations nationwide, while international leaders mock the U.S. President's desperate attempts to maintain the credibility of the country's bean industry.
And although the government will carry on business-as-usual, who, through a series of diversion tactics, establish this comment as something against polite conversation, there will always be truth-seekers holding it squarely before society's conscience.
"For the Root of Truth runs very deep,
Yea, deeper roots than any bean."
Senatus Populusque Romanus
YEAH! IRRATIONAL NUMBERS WASTE MY TIME AND MAKE EQUATIONS HARD!
For a second I thought this is going to be about procrastination throughout history.
CheesecakeLasagna that course is coming, when they get around to it, maybe.
Alexander Roderick 😂
Buttered Toast!
I'm using this video as a method of procrastination as we speak. Does that count? 😂
Certainly an important park of my history with science classes
The pre-Socratics were nerds. You heard it here first.
The founders of nerdism
From the ancient Greek city of Nerdia
I think they were just joking
Jeffrey Bernath Well Empodcles was clearly a nerd about A:TLA and TLOK.
nerd is a compliment
Please, Hank, keep teaching us philosophy and science. Keep us learning in the most fun ways, through Crash Course
Camilo Iribarren do you ever watch Crash Course stoned
I'm in University doing my Bachelor of Nursing, so I have been watching Hank teach me Anatomy & Physiology and Psychology for the past several months so I can rock my midterms and exams... and now I'm watching him some more for the pure enjoyment of it!
"This is so great" shows just how nerdy Hank is
Yes! That made me so happy.
Don’t
Forget
To
Be
Awesome
I love when Hank gets nerd-happy!
haha exactly, so glad they added that part :D
in the BEST way! I love nerds!!!
"and then, presumably, Zeno dropped the 450 BCE equivalent of a mic and the crowd went wild"... Hahahhahaha
"Atoms of the void..." has a nice ring to it.
The people at Crash Course have never failed to exceed expectations in every series they pump out. Really wishing I could binge watch this whole series right now
I recently bought books about historical sciences and to find that Crashcourse is making animations about this for better understanding, couldn't have been any better!
Fun fact: The red (or black) beans most Americans think of when they think of beans and which are such a common staple in the cuisines of many Latin American nations were unknown to the Ancient Greeks as they are native to the Americas, not Europe.
*full of excitement*
"This is so great"
Hank is so adorable
Rhetoric is the art of language and ancient Greeks loved it. It was a sport for them.
I'd be really happy if you could do a crash course on that topic at some point in the future (I'd be happy to network you to resources). People always refer to it as "propaganda" or misunderstand it to be something like "pretty words," but it really is much more than that.
Pathoes R 😺 Indeed! Rhetoric was and still is part of classics education in schools and universities to this day. It was highly regarded as an accomplishment by Romans such as Seneca. Unfortunately, today all too often what we hear is a torrent of word salads and vacuous pontificating.
Sir Meow The Library Cat , thank you!
It really is an important part of education. Honestly, I was surprised that a number of the practical skills they tried to teach me in my high school English class was rooted in it. Back then, I thought it was pointless.
Turns out they were trying to teach me what a "tree" was without calling it a "tree."
That's all well and good if it was actually a tree. A tree is a physical thing that you can show me. But if the world was sterilized and there were no trees, or records of trees then your just left with an idea of a "tree" as an abstract thing. Calling it a "tree" becomes far more important in that circumstance to retain the entity of "tree."
Our words are important.
My teacher showed us one of your videos, and now I can't stop watching.
yay!! I am so close, I hope, to be hired as a teacher. I am glad you enjoyed it. I hope you will end in a quest for knowledge.
pirrepe
I so hope you get hired! What grade(s) do you want to teach?
9-12 Life Science: Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, or both.
Journeying_ Soul Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the good vibes.
Daaaang! I've never seen Thales thrown under the bus like that! Usually the story goes that Thales rejected worldly desires in favor of doing philosophy. The reason he cornered the market on olive oil was to make the point that getting rich was trivial and easy, and that doing philosophy was a more noble pursuit.
Man, this is bringing back a lot of info from the days I took the college courses early 80s. Thanks Hank for making these lessons much more enjoyable!
Contradiction has always been an exciting part of learning, and thru these greek philosophers, they embodied with such a genius way of deliberating different theories and principles of one another.
Thales, without being irreligious is really a pro for founding the Milesian school which opened the doors for greek amateur scientist such as Empledocles, Anaximander, who later then disproved Thale's water substrate theory to an apeiron one. How I wish I could witness their debates and all.
Pythagoras, being more mystic thinker compare to Milesians, he believed in idealism that aspires to create an abstract model of perfect stuff. He is way being an idealist for creating something out of his vivid imagination and justifying them. Idealism was never bad at all.
Democritus, who argued with Zeno about his idea of Atomism is an excellent and brave way of proving for what he believed in. Yes, it sounded weird and funny to hear what is between the atoms of the void, so much interesting!
This school of thought was a brilliant idea for opening irrational debate in dealing with arguments and contradictions, even a up to this time, science yet did not end up with absolute TRUTH. Always exciting to know more of their stories.
Nerds. Debating stuff since 600b.c.
Melon Lord Nerds, debating stuff since 600 B.C.*
Lords and Sirs(The Prestigious of the Hierarchy), debating stuff about debating stuff since 2018
Sweeeet this is the first CC series I've been on the ground floor for! 💕
Tasty Treats I haven’t been excited for a CC since astronomy. This better be good!
"How can you be vegetarian without beans?"!🤣 love it!!!
Hank u are really inspiring,I’m not even studying and I reallly love watching these❤️❤️❤️
HANK. HAAAAAANK. I need more Hank
This episode gave me a tour way way back to history. I learned so much to these presocrates philosophers. I'm amazed to them, who are trying to separate myth from the truth and developing valuable methods that we use today. They shared thoughts and learnings to our world that made us moving on from being arrogant such as Thales who separated the world from the divine, Anaximander's formless initial state called the apeiron, pythagoras introduction of idealism to science and democritus' knowledge atoms
This brings such joy to the scientist in me! I really hope that you'll do a whole episode on Alexander von Humboldt! I absolutely love what you are doing and it is shows like these which make me sad that I don't speak english absolutely fluently, so prospects as a scientist communicater seems dim.
I would love to watch a series on the History of Mathematics!!!!
What's kinda amazing is that we still don't know if atomism is true. Sure, what we now call atoms are definitely NOT indivisible, but scientists are still now trying to figure out if there is actually a single sunstance that makes up all the others. String theory is one theory in favor of this idea.
They are also trying to figure out whether space and time are infinitely divisible, so maybe there are atoms of space and time!
Heulerado That would be so cool!
Oh my god, I have been looking for a history of tech and science for a long time. I read the history of philosophy by Hans Störig and even some other ancient philosophers' work but I still can't get a full picture. And I couldn't find some other great books talking about this either because of heavy school work or my language barrier(I am a native Chinese speaker). You can't imagine how excited I am when I seeing these videos(and it's even updated one year ago!) I just want to tell that you guys are doing such an amazing job! Thank you so much for doing this!!!
The whole crew of CrashCourse are Great, but the Executive Producers are Amazing!!!
Having early physics described as “stuff” gives me so much joy.
Thanks for this series Hank and crash course crew. I love learning about the history of science
Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus and the rest of the Pre -Socratics did wonders as they provided us with footings to start on...
Greek and european philosophers who practiced natural philosophy were basically the starting point on the history of science. Amazing people really. Without their theories and ideas we would have a difficult time understanding our world/nature today. Kudos for their works.
I find this video at first borring, like "here we go again, these nerds came up to discuss only one thing." But now i realize that I am strongly wrong in this matter. The nerds that I called were actually the one who made us to get started on. Long years ago presocratics work very hard to separate their beliefs on myths from what they actually knew about nature. Presocratic werent scientist in our modern sense but they have a big contribution on todays how to think stuffs.
Presocratic spread their ideas and inspired students to built in the happening of nature and to aquired knowledge. If they werent share it, we will end up all dumb, i guess. It is cool to think that the rational debate is their primary method to gain knowledge, up to now we use debating in order to express our disagreement and convincing people on our rights and this is all thanks to presocratic philosophers. This stars philosophers namely as thales, anaximander, empedocles and phytagoras have different ideas in expressing how the universe came up. All of their content are debatable that is why they were against and neglect each other ideas.
I conclude that although this great philosophers have different thoughts/ theories, they gave us big impact in knowing science.
this is an excellent lecture because of this host (Hank Green) recall me the atoms, how Democritus explain it and how he failed to prove it (the void between the atoms). Well some of the lecture mention in discusion is not totally familiar for me. like for instant when Democritus and Zeno argue about atoms. According to Democritus everything is made of little indivisible bits of stuff I call them atom, so Zeno answer it. then what is between the atoms then Democritus says nothing and then Zeno anwser it, if everything is made of atoms but then what is between the atoms of the void? (Hank Green)
Also I found out that Pre-socratics is nerd and also I found out how pre-socratics very curious about the world.😅😀
This lecture is awesome because of the knowledge I can get. I'm really excited to the next episode.😊😊
these people were like foundation of science. Creating theories that normal people cant even think about it but sadly there are more people who contributed but never been credited by their works. its hilarious when he said "if u wanna be remembered write a diary and be famous so your students can make a copy of it"😂
The Natural philosophers helps us and give us the their ideas and meanings of all the problems. By using Rational Debate.The Natural philosopher must convince the people by using logic,observation and reasoning so called Ratinaol debatw which is logically the abstract to prove your ideas or hypothesis. I also like the argument of two natural philosophers which is Democartis and Zeno. Democratis claims that everything is made up of atoms that cannot be destroyed nor created, always and motion ,infinite in numbers and it comes to different sizes and shapes. Zeno replied to Democractis that what is between in atom since Democratis tells that all things is made of atoms. That really gives me alot of questions of my self and I really enjoyed the past episode in this channel. Thank you for recommending us this Channel.
this new intro makes my ears so much happier. Thank you crash course for being slightly less coarse
Fun fact: Anaximander thought Thales' theory of water just pushes the problem of explaining how the world works further. Not explaining anything about it's origins.
So he came up with the idea that the World, isn't necessarily supposed to be on top of anything.
This will be a great series!
How fantastic! My favorite CC series was uploaded on my birthday!
Goldfish_Overlord TheFirst Happy Birthday! 🎂🍦🎁🎈🎆🎇
happy birthday!!!!!!!!
Finallyyyyy!!! I have been stalking my UA-cam for about a week waiting for a new episode 🤩🤩
I love this series but it doesn't seem to fit the pattern of other episodes! Just a little more chaotic, but y'all are covering a wide period of time. Keep up the good work!
Can’t wait to see you guys tackle the origins of the scientific method: in witch trials.
The inner-most circle!!! I died a little inside, and a lot outside.
Seriously, this channel is one of the best things to happen for humanity - regardless of what "things" actually are or "happenings" be
This will be a great series! All of this episode and more is in Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. Couldn't believe Pythagoras had his own philosophy school. I just thought it was some guy who gave us a theorem.
I love how Presocratics are better thinkers than some people nowadays.
This series is amazing! Made me feel more motivated about what I do and connected to these nerds of the past :D Proud to be a science nerd!
Yay! Been on the edge of my seat for two weeks!
Best video ever seen in UA-cam. Intellectually engaging and satiating the hunger for knowledge.
Really enjoying this series, thinking much more about we got to out current point
How does science come about?
Well, when the specific and the abstract love each other very much...
This was an excellent video on the pre-Socratics. Good work Crash Course.
Where's my homeboy Heraclitus though? He's the best one.
I love that you guys kept "This is so great!" in,
another great series!
Love this series so interesting ❤️❤️❤️😃
OK. I'm in love with this course
I hope you guys will mention Hero(n) of Alexandria in this series, the guy who pretty much came up with the first steam engine (the Aeolipile or Hero's Engine) about 1700 years (In 10 AD-70 AD) before the rest of world! Just imagine if someone had made the industrial Revolution happen at that time!
FailedLeopard Are you one of those "white people never really invented anything" people?
But Heron really maybe deserves a passing mention as a fun fact in this, nothing more. He invented something (or at least he wrote the first surviving text that mentioned it) but didn't really contribute much to science as a whole by that (or even technology - his apparatus was mostly a curious thing, it had very little practical use in its time).
Except that he (if I remember correctly) also designed the Pharos, the great lighthouse of Alexandria, which was indeed quite the engineering masterpiece and used a lot of things, like parabolic mirrors that were maybe known but not quite common back in the day. But yeah, he was more of an inventor and engineer, less of a theorist.
He didn't, though - the Pharos of Alexandria is attributed to Sostratos of Cnidus. We also know fairly well when it was built; the time when Heron lived, on the other hand, is quite disputed but was certainly after the Pharos' construction. :)
A mention of Pythagoras, but nothing about the sacred DODECAHEDRON ! HEATHENS !!!
I LOVE this course
Vi Hart, Extra Credits has a new show, and now Hank Green I’ve just hit UA-cam bingo, this day keeps on getting better and better! 😎
Pythagoras loved walking around with his trusty tetrahedron
The scientific method and its resulting body of knowledge is the greatest achievement humans have and ever will accomplish. How inert matter was able to coalesce into a concious system that in turn allowed it to reflect into itself and ask "why" is beautiful beyond comprehension.
This series is awesome.
5:01 That's mind blowing, if you think about it.
Science has never been my strong suit but these videos ARE SO HELPFUL THANK YOU!!!
I love crash course videos! The best didactic material for learning english and Expand Knowledge! Good job!!👌👌
I am loving this history on science series.
I think this series might be my favorite.
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Points for spotting the tuatara pin!!
The idea of apeiron gave me chills when I realized how similar it is to spontaneous particle and anitparticle creation
Presocrates joke had me dead lool
It's like Sheldon starting to teach penny and actually went through with it. Thank you!
Late but still here and still loving it!
I was mind blown when you said it could be a relation between the debates of how people and nature governs themselves.
Awesome video! Can you PLEASE make one on Parmenides? He definitely deserves an episode of his own. His arguments about the One and against the Many are super cool & undisputed.
Hank and John are always my heroes
This is feeding my curiosity, thanks Hank!
Very good video!!!
Most Excellent
So this is where the idea for Captain Planet came from! lol
Keep talking so you can be the next generation David Attenborough, no joke. Awesome episode good to see you back
Love your videos! Is there anyone you can put them in podcast form, so we can listen to them on the go?
This does leave out the fact that the concept that everything is made of water derives from the ancient Egyptian belief that everything is derived from Nu or some part of water.
The thought bubble people always make me giggle a lil 😂 They’re so cute!!
That "dropped the equivalent of a mic" part hit me laughing really hard
Thank you!
Pythagoras understood a field calles " Sacred Geometry." Its beautiful and mysterious.
Nice keep making more
OMG I just realized the lapel pin on Hank's suit is the tuatara from Turtles All the Way Down. :)
Συγχαρητήρια! Nice, quick and informative.
Yay another person who could speak Greek teach me pls
Amazing.
These are so stinkin’ good.
“The triangle guy...” 😩😩😭😭 I felt that to the C square 😩
This video is about "natural philosophers" who were not scientists because they did not practice the Scientific Method (observe, test, measure). All they gave real scientists was inspiration. There were plenty of ancient scientists in astronomy, medicine, and building. Maybe Hank will talk about them in future videos.
Wow nice episode.
4:11 OH MY GOD! I just realized those two sets of shelves are not aligned and I can't unsee it!!!!!!!!!
The ancient Greeks didn't wear togas; they wore chitons.
@Toughen Up, Fluffy Chiton is a hard shell like the shell on a beetle.
Thales sounds like he may have been on the verge of tectonic plate theory with his floating land on water colliding to make earthquakes idea.
I was thinking something like that as well. 😊
Thales didn't literally mean everything was water. He was doing metaphysics (the search for first principles). water (condensation, evaporation,, fluid movement, etc.) was the PRINCIPLE behind all of nature (when water evaporates it leaves solid salt so solid "comes" from or "made" of water). The contintants move according to fluid motion so he was right...but was he every wrong just because we now claim land rest of lava not literally water? Thales created a rational materialistic theory of nature and no different then science other than complexity, in "principle."@@rainydaylady6596
Brilliant video!!