This Is How the Germans Dominated (and Killed) Philosophy
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The best thing about your channel is your whimsical sense of humor. An intellectual who values laughter is rare indeed.
The problem with the watch making analogy is that a good portion of it is in French speaking Switzerland.
An over analytical German, reflecting on the over analytical nature of Germans.
your point being?
German? What German cannot pronounce a German compound word (and mispronounces "Schadenfreude")?? The commentator is of some other mother tongue.
@@papajohnloki Watch the video before comenting, the word 'Germans' is in the title.
The humour theory falls once you realize how good british humour is and they arent far from Germany geographically or genetically.
GRACIAS!!!!!!!!! Soy una doña (argentina) de 81 años, sin estudios universitarios pero siempre he pensado que había un antes y un después de Nietzsche en filosofía, ya que, en mi reducida posibilidad de explicarme, él "completaba" los "devaneos teóricos" con el "componente psicológico" pero no tenía argumentos como para sostenerlo frente a una amiga Dra en Filosofía y creyente cristiana. Pocas veces he disfrutado tanto un video como este por la "completísima síntesis" y el humor con la que ofreces tan maravillosa información. Es un abrazo para mi alma.
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I think that is a good essay about how the Germans are as philosophers. It's still funny how people repeat this story about Kant's structured day. While this indeed happend he only did this at the last year of his life. Before his neighbour did it and Kant learned from him that it was necessary in later life to keep your mind up. In his younger days Kant was maybe not a party animal but often in salons and telling jokes.
Germany is called… Das Land der Dichter & Denker… the Country of poets & Philosophers 📖
WAS called.. Aftet ww2 not any more
Was called in the 19th century because we only had Dichter (A. v. Arnim, B. v. Arnim, Novalis, Schlegel, L. Tieck or A. v. Droste-Hülshoff) or Denker. That's why Thomas Mann is so precious to us: He introduced the novel to germany, so that the german speaking world had the best writers: H. Hesse, B. Brecht, A. Seghers, G. Hauptmann, G. Grass, H. Henny Jahnn, U. Johnson, P. Süskind, H. Böll, H. Mann, K. Mann, F. Kafka, H. Broch, R. Musil, A. Schnitzler, S. Zweig, A. Schmidt ...
I used to study philosophy when 9 //then left ot cause my father said "useless people do philosophy and useful people do science"
I think all the chaos we see Today has a lot to do with more people and especially younger folks are not exposed to "useless" philosophy
Majorly the people who do philosophy reshape the world in forms of thought and reason, what philosophy seems to be by the English definition and on the exterior is not what it is as a whole and on the interior, science is born from thought and experience combined together and that's how scientific revelations are made possible, if thought and theory and reason doesn't exist nor does science, so one thing that contradicts another things whole existence cannot be called useless at all
This was actually a question I've been thinking lately. It was really odd how Germans dominated philosophy.
There's a book by George Santayana called Egotism in German Philosophy. He makes the claim that Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were motivated by egotism which he defines as subjectivity in thought and willfulness in morals. He says German philosophy is "a spirit of uncompromising self-assertion and metaphysical conceit." In other words, they were motivated by vainglory instead of love for the truth.
Truth is subjective.
"Motivated by Egotism." As opposed to what? Altruism in Filipino political culture that discourages theoretical knowledge?
@@Yamanoteline30 You made an objective statement about truth. You contradicted and refuted yourself.
That seems an equivalent of click bait. Sure, these dudes might like to read and hear themselves but to boil all these guys just down to that is just simply not very insightful.
@@dohlecarnett1866 Sounds like cope for not engaging with the text or the ideas he put forth.
Germans didnt kill philosophy. Its still live and kicking here. People are still studying it and still use it in public discourses. Its just that people dont usually get a job with a philosophy degree. So, capitalistic job market is killing philosophy not the germans.
If you made a video you would be closer to the trut
Philosophy is studied rather than being built on though. Modern philosophy is a fraction of the effort it used to be
You're 100% right that the political economy has killed philosophy at the universities (see Schopenhauer's essay on this), but the "Kant killed philosophy" quip is right also, but in a different way. Kant succeeded at revealing philosophy's internal organization as a science. So, that leads to the "death" of philosophy because Kant already showed all its possible turns. That's why there's so much talk nowadays (Baudrillard being the best of them) by "philosophers" asking whether there is such a thing as "the future." Everything has already been shown; everything's already been done, and so on... But, your point is very important, what passes for academic philosophy nowadays is bought and paid for by politicians. It's very rare to see any real philosophy happening at [(Post) Modern] universities, imo. I think what students don't realize is just how lazy philosophy professors are allowed to be. Sincerely. Once they're in the right clique, they get to teach pretty much whatever they want. And, that's why there's so much non-sense and politics-masked-as-philosophy being taught at the universities.
You're confusing academic with actual philosophy. Yes, there's some overlap, but not much. Most genuine philosophers aren't in the hive of charlatans known as academia. They're out in the world, experiencing it, confronting it. The problem isn't that it's too hard to make a living as a "philosopher," it's that it's too easy.
@@thotslayer9914 I doubt it. I hope I did not imply I could.
Interesting video, keep it up
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6:55 he did laugh, quite a lot in fact. We have many reports from Kants students that he would often make downright childish jokes while he lectures. Other reports from acquaintances strongly paint the picture of Kant as a jovial happy fellow who loved silly jokes. - besides Kant, Mozart for example is also famous for his dull childish humor. I mean he composed a canon with the title "Leck mich im Arsch" which literally translates to: lick me inside my asshole.
Germans culturally would have been much closer to the Carthaginians than the Romans. It took centuries and many tribulations until the German peoples were unified under single political authority. And when they did, the results were of no surprise.
11:02 The Chinese did it long before. Wiki:
"Bi Sheng (Chinese: 畢昇; 972-1051 AD) was a Song dynasty Chinese artisan, engineer, and inventor of the world's first movable type technology. Bi Sheng's system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese character,and was invented between 1039 and 1048. Printing was one of the Four Great Inventions. Because Bi was a commoner, not an educated person, little is known about his life besides this invention."
This cites the common misconception that Gutenberg invented the printing press -- he did not. He invented a printing press yes, but for twenty years already there had been printing presses. The first was invented by a Korean, and they were improved on by Uyghurs before making their way to Europe, where Gutenberg and others improved them further.
Yes, Guttenberg basically combined existing techniques and marketed them properly. He's the entrepreneur of his day and it payed out for him.
Is the connection between Guttenberg and the East Asian inventions proven? Would be interesting to know
As is the case in German, the majority of words in Chinese are compound words. As you pointed out, compound words are an effective way of creating and conveying meaning.
classical philosophy asked the question, "What is the secret of the grail? Who does it serve?"
Personalty was the source and the end of philosophy.
Rationalist philosophy turns the question into a statement: "The Grail holds no secrets. The Grail merely exists. It has no purpose beyond what it is doing now."
The truth about philosophy is to magnify the deep dark areas of our life. Those who seeks to replace philosophy are hiding their darkness. The real great respects of philosophers are those who have contained the darkest aspect of their lives eg. envy, greed, unauthentic etc. JamesWhiskey
Brilliant video! And a brilliant ending! I appreciate your way of explaining things, Thank you and keep up the great work!
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I love the touch of existential dread injected in the last minute. 10/10
I really enjoyed this one. The last word sent shivers down my spine.
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Thanks for simplifying things.
Anyone who claims that "people in cold climates keep their distance" has clearly never been to the American Midwest 😂
Where do you find all these beautiful paintings? Can you give names of your favorite painters? Thank you for always bringing beautiful and insightful videos!
Painting books credited to the painter containing their paintings - maybe a box set, fiction beast has the same one’s I have.
The book titles are only the first names - Goya, Renoir, so on. The Hyperion collection.
i thought the “why” question has to do with teleology and the purpose of things which can’t be answered.
Where did you get that idea?
Where did you get the idea about warm and cold climate? Im not sure I follow, but your resulting conclusion from it that the germans isolate from one another is very interesting.
It happens to reflect the defining property of Western culture as described by Oswald Spengler in his book The Decline of the West. I HIGHLY recommend it. It is about much more than the namesake title or the cycles of history! It gives a typology of cultures that reveals more than obscures unlike the typical historian.
The other reason why I find your comment interesting as well as it harks be back to The Decline is the corresponding warm climate part; that religions should come from it. At least, the religions you mentioned come from the early-Persian and Indian cultures which Spengler mentions and gives general characterizations of - and I think there's a possibility of a further classification that results in these two being of broadly the same type.
Either way, I do think Spengler gives comment somewhere in his book something to do with cold/warm climate, although I might be thinking of his dichotomy between the West vs. the Classical cultures in relation to evening and morning. He does this both not only metaphorically but also by outlining how different social/ritual tendencies seem to happen at those corresponding times.
Spengler is an odd reactionary and his book should be read with caution. Nevertheless, there is some insight in there especially of that.
Perhaps the brilliance of the germans would have continued but for the two world wars.
5:05 as a Canadian since birth I relate with this one Dear
English too killed it...the anglo-saxons
agree 😁
Well said. Analytic Philosophy is a symptom of the death of philosophy.
Your content is good but you need to use better artwork (especially for thumbnails) and remove this blue background to attract more eyeballs!!
"QuOte" .
Nietzsche wasn't dumb. (For his time.)
Are we really talking about french, German, Russian etc philosophers?
They were all Jews.
They didn't reflect the ideas or culture of an entire nation, except their own.
@10:35 to say hat religion did not change for thousands of years is not right. There were so many sects in christianity that the hierarchy called meetings to define the dogmats. And still today there are many churches with different readings of the Bible or other religious sources. Also, we have seen recently how the Christianity is changing its teaching accroding to new understanding of gender, as an example.
Very interestng lecture. Thanks.
It's not that Christianity is changing, it's that people with their own(wrong) opinions have infiltrated the church, even started their own. It is a blasphemy indeed.
the explanation for the fundamental divide between Latin and Germanic culture is the weather? really?
I love this video. Great work. You made some very inciteful observations in here. That pragmatists have dominated the media from the start helps explain why they have traditionally had the loudest voice about the course of history but thankfully that may be changing. Their hold is no longer absolute. Using terms like 'conspiracy theory' 'dis-information' and 'mis-informed' are seen for what they are: attempts at mental manipulation through language. Ordinary folk are catching onto the tactics of 'mental colonization'. Pragmatism, embodied in Science, which addresses how things work can never really dispel Idealism as embodied in Philosophy. But the pragmatists will continue to 'SHOUT' that it has.
Analytical philosophy started at least since Socrates for sure you cant say that Aristotle was not fully Analytical he literally created Aristotelian logic for fucks sake the fundamentals of analysis to this day.
4:47 "Cold climate" theory sounds a lot like Schopenhauer's race theory doesn't it?
" The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste, or race, is fairer in colour than the rest, and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmins, the Inca, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands. All this is due to the fact that necessity is the mother of invention, because those tribes that emigrated early to the north, and there gradually became white, had to develop all their intellectual powers, and invent and perfect all the arts in their struggle with need, want, and misery, which, in their many forms, were brought about by the climate. This they had to do to make up for the parsimony of nature, and out of it all came their high civilization. "
In fact, there are many such old fashioned scientific racism theories.
Everyone blames Germans but you should be blaming ashkenazi Jews
From the concluding paragraph of _The Barbarism of Berlin_ by G.K.Chesterton (1984):
“In these slight notes I have suggested the principal strong points of the Prussian character. … There is an ominous and almost monstrous parallel between the position of their over-rated philosophers and of their comparatively under-rated soldiers. For what their professors call roads of progress are really routes of escape.”
I would like to see that thesis expanded upon. Unfortunately, I find Chesterton a very hard slog, as through a slough.
If the universe is truly infinite then the possibility of 2 copies of yourself meeting each other is a certainty.
I, for one, believe in the cosmic onion model. The core is a never ending big bang, the layers are universes that grow beneath each other - the newer pushing the older ever further away from the cosmic forge. And the last layer are the universes that rot away into nothingness.
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you explained plato's theory like it was jung's
I'm beginning to doubt that 'why' questions can be answered rationally. In the second half of my life I understand why people turn to religion.
Hi. Actually its bad philosophy including the Germans especially. We lost our minds when we were tricked into dumping Aristotle and Aquinas. Life doesn't make sense outside of their sanity, which built the west. Cheers
@tommore3263 Lemme guess, you learned everything you know about philosophy from Ayn Rand?
@@AlexandertheAcceptable As I specifically reference Aristotle and Aquinas and studied philosophy formally, you obviously have more of a "reality" issue.
@@tommore3263 I don't see any specific reference to either, aside from broad claims about their "sanity" "building the west." I think you're the one with the reality problem.
@ Oh. So you didn't see me specifically reference Aristotle and Aquinas. Historically accurate reference. Avoid drugs.
4:47 This is why many are so scared about climate change here.
It’s no kidding they thought they were the master race eh
They have ultimately proven themselves to be. Even though, that whole concept was attributed upon them, by the perpetual victims/parasites. There was, & still remain an amazing abundance of genius in the German culture, that was ripe for pilfering, by the plagiarizing pretenders who plague our species prolifically. @zexalinishere cheers!
There's a lot that going around these days :)
The fruits of believing macro evolution
The easterners are not asking ? why and how ? They are asking : what and how . . . I learnt that all philosophers agree '''''never asks why'''' you will end up with convoluted karmic low sense
Human are machines and we too selfish to give control to AI
No.. Not the German killed philosophy.... It was the British... Simple because of their jellisy against the Germans
I tend to see it more in terms of how knowledge is no longer part of our cultural and philosophical dimension, and has been reduced solely to an instrumental use to achieve specific ends (things like obtaining more profit or saving energy and automating processes). This is the biggest problem I see with the result of the split in knowledge and instrumentalization, we are depriving human beings of humanity; people don't think anymore, academics (the greatest minds in the world) are not thinkers, but just employees of some billionaire. I don't think that technology will take our place, but that human beings will be destroying themselves before that. After all, technology is an extension of man and represents nothing more than our relationship with the world (in a very Heideggerian sense). How can there be a relationship between man and the world without man? There is not. When the Enlightenment replaced myths and superstitions, they put something in their place; But if we continue as we are, will we even be able to put anything in our place?
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all in it 21:30
Gerlan is a more analitical language. If you don't speak precise you are not understand.
Id love for you to look into Edmund Burke, Michael Oakshotte, J.R.R Tolkien and so on, and make a similar analysis of english traditionalism or as europeams might say English philosophical laziness.
so once the theorists having given way to the analysts having given way to the scientists having given way to the robots still need redemption as characterized by their need to know and understand have only their knees left to fall on; I believe help thou my unbelief
Don't say Kaan't . Say Kant , like in : but
So we just dont let the AI learn german?
I liked your analysis- from why to how, from God's essence/existence to human thinking. I would say the change started before the Reformation with the Nominalists who in later iterations educated Luther. Perhaps there has always been a dead streak in Philosophy. However, with the rise of agnosticism and atheism,, the killing of truth has become second nature.
How does the rise of atheism or agnosticism has anything to do with the "the killing of truth has become second nature"
Never ignore the role of situations and situation of women and their role behind everything. No human action emanates out of lack of necessity - either perceived or real and never overlook the necessities of women in past behind all the developments and famous people of history.
Necessity is not just mother of invention but mother of everything. It is just we loose sight of our real ones or look forward too much and ignore that of others in the process and then we realise our necessities or perceptions of those did not have any real value or might be just result of human created circumstances and systems and not real at all or just fades into oblivion when compared to pressing ones of others around the world.
So my idea is that living on aslittle as possible ,on bare necessities if possible is one of the ways to avoid falling out of step with reality.
The good thing is I think human beings realise their is something missing despite the wealth, power ,affluences and I think people should not ignore theur curiousity at least or call for out of box thinking.
I believe a look into the world around always gives wisdom in judgement like nothing else abd in that aspect I consider myself very fortunate to have experienced a silent revolution in global communication and transportation.
What is philosophy ?
These type of videos are stupid. You ought to focus on the cultural background, economic infrastructure and general cultural metaphysics that fostered such enthusiasm for philosophy in the German speaking world, as opposed to "Basketball" or "Rock music", then you will be closer to exposing something closer to truth. Everything you said about Germans are exterior and post-facto generalizations, with no predictive power. The narrative is kinda stupid.
You I've got to be a liberal, a leftist.
You always think everybody should do exactly what you think is best. You can't stand for other people to have ideas that you don't control.
Go away.
Oh! Or make your room damn videos and see how many views you get. Find out if anyone wants to listen to you and your drivel.
What is that painting that appears at 4:30?
Please do something on Hemingway. Or Mirakami. Both are rich in the philosophies you discuss. I know you like to stick with dead European authors (you have good taste), But I would love to see something different.
Keep up the good work!
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Added.
i like Russian Literature.
Great German Stuff
what is the name of painting in 13:50?
Its Casper David Friedrich's "wanderer above sea of fog"
It's a peculiar take, never thought of it.
I think Luther killed it. He rejected it, preferring faith alone. It's that simple. Then Kant followed suit and created rationality divorced from reality. Then it branched out. Some followed in that vein, like Hegel, Marx and a few others. Others went romantic and cared mostly about feelings and rejected reason, so Nietzsche is one of them. Then others that stayed more philosophical simply became scientists so stuck to measurement. Einstein is peculiar himself. Highly idealistic, he also denied objective reality in order to replace it with objective mathematical formula. Freud is highly romantic, wanting to liberate the libido. Jung, another idealist and romantic at the same time.
So it started with Luther and they never came back to reality and reason.
reality and reason are philosophical concepts and your use of them is loaded with presuppositions and assumptions. Don't think you've ever read a philosophical book in your life, and it shows.
Funily, Germany also killed music. Because Wagners was the best, nobody has ever came near to him. That's why Pop and Rock music were made.
Material mind became life cold hot humid religions.
The link between the German climate, German language and philosophy was interesting though far fetched. They invented dangerous weapons and dangerous people like Hitler and his shameless supporters and they have laid the foundations for a non-human robotic world. Analytical thinking has proven dangerous..World needs synthetic thinking of Hindus expressed in their most famous prescription Vasudeka kutumbam (one world) and sarvejena sukh😊inobhavantu ( May all people be happy)But abstract scientific thinking that led to computers which can create automated world is not from Germans.
english and americans were much more influential in that regard than the germans
Rejection of God is hell
But its still asthetic
Hell is people like you.
Kindly upload Evolution of Western Political Thoughts
I heard that Kant was Scottish, so he was the cousin of David Hume.
The Chinese were far better at philosophy and long before the first Germans knew what is was.
Let me guess, you are chinese? @JaysonT1 you clones stole all of your philosophy from Japan and India.
Evidence?
Define "better."
iI am struck by the thought that philosophy is dead. What about Isaiah Berlin, well known as a philosopher? Maybe the topic philosophers work on today is different, more complex? Say, how a human today thinks of war, justice and the like. Instead of chairs?
Another interesting thought is why some European nations have success in art and music and others in industries. But if we take a look at Russia we will see that after the October Revolution the Russians became great in industry, and art. may be there is something more influential than just national features?
If you made a video you would be closer to the truth.
Are you actually claiming that communism produced anything of value over its entire 70 years? Unless you are speaking of the work of dissidents like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, you're speaking nonsense.
Communism literally destroyed the Ukrainian bread basket and produced a famine that killed tens of millions Ukrainians and Russians. And we don't have time to talk about any of the disasters that followed that culminated in Chernobyl.
@@terrifictomm I am sorry, are you familiar with the world history of 20 century?
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Are you?
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UA-cam failed to post my initial response. Let me try again.
Are you?
Tell me what great achievements in industry, technology, the humanities, or even in agriculture the Soviet Union can lay claim to.
Oh! And that they didn't steal from the West.
Böhmi xD (more like BöhmÄ)
Sad.
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Karl Marx is not German.
he is
Jewish German
He's an authentic German.
As a German. He is a German.
@@blist14anthe is an athetist so he is not Jewish, at least not traditionally.
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Very poor comment of you that puts you in a very bad light. The facts are: they are very, very bright and, indeed, good looking people, who are getting things done.
Overkill of different ideas.
In other words, Sky Net sent Kant back into time and Kant was really T - 750, the original Terminator. Thanks for the video man! Excellent narration!! Best wishes to you from Iceland!!