Three Minute Philosophy: Pythagoras

[MrRheeTKD]

Got 1 minute in, stopped watching because your delivery is horrible. You need to breath and form words better. Don't try to say you have a speech impediment, that's just a cop out, there's always something you can do about it.

[crusher540]

haha u think you could do better?

[DeviousProduction]

waste 3 months learn what you lot me in 3 minutes, cheers cunt

[herondinhoo]

i love your accent hahahah <3

[RyanLingKuan]

God = 8

Pythagoras = 9

Pythagoras > God

[concon264]

this is good stuff, you've earned yourself a sub.

[MBaksh04]

My class were watching this today and everyone giggled as soon as a little swear was mentioned .LOL true story. teacher's face --> 0_0

[steven189111]

Socrates teachings were based on Love ......

[cowpacino]

lmao



[lonestarlucas]

how is Richard Dawkins a cult leader?

[AgApE010]

@lonestarlucas

Because it's a joke, that's how. That, and because a lot of the new atheists (especially the teenage crowd) treat him as if he's the pinnacle of knowledge and reason.

[AhYaOk]

lol

[2rainmalt]

yes 9 is the trickster number.. 9x1- 9, 9x2- 18 (1+8=9), 9x3=27(2+7+9) 9x4= 36(3+6=9, ect.... till infinite.. 9 is eternal to itself.... whatever that means!!

[labamba8448]

How is L. Ron Hubbard a scientist.

[yusufandyasser]

@creede55 Wow that's exactly what I'm doing! I hate maths ok gtg do it now! Lawlz

[goatphilososphy]

4+5= 20 &5+4= 20 a muderous religious cult , heh heh heh !

[astronomer86]

Yeah, do Nietzsche please.

[UnacceptableSocially]

@astronomer86 He already has.

[astronomer86]

@UnacceptableSocially oh cool. Thanks to you for pointing it out and thanks to Three Minutes Philosophy for making it.

[astronomer86]

@UnacceptableSocially LOL ... that was funny

[cdog9991]

Do Nietzsche!

[RomanPeriphas]

Cool Vid

[TPRS313]

He sounds half-speed in this video. I find it.. unsettling.. For some reason.. Agreed?

[1ironfist1]

This.... This is the greatest series of youtube videos ever made. Period.

[Pi10sco]

The Pythagoreans also did not eat beans because they were convinced beans had souls.

[LaHappificationShow]

"rigid concepts of morality, such as pacifism: denouncing violence in all it's forms. Failure to do this was punishable by DEATH" hahaha

[aquamus]

"Because the idea of knowledge existing before America is downright laughable" xD

[MrZoodie]

Hahah, the America part! Too true.

[LabratTremulous]

Giving my maths teacher a link to this.

[LabratTremulous]

". . .Because the idea of knowledge existing before America is downright laughable"

[Master0fPuppets231]

"denouncing violence in all its forms, failure to do so was punishable by death" lolololol

[guitarbastrd]

Richard Dawkins??!!

[AndyRaslan]

But the idea of the Earth being round in its modern acception is attributed to Gallilei. Some say Eratostenes was the founder of this idea and, going farther east, the Qur'an states that "The Earth is shaped like an egg", which wasn't very far from the truth.

Columbus was an explorer, not a scientist - how could anyone attribute that theory to him?

[lovellespice]

@AndyRaslan the earth was described as a sphere in the book of Isaiah.. the bible pre-dates the qur'an

[AndyRaslan]

@lovellespice Interesting... but then why did the Church believe the Earth was flat for so long?

[lovellespice]

@AndyRaslan not the church, just uneducated folk.. it stuck like a bad meme :) google globus cruciger, even in middle ages religious art, the earth was depicted as a sphere..

[nactan]

@AndyRaslan gelileo? uh, no?

[patient0Studios]

MARX & THOMAS PAINE

[Sudayev43]

Do one for John Stuart Mill!!!!

[nakenmil]

HIPPASUS NEVAR FORGET!

[hippo11222]

Dude, what about NIETZSCHE?!!!! ;)

[PeterBIRCH1984]

...pare for

[PeterBIRCH1984]

Loving this one and a bunch of others. Shame there is none on Homer, got a lecture next week I need to pre

[AikidoEnth]

Pi = 22/7 ...

[KingSlimjeezy]

@AikidoEnth nope ....

[faysalfaris]

@AikidoEnth This is just an approximation... Pi is equal to an infinite series and it can only be approximated, it doesn't (philosophically) have an exact value. Practically, however, certain approximations will apply pretty good for certain (usually engineering) problems :)

[faysalfaris]

@AikidoEnth This is just an approximation... Pi is equal to an infinite series and it can only be approximated, it doesn't (philosophically) have an exact value. Practically, however, certain approximations will apply pretty good for certain (usually engineering) problems :)

[Gazmanaust]

@AikidoEnth nope

[AikidoEnth]

@Gazmanaust Damnit. You're right. That's how it was actually explained to me in grade school but I've never personally used it. I just checked now and it's definitely not 22/7. Apologies.

The internet: Educating people more than school ever could.

[ganondorf59]

Mathematics = Abstraction of an Abstraction. Belief system of an IMAGINED concept or drawing which is fooled by the senses itself. Read my book, I will give you a free electronic summarized version. If Nietzsche killed God, I killed Mathematics and all its followers.

[MissGD02]

Philosophy is so enjoyable

[aquamus]

"the idea of knowledge existing before America is downright laughable."

[JSmusiqalthinka]

Could you do one of Diogenes of Sinope?

[devourerofbabies]

@JSmusiqalthinka Diogenes is my favourite.

[R0B0stairs]

Thumbs up for "human beings knew fuck all about everything!"

[acamp1995]

Richard dawkins is the leader of a cult?

Then, I suppose it must be true... I did find this fact on the interenet after all...

[Nervousification]

@acamp1995 I know, that asshole doesn't realize that Dawkins is the prophet, Hawkings is the leader!

[Makedonomaxos1111]

WTF IS THIS FAIL

[Noxshus]

@Makedonomaxos1111 You're alone sir.

[trailstar1]

I didn't do Pythagoras in primary school aha

[RebirthBeyond]

hmm.. shall i take philosophy101?

[OoerBostanci]

@RebirthBeyond If it's an intro course, then no. NONONO.

Never take a philosophy intro course. There is no intro to philosophy. Skip it.

[QuantizingKelly]

Love your videos! I have told so many people to check these out. :)

[Abab216]

...and people wonder why I want to leave America so badly...

[amsd1231]

Does that make me a creepy loser? :(

[TheVariableConstant]

@GlorifiedTruth duh am sure , fractions of integers is implied unless you have an i.q. of a single digit :P

[GlorifiedTruth]

@TheVariableConstant - Amazing; a retard who acts intelligent. I've never encountered such a thing on YouTube!

[Cybelos]

Whoever put this together doesn't really know anything about Pythagoras, classical history, or how to read ancient primary source material.

[ryanyomomma]

"...sharing rigid concepts of morality such as pacifism, denouncing violence in all it's forms. Failure to doing this was punishable by death." haha genius!

[doombybbr]

@ryanyomomma kill the killer...then his killer....it is stupid

[ryanyomomma]

@doombybbr Maybe you're thinking about that term a little too much. I was just noting the mans narration as humorous. But you can think all you want.

[creede55]

thumbs up if your watching this instead of doing your math homework...

[hassan997686]

@creede55 fuck trigonometry

[yashil17]

@creede55

this is what math is

[thedoctor4330]

@creede55 *mathS homework.

[laloca787894]

what what, you learnt the Pythagoras Theorem in primrary :/

[MASSD2]

i wiah you were my FUCKING maths teacher!!! dale mass

[bergruna]

Ahahahahahaha "because the idea of knowledge existing before america is downright laughable"

[monkeyhairyballs]

@bergruna I AGREE! That was so fucken funny...n I am an

American...oh well...its true!

[Xodion413]

Good god there are a lot of 8^y faces in this video.

[theinfectiondrummer]

Wait a minute.... "Christmas and Bar mitzvahs"

AHA A HIDDEN JOKE

[TheBeardedThinker]

jean paul sartre

[ArtistryofDebauchery]

Lol the accent makes these infinitely more awesome

[BandofPants]

Simone de Beauvoir please :D

[jaqzzzz]

Nice insights, thx for caring to looking through some ideas. some very Rock solid, rather than circular reasoning>:) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Praise your truth:))

Sweet work:))))))))

.

[CosmoShidan]

DRUZE!

[AceQuillion]

such as PIE!!

joking, pi

[JellehNightmare]

My philosophy teacher looked at me strangely after i showed him this

[suneel7]

such as pacifism denouncing violence in all its forms.......... failure to do this was punishable by death! lmao

[therealtruth123]

'He founded a religion, of which the main tenets were the transmigration of souls and the sinfulness of eating beans' - Russell on Pythagoras

[Vimgur]

There's so much wrong in this. You fail to seperate myth from truth. E.g. the Pythagoreans never dismissed irrational numbers. It isn't clear if Pythagoras was even a mathematician. Also the Pythagorean theorem was known for centuries already, but the Pythagoreans were the first to write down a proof.

[StargateMunky]

@Vimgur you could be exiled for believing in a dodecahedron

[SaDiEPaTTinSoN]

OMG. we were watching this in class with our teacher, and she haden't watched the video to make sure it was ok for our 7TH GRADE CLASS! we were totally watching it and laughed our heads off when he started droppin' f- bombs. Our techer freaked!

[ascetic43]

*YES* Dawkins is the dogmatic leader of the cult of contemporary nothing. Nice. These vids are great. Cheers.

[straaler5]

not to forget... he made math evil and made the pentagram a satanic symbol. math was evil because he made a cult about it, and the pentagram was his favorite mathematic symbol, but because math was evil, the pentagram was evil. while it actually stands for the 4 elements and the spirit. and all i hear is how great the motherfucker is.

[CosmoShidan]

It's also worth mention that Pythagoras founded vegetarianism. Not only was it forbidden to not eat meat, but to eat beans as well!

[chipmunkkiller]

Complete Fucking arsehole LOL



[zOMGeoAnti]

dawkins is not a cult leader, and the pithagoras theorem is not very obvious..

pithagoras as a genius nontheless.

 but about anything else, gj

[dancthegr]

do marx

[Lichmidget]

You learn't the Pythagorean Theorem in primary school? What the fuck type of primary school is that?

[25lollipops25]

@Lichmidget yeah i didn't learn his theorem until yr 9 haha

[sergiomarchelli]

this is the most shallow and stupid explanation about Pythagoras.

[ajay999999]

A2 + B2 = C2 ? Still dont understand it and im 50 now.

[romyxijsbrandij]

@ajay999999 a and b are the normal side's, and c is the unknown side.

[SammiJbird]

The song at the beginning--I KNOW it, I just cannot place it, and that is driving me CRAZY.

[WalleWildberrie]

@SammiJbird "A night on bald mountain" I believe

[CambridgeHeights]

How dare you speak ill of The Dawkins.

[limetang]

The Pythagorean theorem isn't an obvious observation.

[FreudianSlipperr]

this is the best work i've seen in millenia.

i love you. you have made my day/week/month/year.

[hersheykissesbca]

because lots of families celebrate christmas AND bar/bat mitzvahs, right?

lol jpjp. i actually really like these.

[blarg76]

There's nothing intuitive about the Pythagorean Theorem, you dishonest hack.  You assume so since it was taught to you. The only intuitive proof of this was President Garfield's, which didn't come around until the 19th century.

[WHiPCPL]

OH GOD! I'm a creepy loser :'(

[razorbladekissss]

Ohh so that's why if you take philosophy in school, it's actually a lot of math. I really think most of us have no idea what philosophy really is, and the word brings up the image of sitting around under a tree pondering the meaning of human existence. I try to warn people that it's some boring math-type stuff, but it's like they don't believe me o_O

[Walnut1871]

lol "And Richard Dawkins"

[Chaowdur]

@Walnut1871 dawkins is not a philosopher!

[swordmas7544]

DUDE YOU ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS AND SMART I LOVE THIS SHIT MAN 

[0pteryx]

I love this series, I'd LOVE to see Terence Mckenna and Alan Watts covered.

[AtheistAnarchoRudi]

@0pteryx dude.., those r my 2 favorite thinkers

[tennebanoit]

PLease tell me how you did this

[Rigidyroofless]

The guy is a fucking genius! :D seriously, GO BRAH!

[AstrappingJakeYoung]

This was awesome

[XenMonkey13]

Brilliant! 

[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

Math is hardkor shit, dude.

[HaShomeret]

yey! now i get Anathem by Neil Stevenson. It all makes sence now.

[AquarianWarKitten]

Did Pythagoras believe that the Earth was not the center of the universe?

[MrPlacebo11]

do nietzsche you bastard

[chuparsito]

@MrPlacebo11 i love how forward you are lolol

[masaki1151]

LOL! man this should be SO much bigger than it is

[TheDAHTANShow]

Haha being violent was punishable by death classic

[daymyth]

It's not easy, try and write out the proof for it from scratch...

[ellencatalina]

He didn't kill anyone. He was a pacifist and a vegetarian. He visited many lands in his life, including Egypt and India. I'm guessing his religious ideas were greatly influenced by the Vedas and Hinduism. If he were around today I would gladly spend a year living with him and his followers learning everything he could teach me.

[TheGrayStars]

I was going to do my project over this guy... It's a good thing I picked Descartes, instead. XD

[chuparsito]

@TheGrayStars yeah this guy was an absolute wanky bastard

[xlaym]

ahaha thats great xD



[nactan]

GO MATH!

I'd have totally joined his cult and killed anyone who thought math was for losers.

[ThePythagoran]

ouch.... well good job on this one how bout some Rand?

[johnybazukata]

You seem to hare Richard Dawkins a lot, don't you? As if you were... oh my! Religious! A funny religious guy... WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!!!

[MrNMertens]

You say "Fucking" like you mean it. It's pretty great.

[IDerham]

We watched this in maths and our teacher shit himself because of the swearing :D pahahah

[mortacrify]

THERE IS NO S ON THE END OF MATH

GO AMERICA WOO!

[imshippyupup]

your mic sucks.

[Blackadder75]

Do Epicurus

[LambsBee42]

Maths! YEAH!

[SteDeRaver]

Make me laugh, great job.

[RainRavens]

Does anyone else think Pythagoras and his "cult" look like Fagin and his den of thieves?

[RainRavens]

Does anyone else thinks Pythagoras and his "cult" look like Fagin and his den of thieves?

[basserase]

Funny; useless, but funny.

[josephferrerosa34]

What about transmigration of souls?

[manmythlegend12]

How is Richard Dawkins the leader of a cult?

[xmentosx]

@manmythlegend12 he does this all the time; make a list and make the last one an absurd concept. Richard Dawkins can be considered a scientific leader with a massive following similar to the cultlike following Pythagoras had, though this is a theory that's exaggerated to the point of being completely ridiculous and therefore funny.

[cctakato]

@xmentosx I think Dawkins' cult following is more like those people who worship Ayn Rand than Pythagoras.

[djNerd42]

@cctakato U R probably right. Rand's "rational self-interest" wasn't really all that rational and I can't understand how conservatives will be talking about how the the Founding Fathers believed in God one minute and will be quoting Ayn Rand the next, when these different thinkers had absolutely irreconcilable worldviews.

[Ravengaurd6]

@manmythlegend12 because you put your faith in him and you're trying to defend him! lulz jk

in this day and age of pointless existence the decisive conflict of the human race is moderates versus extremist on all grounds and opinions. it's about not being to agree with anyone anymore... with the crackdown on organized religion going...who is there to say there shouldn't be a crack down on all organized things. in the end mans worst enemies will be his own ignorance, pointlessness and boredom.

[soccermoose1214]

ahahah XD.... nice

[niriop]

Hippasus was drowned, not stabbed

[ihugtheworld]

@niriop you were there?

[niriop]

@ihugtheworld There? I suggested the method dear boy! :P

[goldywire]

"blindly obvious discoveries"

F*ck you, I'd like to empty your mind and throw you in the woods for the rest of your life and see what you'd come up with you arrogant snub nosed brat.

That been said pacifists getting punished by death because they acted violantley creates a rather amusing death conga line that ends up with the leader killing the last person and ending up a single person that is not a pacifist which defeats the point and is hilarious.

[MrKangdon]

I'd like to bet any philosopher who thinks Pythagoras' theorem is `obvious' to prove it without consulting any sources.

Wittgenstein stated that mathematics was only a machine for generating tautologies. But this came only after he realised he was shit at mathematics.

[MrGooseberries]

@MrKangdon Same with all philosophers. The only reason they do it is because they can't study real science!

[ihugtheworld]

@MrGooseberries hahahaa beg you pardon, what is real science? 

[ObamaWatch1212]

If he hasn't done Karl Marx, probably the most influential political philosophist in the past 200 years, as much as it pains me to admit that.

[Vincent777Legion1]

not in my primary school mate LOL

[MrGooseberries]

The pythagorean theorem was known by the Babylonians thousands of years before Pythagoras showed up.

[taurusinfatuation]

@MrGooseberries The idea of knowledge existing before Western philosophy is downright laughable.

[MrGooseberries]

@taurusinfatuation I assume you're being extremely sarcastic.

[taurusinfatuation]

@MrGooseberries Just applying the knowledge of the video--yes. I hope I didn't offend

[MrGooseberries]

@taurusinfatuation yes, sorry, sarcasm isn't really clear in written text :)

[hayjude99]

Us creepy losers need love too!

[mcsaurus]

Excellent. You're the sharpest wit on Youtube.

[DokBBenway]

l ron hubbard was never a scientist

[MrJohndoakes]

@DokBBenway Yes! I'm glad somebody caught that; Hubbard was a college dropout. From one science class he claimed he was a nuclear physicist; the guy was a consumate BS artist.

Rael never was a scientist either; he just promotes human cloning.