Wingate University presents: Introduction to Philosophy with Dr. Edwin Bagley (Video 1)

[alljaouad]

Really interesting ... Even though I used to study that on my country, Morocco ...

Like it anyway ...

[hellyaproductions]

This is why I hate going to school everyday. Children that have physically progressed and internally regressed are the ones enforcing the rules on us, and even worse passing knowledge to us. If they were mistakenly classified as qualified for there job, and I the student can feel at all above them intellectually, how can I trust any other level of power?

[honkydonker]

I had this professor in at least six different philosophy and religious studies courses. He was excellent.

[TheBrainSponge]

So what I'm getting from the comments is, I shouldn't use this video to teach myself the basics of philosophy?

[BoxMyse]

I'm not exactly Mr. Philosophy, but I KNOW undergrad lectures.

If I'm in this class, I run not walk to the registrar to drop this class!

Professor of philosophy? Really?!?!

As an assignment in an intro to public speaking course, this "lecture" is maybe a C+. The thesis is "I sort of like 3 different philosophers." He doesn't sound very comfortable with the material, is glued to his notes, & has no clue how to bind his ideas together.

I hope this is not representative of Wingate University.

[TaliesinMcKnight]

@BoxMyse im going to college to be a professor.. but not philosophy.. comparative religion.. but ive taken some philosophy classes and study it on the side.. you are right.. the problem is most professors are not big intellectuals.. they are normal people who get a fancy degree and teach.. in fact.. some of them are fucking morons. a possible key to our failing american education system? maybe hmm.. : /

[kamiakin5]

@TaliesinMcKnight i know this is much later, but a failing american education system is due to science is being ostracized and over 60% of the population do not "believe" in evolution. how can you form a basic education on the bounds that scientific fact is not believed? When belief and science are completely separate ideas. *sighs* incorporating belief into science....

[OMGITSDRJESUS]

@BoxMyse What do you suggest then?

[raghavdelhi]

Both the examples of "ideas that are not derived from sense experience" are in fact ideas derived from sense experience. The creation of any geometrical idea requires one to have perceived space through his senses. In addition, the Pythagoras theorem, is derived from the concepts of similarity which themselves were derivable in part due to the human ability to learn through pattern recognition.

[akurtula]

are these lectures important to be consumed as video? or would I get the same effect if I convert the to mp3 - if anyone has seen all the lectures, do they to through any visuals that we would need the video for?

[snaphappy1977]

@Omnicron777 lol, a classic case of "watch more, comment less" no offence intended though :)

[JackSprattDaBat]

good video!

[ArianaBella86]

I wish that too

[hassanmurtazashah]

I wish i could be in this class and learn a lot more from this Great Teacher.

[BoxMyse]

@hassanmurtazashah

Oh my god... I'm really, really hoping that you wrote that comment in the spirit of Socrates talking about Gorgias -- drowning in irony.

[jblattnerNYC]

really interesting....thank you

[1990ricky1990]

Interesting. Thankyou from England.