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  • I'm a philosophy student and I've been drawing/doodling since I was able to hold a pencil in my tiny baby hand. (quality still questioned by myself, but nonetheless...)

    So... I can still dream, lol. C:

  • Guys I think he was only ironic about modern understanding of philosophy.As for Nietsche God is dead is more death or need for death of existing values,thats all.

  • @FMDostojevski1 i never thought about that title. and i agree with you. it is pretty obvious. it is the same with "the twilight of the idols" the death of ideals. i just read your name. dostojevski. he is one of my favorite authors.

  • @aqueenowlbee Yes, death of God is death of Ideals, as they are viewed for thousands of years. Actually it is the need for revaluating those ideas. What is the new form and content of those ideas we dont know. He never explicitly said what are those ideas consisted of. Actually he is quite contradictory but that is where wealth of his philosophy lies. We all, as I see it, from our existence need to find new values.

  • @aqueenowlbee As for Dostoyevski, well he is intelectual giant, the biggest in metaphorical way of course :) . Thats my opinion :)

  • The philosopher's path...

  • I think the problem is that we have so many different philosophies built up by these brilliant men over the course of their lifetimes. What is someone who enjoys philosophy to do? How are you going to learn Heidegger, Kant, Wittgenstein, Plato, etc. when philosophy can be so very idiosyncratic? I think Kant once admitted having trouble understanding the positions of his detractors, so he got other people to defend his philosophy for him.

  • @FeelingFreshSon Well you cant know it all, you should heave wide knowledge about most philosophers and go deep into philosophy of ones that seems most appealing to you, that are closer to your understanding of life. Thats my opinion :)

  • @fuck192ass I think thats absurd. Why aren't they philosophers? Not analytical enough for you?

  • @fuck192ass whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ttt?????????

    Get a grip.

  • Philosophy is a second-order discipline, which can be used to further the lines of reasoning in other, first-order disciplines, such as science, and law, business. It aims to find out what is the best way for one to logically construct this argument, and how can I apply this to life. That's why there is a philosophy for almost everything, including people: Philosophy of law; Philosophy of science; Mary's philosophy, etc...

  • @TheDemosid You have it backwards, or misinterpreted. Business, science, law, whatever discipline you wish to point too, are the second-order disciplines. Philosophy can speak to everything about business, science, or law, but neither business, science or law, alone or together, can speak to all of Philosophy. Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of law does not prove that science or law are the first-order disciplines, rather that philosophy is embedded in everything.

  • @fuck192ass I think philosophy is a broad therm that could include the thought of Kierkegaard and Niezche. In the case of the first, he actually doesn't attack so much the foundations of philosophy as much as the Hegelist idea of a collective spirit and unity between man and god, still conserving much of Hegel's language. Nietzche on the other hand criticizes only the foundations of western philosophy, pretending to impose certainties which remain however arbitrary.

  • @fuck192ass By all means explain, you seem to have a brilliant theory going there

  • They're both philosophy majors, which is surprising because Leno is about as deep as a wading pool.

  • Well, I can see how it could be useless in the U.S, since most people there don't know what the fuck is going on when it comes ot anything.

  • i'm studying philosophy n arts. now i sort of have an idea what kinda future do i have.

  • Common stereotyping toward philosphy

    ,but do you know that their whole life based on building of philosphers' work

    I guess Ignorants don't

  • @PaladinX500 Some knowledge doesn't have value, but supporting you're family usually does.

  • I kept waiting for this video to turn out to be well done. Then it ended.

  • god i hate that song

  • "God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1883

    "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

  • @messakg123 lol they think that skinny guy is the true god -Thor on Jesus

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  • @messakg123 Joke that's been copied so much it's not even funny. Nietzsche didn't even technically say "god is dead" it was the "crazy old man", that is, if you knew anything about Nietzsche...

  • @kly45 k

  • @kly45 Im not sure, i think that the phrase "god is dead" is a methaphore for what Nietzsche thought the end of metaphisical philosophy. In that sense, knowing Nietzsche`s anti metaphisical stand, the phrase god is dead is actually from him, and is essential to understand Nietzschean thought. But i guess it could be open to debate. The joke is still funny.

  • @rojo1990 It SHOULD be funny. But it's been hijacked by crazy christians lately so it's had the fun taken out it

  • @messakg123

    Hmm I can't seem to find any records of God saying "Nietzsche is dead." Could you please tell me where did you get that quote from?

  • @MinarchoCapitalist it's obviously a joke. Don't be so retarded

  • @messakg123 messakg123 fail, 2011

  • @chicagomike88 explain...

  • @messakg123

    Except God didn't say that.

    Because he was dead.

  • @guatahala well the joke is that he wasn't and that God has the last laugh....

  • @messakg123

    I get the joke. I just think it's smug and stupid.

  • @guatahala yes. THAT'S THE JOKE! I don't even believe in God it's just amusing......

  • @messakg123 Nietzsche was the right one.

  • @lyon1535 is Nietzsche not dead?

  • @messakg123 So is god.

  • @lyon1535 so theyre both right

  • @messakg123 dont you just love it when people are so unoriginal?

  • @messakg123 "Some are born posthumously"- Nietzsche

  • @messakg123 "Nietzsche is God" - Death

  • @IWantToUnderstandIt Heh.. very amusing.. I like it.

  • @messakg123

    "nietzsche is god". - Death

    "will you both shut the F**K up? I'm trying to sleep here!" - Satan

  • @PewPewPlasmagun "God is neither dead nor alive, for he is in a box."

    -Schrödinger.

  • @DerBlitzStag screw quantum physix

  • @messakg123 Slave.

  • @messakg123

    "Some are born posthumously" - Nietzsche

  • @messakg123 Nietzsche did not meant god died in a literal form. He meant that we no longer believe in him , so he is dying every moment.

  • @xiaoacid i know

  • @messakg123 I actually don't recall god saying that. 

  • @bloodmuch anti joke chicken. Is that you?

  • @messakg123 Why yes.  Yes it is!

  • @messakg123 wasn't god dead? how could he say that?? unless....god is a zombie!!

  • @messakg123 this is an extremely stupid, non-nonsensical comment.

  • @SamySaara its a joke

  • "I studied philosophy and didn't doodle so now I'm on welfare."

    -The alternative

  • philosophey graduates make good comedy writers. Ricky Gervais is another good example.

  • importanceofphilosophy  D.o_t c_om

  • @Omnicron777 Ah. Good thing you've come to a greater understanding of philosophy then. (I'm not exactly a student of philosophy, it's simply a side endeavour in my studies)

  • @Omnicron777 Right, but Kierkegaard's morals contain the discussion of the teleological suspension of ethics as a very important point. Thou shalt not kill and such, why on earth is it not a problem when Abraham is ordered to kill his son? How can he do it? Is it because God's word can make immoral acts moral? Nietzsche takes a related ball and runs with it. "If you only do a good deed because a book tells you to, are you then actually doing a good deed?" Both are severe attacks on normal morals

  • Of cause he study Philosophiy. What`s more poetic than "Doh!" or "Ai Caramba!"

    even Nietzsche would bite his as, (or eat his shorts), cause he didn`t get that.

  • Yes, ive had quite a few dreams of frenching Nietzsche, and getting a moustache ride....

  • @Omnicron777 Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are NOT "complete opposites". The fact that you think this proves that you've never actually read their works.

  • Only when it came to God. =p They're still really similar.

  • @Omnicron777 ...no no no, they've got a lot in common: they both disliked the church and had a quite 'existentialistic' view on moral... of course they differ in their way of smashing the church's interpretation of the bible, but in the end they are more alike one may think on the first look: the formula "the single has to be above the mass" applies to both of them: moral and social conventions have to be suspended in order to "become what you really are" or to "live a real life"

  • @mangomungo btw: nietzsche did not think there would be no god or something (common misunderstanding), he just wasn't too fond of the belief in a big-strong-guy in the heaven, who tells us (via church or parents or etc...) what is "good" and what is "bad" - so he had a problem with moral systems in the first place (just like kierkegaard). In fact, he DID believe in a god, but the god he is for himself (in his last [kinda crazy] years he called himself "der gekreuzigte" ["the one on the cross"])

  • @mangomungo but of course there are differences as well: kierkegaard had it with the ladies and nietzsche didn't score at all, which explains some of them, especially their really different "speaking tones"....but to end my blabbering: nietzsche knew kierkegaard and was quite fond of his work if my brain isn't joking with me here

  • @Omnicron777 Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are not so opposites...the ideia of repetition in kierkegaard is like eternal return in Nietzsche...for example

  • I'll prove this video with a formal indirect axiomatic proof.

  • @Omnicron777 Opposites meet in the end... er... too much hegel for me, hehe.

  • Never take philosophy. Waste of time and money. Im taking it now it will defiantely mess up my GPA.

  • @TheCaliCapitalist You are probably no good at philosophy because you seem like you could be prone to making fallacious comments.

    Cough. Hasty generalization. Cough.

  • @katyc130890

    This person probably licks balls for flavor.

  • @TheCaliCapitalist Sounds like a personal problem. 

  • This is the most offensively piss poor video I've seen in quite some time. Please never ever upload anything again.

  • HAHAHAHA

  • Groening, the great American Skeptical philosopher, mistaken too often as a humourist.

  • duh he took philosophy thats why simpsons is always funny

  • @Dudex58 until it reached series 9.

  • When you're a writer that can also animate his ideas into existence, you better be a philosopher, or else it'll loose it's deep meaning.

  • nice

  • @Fushapan Well the pure Kantian will is impossible. Dan Dennett points this out in Kinds of Minds. He says that the brain is made of physical stuff and since reason isn't a property of physical stuff, our brains cannot semantic engines. However, our brains are indefinitely adjusting and changing, seeking patterns of reason and recalling them when applicable. We get the illusion of will while in reality we are just using shortcuts that are composed of many steps and recollections.

  • philosophy+ no logic = CARTOON

    philosophy + logic = TRUTH

  • you also need intuition and experience.

  • @gasmbay You have used logic and numbered things in order to get to wisdon not to run around it and that what I think of mr.greoning's view on philosophy

  • i dont understand what you mean... i meant experience, intuition + logic leads to wisdom.. of course you need some logic but without experience logic is also useless. philosophers are wise because they learn from experiences... and use logic to explain them. without the experience you're not a philosopher, you're a logician.

  • @gasmbay You are coorect because logic is a tool that the mind uses to understand the information it contains and it needs experience so that it wil understand it better then when we use intuition Finaly it will be correct so that is the recipe for WISDOM

  • @919evilkiller919

    if logic is a tool the mind uses to understand information, what is intuition? your guess based on your feelings?

    how is that more wise than understanding actual information?

  • @robertwc82 I meant it is a tool to link ideas to together so it will bring a complete wisdom on a topic and ofcourse intuition is most important because any human won't always get every idea he or she needs. So I am saying logic is a tool and intuition is also a tool to gather information,so that the factory that is the brain can produce a healty and complete idea.

  • @919evilkiller919 so a paranoid schitzophrenic, killing people he perceives as alien infiltrators conspiring against him based on his intuition, is a wise man?

    to him all the pieces of the puzzle fit into place and he is behaving in a completely logical manner, driven by self preservation, though fallable and misguided.

    can you define what you mean by "intuition"?

  • and truth is flawless :)

  • I sincerely hope that this video isn't serious. I'm sick of all these Americans failing to understand that some people value actual knowledge more than getting a job at the end of it. You know, the people who're actually intelligent.

  • It's not just Americans but yeah, I think its very sad that most people only care about and respect vocational education. To me, thats not what being educated is. If someone tells me they are doing a BA or a BS I dont look down on them, im really happy that they want to learn for the sake of learning. I'd consider them far more generally educated than people who spend 3-6 years learning one specific profession for the sole purpose of the money to be earned at the end of it.

  • Certain disciplines although very good in helping you to understand and be educated on a particular subject sometimes just regurgetate information from a text book and make you memorize theories and equations.

    Philosophy is designed to educate you on how to think. It is no suprise that simpsons is the most successful animated show of all time, and the most relevant to our culture. Well at least the old episodes.

  • Stating that philosophy is an "unuseful" practice is making a philosophical claim. I.e. The use of reason to arrive at a Truth.

    I fear that the person who posted this video has a deep seated fear of knowledge and things he doesn't understand.

  • I could disagree with that last sentence. Because science is empirical, it deals with reality. Our emotions are based off of reality. Therefore science and our emotions have more in common than one may think. If I do something in reality that makes me unhappy, wouldn't the scientific solution be to change what I am doing because the produced evidence is wrong?

  • Good point Fushapan. I think religion also exists as a comfort factor, not only the comfort of having a benevolent God helping you along in life but of feeling like there is a meaning to your existence. I think the cold indifference of scientific materialism really turns off a lot of people - myself included, although I am not religious. The sad thing is that most people never consider that there is a middle ground between being religion and atheism - i.e. being spiritual.

  • @Fushapan:

    By Mythology you mean allegorical stories used to signify a moral messege? Then yes, religion does use myth, but not all religions are based on myth alone. For example, the Bible in itself is a very mytholgoical religion, but uses many foundations of Jewish history to do so, and raises a strong philosophical argument for the existance of God through objective ethical morality. Also, I recognize myth when I see it, and an eye witness testimony, Jesus is a testimony not myth.

  • Usually when people say the "big issues of life" they never say exactly what they mean (I imagine because they don't want to be criticised).

    And guess what. Neither have you.

    Thus rendering your last sentence irrational.

  • Religion and scripture are two different things. Scripture answeres a lot of questions philosophicaly. Religion on the other hand is an institution which allows people to believe what they like.

  • Groening's a genious, I don't care what people say about him.

  • Its no wonder why Matt Groening is so insightful

  • Answer- everything

  • I love these comments...what surprises me is the length of the video, and how much depth there is to the comments....suave.

  • My experience the most immediate practical fruit of philosophy is leading a rich and rewarding life of the mind, something which I think needs no further justification.

  • @jlke45

    100% right there mate!

  • @jlke45 Jobs though.

  • @jlke45 You are correct. Philosophy has been what made my life worth it. Its very much so rewarding!

  • @jlke45 money

  • @jlke45 I bet your landlord loves you and your 'life of the mind'.

  • @93224956

    so what if he can't find a nice paying job? I'm sure he's happy doing something very small. rewarding life of the mind has no comparison, it's unlike any other pleasure in life.

  • @93224956 For what it's worth, I have a respectable salary.

  • @jlke45 Good reason, thanks! :)

  • @jlke45 "I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND,

    I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND,

    I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND,

    I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND,

    I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND,

    I WILL SHOW YOU, THE LIFE, OF THE MIND!"

    *Becomes John Goodman*

  • philosophy is not the study of religion

    religion answers philosophical questions

    they have their own answers to the meaning of life

  • Religion has no answer, it only fills ignorance with retarded beleifs from bronze age. They are in NO WAY answers.

  • Don't underestimate Philosophy. Without philosophy there wouldn't be science. In ancient Greek Philosophy was considered not as a branch of science but Father of all sciences. Science was a branch of philosophy.

  • @obglobablob Philosophy is especially useful at the elementary school level. It helps children build the most basic and essential skills. It works one's ability to reason and communicate at the same time.

  • philosophy is the most basic form of knowllege. without a fundamental synthesis regarding how we aquire knowllege we cannot even begin to legitimize specialized knowllege (science).

  • Nietzsche is much funnier than the simpsons.

  • He's the contemporary day Thales!

  • pshaw.

  • Awesome, guess I have a chance of making a show like the SImpsons too.

  • i resent this..

  • dude, its true! we either get into Law, teaching, or cartoonist! :p

  • Perhaps while it might be argued by some that philosophy has no immediate practical application in some subjects or fields. Does or can it give alternative, even thoughtful, or interesting insight into a field that you might be involved in?

  • of course it can. doesnt mean it'll help you get the degree in whatever.

  • damn....philosophy is an awesome class in college...at least I think so

  • for a forward thinking of god watch this man

    GOD RECYCLES THE UNIVERSE ANTI-RELIGION

  • philosophy rules - philosophy is completed by the fact that only a select few people can conceptualise why it is studied or what 'use' can be found in its study!

  • Well put.

  • What nonsense is this? Philosophy is "completed"? "Select" few? Selected how? And only they are capable of "conceptualizing" an instrumental reason to study philosophy? Are you one of these, or do you just believe this "select few"?  I have no idea what you are trying to say.

  • Not so serious. Its a general rant at all the people I know who havn't a clue what philosophy is / think philosophy is just the study of religion!

  • lol, indeed playboy

    do you realise that you are not one of the perceptive few?

  • Nietzsche had a moustache even God would die for...

    Er... wait...

  • lol

    that is a good one

  • Ha!

    Gott ist tot aus meine moustache!

    Now that would have been a line for the ages.

  • @OuroborosChoked

    LMAOOOOO. nice one! that made my day..

  • @OuroborosChoked Hey-o! 

  • @OuroborosChoked You made me lmao. I have an ethics exam tomorrow and got distracted by a bustling marketplace.

  • @llTomlll haha I have a philosophy exam tomorrow

  • @DestinysNinja Good luck :) Mine went really well - UTILITARIANISM FTW.

  • @llTomlll Haha thanks! Mine went really well too! haha must've been because we watched this video :P

  • does anyone have the whole interview?

  • click here for all the wierdest philosofical questions.... answerd!

  • As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.

  • what was that tune they played at the end!?

  • It's called "Yakety Sax", it was also used in the chase scenes at the end of the Benny Hill Shows.

  • george w bush isch so grussig

  • ha ma bone

  • just imaging he finish making lots of money cuz of philosophy

    why cuz he end up pouting his brain to work

    one of the basics of philosophy

  • I concur, fingers are the cause of all the problems of humanity. My only problem would be that when I need to urinate I would have to sit down like a female. How can man maintain patriarchal power if he can't even piss standing up? These are the questions that must be solved.

  • ricky gervais studied it aswell, i see a trend here

  • Philosophy is subjective so w.e the knowledge you took from it was your own meaning Philosophy is fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope it becomes a science and lives on through the ages

  • lol science is a form of philosophy. It got its big advantage through Descartes when he argued that there is a material reality that exists outside of our perspective. Nominalists prior to that argued in favour of individualism opposed to the philosophical 'realism' of plato that was highly favoured by the apologists. The goal of the philosopher has been to maintain that not everything is knowable, science claims the opposite but was born out of early philosophy... Atomists comes to mind.

  • Well how can one argue if there is reality beyond our senses and perspective. How can one argue that with out feeling it or seeing it? Descartes also favored mind and brain being seperate at death to lol.

  • Some argue that if we have senses, there must be something to sense. Hence, proof the external world.

    Kant himself used a variation of this argument in his "Refuation of Idealism"--except that he doesn't use "sense" but rather "intuition"

  • Here's my two cents.

    Philosophy teaches you how to think,not what to think.That is certainly something worth mentioning,since the world we live in leaves little room for that.If all born would be philosophers,no war would ever occur.Ever.

  • Nay. If all born would be mathematicians specializing in game theory, no war would ever occur. EVER. E . . . V . . . E . . . R . . . !

  • No wait, we should all be born without fingers. How could we fight wars without FINGERS? Checkmate.

  • We should all be born without greed

  • Happyanand69, if we were born without greed, we would not eat when we were hungry. Greed is necessary to survive.

  • Hunger is natural, we eat when we are hungry. Greed has nothing to do with hunger.. Where did you get this from? People in africa are hungry because they need nutrition and they're not getting it. We are hungry because we like the taste of food and we want more than we can handle... that's why there's so many fat people running around. Hunger is NOT greed... Greed is wanting food. Hunger is needing food.

  • Greed -intense and selfish desire for something, esp. wealth, power, or food.

    Essentially, greed is selfishness. Selfishness is entirely necessary to survive. When you eat you are serving your own desires to satisfy hunger and keep you alive. That is greedy and there is nothing inherently "wrong" with it or "right" with it. If you did not have any greed at all, you would never be motivated to do anything. You would not work for rewards or even care for others to make you feel better.

  • I guess i'm talking about a different greed :-) I agree that when you eat, you are acting out of self. But i wouldn't call it greed, i would call it; fulfilling your need..

    When i talk about greed, i mean people that want something they don't need... They just want it because they believe that they have a right to it and that's that. And they want more than they actually need. They don't want 1 hamburger to stop the hunger, they want 5 hamburgers just because.. that's what i mean with greed.

  • Yeah, I see. Some people don't recognize when they don't need to be greedy anymore so they keep taking while their cup is overflowing. So true. Still, I would blame irrationality as the cause for excess greed. Ignorance keeps them from being able to recognize when their "cup" is full. That's really just an unconscious addiction or at least a proclivity to become addicted to self-servitude. So I would blame poor judgement. Sorry to keep kicking this dead horse...

  • Hunger is a physical feeling in one's stomach that makes them eat until they are full. Greed is a mental feeling in one's brain which makes them eat when they're already full.

  • Excellent...