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  • @onxiaftw it's not supposed to be funny

  • great vid

  • Some people are capable of fair play, but others only display unsportsmanlike self interest. I.E. Ponzi scheme.Make good laws, good laws make societies, good soc make good men, good men lead good lives.

  • @rgaleny

    Just reverse the order, and you're close. Good men lead good lives, good men comprise good societies, good societies enact just laws. 

  • @SansAuthoritas I quote from the Greek. But I never thought to reverse it. Probably because I thought of it as circular. Are good men born or made?

  • @rgaleny

    Humans are mostly good by nature. Some are born with certain predispositions that make them more susceptible to certain vices, or more easily able to practice certain virtues. I'm sure you've met people who are very easy-going, while some are irascible by nature. Men must work toward improving themselves, by cooperating with the grace of God.

  • @SansAuthoritas I would not debate the intent of the concept of the Grace of God, like some hair splitter with you You know what you mean and i know what you mean. Only, I would tell you that for me, God id a myth and a poem I cannot do without. I love it all the more knowing then how fragile it is, And how easily corrupted. I have never met God.

  • @rgaleny

    You cannot force someone to be good. Virtue is the freely-willed repetition of good acts: good habits. It cannot be imposed via edict. Goodness comes from within and flows outward.

  • @SansAuthoritas That's a good response, too. You must Choose or you a clockwork orange. And it's not that people don't know what is just, but you have to care to chose it. Do you feel the Political system in the Bible looks closer to a constitutional monarchy or a Federalist republic in spirit? I see both there.

  • There's more to Hobbs than this, the implications he evokes are spot on, too.

  • At least Hobbs explains why we need government.

  • makes sence but we have to be born with some kind of knowledge, i mean a baby doesnt learn to cry lol

  • Hobbs was right, but oh so wrong.

  • I love the guy who made this haha

  • Any chance you can do a Hagel video. I appreciate his philosophy of history ect is complicated but you could make it a four minute philosophy. Cheers

  • @crazykev5 I think Libertarianism is pretty awesome but like every philisophical or political view it can be taken out of context and too far. The libertarians that claim tax is theft and restrictions on speed limits on public roads is against their liberty are kind of pompus tools that fail to recognise the full implications of their positions but the ones that say corporations are not people and government cannot tell us how to live I agree with

  • @snipurr117 mine did to but she didn't notice till he said fucking face. Best law and justice class ever!

  • although the ending was so funny, what is the problem with libertarianism (liberalism if you not from American)?

  • @crazykev5 Because American libertarianism is an abomination.

  • CollegeBinary, a brilliant little man on Youtube discussing philosophy who has something useful to say, says it wittily and efficiently, and who, unlike most dicks who take it upon themselves to discuss philosophy, is not a pretentious asshole that is full of shit.

  • Ron Paul 2012

  • Eqaulitiarians slip & slurp from the Kool-Aid of the blank slate. I laugh at it ha

  • I just made a video about John Locke for my philosophy class in grade 12, didn't know you had one, especially one that is much better..... dammit

  • @CentristFiascox3 BEN FRANKLIN changed it.

  • Isn't it Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property? I hear Thomas Jefferson changed it on purpose to avoid copyright infridgement.

  • Brilliant

  • thanks, i now understand my politics lecture

  • "He was a fucking filthy libertarian" 

  • Hey Ron Paul 2012!

  • Kind of a bold statement to make when Aristotle and Epicurus were also an influence in the formation of America.

  • it was Locke who based the American constitution about guns. his principle behind it was that people have the right to get rid of a government that is not acting in the interest of the people. however are americans really using their guns so that they can overthrow the government- no. and of course not its ludicrous

  • Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate... (cont.)

  • .....into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury. - H. L. Mencken

  • Love all the Three Minute Philosophy videos. Informative and most of all, entertaining.

  • Ron Paul !!!!!!!

  • this video was perfect until the very end when you decided to group John Locke in with Ron Paul supporters. Ron Paul supporters are not even true libertarians. They are authoritarian pukes who they treat Ron Paul as their infallible dictator.

  • /watch?v=CVflHC2NcdU

  • @CollegeBinary I don't mean to criticize, but I think this channel would do much better to educate people about philosophers instead of provide very blunt opinions of them. Just a thought.

  • 0:51 PENIS

  • I'm a filthy Libertarian...what now haters?

  • was he thinking about a penis???

  • John Locke - Life, liberty and property.

    Thomas Jefferson - Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  • @UnseeBunsee The pusuit of happiness is the pursuit of property. Property enriches our lives to make it more enjoyable and/or make our lives easier.

  • @UnseeBunsee It's to avoid copyright infringement... You know, it's hard out here for a writer, pal.

  • @CentristFiascox3 What? Why can he copy Jefferson but not Locke himself? :/

  • That's pretty funny.

  • The irony is that while Locke believed in liberty for the individual within the state, he was a Hard Determinist - he believed that humanity was completely inept in decision making in that our upbringing and experiences have shaped our character to the extent that whatever decision we make would be as a result of our character alone.

    Hence the analogy of the locked darkened room - we cannot leave it even if we wanted to.

  • He sorta looks like Kant.

  • John Locke had a great head of hair.

  • That was awesome and simple but its actually life liberty and property. When written in the declaration of Independence it was rephrased to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  • WHAT ABOUT LOCKE'S VIEWS ON PERSONAL IDENTITY?

  • You are the master of taking complex ideas and making them accessible to everyone. Good on you! Keep them coming!

  • who else noticed the penis in the guys brain at :52

  • @sandman3697 I keep in touch with him though not like a Michael Jackson touch but like on Facebook ya know

  • You talk really fast! I couldn't understand anything. :(

  • 2:02 Pursuit of Property. Property being physical property as well as the free-will to do things that you want, as long as it doesn't hurt the life, liberty, or property of another.

  • My history teacher showed us this in class .........he got fired

  • @snipurr117 lame...... that he got fired

  • @snipurr117 Really? Mine did too, you wouldn't happen to live in California?

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  • @snipurr117 are you serious?

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  • @snipurr117 No way!?

  • @snipurr117 really ?

  • @snipurr117 are you serious??

  • @snipurr117 thats not funny :(

  • *Pursuit of Property

  • Locke wrote of the individual rights to LIfe, Liberty and Property. It was Ben Franklin who suggested the phrase "pursuit of happiness" be used in the Declaration of Independence.

  • love it! can we get a school-ok version without the swearing?

  • Albert camussss

  • fucking briliiant! good show!

  • Well if bush didn't do 9/11 the American government certainly brought it upon itself.

  • What? Do you mean to say Bush DIDN'T cause 9/11?

  • and weed. don't forget weed.

  • you just made all the research i had to do on john locke so much easier.

  • ...who invented Amehwicka 0:16

  • What is the name of the classical piece at 0:00?

  • hahahaha love the ending, i guess most Occupy Wall Street protesters are John Lockes

  • @jdavem2012 None of what he said applies to the average OWS protestor (except maybe the 9/11 part)

  • @shamgar001 OWS protester are protesting so that everyone is guaranteed their right to life, liberty, and property.

  • @jdavem2012 Maybe some of them are, but most believe in state intervention in the economy at the very least.

  • @shamgar001 the exact opposite, their protesting what you just said. They want smaller government and therefore less government interference (on individuals). They want a better and more sound economy, such as one backed by gold and silver.

  • @jdavem2012 Based on what I've seen and heard, that's not the case. I hear lots of calls for higher taxes, more regulations, bailouts of student debt, etc, and not just from major news sources, but from the protestors themselves.

    I know there are a lot of anarcho-capitalists and libertarians there, but they certainly aren't the majority.

  • fuck u

  • bush did 911!!!!

  • All men are born dicks...Kant argue with that.

  • hahaha he called Australia "me"

  • 2:58 till the end is me!

    I am John Locke!

  • Motorcycle Maintenance. Anyway, I agree with both Hobbs and Locke. It's Lutur and Calvin I can't stand. And I hate Prussian culture.

  • Knowledge is a means to an end. The mind is an evaluator. The end is humanistic Quality. The meaning of Life is to stay alive. Living well is the best revenge.

  • Why does a snail carry it's house on it's back? see KING LEAR.

  • There is no such thing as knowledge that precedes observation. This statement represents the very fault line between Skinner-Ian objective/material psychology, and, the Gestalt cognitive subjective side of psychology. Nature vs nurture. Kant distinguished between the things of the world, The NUMINA. and the concepts stored as memory sensations in the epiphenomena of the mind, The Phenomena. And their all BOLD as LOVE.

  • @rgaleny Sorry, but you, and Locke, are certainly wrong on this point. A great example of extrasomic information, illuminated by Carl Sagan, is that Pacific Islanders had snake nightmares... before they ever even knew that there was such real creatures. The templates and instincts from our past are hardwired into our brains. Adolescent males don't "learn" to be sexually stimulated by mature females of the same species. When the hormone switch turns on, a rough template is pushed to the fore.

  • @BeauEvil How Jungian of you. Ok you're right.

  • I lol'd

  • watched this in philosophy today but teacher stopped half way thru cause he thot it was too offensive! i just thot it wsa funny... honestly how old does he think we are

    "ohhhh my he said a bad word... FUCK!"

  • i tried to read john locke book last month... never finished... now when i want to know who thought what i can come here for a review.... too funny .... so rememberalble...

  • This..is a fucking masterpiece.

  • Um, I seem to remember Abraham Lincoln invading a foreign country, and that predates Nixon by, like, a century.

  • @nirvanachile24

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  • @nirvanachile24 The Confederates fired first. And they had very peculiar ideas about exactly who were to be allowed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  • @Pi10sco Still, Lysander Spooner has some interesting things to add here

  • @Pi10sco They also had peculiar ideas about their tax dollars being used to subsides big rail road companies, but you don't hear that part of the story much. The American Revolutionaries fired first as well. The victors are always the heros. If the confederacy won, history would have been written differently.

  • @cooljj82 I think the Confederates did awfully well in promoting their spin on events (e.g. the Lost Cause). Even though they lost the war, they won the peace big-time. If you don't believe me, try reading Eric Foner on Reconstruction.

  • I love it, but will not share... do you have a version that is not quite so vulgar at the end?? The message is great though!!!

  • Liberty 2012! Vote Ron Paul!

  • @kidrocku Troll. 

  • @kidrocku Dont vote for anyone, it wont change anything, the lobby rules, not the politicians...

  • @moinsimion Then we need to put those in power who don't pander to the lobbyists i.e. Ron Paul and others who are true statesmen. If they pander they are thrown out. This will only work though if the majority of the voters understand the problem however.

  • @residentzombie Everyone ends up as a lobbyist. Thats just how human beings are. And also, noone can make everyone in his country happy, so why not try anarchy?

  • @Zimnyification

    sup Zimsters? LOL

  • I was drinking milk when he said, "Thomas Hobbes proposed that all mean are created dicks." I nearly spit my milk.

  • I love it, especially the last few moments!

  • 0:39 "state" for "slate"

  • Science doesn't lie! 9/11 was a cover up start to finish!

    I <3 my guns

    &

    Ron Paul 2012 or bust!

  • i typed in john locke to find the bald guy from lost

  • @Themiddleman904 LOL yeah. Awesome hey

  • @Themiddleman904

    The fact that adults are thinking of this "john locke" from lost without even knowing the historical John Locke saddens me a bit. Ah well at least people are learning.

  • @Themiddleman904

    It seems odd that they would name an evil character after a libertarian philosopher.

  • PROPERTY- Locke. HAPPINESS-Jefferson. 

  • 2:59 I love how Locke is like "Wait, what?"

  • yup that is the reason I know sophomores would love it but the school admin would be mad at me

  • man I wish I could show this to my sophomores

  • @Quellathebitter why cant you? i am a sophomore, this helps so much because i need to write a reactionary on hobbes and locke, and some readings are not easy to understand...oh i see why you cant, much cursing at the end

  • people are born as a cell, they have instinct then..... any experiences inside the womb may cause changes, and genes, chemicals and such will affect the brains development, in short either the cell thing and you do not even have a brain at the start.... or the other meaning of birth and you aren't born with a blank slate.... but then do genes count as a blank slate?...

  • Fantastic!

  • do u have rousseau's social contract in 3 minutes?

  • Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness was jefferson etc. Locke's idea was life liberty and property.

  • @thembluetube if you look at locke, basically his idea is that property is kinda happiness.

  • Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? I thought Locke's original idea was not happiness, but property.

  • @blahmonster1234 I thought the same...

  • @blahmonster1234 it was

  • @blahmonster1234 I second that. Declaration of Independence said property until they realized that this would be used as a pro-slavery basis. methinks.

  • It’s true that’s how Locke divined “all men are created equal”, but you don’t have to use the tabula rasa as an argument for such belief—AMACE is a deistic/Quaker concept of all human souls in the image of the same parental Creator. As for Hobbes, the idealists countered him with Man having a dual nature, ½ human, ½ animal, and it’s his choice which is in control (of course, not much mystery which is in control nowadays).

  • "John Locke believed all humans were entitled to life, liberty, and property"

    Amen to that bro...Locke trumps Marx.

  • @RideMyBMW I am a right-wing libertarian who believes in civil liberty and the free market. I used to call myself a socialist. What happened? I read 'Das Kapital'.

  • @BuddinTheAmazing dude, we destroy big gov, we free up all trillions in technology locked up in black projects...

  • @RideMyBMW they didn't really contradict each other...

  • @PurpleHandcuff sure they did...

    Property is God given. To Marx, the State tyrants secure all of it.

  • @RideMyBMW Except when it came to Catholics. Why don't you read his works instead of wikipedia you fucking ignorant dumbass.

  • Rock On!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • LOL i'm subscribing just for the economics->reagonomics thing :D

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  • Ghey.

  • Actually, he would say Dick(less) Cheney/Rumsfeld and Co. did 9-11,- because they did!!!

  • Karl Marx and Thomas Paine

  • John Locke believed all humans were entitled to life, liberty, and property, not the pursuit of happiness. The founding fathers of our country changed the word "property" to "pursuit of happiness" only because they needed money for taxes. lol

  • @DavidEFGonzalez No at the time property was pretty much the same thing as happiness and still is to this day.

  • @TheCouragousGirl That's not necessarily true, David Gonzalez was right in his reasoning for why Jefferson changed the wording.

  • I need to do a presentation on john locke, and this was actually so helpful. thanks!!

  • theres a penis in the little dudes head when it says human desires hehe

  • maybe someone has already written it but doesn't the separation of powers come from Montesqieu? however, congratulations for your videos and waiting desperately for the Nietzsche one. :)

  • Why the attack on Libertarians?

  • @soulessENERGY It was actually a nod to libertarians, indicating that their political philosophy is closely aligned with that of Locke and thus that of the founders. The whole "bomb shelter" thing was making fun of the perception many people have of libertarians.

  • @studentofsmith Ah I re-watched it and it seems you're correct.

  • my philosophy teacher showed us this at school :P

  • If teachers taught like this i would litsen:)

  • Ah Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, exquisite

  • i have a video to make on liberalsm and a paper..alll due tomorrrow yayy

  • ug im freking out i have a esay do tomorow on the enlightenment and i need one more paragraph witch is the conclusion and i have to write my opinion on how the philosophers chenged the western thought UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG HELP

  • Locke didn't say ''life, liberty and persuit of happiness''. he said ''life liberty and property''. Thomas Jefferson changed it to ''persuit of happiness'' in the declaration of independence.

  • I really hate political philosophy; it blows XD

  • I always thought that Locke believed humans were naturally good. but i agree with the blank slate thing, we take in what we see as normal in our first years of life. If its violence that will come naturally to a person in the future. If not then they will be disturbed by violence and most likely be a good person

  • Locke's actually was saying that men have the right to life, liberty, and property. Thomas Jefferson was actually the one to use pursuit of happiness instead of property in the constitution. I believe one of the reasons for this was a way of avoiding any confusion with using this document as a way to promote slavery. As well as a couple other things. But mainly the slavery idea.

  • nice Night at the Bald Mountain intro!

  • @wufflord ...noal? XD it's Emily. XDD

  • @ASkylitDayToRem3mber no its andy