History of Western Philosophy

Not for the pompous, or academically pedantic: a response to a challenge. Namely: "Bet you can't summarize Betrand Russell's popular intro to western thought in under 4 minutes (somewhat in the style of Tom Lehrer)."

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Film & Animation

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• philosophy
• plato
• aristotle
• russell
• cartoon

[mhaurizio5150]

Dude, i'm a pompous, academically pedantic profesional philosopher but i think it's really funny. Great job. You all people... have some sense of humor.

[mphillipsable]

@socrstreets Precisely, one of the reasons Nietzsche even broke his friendship with Richard Wagner was because of his anti-semitism.

[Spit2099]

You don't have to be pompous or academically pedantic professional philosopher (though I am) to notice, that we're missing middle ages.

[gsom7]

Interesting, but with bad back song. It should be more like The Big Bang Theory theme song, not boring

[D3uscaritas3st]

forgot aquinas?

[CNETZebur]

*Chuckle* 

[mhaurizio5150]

@superdog797 about?

[Waranoa]

@Countrygent100 Ok, let me indulge you then. National socialism is a political position. Nietzsche did not discuss political theory and based on what he said he was as far removed from nationalism and totalitarianism (in case you are only refering to Hitler) as you can get. Secondly, his view of the übermensch was based on (the development of) mental ability, not genetic background. To Nietzsche, a jewish, black or gay person might become an übermensch.

[superdog797]

@mhaurizio5150 hey say something jerk

[fistfulofknowledge]

@medexamtoolsdotcom Whitehead didn't actually mean that all philosophers believed in Plato's theories, rather that given the wide range of philosophical topics Plato introduced and dealt most works can in someway be considered a 'footnote' of it. Honest mistake though, I used to think the same thing. His full quote explains it better.

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

Plato believed that material objects were not, as democritus said, composed of atoms, but could be divided indefinitely, and that light was emitted by the eyes and that we see objects when that object is struck by our light. So to say all philosophy since him is a footnote, I can't quite decide if that is more or less pathetic than depicting Nietzsche as a nazi. It's on the level of the patent attorney general who resigned in 1895 because he felt that everything that COULD be invented HAD been.