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"Atheists Have No Morals" | Goodness Without God
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Over the years a consistent claim has emerged from both some theists and some atheists that morality is untenable without the existence of a God. But is this true? Today I will explore three variants on the position that "Atheists have no morals" to see which ones hold water and which are simply unfounded assumptions.
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Papers cited:
For claim that people harbour a distrust of atheists: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22059841/
Benefits of group camping trips: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1348050/full
Relationship between religious attendance and generosity (an example of pro-social behaviour): https://news.gallup.com/poll/122807/religious-attendance-relates-generosity-worldwide.aspx
A paper questioning the relationship between atheism and pro-sociality. and the correlation sometimes found: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22925142/
For Investigations between the religiosity of societies and their levels of anti-social behaviour: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Society-without-God-Religious-Contentment/dp/0814797237
Relationship between prosociality and religion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38407059/#:~:text=years%20of%20research-,Religiosity%20predicts%20prosociality%2C%20especially%20when%20measured%20by%20self-report%3A,doi%3A%2010.1037%2Fbul0000413.
On Atheists being more interested in consequentialist ethics and Theists being more interested in Group Cohesion: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246593
Article on Moral Anti-Realism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/
00:00 God and Morality
01:20 "Atheists are Bad People"
07:57 "Morality Needs God"
14:09 The Atheist's Conundrum
19:09 Post-Theistic Morality
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Torturing Myself with Insane One Star Reviews of Classic Books
Like anyone, I have favourite books, and many of them are classics. And I sometimes like to go on Goodreads and read one star reviews of them, to torment myself a little. Today, I will share this with …
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Like anyone, I have favourite books, and many of them are classics. And I sometimes like to go on Goodreads and read one star reviews of them, to torment myself a little. Today, I will share this with you.
Uploaded 01-03-26
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Lord of the Rings Song: https://youtu.be/I3g6mFI4Fug?si=XVzH4kNs4ENVsQhg
00:00 Wuthering Heights
07:42 No Longer Human
13:10 Pride and Prejudice
20:49 The Idiot
24:33 The Apologia
30:54 The Lord of The Rings
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George Orwell warned us about online propaganda
George Orwell is widely seen as a prescient author. This is often applied to his thoughts about totalitarianism and surveillance. But it applies just as much to his ideas about propaganda, which are …
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George Orwell is widely seen as a prescient author. This is often applied to his thoughts about totalitarianism and surveillance. But it applies just as much to his ideas about propaganda, which are surprisingly up-to-date, and mirrored in the book How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley.
Uploaded 26-03-26
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00:00 What even is propaganda, anyway?
09:50 Epistemology and Ideology
21:30 The Influence of Language
36:32 Propaganda and You
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Why Nietzsche HATED Religion
This is an old video on Nietzsche and does not really reflect my current views on him. Sorry about that.Uploaded 20-07-24There has been increasing discourse online about the concept of a "Christian Revival" or …
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This is an old video on Nietzsche and does not really reflect my current views on him. Sorry about that.
Uploaded 20-07-24
There has been increasing discourse online about the concept of a "Christian Revival" or otherwise a general religious revival. And I find this very interesting because almost exactly the same debate took place over the course of the 19th century. And chief among the critics of religion as an answer to nihilism was the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. So it is worth hearing him out - even if we end up disagreeing with him. Let's find out if a religious revival is really the answer.
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00:00 Religious Revival - A Dilemma
01:48 Lived Religion
07:05 Religion and Nihilism: A False Dichotomy
14:08 Religious Authority and its Critics
21:11 Nihilism and The Will
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Why You're So Lonely | Camus' The Stranger
There are few experiences as terrifying as feeling totally alone. Being lonely and feeling alienated from everyone else around you. And nowhere is this explored better than in Albert Camus' landmark novel, The …
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There are few experiences as terrifying as feeling totally alone. Being lonely and feeling alienated from everyone else around you. And nowhere is this explored better than in Albert Camus' landmark novel, The Stranger. So get ready to dive into this wonderful novel, and maybe answer the question of why we are so lonely.
Uploaded 12-06-24
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00:00 The Ultimate Outsider
01:29 Indifference and Difference
07:08 Judgement and Condemnation
13:18 Confusion and Chaos
20:22 The Comfort of The Absurd
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Why Everything Today Is Bulls***
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Why does it seem like BS is around every corner in the modern age? Wherever we go there is usually someone trying to fool us, hoodwink us, or manipulate the truth to serve their own ends. But what exactly is Bulls****, and why should we care about it? Well, today we will look at Harry Frankfurt's essay on that very topic, and dive into the surprising philosophy of Bulls****
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00:00 A Philosopher's Guide to BS
02:32 A Theory of BS
08:43 Honest and Dishonest
15:17 The Tenacity of BS
20:48 The Smell of BS
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Why You Stopped Reading (and what to do about it) | with Jared Henderson
What has gone wrong with reading? This is one of the main questions on everybody's lips today, and very few people have written about it as thoroughly as Jared Henderson (@_jared). So I had a chat with him …
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What has gone wrong with reading? This is one of the main questions on everybody's lips today, and very few people have written about it as thoroughly as Jared Henderson (@_jared). So I had a chat with him about the modern reading crisis, and what we can do about it.
Uploaded 12-01-26
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00:00 What is the reading crisis?
07:05 How is this over-simplified?
00:25:12 The gap between non-readers and hyper-readers
00:34:05 Byung-Chul Han
00:43:55 What's Happening with Our Attention Spans?
00:51:42 Enjoying Reading
01:08:51 Performative Readers
01:16:27 The Effects of the Internet on Reading
01:23:34 Favourite Books
01:28:34 What's the Point of Fiction
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Philosophy’s Most Terrifying Idea | Albert Camus's The Fall
There are few philosophers more sought after than Albert Camus. His thoughts on absuridsm and living in a meaningless world have gone down in history for their insight and their radicalism. But today we are …
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There are few philosophers more sought after than Albert Camus. His thoughts on absuridsm and living in a meaningless world have gone down in history for their insight and their radicalism. But today we are going to examine Camus's final published novel, where he gives a deep analysis of an existential crisis in the modern age, and how we might inadvertently be lying to ourselves about almost everything.
Uploaded 20-05-24
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00:00 The Fall of Man
01:58 A Supposedly Idyllic Life
08:34 Innocence Lost
15:55 Rebellion and Cynicism
21:33 The Judge-Penitent
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Why You're Wrong about Morality
I sat down with @lanceindependent to talk morality, metaethics, and moral relativism. We particularly focused on the mistakes people tend to make about moral and metaethical relativism.Uploaded 08-12-25Support …
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I sat down with @lanceindependent to talk morality, metaethics, and moral relativism. We particularly focused on the mistakes people tend to make about moral and metaethical relativism.
Uploaded 08-12-25
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00:00:00 Comparing Ethics and Metaethics
00:00:56 Introducing The Moral Realist/Anti-Realist Debate
00:11:58 Misconceptions About Moral Relativism
00:19:16 The Overcomparison Fallacy
00:28:01 How to Know if Someone is a Moral Realist/Anti-Realist
00:48:08 How Reliable Are Our Moral Intuitions?
00:52:01 Multiple Meanings of “Intuition”
00:53:50 Advancing Our Understanding Through Moral Disagreements
01:00:02 Everyday Disagreements
01:01:49 The True Function of Disagreements
01:13:48 Moral Relativists in Society
01:18:15 Social Goals Causing Fluidity in Moral Stances
01:20:49 Experimental Philosophy and Metaethics
01:37:20 Arguments from Formalism
01:48:52 Logical Positivism
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The Christian Case Against Cultural Christianity | Matt Whiteley
An argument that has become increasingly popular in apologetic or cultural apologetic circles is arguing for the cultural influence of Christianity through the "Tom Holland Argument". I talked to a prominent …
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An argument that has become increasingly popular in apologetic or cultural apologetic circles is arguing for the cultural influence of Christianity through the "Tom Holland Argument". I talked to a prominent Christian critic of that argument to see why he thinks Christians should not take this route.
Uploaded 26-08-26
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00:00 What is the "Tom Holland Argument"
06:20 Why shouldn't Christians use it?
16:46 The trouble with defining Christianity
29:15 The difficulty of writing history through ideas
41:15 Your morals aren't self-evident
50:30 History, Epistemology, and Storytelling
55:35 What are some good arguments for cultural Christianity?
1:03:15 When are historical arguments persuasive?
1:12:46 Secular Ethics and Self-Help Bros
1:22:30 What I envy about religious people
1:27:40 Can everyone go to Heaven?
1:39:07 What was the greatest idea you came across in the past year and why?
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Why Atheism is not Nihilistic
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Gavin Ortlund (@TruthUnites) has recently argued that atheism as a philosophical position implies despair and nihilism. I disagree with him on this point, and would like to say a few words as to why.
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00:00 Is Atheism Unliveable?
13:22 Christians have a point!
22:09 Atheism Strikes Back
38:31 Reconstructing the Argument
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How to Lie With Statistics (and get away with it)
Aren't statistics wonderful things. If used correctly they can provide profound illumination on how the world is. But let's say you didn't want to do that. How would you use every trick in the book to …
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Aren't statistics wonderful things. If used correctly they can provide profound illumination on how the world is. But let's say you didn't want to do that. How would you use every trick in the book to manipulate, fool, and lie to people with statistics to believe whatever you want them to. Well, that is just what we are going to look at today.
Uploaded 04-06-24
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Article on Correlation and Causation: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.3587
00:00 Fantastic Statistics and Where to Find Them
02:04 Devious definitions
04:48 Strange inferences
07:47 Samples and Representativeness
12:01 The Average Joe
16:17 The Buttery Biscuit Base Rate Neglect
19:26 The Abuse of Proportions
23:03 Correlation and Causation
26:59 Causation and Attribution Errors
29:30 The Dazzle of Statistics
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Reacting to your HOTTEST book takes
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I love a hot takes video. We have done a few about philosophy, but I am interested to see your hottest takes on literature, and books more generally. There are some really spicy ones here, and I'm looking forward to reading them.
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00:00 Literature is Just Content
10:31 Audiobooks Don't Count
15:11 Intention and Interpretation
26:50 Movies are Better than Books
34:42 Modern Books are Bad
38:35 We care too much about relatability
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Plato’s Guide to Fixing Politics | The Republic
There are few philosophy books as iconic as Plato's Republic. It is simultaneously an examination of what "goodness" is, a metaphysical treatise, and a political manifesto. And today we are going to look at …
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There are few philosophy books as iconic as Plato's Republic. It is simultaneously an examination of what "goodness" is, a metaphysical treatise, and a political manifesto. And today we are going to look at this wonderful ancient text, and ask whether its insights are applicable to our own time. And how, just maybe, we might be able to fix politics.
Uploaded 25-05-24
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00:00 Politics and Philosophy
01:44 The New Metallic Order
08:01 Educating a State
13:50 The Rule of Wisdom
19:28 The Failed States
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The Most Hated Philosophers in History | The Sophists
The Sophists are potentially the most hated philosophers in history. But as far as I can tell, this is based on a series of misunderstandings and misrepresentations. When we look at the existing evidence in …
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The Sophists are potentially the most hated philosophers in history. But as far as I can tell, this is based on a series of misunderstandings and misrepresentations. When we look at the existing evidence in more detail, what is instead revealed are a group of interesting and original thinkers. So here is my sophist apologia. I hope you enjoy it.
Uploaded 04-06-26
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00:00 The Villainous Sophist
07:50 Arguments Leading Nowhere
24:27 Corrupting the Youth
36:30 Man is the Measure of All Things
45:00 What to do about the Sophists
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The Terrifying Ideology of 1984
George Orwell's 1984 is one of the most famous and infamous books in history. But for all its fame and glory we rarely stop to ask what the underlying philosophical messages are. But here we will unpack …
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George Orwell's 1984 is one of the most famous and infamous books in history. But for all its fame and glory we rarely stop to ask what the underlying philosophical messages are. But here we will unpack Orwell's masterpiece to uncover the political, philosophical, and existential horrors that lie beneath.
Uploaded 30-03-24
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00:00 Orwell's Nightmare
01:26 1984: A Brief Synopsis
07:31 The Impersistence of Memory
12:50 Language and Thought
18:41 Punishing Passions
24:46 The Abolition of Privacy
31:01 The Deathless Drive
37:51 Empty Joy or Painful Truth
45:38 Helplessness and Hopelessness
52:38 What's the Point of 1984?
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The Great Gatsby is Deeper Than You Think
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The Great Gatsby is one of the most famous novels of all time. And while many analyses focus on its sociological insight, I wanted to do something slightly different. I want to read The Great Gatsby as an extended meditation on the nature of failure, and the impossibility of human satisfaction. I hope you enjoy.
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00:00:00 The Great Gatsby
00:14:16 Deceit and Desire
00:27:31 Abandoning the Present
00:41:31 You Can't Handle The Truth
00:55:57 Beauty and Power
01:12:10 The Master of Failure
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The Internet is All Ragebait Now. Here's Why
It has become almost cliche to observe that the internet often seems to bring out the worst in us. Yet the question of why remains elusive. So today we are going to check out a number of philosophers who, in my …
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It has become almost cliche to observe that the internet often seems to bring out the worst in us. Yet the question of why remains elusive. So today we are going to check out a number of philosophers who, in my view, can help us understand our current internet predicament, and hopefully try to solve it.
Uploaded 22-06-26
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00:00 The Dehumanizing Human
15:04 Echo Chambers and Rationality
29:06 Anonymity and Manners
40:18 The Task of Love and the Future of The Internet
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The Rise of Bulls**t Neuroscience | Tommy Blanchard
Why is it that every wellness guru seems to cite neuroscience? Is it relevant, or is it all just misleading bunk? I am woefully unfit to answer such questions, but Tommy Blanchard most certainly is not! And …
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Why is it that every wellness guru seems to cite neuroscience? Is it relevant, or is it all just misleading bunk? I am woefully unfit to answer such questions, but Tommy Blanchard most certainly is not! And here I sit down with him and ask how we can avoid BS neuroscience.
Uploaded 10-02-26
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00:00 Why can't neuroscience give you wellness advice?
13:45 What are the limits of our neuroscience knowledge?
26:30 How do findings get misrepresented?
36:35 How can we spot neuroscience garnish?
47:05 Our current way of understanding the mind is weird
54:18 Where does philosophy go wrong in thinking about Neuroscience?
1:15:12 How Neuroscience can teach us about the mind
1:37:30 Shifting our vocabulary around consciousness
1:45:34 How can philosophy and science work together?
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How Nihilism Destroys You | Tolstoy's Confession
An Existential Crisis is a uniquely painful experience. It robs all the joy out of life and leaves us a heaping mess on the floor. But luckily, we can turn to some of the greatest minds in history to guide us …
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An Existential Crisis is a uniquely painful experience. It robs all the joy out of life and leaves us a heaping mess on the floor. But luckily, we can turn to some of the greatest minds in history to guide us through. And foremost among these is Tolstoy's Confession, where he outlines how he fell into existential despair, and how he eventually started to dig himself out of it.
Uploaded 14-07-24
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00:00 Tolstoy's Existential Crisis
01:34 The Brutality of Nihilism
08:13 Four Futile Paths
14:27 Faith, Reason, and Conflict
20:57 Finding Normativity: An Open Challenge
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Dostoevsky's Warning to the Self-Destructive
Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most brilliant and eclectic writers in history. And here we will examine one of his most personal books - The Gambler. It is a masterclass in how to ruin your own life through …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the most brilliant and eclectic writers in history. And here we will examine one of his most personal books - The Gambler. It is a masterclass in how to ruin your own life through self-destructive acts, and we will look at it in detail today. Get ready to learn how noble intentions can set us on the path to misery, and how we keep ourselves there. Let's dive into Dostoevsky's Guide to Self-Destruction.
Uploaded 05-07-24
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00:00 How to self-destruct
01:29 Money, Self-ignorance, and self-sabotage
08:52 The Hedonic Roulette Wheel
13:51 The Existential Threat of Compulsion
22:55 The Eternal Hope
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How to Win Any Debate (Without Being an A**hole)
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Philosophers have always been pretty sceptical about debate, and for pretty good reason. Underhanded tactics can be used to manipulate, sway, and mislead. But Aristotle wanted to know how we could rehabilitate debate for someone who did not just want to do these things, but wanted to strive for an honest persuasive approach. So here is how to win a debate, without being a nefarious so-and-so.
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00:00 The Art of Persuasion
02:10 Why Learn Rhetoric
06:50 Reasons and Persons
13:01 I've got a feeling (woo-hoo)
18:28 Knowing me knowing you (aha)
22:49 A Touch of Style
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Debating Free Will with a Cambridge Philosopher | Dr. Nathan Hawkins
Freewill is a hot-button issue both in philosophy and in popular discourse, so I sat down with Dr. Nathan Hawkins, who has written extensively in defence of Freewill, to have a friendly discussion and debate …
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Freewill is a hot-button issue both in philosophy and in popular discourse, so I sat down with Dr. Nathan Hawkins, who has written extensively in defence of Freewill, to have a friendly discussion and debate about it. I hope you enjoy!
Uploaded 24-04-26
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00:00 How do Philosophers Debate about Freewill?
09:04 The Case Against Determinism
18:45 Problems with Setting up Determinism
30:22 The Branching Futures Model of Freewill
41:35 Yes, we could have acted otherwise
52:45 Are we just redefining our terms?
01:02:51 My own Compatibilism
01:11:44 Why is Nathan an Idealist?
01:25:25 Can we make Idealism Naturalistic?
01:44:02 What is "The Absolute"?
01:54:25 What is the most interesting idea you've come across and why?
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Why You Hate Modern Work
Why do we all hate work so much? And why does it seem to have only got worse in the modern era? Well, according to philosopher Byung-Chul Han, our psychological attitude towards work and productivity has …
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Why do we all hate work so much? And why does it seem to have only got worse in the modern era? Well, according to philosopher Byung-Chul Han, our psychological attitude towards work and productivity has fundamentally shifted in a disastrous direction for our mental health, our happiness, and our long-term fulfilment.
Uploaded 23-07-24
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00:00 The Burnout Society
01:27 Discipline and Achievement
08:07 Isolation and Individualism
14:53 No Rest for the Wicked
20:33 Means, Ends, and Self-Hatred
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Reject Hustle Culture. Become a Renaissance Man
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There has been much talk recently about the concept of a "Renaissance Man". Friend of the channel @ParkerNotes recently talked about it on his channel, and it got me thinking. So today, I want to talk about one of my favourite thinkers in history - Michel de Montaigne, and how he embodied the archetype of the Renaissance man.
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00:00 The Renaissance Attitude
12:53 The Aim of Study
24:31 The Dilettantish Attitude
35:57 Knowing Thyself
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How to Live a Meaningless Life | Albert Camus and Absurdism
Few thinkers are talked about as much online as Albert Camus, and few works are discussed as much as The Myth of Sisyphus. But for all that, I haven't seen a video that does a long, chapter-by-chapter guide to …
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Few thinkers are talked about as much online as Albert Camus, and few works are discussed as much as The Myth of Sisyphus. But for all that, I haven't seen a video that does a long, chapter-by-chapter guide to the text. So I thought I would fill the gap, and ask - how can Sisyphus actually be happy?
Uploaded 28-04-26
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00:00 Life is Absurd - What Now?
14:04 Absurdism: Opening Principles
26:10 Meet the Absurd Men
39:28 Absurd Creation and Play
55:00 Imagining Sisyphus Happy
01:14:04 A Tale of Two Camus(-es)
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The Argument Atheists Always Get Wrong
Out of all the arguments for God's existence, there is one that is consistently misunderstood by almost every atheist. The 5 ways of St Thomas Aquinas are complex and mutli-faceted beasts, found in his Summa …
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Out of all the arguments for God's existence, there is one that is consistently misunderstood by almost every atheist. The 5 ways of St Thomas Aquinas are complex and mutli-faceted beasts, found in his Summa Theologica. And this is a shame, because in learning about it we gain new insights into Aristotle, Theology, and what work "God" does in a metaphysical system.
Uploaded 27-04-24
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00:00 St Thomas Aquinas
02:08 He Likes to Move it Move it
06:00 Why? Just Cause
10:13 Is That Really Necessary?
14:45 Goodness, Perfection, and Plato
19:21 Oh the Finality!
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The 7 Levels of Logical Thinking
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Logic and Logical thinking is one of my favourite topics, and also one of the most interesting and important fields of study out there. But it is quite difficult to give a broad view of what the field is or what it is all about. So today we are going to look at the seven levels of logic, taking us all the way from little-to-no logic at all, all the way to more advanced logical areas.
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00:00 Pre-logic
01:32 Fallacy-Mongering
08:16 Basic Formal Logic
14:50 First-Order Logic and Friends
20:49 Specialized Logical Systems
29:00 Using Maths to Study Maths
41:54 Modern Logic Research
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The Most Dangerous Idea in History | Nihilism
There are few philosophies as famous and infamous as nihilism - the belief that nothing really matters. But we rarely stop to ask what nihilism actually is, or give a detailed analysis of its properties. And …
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There are few philosophies as famous and infamous as nihilism - the belief that nothing really matters. But we rarely stop to ask what nihilism actually is, or give a detailed analysis of its properties. And this is a shame because it prevents us having clear and precise conversations about what is perhaps one of the most important philosophical issues of the past 200 years. So today we are going to try to specify the idea of nihilism. It may not be a perfect system, but I am hoping it will bring some clarity to this often nebulous philosophy.
Uploaded 07-04-24
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00:00 Nihilism
01:42 The Total Nihilist
07:13 The Moral Nihilist
11:40 The Conventional Nihilist
15:51 The Dimensions of Nhilism
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9 novels that are better than any self-help book
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I have often said that I think reading good fiction and novels can improve your life, as much if not more than books written with that purpose in mind. So here is a list of phenomenal works of fiction to get you started, each of which I am confident will improve your life more than any self-help book out there.
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Here is a good production of Othello (I can't find the one I had in mind but it has Ian McKellen in so chances are it is fantastic): https://youtu.be/oX0cbcrMAdo?si=2aPO4BsUsK0lB6_n
00:00 A Hopeful Apocalypse
05:56 An Envious Tragedy
10:18 An Existential Affliction
16:03 Some Fabulous Fables
20:34 Some Satanic Scribbles
25:50 A Pessimistic Psychology
31:31 Some Ancient Epics
36:12 A Fraught Romance
39:13 A Religious Experience
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