Dr. Darren Staloff, Hume's Epistemology

Seeing young Dr. Staloff and Dr. Sugure lectures makes me realize something - That perhaps the most valuable piece of wisdom I’ve garnered from this channel is the poignant reminder of the passing of time.

Thank you for the upload!

Why was the video on Hume's morality with Dr. Darren Staloff (uploaded today) taken down?

I wonder what Dr. Sugrue and Dr. Staloff would conclude on the topic of recent artificial intelligence advancements. How it is able to create visuals and sounds out of nothing that look just like real footage and voices. Perhaps Hume would say there is even less evidence to suggest we know anything is true now! lol

Very engaging lecture. Nicely done.

"No mind, no matter." Hume. Lol
(Tolerance and open-minded.) That only one can learn from being awake with no divisions of beliefs.
Look at us now in 2023

The idea of moral duties in the absence of God is so ridiculous.

Sean O’Malley in a parallel universe.

I didnt know Zlatan was a university professor at one time.

Dr. Staloff was fired up when he was young. Excellent lecture

I thought all the lectures ended!😂Glad to see a new one🙏

Nietzsche said the same, that a scholar couldn't be a philosopher , but yet he poured over the works of scholars and took great delight in any glimmer of idolatry of him by any of his contemporaries.

I know the lecture is about Hume but I'm really struggling to understand that after two thousand years of bickering they can't see past their own bullshit. That they can't understand matter and form, body and mind/soul.

Philosophy is for understanding life, not eating mutton and drinking ale with, what did he call Hume's friends? I forget.

Let me demonstrate how my philosophy works. I recently moved to a new hostel, I've taken the high ground. When I arrived the flower beds were overgrown, I'm not much of a Gardner in that I have absolutely no knowledge or experience in that regard, but my soul said " tend your garden and the butterflies will come"

So I got stuck in and having no knowledge to distinguish a plant from a weed I decided. I decided on what got to live and what died. So I was working quite furiously and my soul said stop, stop, what about biodiversity, what about the bee's.

I replied," you can do biodiversity somewhere else, I am imposing my will on this. I removed all plants I considered pervasive and any I didn't find aesthetically pleasing.

That night in bed my soul asked ":now do you understand the German Reich? And I said " I do".

I completely understand Nietzsche's concept of the will to power, I questioned recently the origin of Greed and the idea of God not liking the seven deadly sins when it is God that is as Aristotle said is " the first cause".

Nietzsche identified as the last Stoic, my arse he was, I'm sure we share the same soul, I have made videos in which I called myself Dionysus, but there is a big difference, I am a friend to myself. We are best friends because I seek to understand, I don't impose my morality on Nature. Nietzsche did. As for his concept of the will to power, we see things not as they are but as we are".

He wanted power, he wanted to be adored he wanted to be a teacher to lou, he published his own books, he was anything but humble. But where I feel he made his biggest error was in considering the ascetic the most powerful man, the one who could dominate his soul. What purpose does that serve? Only to engage in a perpetual war. Happiness comes with power? Not one mention of Eudaimonia nor did he seem to understand it.

Suppression of every Impluse and subjecting it to a morality that he refused to question or revise. Well it's sort of evident that he lost that war.

I'm currently reading "Mike Tyson , the undisputed truth". Now that's an example of the strong, not the ascetic, imagine if Mike had learned Stoicism, what we would see then is an Alexander or a Julius Caesar.

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." - Seneca.

Excellent, thank you as always for sharing this information

Wire like neuronal structures that conduct electricity via ions/neurotransmitters in the CNS/PNS possess no attribute of thinking/life and yet that has “randomly” led to life. Consciousness/thinking is an innate idea that is distinct from carbon skeleton and yet the materialist scientist believes that chemistry turned into biology via “god of randomness”/”Emergent property”/”law of nature”.Consciousness can only stem from Consciousness (Allah-one/indivisible/loving/self-sufficient Perfection)

Toleration as the Ultimate Virtue has declined society

Hello, new viewer here, do you have any lectures on the romantic poets like Shelley, Keats and such?

P.S. from your old Kierkegaard lecture, you are not very fond of the romantics it seems :P

Can Dr.Sugrue make a video on Jordan Peterson's
Maps of meaning

Matters of fact:
COVID happened on Trump's watch.

Thanks Dr. Stalloff. This was great. I specially like Hume's humorous attitude towards matters of philosophy. Your ending of the lecture regards religion, tolerance and dogmatism was also spot on. Thanks also Dr. Sugrue for uploading this.

My mind tastes like purple. Checkmate, Hume.

Thanks

"The relation of ideas" is dual to "The matter of facts" -- Hume's fork.
Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
Mathematicians create new concepts form their perceptions or observations all the time.
Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes or Plato's divided line.
"Always two there are" -- Yoda.
Syntropy is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

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Dude that girl at the beginning was totally digging the professor!
I think the cameraman did that for him so he could shoot his shot afterwards. Great wingman qualities.

We are spoiled by the presence of these lectures

I've got to say the way you explained this really hit me. The part about reality being a joke and Humes book being a joke book was really powerful - especially since you explained instinct vs. reason.
I really never thought about how I try to filter everything through reason - and sometimes that is not the most useful perspective to take - and instinct in a situation like that is not necessarily inferior to reason like I would commonly assume. It all made sense - as trying to reason everything makes me take it very serious, whereas the perspective of instinct made me appreciate the funnier side of it. Amazing work bro 👍

It is a CRIME that this only has 12k views. Beautiful lecture. I'm at university right now, and every single lecture on this channel is better than the philosophy classes I've taken. Thank you.

Watch falls.... This is lovely stuff. Idealism hurts my head because it is so nonsensical. 90 % of philosophy is not philosophy it is just ideology of hierarchical rule.

Waiting for the time these shirts will be hot again. Looks so comfortable man

In all earnestness what a pleasure to listen to these lively lectures. I wish heaven was filled with hours of these for everyone to enjoy and enlighten people in sublime joy

Really takes me back to my Anthropological studies. Excellent lecture!

Does anyone else think Darren looks like Dr. Evil's son, Scott with long hair?

That featureless blue backdrop is very weird. Is he lecturing in the stratosphere ?

Hume's "metaphysical posture" is certainly not contingent upon his agnosticism: his best friend, Adam Smith, also built his philosophy of science on the epistemic value of humility, and Smith was a believer. Smith argued that Newton's theory of gravity, though the pinnacle of science, was nothing more than a product of imagination built on Aristotle's sense of wonder of the splendor of creation. Other than the valorisation of agnosticism, I find this to be a very good intro to Hume.

Didn't descartes already say all of this?

being open minded and tolerant from a guy that supported slavery lol

This is an especially outstanding lecture.