This week we answer skeptics like Descartes with empiricism. Hank explains John Locke’s primary and secondary qualities and why George Berkeley doesn’t think that distinction works — leaving us with literally nothing but our minds, ideas, and perceptions.
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Ek no
0:15 "(You'll question) Nick behind the camera." No I won't because he's not even perceivable so I have no real evidence to support he exists in the first place.
Bruh this dude is trash. Stop talking so fast. You are literally mowing over consonants. How tf you not mention Hume either.
I hope crash course reads this! (I am so thankful for your educational videos / slight addiction, due to being dyslexic I learn visually and this is the only platform I can learn and take it in) thank you ??
Damn you a fast speaker
9 minutes of this video summarized my entire 3 month modern philosophy course at the university.
Didn't they basically have the same idea then? All of us can perceive, but without perception there's still something. What's the difference between a being that watches everything all the time, so everything keeps existing, and a ''physical world''?
If you want to discuss that until a pig is flying, so the case is close. Pink floyd did it
Yikes! Hank ate the apple that he threw on the ground… anyone else notice this?
I hope you ate all of that apple sir
Wait… Berkeley is bunk. Our labels of matter is the perception. That doesn't mean matter doesn't exist. We call color color, but it's still there.
Is that a "red delicious" apple? If so, ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.
I think this Berkeley guy had too much time on his hands.
The idea that "knowledge can only be obtained by experiment," could not be obtained by experiment.
I wonder what these philosophers would think if they had access to the knowledge of modern science. Atoms, reactions, chemicals, physics etc
There is only the occurrence of perception, it's not necessarily that there is a perceiver (that's a false assumption). Buddhism blows these guys out of the water.
This video explained Locke's concepts better than Locke does. It feels like Locke's definitions of Primary and Secondary qualities weren't as consistent in "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding".
What about micro-organisms that live on us, don't they perceive parts of us thus making us existant? what if it was just the existence of microscopic beings that are what determine we exist as they perceive we exist?
Or cart. Gaycart, full of apples
Oh my God, this should be aired in Prime time television in Brazil with this war against Philosophy and Sociology.
I’ve never enjoyed studying but man I literally just laughed at how someone has to look at while I’m sleeping so I can exist ????
New achievement unlock! New level unlock! Mind blown!Crushcourse listen, im being paying attention about this topic, and i tried to denied everything too and denying how i went a moment ago and the only exist is my thoughts just like this video, i feel good and i feel it why its feels good to meditate, and i tried to experiment something and i know this sounds weird but im planning to think empiricism which my thoughts only exist while masterbating, when seaman went out, i dont feel pain like after the pop and i feel the goodnes but not the same satisfiction as always be , it feels like all are well equal or just fine like not bad or not good just middle of it, weird right , i did bec. I was curious what will happen if i use my body sense to my thoughts. Reply if you did the same expirement
You lectures are most rewarding intellectually.
It’s like apple sound.
I mean… obviously Locke was wrong
Isn't the mind, ideas, and perception another perception?
8:22 But how does God exist? Who's perceiving God? That's a fallacy right there Berkeley; you're reasoning is flawed! Get outta here!!!
Einstein, for all his brilliance, thought the moon still was up there even while he was not looking at it. Science, hot on the heels of Berkeley and most Eastern philosophy, has proved him wrong. And Locke? Dinosaur favorite of those not brave enough to go all the way.