Love your videos man. Dont stop. You do a great job at "translating" the text, really helping those understand such hard concepts. You also do a good and respectable job at mediating between two conflicting views, not seeking to argue for one or the other, but rather you fairly articulate them. Also, as a fellow Christian, i admire your confidence to stand up for your belief, as well as your humility to admit your limit in your understanding. Your tone is warm, and your pace is steady and slow. Cheers.

@theblackponderer

8 жыл бұрын

+TheCh1212 Thanks and cheers!

Great videos! Thanks for posting.

Thanks for synthesizing lofty ideas been binge watching all your reviews and I am really loving them , please dont stop ;)!!

@theblackponderer

8 жыл бұрын

+adriana adriana can't stop won't stop

You deserve way more subs! Have been following for a while and love these reviews. Have learnt so much from them and they've been a great introduction to some of these texts before I engage with them.

@theblackponderer

8 жыл бұрын

+White Wolf Thanks, bruh!

Hello Mr. Trotter, I'd say thank you so much for your great videos. I just graduated from high school and I'm planning to take Philosophy and Politic major, but I had very little understanding of philosophy. After watched many of your videos this week, I'm pretty confident about the major that I'm gonna take. Thank you so much, hope you have a great day!

@theblackponderer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! May you be the next great political philosopher!

Hello, When I was an undergraduate, David Hume, John Locke and Bishop Berkeley ware covered in one course of Philsophy. I do not remember much about this. My interest at the present is that David Hume and John Locke were both mentioned in History of the United States, US constitution class by Richard Church. Securing the Blessings of Liberty, an Examination of the US Constitution. The influence of John Calvin. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink...

Thanks for the video.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this work. 👍🏻

@theblackponderer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@musicalintentions

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome. I’m currently taking a philosophy class for my bachelor’s degree, and we are exploring Hume’s Enquiries. Reading his work feels like a breath of fresh air are Plato & Descartes. 😊

Have you considered posting any of your own original philosophical thoughts and opinions?

@theblackponderer

6 жыл бұрын

Check out my blog for my own philosophical ideas, theblackponderer.wordpress.com I have ideas about the phenomenology of reality but they are still in the very early stages of development. I'm reading other philosophers to see if they've already covered my ideas and if not, I hope to write a treatise about them.

Thanks for this very interesting and succinct discussion. It seems to me - though I wonder what your thoughts were - Hume ends up here making a similar distinction to Kant between the Creator and the creation. But it strikes me as ironic that for all his empiricism, Hume was also a major early proponent of the concept of perennial national identity, which total lacks in any empirical basis!

@theblackponderer

Жыл бұрын

Well, nationalism is deeply rooted in sense-experience. Just talk to any nationalist, particularly the ones here in my country, whether that be Christian Nationalists or Militant Nationalists like the ones that stormed the American Capitol on January 6. Their ideology has little to do with rationalism and is primarily fueled by sense-experience of American identity.

@RO-wn1dg

Жыл бұрын

@@theblackponderer Yes absolutely. What I meant was, of course, the belief of nationalists that those identities are primordial as you point out. I think I was (perhaps mistakenly) making the assumption that empiricism meant grounded in material evidence, but I suppose that could be a false binary on my part

@theblackponderer

Жыл бұрын

@@RO-wn1dg Yes, because much sense-experience is not grounded in material evidence. A lot of it is grounded in belief and ideology.

Neil, would you be open to joining a small telegram group of guys from different backgrounds to discuss theology and philosophy?

@theblackponderer

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, but I'd be more than happy to discuss theology and philosophy with you guys in the comment section of my KZread videos. Also, feel free to join my upcoming livestream. That'll be my next video posting.

@William_The_Lesser

2 жыл бұрын

@@theblackponderer cool man. May I ask what church you belong to? I have been a life long Christian. I fell away about 2 years ago from reading enlightenment philosophers. I started studying and practicing the ideas within Taoism which helped me appreciate the teachings of Christ and his apostles.

@theblackponderer

2 жыл бұрын

@@William_The_Lesser I'm of the Lutheran denomination.

@William_The_Lesser

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! Haha that’s awesome.

You should research OAHSPE.. It's a new revelation for our time. Given to man in 1882 by Jehovih's angel ambassadors.. Here is one of the many verses in OAHSPE dealing with Ideas.. Book of Inspiration 4:12-22 12. You cannot imagine any animal under the sun which I have not created.13. Man said: I imagine a horse with a fish's head and fins.14. Whatever you invent, says Jehovih, you merely take the parts of one of My creations, and put them to another.15. Let this prove to you, if you cannot invent a new living creature, that your forefathers did not do so either in regard to Me.16. Nevertheless, you have a thought, and an idea of Me and of My Person.17. And you have a thought, and an idea of the spirits of the dead.18. By My Presence and inspiration upon you, I taught you I am the I AM, a Person.19. By the inspiration and presence of My angels, I taught you of them also.20. My inspiration upon the bird causes it to sing; by My presence I teach it to build its nest.21. By My presence I color one rose red, and another white.22. Proof of My Person is in the harmony of the whole, and of every one being a person of itself, perfect in its order. OAHSPE decodes the bible, old and testament. Talks about Jesus, buddha, confucius, zarathustra, abraham, moses, evolution (progression), cosmology, vegan lifestyle, angels, afterlife, gives you methods in the book to prove that ithe is accurate.. Reveals that God is not the Creator, that God is just a title bestowed upon an angel, no different than the title king or president on a mortal.. shows you the difference between God, Lord God, Lord, Jehovih (Creator). It is a very big book with a lot of spiritual insight in it.. I think you would really enjoy that book. Click on my channel.. I have a few videos about Oahspe, or KZread Selah Shalom, he has tons of videos.. Peace and Love brother

a suggestion that reason as per enlightenment is a dichotomy between philosophy and religion. Spiritual aity is not opposed to reason . The oppsition was created to give superstition apass by hume , Kant and all the others. There is a nonwhite tradition , Nothong is beyond reason. Hume according to Gopnick possible picked up Buddhist ideas but obviously without a thorough background in eastern philosophy which thrives on practicality Hume got confused. Nagasena dis all of humes thinking in 1 centry AD , but his conclusion was that the there is no God and sunya rules.

Faith is not a reliable epistemology.

@theblackponderer

8 жыл бұрын

+Tiberius Vetus I agree. Faith is an existentialism.

@bazooka2000

8 жыл бұрын

+The Black Ponderer Searched your videos for Kierkegaard and I wasn't disappointed :-) Great channel

However....Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever...Hebrews 13 verse 8...and that will never change....

@theblackponderer

8 жыл бұрын

+battle zone That's a good point. Although Hume would probably argue that belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ vary based on the needs of society at the current moment. Hume isn't so much arguing that an individual set of morals, such as Christianity, changes. Rather he is arguing that the acceptance of such moral sets as truly ethical change over time. An example is that currently there is a rise in agnosticism and atheism. Hume would probably argue that this is the case because more people do not see organized religion as a benefit to society, therefore more people view organized religion as immoral.

@Ravenhop

8 жыл бұрын

The Black Ponderer Correct...there is a rise in agnosticism and atheism ..and corruption in the church...however the current held popular belief's of today is just verification of prophecy written 2 thousand years ago...2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 1-3 talks about great falling away from faith int the last days..also... many people will abandon their faith in the latter times following deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

@theblackponderer

8 жыл бұрын

battle zone I think prophecies regarding the last days/end times could also support Hume's argument. This is because every generation since the first preaching of the end times has made claim that the last days are near based off biblical prophecies. Even the reformer, Martin Luther, said "the Day of Judgement is just around the corner" and that was over 400 years ago. Despite the fact that end time claims have been wrongly predicted for hundreds of years, people still make such claims because they can be viewed as a service to society.

@Ravenhop

8 жыл бұрын

The Black Ponderer Prophecy is not history written in advance of coming events, It's for enlightenment for EVERY generation. 400 years ago was not that long ago compared to prophecy first written a couple of thousand years ago.People setting dates for the day of judgement is not scriptural.. The bible emphasizes that no man knows the date or time when the Son of Man will appear again, however we can know the season and understand the times we are in.

@theblackponderer

8 жыл бұрын

+battle zone This is true. I'm a Christian myself and do believe in the teachings of the Bible. I also think Hume is not so much arguing about the moral validity of the Bible itself but rather he is referring to those people who set dates for the day of judgement or otherwise customize the teachings of the Bible to suit sociological needs. Throughout history religion is often used as an instrument or tool to maintain the status quo rather than being used as a true implementation of ethics. Hume tries to explain this phenomenon with philosophy.