Man I love the fact you tell me that I look handsome in the beginning of every video even my mother doesn’t say that that often. P.s love to every culture P.ss Cool to know you are half Chinese btw

Learning a lot with the variety of your videos, great stuff!

@PhilosophyToons

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro

Love this channel! Stay on it! One of my favorite channels

I always felt that the definition of "culture" is close to the idea of the multiple shared behaviors that a group of people have, doesn't matter if it's acceptable in said group of people (like, pretty sure nobody was okey with dying by tsujigiri). With that in mind, making a judgement about other cultures is doable and a nice "wow, that's nuts" type of mental exercise. I think the problem comes when you are in place with a different culture, and whether or not you decide to stick to what they consider polite or proper. If the culture is reinforced by law, then you don't really have a choice, but even if it is not, I think it's still a good idea to stick to them (who knows, you may learn/understand something new you can add to your daily life or whatever).

Why is everything blinking?

@PhilosophyToons

3 жыл бұрын

Because I can only animate at 2fps lol. Sorry if its bothersome, I'll try and improve my animation eventually.

I think the argument, that cultural relativism prevents cultures from learning from each other is wrong. The idea behind cultural relativism does not exclude the possibility that different cultures look at each other and try to implement certain aspects of the other culture in their own. It is just impossible to say which one is objectively better. So you can't judge other cultures, but you can still learn from other cultures. Different cultures should just not force another culture to implement aspects of their own culture into theirs, because it's unsure whose way of doing things is better (if any of them even is). But cultures could decide to try out things from other cultures.

I think I’d prefer still visuals. :) it’s aight if you can’t animate anything terribly complex but I felt compelled to count how many times the samurai was gonna jump out of the bush haha

@PhilosophyToons

3 жыл бұрын

I'll keep that in mind but still play around w different styles, thanks

Fantastic as always.

@PhilosophyToons

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend!

um...nttt...well, ackshewally I got my degree in Madagascar studies...

@randomperson2078

3 жыл бұрын

I actually founded the field of Madagascar studies, so....

I'm of the opinion that human sacrifice is evil, but so is forced conversion. I mainly bring that up because of a recent argument with an apologist for colonialism. It comes across to me as a false dilemna.

@timothymatthews6458

3 жыл бұрын

Killing is not as evil as forcing someone do do something. Killing is not as evil as slavery, for example.

This video made it's way up on r/philosophy, idk if you saw it but there's quite a bit of discussion happing there too. www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/lkpf7u/mary_midgleys_essay_trying_out_ones_new_sword/

Fantastic video

@PhilosophyToons

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks yo

Were do we end up with this? Just don't have an opinion on anything? Is there someone defending cultural relativism? And if so why?

Cultures are not static so therefore I think it's fine to judge it.

So it's not that if you're from a culture you can't understand it, more that you can't objectively say it is better or worse than any other culture. To make valid judgements across cultures you must appeal to a moral authority/hierarchy. Cultural relativists argue that there is no objective moral hierarchy and therefore what right does one culture have to claim it's better or worse than another. FYI I think that morality emerges from human nature, so I'm not personally a cultural relativist.

Don't tell me what to do and I won't tell you what to do

Why does the burden of defining "understanding" fall on the relativist? Moral absolutists are making an equally strong claim that it's OK to criticise other cultures you don't fully understand. Don't they need to define understanding too?

@PhilosophyToons

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good point, it might've been an assumption on my end. I was following that general rule that the one to first posit a claim has the burden of backing it up, but perhaps if we look at cultural relativism as a response to moral absolutism, then the burden is on them. IDK it is pretty complicated, but I guess either way the importance of defining our terms rings true regardless. Thank you for your comment.

@MelindaGreen

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhilosophyToons In a discussion, I'd agree the burden is on whoever is using a term. But culture isn't a discussion, at least not in that sense. The various mores simply are.

@candid4463

3 жыл бұрын

Understanding is a red herring. Even if you have a complete and total understanding of a culture the question still remains: by what measure can you say one culture is better or worse than another? It's defining the scale that's the issue, not understanding the culture. Moral relativists say that there is no objective scale of morality, therefore you can't say one culture is better or worse than another.

Don’t hold a Prince’s morality above your own. By lauding him, you dehumanize both him and yourself

please!! I don't know about other people, but the flashing repeating images were too distracting and annoying for me.

@PhilosophyToons

3 жыл бұрын

I'll experiment with different forms of animation in the future, thanks for bringing this to my attention.