as an a-level politics student i LOVE you for this. thank you abigail!

@bankafouf

4 ай бұрын

The same old Abi ? ... Nice

@quehablo

3 ай бұрын

​@@bankafoufShe is transgender.

Thanks for saving me on my Philosophy exam

"How long is your nose mate?" Lost my shit right here!!!

Absolutely fantastic video, thank you so much! Really helped me hone in on the more interesting aspects of Mill's "liberalism" outside of what we're taught in class (basically just the harm principle)

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Can art be defined?" Please! Great video, by the way.

Seriously? I want both episodes!!! Coincidentally they're both present questions in my mind.

Thank you for the video! This one helped me clear my thoughts on a few things that have been on my mind recently.

I have been watching this channel for about a year now, and I have been told to watch this video as part of my Politics A-Level. It it weird to see these videos without the dramatisation.

Thanks for the video and for bringing up Mill's historical context!

From the 6:26 - 11:46 minute mark, I fell in love with what you said.

Impressive! That whole legacy discussion was well-put an unusually nuanced for youtube. You are taking this channel to new analytic heights. Keep up the enlightening work!

What a joy it is to find such a good video in the youtube jungle. Thank you!

I'd love to go with "Can art be defined?". I appreciate your videos.

Please do make videos on Hobbes ,machaivelli and others it truly helps Love from india

I'd like to know about the ethics of colateral damage.

@iananderson12796

8 жыл бұрын

This is an interesting query

@BobWidlefish

8 жыл бұрын

You accept collateral damage, and you are morally right too. If harming one potentially innocent person saves 7 billion people you would have to be a monster to let so many people die. The only question is how much collateral damage you should accept.

@AlanKey86

8 жыл бұрын

+BobWidlefish It seems very clear in the example you give (1 innocent life lost to save 7 billion) that collateral damage should be *accepted* but does that make it *right*? Also, how do we determine the number of innocent lives it is acceptable to sacrifice to save others? e.g. is it ok to kill 4 innocents to save 5? What if those 4 innocents are children? What if the collateral damage does not directly lead to loss of life. What if civilian houses are destroyed or infrastructure? Such things won't kill civilians straight away but will likely make them refugees.

@TaylorjAdams

8 жыл бұрын

+BobWidlefish There's also the level to which you are harming that one person. Is it okay to continually torture 1 being for years on end, even decades, for the safety of, say a country of people (ie Doctor Who (2005) S05E02 "The Beast Below")

@aaaaaaaa12225

8 жыл бұрын

+BobWidlefish I think an even more intriguing scenario is when you are pitted as the one that is the collateral damage. I.e., martyrdom to save x amount of people. Some would argue no amount of lives saved is never enough to trump your own interests.

Abigail I am really happy to have found your channel. This video alone made me see more things a bout ethics than a full course at my university. Thanks a lot for sharing it and for your dedication on the produccion of really good films specialy in your later videos.

That cut to your hair suddenly being in your face is glorious

Super video! This saved my school assignment! You explain the content in a good and clear way, with good examples. ;)thank you

THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING !!

Thank you for uploading his video!!!

Dammmmnnnn. Young Philosophy Tube still cute.

@Strawberry92fs

3 жыл бұрын

baby Olly

@dazpatreg

3 жыл бұрын

He is beautiful

@juanlopezvillegas1550

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? He looks pretty much the same.

@madeleinedarnoco5190

Жыл бұрын

@@juanlopezvillegas1550 she sure does :D

ty for this the professor who did this lecture explains things in the most roundabout way possible and i actually understand it now

I appreciate the work you do. Thank you.

This is especially relevant now in light of the pandemic ...

@chloebrunak6790

4 жыл бұрын

how so?- I am genuinely curious, please respond. I think I somewhat understand , but I would appreciate explanation

@dereckmj23

4 жыл бұрын

Now leaving home with no reason or without mask is considered 'harm' to others.

@mockingbird3099

4 жыл бұрын

@@dereckmj23 Although it is not harm but merely presumed or potential harm to others, leaving off the mask which obstructs natural breathing.

@dananskidolf

4 жыл бұрын

@@mockingbird3099 The mask might not really do as much as some people assume, but I think there's a general precedent that 'probable to cause harm' counts as causing harm. You could wander down the street juggling chainsaws and not harm anyone, but the general perception is that you shouldn't, and the police would want you to stop.

@wildfire9280

2 жыл бұрын

Anti-maskers: the highest order of pretentiousness and gross disregard for human life imaginable. …Next to anti-vaxxers I suppose.

This is by far the most informative video of J.S. Mill ive seen lol You got my sub :)

@PhilosophyTube

7 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Welcome!

Glad I found this channel

This was very informative and understandable. Thank you.

If I were a superhero, I'd be Collateral Damage Man

@MonkeyPunchZPoker

8 жыл бұрын

+XxDuckofDoomxX And I'd be your arch nemesis, Art Definition Man

@agiar2000

3 жыл бұрын

There's a video game "Megaton Rainfall" (2017) that seems to be all about collateral damage. The player character is, as far as I'm aware, absolutely invincible, and the object is to use one's incredible destructive power to rescue the inhabitants of various Earth cities from invading extraterrestrial aliens. The big challenge is in minimizing collateral damage while still destroying the enemies quickly enough to keep innocent deaths to a minimum.

@quaesitrix881

3 жыл бұрын

Or « Demolition Man » ? (Five years late, I know... but I just couldn't resist ! ^_^')

Collateral damage ethics sounds super interesting. That's my vote.

Just subbed to the channel. Really liked some of the videos that I saw. You seem like one of the few actually educated people.

@PhilosophyTube

8 жыл бұрын

+Giffica Welcome to the little community!

'The ethics of collateral damage' please.

Nice discussion and analysis of the first chapter and I expected to watch the discussing of the rest of the book!

I'd love to see a video exploring the definition of art!

i'd love to hear about "can art be defined?" :)

This really helped me out. Thank you x

Thank you. Nicely explained

Thanks for the vid. Always great.

You helped me write a paper for my class on this. Thank you so much!

@PhilosophyTube

6 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Both are interesting topics for next video, but I think I rather the art one. Thanks for always posting thought provoking content!

I'd appreciate Can Art be Defined?

Thank you so much for making those videos!!!!!!!

Very helpful video, thanks!

I'm down for hearing you talk about collateral damage, can't wait to hear about the world wars damage on the land and monuments.

I vote "Ethics of Collateral Damage," or rather what we should never have stopped calling them; civilian casualties.

In other words "What is the scope of the criminal law" < extraordinarily well said. thank you

Very helpful, thank you for this!

The ethics of collateral damage sounds really interesting, that please!

You’re so good!!

I've watched hundreds of Phil lectures and this one very accurately describes Mill and the overarching instructions of Utilitarianism and Colonization. It is fair and balanced by weighing the truth against what has become the new "normal" truth. VWD

ethics of collateral damage sounds very interesting! would it be about collateral damage in war or in ambitious progression of society (ie. cars can be useful but cause many fatalities every year)? love the show Olly!

Keep up the great work!

i really liked you showed big parts from the original text. + can art be defined

You’re amazing mate, thankyou! 😊👍🙏

I vote for Can Art Be Defined. I have my own ideas and have had discussions on the subject with other philosophy students when I was a student, but I never actually took a philosophy of art course.

I don't understand the significance of the Mill's ideas about colonialism. Why can't the harm principle be revised to exude some of the exceptions Mill made? I was kind of hoping you would bring up some objections to the harm principle itself, rather than just the implications of the exceptions.

@52darcey

6 жыл бұрын

Delta X couldn't agree more....also the case of assisted suicide wasn't the best example if it is only being done at the behest of a patient - then it is surely self-inflicted harm and therefore admissible. More problematic is measuring and drawing lines for harming society rather than specific individuals.

Thankyou very much!Its quite helpful!

"The ethics of collateral damage" would be an intensely interesting (and relevant to modernity with drones especially) video.

Thank you. This helped me understand his ideas better. :)

Great video! Focusing on the new aspect which other videos don't emphasizes..

Both suggested topics sound fascinating, but I'm gonna have to go with "can art be defined". I'm really interested in hearing the different opinions and attempted definitions philosophers came up with over the years.

Useful, as usual!

Really insightful video :) 'Can art be defined?' please!

@philosophytube Hank and John Green also started philosophy on their crash course channel. It would be cool if you could collaborate with them.

@PhilosophyTube

8 жыл бұрын

+Xavy Johnson Tomy If they ever answered their emails, yeah.

@emperorxenu519

8 жыл бұрын

+Philosophy Tube comparing your videos and their "Crash Course" videos, I suspect that you could make an entire 1:1 series refuting and expanding on whatever they say.

Very insightful video! I'd love to see what you have to say on "collateral damage" :)

I would like to know more about the ethics of collateral damage! You explain very well by the way! Keep on your good work! Maybe you can tell something about Jeremy Bentham too? Or have you told something about him yet? Then I just haven't found him yet between all your videos! Thanks for helping us through this with your great explaining!

Love you Ollie 🥰

Ethics of Collateral Damage, please

Great video very clear

I miss these straight up informational videos sometimes! love her new stuff too but im bad at intepreting metaphors lol

the best video I've ever watched thank you

@PhilosophyTube

8 жыл бұрын

+hamad alshehi Wow, high praise!

Please do can art be defined? That was a question at my Cambridge philosophy interview and I argued like Hume that an aesthetic expert should be consulted. Love the show!

"Can art be defined?" would actually be really interesting

Would be nice if the book On Liberty was discussed in this video.

I would very much like to hear your thoughts on whether or not art can be defined.

Great job

Ethics of collateral damage please!!

Are we allowed to pick and choose ideas from thinkers of the past or do we need to take them as a whole? If I like some of Mill's ideas am I required to adopt some I don't? Conversely if you don't agree with some of his ideas are you allowed to use some of his ideas you do like or are those now off limits to you?

Great vid as always :D I vote ethics of collateral damage I think.

"But we're not worried whether we'd be comfortable having him around at the dinner or not, right? He's dead." 😂😂 So blessed to have come across your channel, you explained it so skilfully, thanks a bunch!!

@DocEonChannel

3 жыл бұрын

I'd be more worried about Jeremy Bentham coming around for dinner, honestly.

Could you do a video on Slavoj Zizek? :)

I vote for art as the next subject! Thank you

For the bit about the harm and the doctor's with terminally ill patients, at least a part of it is that some of the terminally ill patients could be misdiagnosed, but probably the biggest reason people find it wrong is that there seems to be an intuitive difference between intentionally killing someone and having someone die without that intention. That and that it makes everybody uneasy that there is somebody killing people which is a minor part of the harm it does.

I do like your videos. :) Next time I'd like to listen to something about the ethics of collateral damage ^^

It’s interesting that you ignore government as being exempt from ˋdo no harmˋ.

The ethics of collateral damage sounds cool. I think I have to rewatch the video to be sure I completely get what you are saying but that is the great thing about the video format. About your example wouldn't drinking yourself to death cause harm to your family and friends, the people who love you? I would like if there was some more Albert Camus coming in the future I think and hope that might help my existential crisis a bit

I owuld like to talk about art defintion. Seems more intersting as art can be made by each citizen in a constructive way while collateral damage will be a talk about destruction. One discussion will able us to inv-crease creation while the other may alow us to decrease destruction.

Ethics of collateral damage sounds really interesting

id love the art video honestly :D

At 6:08 it's pretty clear that earlier mill was referring to race as a group of people sharing a cultural or national backround not as in black Asian or white

Oh my, you slipped some alveolar taps in there, fancy

Would you kindly do "Can Art Be Defined?"

Hello Olly. How are you? I am a fan of philosophy tube and I have learned a lot about philosophy with you videos. I am from Costa Rica and I speak Spanish, I would like people that speak Spanish to have access to your videos by adding subtitles to them, so it would be awesome if you can help me add them. Please contact me if you are interested. Thank you for your time. Tus vídeos son demasiado buenos, sigue haciendo gran contenido en youtube jajaja.

What are some references on defining harm? Does anyone have anything to suggest?

PLEASE DO DEVLIN'S IMMORALITY!!

I don't agree that the question is limited to the scope of criminal law as Mill also focusses on the force of public opinion. The harm principle applies to both.

great video. one recommendation, take this style of analysis, apply it to Falguni Sheth theory.

@Lobsterist

8 жыл бұрын

also would you be OK with bringing up that Marten Luther King was a drinker and cheated on his wife? how about Tesla's mystic beliefs? Newton's alchemy? Malcolm Xs black superiority? I didn't think so.

@PhilosophyTube

8 жыл бұрын

+Dumb Philosopher Colonialism wasn't shaped by any of those though. Like I said in the video, it's not about Mill's character but his legacy.

@hankonfire

8 жыл бұрын

+Dumb Philosopher Your assertion that King drank and was unfaithful to his wife may or may not be true. However given that the source of these allegations is J Edgar Hover's FBI that was intent upon discrediting King,unthinking acceptance of these allegations is pretty............DUMB

@Lobsterist

8 жыл бұрын

+hankonfire on the MLK point yes the FBI did try to spread slander, sometimes you can find it on conspiracy theory blogs and with hardcore racists. I've read a good bit of it, it has no such subtleties. they accused him of being a serial rapist, an atheist, and a communist. yes those are outright fabrications. but as for some Union leaders and close friends he did drink a bit more then he should have and he did vary much enjoy the company of younger woman. if anything knowing these things make MLK more reliable, more human to me, not some distant demigod.

@Lobsterist

8 жыл бұрын

+Philosophy Tube I'm a little confused, we don't judge him differently based on the time period? but hold him partly responsible for the time period? or don't we? I'm lost.

I would rather Can Art be Defined? But both are very good themes to be discussed And if Mill's definition on liberty and law isn't sufficient, what are the others criterias we should use to define the limit between liberty and State intervention?

This was an excellent lesson. Thank you!

The art one!!