Imagine the schools in the USA had teachers and Professors like him. Now look around and see the young generation you will get sick of what they know their behavior and what they teach them these days. I am 81 years old Greek and this was the best explanation of the subjects you gave in your lesson today. What a pleasure!!! Thank you

@Csio12

2 ай бұрын

I was thrilled to find Brooks. I so needed a teacher who could explain in simple english the basics to me who had little knowledge at all of these marvellous Greeks. Im so excited.

Finally a philosophy professor who respects and understands ancient wisdom!

@ameremortal

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Hulstein I like that this professor shows us how human they were. It’s not respect for the ancients, it’s respect for the truth.

@legalfictionnaturalfact3969

Жыл бұрын

He does all right, but he is an atomist. He thinks particles, and particle wave duality are the essence. But light and sound are perturbations in the "ether". He should listen to some Ken wheeler.

Great lectures. The best I have ever seen/heard. Please, upload more!!!! I have already watched all of them.

Thank you! I particularly appreciate understanding the mechanics of how these philosophers, especially Plato, influenced thinking in the Middle Ages. And also, the explanation of how and why physics provides models, and the models get updated. The example of the Bohr model of the atom is perfect for understanding the role of models in physics. Wow, great lecture, thank you!

never have I had a teacher who helped me grasp complex concepts as you do, thank you for teaching me. from, Vancouver Washington.

He is so talented in delivering some heavy material in such a smooth form...that tells me how deep he understand what he talks about

@ameremortal

4 жыл бұрын

Joseph Khalil Exactly. He achieves the flow state while teaching. A true professor.

Pure treasure. I am speechless. Grasping such a wisdom in such easiness manifests the extraordinary teaching skill of the Professor.

This man is a treasure a world asset.

This guy is a genius; he can explain any complex concept using simple words and analogies.

knowledge is power

This Philosophy Professor is The Best I've Seen in a While. I Hope he writes some books.

This lecture is absolutely fantastic, golden !!!!!

Action and reaction is everything. Everything on earth including us are wired to act and respond to external stimulus. It is fundamental for exsistence and survival. Nothing would exsist without action and reaction ♻️♾⚛

Fabulous teacher. ❤❤❤

Also, something interesting. They weren't too far off in a way. The 4 elements encapsulate the 4 states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, plasma!

My first time to comment and am proud of this because you deserve it. You're really a great teacher✨✨, I didn't have to spend 4 years again in the university for a Philosophy Course.. Love your lectures

“The only thing that is permanent, is change itself” What a beautiful thought. It’s alluding to evolution or the fundamental force.

@wood9670

4 жыл бұрын

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This man is truly a gift to philosophy and the world! He’s passionate about his work and presents it in a informative non biased way that’s so genuine it’s hard not to be interested, at the very least to understand his passion and understanding of something so confusing. Cheers to you 🍻

This was very informative. Thank you. Please upload more videos.

How is it possible that one the most quintessential lectures of all time has only 6.3k viewers?

I would've loved a teacher like this in school.

Nice.

I can hear him talk all day long :) even Sam Harris can’t Hold a candle to him haha, before I get people judge me, I love Sam Harris as well.

Excellent lecture and teacher. Remarkable empathy and ability to simplify without denaturing the subject. Thank you for your work.

You have a genuine gift for teaching Philosophy. Thank you so much for sharing!💗🏛💗

Great Lecture! Thank you for sharing!

You are excellent. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thank you soo much for sharing such an amazing lecture..

You rock... thank you for being competent, :-)

Thankyou so much you are an excellent teacher .❤

You are simply opening up my mind!! Thank you!!

Muchas Gracias Profesor. Fantastic Lecture.

I wish you uploaded more videos. They are the best videos, I have ever watched on KZread. Thank you so much!

I am happy for the children you are teaching - I hope they understand the knowledge you are giving them :)

@ameremortal

4 жыл бұрын

Tomas Gavenavičius He makes it fun and easy to understand. The question is whether or not they will apply it.

I never saw such easy to understandably .... explain so well ... 💜💜💜 Thank you 🙏 🙏🙏

A very good lecturer...

this subject, combined w/ this kind of teacher, reproduces the experience of growing up. because the experience is so condensed, we can make new / better models and connections. this is wise, universal, self-referent. thank you Dr Brooks.

Thank you for your dedication. Your lectures are superb.

Very good lecture, he's good at teaching

This is such a great class! Thanks for sharing

A stick pointed upwards measures a pyramid?! Wow!

@nathanericschwabenland88888

2 жыл бұрын

Forming a triangle or course

@nathanericschwabenland88888

2 жыл бұрын

Two lighthouses and a ship is a distance to a ship double wow

Great teacher.

nice lecture! :)

I can’t get enough. I’ve been absorbing your content for 10 hours straight now. I’ll be very sad when I’ve seen them all.

@georgebrooks7775

4 жыл бұрын

Guess I better get some more up then! I should have my first high-production-value lecture on the #7 up in a few days. This Spring I'll be recording more Biblical tradition and Medieval history lectures. I appreciate all the very nice comments you've been leaving.

@ameremortal

4 жыл бұрын

George Brooks I’m very much looking forward to that lecture. A lot of this stuff is new to me, I spend most of my time on Physics and Cosmology. A lecture on the number Zero might be an interesting one too. Thank you for sharing your work and thank you for acknowledging your online students!

youll continue to look and find nothing until you honor the story and metaphor which is the primary function in Understanding and dissolving this reality of duelism 

The empathetic conscious intelligence in nature is pure consciousness it has no questions or answers. It just knows. While in our bodys we have questions and answers all the time. 1.Pure consciousness, 2.gut/hunger, 3.heart, 4.body, 5.mind, 6.ego, 7.logic/reason 8.questions and answers.

@Andy-B1984

Жыл бұрын

Consciousness is conscious of itself, others and things. The empathetic consciousness and intelligence in nature is indifferent. Nature will replicate and copy itself, consume and sustain itself, terminate and recycle itself. Reality is its own observer. Nature is aware its being observed, we are nature observing itself. And nature created us before we were aware of it. We never created existence. We're part of it and init. We're one of its many forms. We can change our own reality and physiology within reason and logic, but we can't change nature and reality as it is. We cant fully perceive reality for what it is. We can change our response to reality, we can effect how reality responds to us as in change of attitude. That effects how we are perceived and how others react to us. We can change our reality in that sence. Change of perception and attitude, point of view etc etc. The conscious intelligence in nature and our cells i think is empathetic conscious intelligence that is indifferent, empathy without compassion is the ability to be aware of self, others and objects. Empathy with compassion is the ability to feel others suffering and to be able to relate to other beings. A cell is aware of itself, what it is and what it does, it is also aware of other cells, they even communicate. It will always preform at 100% until it doesn't. And when its degrading it will still push 100% and shut parts of itself down and terminate itself saving itself. It will do this without a second thought, no getting swayed by other desires and emotions outside of its own survival. Its purpose is to survive and replicate its self over and over again, its all it knows. And it will consume itself to survive. What we see as it destroying itself. Is actually conservation and recycling. Empathetic conscious intelligence that is indifferent without compassion is like a robot. Consciousness, devine/natural spark. Gut, appetite and instincts. Heart, Body and feelings/emotions. Mind, ego and higher self. Logic and reason! Ability to calculate and evaluate, judgments and imagination, perceptions, questions and answers.

The guy is awesome.

Sooo Goood.

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I have subscribed to your channel- loved the relational approach, systematic.- lots of connections and inter connections. Many teachers lack the skill, there was geography, architecture, geometry, science, etc. Yep, thank you for your wonderful work.It'd be great for secondary school kids to go through subjects in this way.Makes it more interesting, and could influence a learner to love philosophy as it is meaningful in so many ways.

Reality is fractals and geometry 😎🍄

this guy rocks. i hope he can get tenure at an ivy league university sometime

Hi, please provide us more of your teachings.. Thanks

i rather watch your lectures than watch game of thrones ...and am a big fan of game of thrones please make more videos

I am actually learning

More videos.... please

So that's where avatar got it!!

@smhsophie

3 жыл бұрын

Even the 5th element, spirit!

Where does he teach?

@georgebrooks7775

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to KZread...everywhere!

The Big Being Theory.

Akira

atom has male and female

They seem to of have also been possibly good at conducting electricity, also seems Egyptians may not of been responsible for the pyramids. That they are around 12,000 years old. Also, how do you cut limestone with copper? Limestone is much harder in the hardness scale. Why is the engineering of most of the pyramids across the Earth the same? Our Architecture is different than China's, as is our society's way of doing so. Looks as if the same people's built most of the Pyramids. Maybe we are a species with amnesia whom of which keeps restarting and rhyming our history.

@georgebrooks7775

5 жыл бұрын

I have read the arguments about the Sphinx being closer to 12,000 years old, but not the pyramids which are well documented in their construction. I suspect the Egyptians had moved from copper to bronze by the time they were building pyramids--but also, freshly mined limestone is fairly soft and more easily workable--the surfaces harden over time with exposure to air, so that might be part of how they were able to carve it--it is true of medieval cathedral carving that they carved the images into fresh limestone which hardened over time. And I think pyramids pop up around the world because it is the most stable shape for monumental architecture--the rules of geometry work the same everywhere, regardless of differences in cultural conditions.

My mother prayed to the sun. She predicted the weather outstandingly...grow up

@georgebrooks7775

2 жыл бұрын

grow up? What exactly do you mean?

@sadhanaidu5918

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgebrooks7775 leave the curriculum and get to higher consciousness interaction

@georgebrooks7775

2 жыл бұрын

@@sadhanaidu5918 That kind of thing is fine for my personal time, but I earn my paycheck explaining philosophy and history.

@Sol89weee

Жыл бұрын

@@sadhanaidu5918 I'm curious to know how she did it if you could elaborate please. Thank you.

Tomorrow 25th May, there will be a an eclipse of the sun....

@georgebrooks7775

3 жыл бұрын

I know...but not visible where I am. Looking forward to April 2024 when there will be a full eclipse that I will travel north to see!

@funnyvalentine867

4 ай бұрын

​@georgebrooks7775 im from Texas amd currently attending UH. Several of my professors are planning to go

Anti-religious sermon inserted into university lecture... most of the Ancient philosophers were not Atheists and they did not replace religion with science. What they did with religion is quite similar to what they did with the math - they took Hesiod's, Homer's and Egyptian cosmologies and presented them in an abstract form. A lot of written about these similarities. Besides that, Pythagoras with his sect, Parmenides with his mythos and Socrates with his demon are good examples how "Atheist" they were. Religious thinking is not a dumber version of science, it's a different way of looking into the world (a symbolic way). Like philosophical thinking itself is neither science nor religion.

@georgebrooks7775

3 жыл бұрын

Anti-religious sermon? You have no idea what you are talking about. Go grind your axe somewhere else.

@GSungaila

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgebrooks7775 I didn't expect that the presenter himself reads the comments, so sorry if I came across as rude. But the whole idea that there is a discontinuity between mythology and philosophy is outdated and you push it further to say that we wouldn't have air conditioning if we would believe religious stories as explanations of the world. Which is insulting to a religious person. There is a collective monograph called 'From Myth to Reason?' (ed. by Richard Buxton) which shows how problematic that old narrative is. And the logos itself is not something opposite to the 'religious stories' because most of the ancient philosophers were religious and accepted them while Hesiod had rationality of his own. As one scholar have said, many Ancient Greek philosophers wrote proves for the existence of God(s) but not even one of them wrote a prove of non-existence. Furthermore, to quote Thales, 'everything is full of gods' - he didn't deny that gods are everywhere like in the Homeric mythology, he just changed the definition of god (which IS an important novelty). Basically, traditional myths and philosophy were not mutually exclusive, that's why they were reinterpreted and embraced by the philosophers, especially in Neoplatonism. Anyway, I would like to say that you are a very good teacher, I enjoy the way you present your materials, as a teacher myself I feel inspired by your pedagogical talent.

@georgebrooks7775

3 жыл бұрын

@@GSungaila Sir, I believe you are missing the point. This lecture is about the origins of rational science. The next lecture deals with Pythagoras and includes his deeply mystical beliefs; and the later discussion of Socrates and Plato also explore their views of divinity as part of their philosophical views. But THIS lecture is about how rational science and theory building to explain the operations of nature first emerged. I don't know why you would choose to be offended by this--it seems like you have an axe to grind (if you know that Western expression). A great many scientists are also religious: Copernicus, Newton, Einstein...just to name a few. But science is not about providing alternate, atheistic answers to life's big questions--it is about building a coherent model through a process of hypothesis and experiment to describe how the universe behaves. The ancient philosophers did not really achieve this either--they constructed rational theories but they did not experiment to test their hypotheses and failed to really make use of their mathematics to quantify what they studied or describe matter in motion (it was mostly in static geometry that they excelled)--that would have to wait until the 16th-17-centuries and the Scientific Revolution. But the first steps were taken by the Nature Philosophers and that is what this lecture is about.