Little Dark Age - Philosophy

Song used throughout this video: Little Dark Age by MGMT.
I do not own this song, I did not make this song.

(Western) Philosophy

2500 years of western philosophy crammed into 1.5 mins. Enjoy.

[philosophywhen]

Books at the beginning:

1. The Republic - Plato
2. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
3. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
4. Summa Theologica - Thomas Aquinas
5. Discourses on Livy - Niccolò Machiavelli
6. Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes
7. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
8. Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
9. Ethics - Baruch Spinoza
10. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
11. A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
12. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
13. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
14. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
15. A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
16. Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
17. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
18. Naming and Necessity - Saul Kripke

[alarmlessRifleman]

I don't know why "Little Dark Age" became the anthem of human achievements (art, math, science, philosophy etc), but I'm glad it did.

[Bruh-eljs]

This dude better pin my comment.

1. Socrates
2. Plato and Aristotle (the painting includes a few more such as Archimedes and Anaximander)
3. Aristotle
4. Plato, Antisthenes, Chrysippus and Epicurus
5. Epicurus
6. Zeno
7. Archimedes
8. Seneca
9. Marcus Aurelius (the one dying)
10. Marcus Aurelius
11. Augustine of Hippo
12. Augustine of Hippo
13. Boethius
14. Pierre Abailard
15. Ibn Rushd
16. Saint Bonaventure
17. Saint Thomas Aquinas
18. William of Ockham
19. Ibn Khaldun
20. Machiavelli
21. Copernicus
22. Erasmus of Rotterdam
23. Martin Luther
24. John Calvin
25. Giordano Bruno
26. Francis Bacon
27. Hugo Grotius
28. Descartes
29. Hobbes (the one intelligent contractualist)
30. Pascal
31. Espinoza
32. Locke
33. Isaac Newton
34. Leibniz
35. Voltaire
36. Rousseau
37. Hume
38. Adam Smith
39. Kant
40. Kant
41. William Paley
42. Jeremy Bentham
43. Thomas Paine
44. Hegel
45. John Stuart Mill
46. Harriet Taylor Mill
47. Schopenhauer
48. Kierkegaard
49. Marx
50. Charles Darwin
51. Charles Darwin
52. Charles Darwin
53. Engels
54. Herbert Spencer
55. Henry Sidgwick
56. Nietzsche (Smash Brawl OST in the background)
57. Nietzsche (What a moustache)
58. William James
59. Gottlob Frege
60. John Dewey
61. Husserl
62. Freud (my nemesis)
63. Max Weber
64. Rosa Luxemburg (my other nemesis)
65. George Moore
66. Bertrand Russel
67. Bertrand Russel
68. Moritz Schlick
69. Wittgenstein
70. Wittgenstein
71. Heidegger
72. Kurt Gödel
73. Karl Popper
74. Ayn Rand
75. Alfred Jules Ayer
76. Sartre
77. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
78. Simone de Beauvoir
79. Alfred Jules Ayer
80. Alfred Jules Ayer
81. Camus
82. Quine
83. Turing
84. John Leslie Mackie
85. John Rawls
86. Chomsky
87. Chomsky
88. Alasdair MacIntyre
89. Derrida
90. John Searle
91. Alvin Platinga
92. Thomas Nagel
93. Robert Nozick
94. David Lewis
95. Peter Singer
96. Kripke
97. Roger Scruton
98. Slavoj Žižek

I hope I can reach their heights one day.

[killingwitchs]

This video makes me have a great appreciation to philosophers in general, even the ones I may disagree with.

[heeman]

mad props for not leaving out anyone just because you may disagree with them. It take a real adult to pay respect to both the likes of Ayn Rand and Marx in the same video.

[gabrielcaian]

I had a great philosophy professor who once said:
all these philosophers that we study should not be seen as villains/enemies to keep trying to disagree or point out flaws, but rather teachers that we can draw lessons for our lives.

That phrase stuck a lot in my head...

[yossarian]

The edit at 0:22 is very clever.
It fades out on the geocentric model of the solar system (everything goes round the earth) while it goes "little dark age", and then smash cuts to the Copernican heliocentric mode (the earth goes round the sun), to show the beginning of enlightenment thinkers.

Literally out of the "little dark age", and into the enlightenment

[DocterRictofenn]

Philosophy when man looked away from all his toil and labor, his war and suffering, his happiness and love and looked inward to ask….”why”

[lost_places_global]

Don´t forget: Every philosopher you might not agree with, has maybe contributed new ideas or other things for philopshy you might agree with.

[memeswereablessingfromthel]

People think that politicians, armies and other institutions are the ones that hold power over humanity. But behind every person and organization is a philosophy!

[ShakespeareSam]

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories"
-Plato

[davidrubel]

After reading Eastern Philosophy, I feel like this should be re titled to Western Philosophy.

[whatsinaname]

This was perfect. It covered the entire Western spectrum.

[guilhermemrdeath]

One of the biggest shame that I have is that I will live and die and I won't have enough time to read the thoughts of all these innumerous genius of humanity. What a shame.

[gabrielfrancisco]

An indication: read Mário ferreira dos Santos. He is perhaps the greatest philosopher in the history of South America

[nuxpkmg]

My fellow men and women. Extra-touching compilation of the greatest geniuses of mankind

[napier]

People think little about philosophy, little did they know it's a whole new world you can discover

[mustafakamal-jtdb]

Philosophy is the mother of all sciences

[Question]

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."

- Ambrose Bierce

[_MrMoney]

The Bentham portrait zooming in while it flickered to his mummified head had me dead