Philosophy Tier List Part 2 - Another 25 Philosophy theories and ideas ranked.

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Philosophy Tier List part 1 - 35 Theories & ideas ranked

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[markthompsonmt]

I have very much enjoyed these tier/ranking videos. They're entertaining, but also great study fuel. They reintroduce me to some areas of philosophy that I don't engage with often and prompt me to take a deeper dive into those topics. When you rank familiar ideas higher or lower than I expect, it prompts me to reexamine those topics as well try to justify to myself why I thought the ideas would be ranked differently.

I think this tier list format could mix well with your debate format videos as well. George and John could discuss in greater depth a smaller list of ideas from a particular branch of philosophy and debate where they should be ranked. It could be a good opportunity to introduce some more obscure ideas with each branch of philosophy and to reexamine some topics from older videos with your newer viewers.

Anyway, thanks for another great video!

[matei]

this channel carried me for my 2 exams in philo. keep up your valuable work !

[kevinohiggins]

Have you ever read "the theory of mind as pure act" by Giovanni Gentile? He created his own form of idealism inspired by Hegel, and put immense belief on "the State" to the point he ended up becoming the leading philosopher of fascist Italy. His philosophy is called "Actualism" and is expressed in the aforementioned work [philosophically, that is, politically he also wrote the small important explainer of fascism "The Origins and Doctrine of Fascism" which is also an interesting read and other philosophy books about pedagogy and other areas explaining Actualism more in-depth]

[adnanemrabiti]

A great video, my friend! Could you make a video about the origin of moral conscience?

[ryanw]

I never understood Nietzshe to be suggesting that master-slave morality is how things ALWAYS work, but rather an explanation for how Judeo-Christian moral ethics evolved. He clearly believed it could be different, thus his hopes for the “ubermensch” in the future

[BlackMantisRed]

Nietzsches did not see master-slave morality as a simple binary, Nietzsche did not believe in free will so if you go from being poor to being an elite your morality will carry over, secondly Nietzsche did believe the people could convince the people in power to adopt slave morality traits.

[JohnnieWalkerGreen]

You should add a link to "Philosophy Tier List - 35 Philosophy theories & ideas ranked".

[bourbon]

Kierkegaard's philosophy is only appealing if you're an anti-realist about religion. Wittgenstein's views on religion were influenced by Kierkegaard.

[ppmealing]

Apologies for confusing 'logical determinism' with 'absolute determinism' in my comment below.
I've no idea how I made such an egregious error, but I've fixed it, and it doesn't change my argument.

[garyhughes]

I thought Property Dualism would be ranked slightly higher than Substance Dualism. I recently did a course in philosophy and on the units covering metaphysics of mind, Substance Dualism was considered easier to refute than Property Dualism. Property Dualism was seen as a way of circumventing the weaknesses of Substance Dualism.

Property Dualism is also supported by ‘philosophical zombies’ (Chalmers), which seemed pretty convincing, though not to Daniel Dennett if I can recall the course content correctly.

[tethyn]

For the most part I would think some would either be one tier higher or lower but not too much different than what you presented except for Plato republic. If you were reading it as a political treatise much like Poppers open society then I would concur that it would be bottom of the barrel; however there is another option. In book 2 of the republic around 368 and following, Socrates changes the discussion of the just person to talking about the Just city. Seeing man writ large. I see the republic more about the development of the just man via the development of the tripartite soul. In this sense it a great piece of moral philosophy and metaphysics and would put it on A tier.

[kameqblindweaver]

I genuinely dont know if John is a real guy, or just you doing a voice

[Jamric-grgr]

Any thoughts on the transcendental argument for the existence of God?

[mugsofmirth]

It's somewhat disingenuous to say you don't favor any of these philosophies while placing them on a hierarchy that represents how "solid" you think they are.

[archangelarielle]

Substance Dualism is significantly weaker than Identity Theory. SD has multiple flaws, not only various interaction problems, but arbitrary nature of it. While IT has the "hard problem of consciousness" which is not really a problem.

[ppmealing]

This is a very good video. Some of the issues I’m more familiar with than others. I agree with most of your arguments and assessments, though some I may move up or down a tier – no major difference.

Except one, and that’s ‘Logical Determinism’, which I admit I hadn’t seen or heard before, though I’ve seen a lot of arguments about determinism, both for and against, including ones I’ve made myself. So, I looked it up on Wikipedia to see if their description was the same as yours, which it is, more or less.

I distinguish between ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ determinism, where weak determinism simply states that every event has a causal relationship with something preceding it, and strong determinism is effectively that everything’s predetermined, an attribute of Einstein’s ‘block universe’. Logical determinism appears to be an argument for ‘strong determinism’ (by my definition).

Logical determinism is premised on an 'excluded middle' (according to Wikipedia), so it can only apply to events that can be true or false, which is a reasonable condition. In effect, it is a prediction, and all predictions are either true or false (excluding probabilities), which doesn’t make them deterministic or not. A premonition would support the argument for predeterminism, but that’s not the issue here.

Most discussions on determinism ignore chaotic phenomena, which are determined by initial conditions that can’t be determined, even in hindsight, which applies to most natural phenomena, as well as some human-generated ones. The thing is that a chaotic event, if rerun, would give a different result. A coin toss is the most common example. Note that its 'degree of chaos' is dependent on the surface it hits, not the mechanism for the toss. Absorbent surfaces can make it more predictable.

So I would give Logical Determinism a C at best, possibly a D.

[kevinohiggins]

Philosophically, IG Locke is better that Hobbes to live in lol but considering a State is a monopoly on violence in real life the state can do whatever it wants. Everywhere Locke's liberal democracy spread modern states were created and they accrue more and more power as time went on [which lead to modern libertarianism, as they think allowing the state any power inevitably leads to totalitiarianism, as power seeks to accrue more power]

[ricardoflores]

It is peculiar to me that you place Russell's Teapot in C tier, not because of the substance of the view, but rather because of how you see it commonly used. Furthermore, your characterization agnosticism as a religious claim in lieu of a knowledge claim is ridiculous along with your characterization of atheism as the disbelief in god instead of the mere non-affirmation of a religious proposition, which would encompass an agnostic position on a god's existence.

[tzakman]

logical determinism is not worth S, it is a very abstract argument.