In this video, I want to walk you through how to learn philosophy. And learning philosophy can take you a lifetime, but I'll show you how to start with a single day's work that can get you up to speed with the last 2500 years off philosophy. First, why it's important? It asked, it teaches you to ask the right questions in any moment in life. And he teaches you reasoning how to get some of the answers. And as you get some of the answers, you start to get to better and better new questions.

Also philosophy real study philosophy, trains your mind for logic for patients is really amazing for for discourse for making your own points for making your own arguments for debate. And this is valuable everywhere for workforce, for your personal life and for your inner dialogue as well. So, the problem with philosophies that it's very dense and it's very complicated and it's difficult and it takes a long time to Learn, and we want to take a shortcut. Luckily, right now there's so many resources like YouTube and other things that you can just, if you know what to look for, you can kind of quickly get the cliff notes of everything. And then catch up to whatever you feel interested in, out of out of all the Cliff's notes where whatever perks or interests, that's the field of philosophy, you start to explore. And over time, you should get more and more familiar with all these guys.

So how does it philosophy go, what's important here. And keep in mind, I'm going to leave a lot out, I'm just going to go over what's very crucial because this is a way for me to show you how to give yourself a crash course in philosophy, let's say in one day. What you can do is just YouTube basic tutorials on all these guys that I'm going to walk you through. And then in a day, you'll be up to speed on the last 25 years of philosophy. Now that does not replace actually reading Reading the works, but it's pretty helpful. In fact, sometimes reading the words can be very confusing because a lot of the texts are very dense.

So definitely give yourself the primer, the introductions first and then see where you want to go with it. So So now let's start with how does philosophy go? Big. So there's the ancient philosophy, the two real important philosophers. And everything I mentioned, by the way, there's more, but these are just the core people. There's the Socrates and Aristotle, no one really else.

Before them. There were the pre Socratic philosophers. And it's interesting to look at what the pre Socratic philosophers were talking about. Because then came Socrates and actually turned the whole world of philosophy on its head, and you only be able to see the contrast of what he did by looking at the pre Socratic philosophers. So that's the ancient pre Socratic for us first Socratic Socrates which is also sometimes refers Plato and Aristotle, then there was a huge gap in philosophy, then there's not a lot that happened because Europe wasn't Dark Age. And by the way, when I talk about philosophy, I'm talking about Western philosophy.

There's a specific field of Western philosophy. It's studied in universities. And there's a certain structure to it. And it's a lot of it is what we have as modern modern Western thought. So after that, we've got the Enlightenment era where they started picking up this again and the important philosophers there are Emmanuel Kant, Rene Descartes, you might know Rene Descartes, I think, therefore I am. That's his famous quote.

Then Baruch Spinoza. And David Hume. Lastly, there was Thomas Aquinas, he wasn't a philosopher per se, but he influenced religion quite a bit and he turned the church on its head and it never became the same again. So Have you that's really an important figure to learn as well. And themes from him recur later in some philosophers. Anyway, so that that's the era.

That's the airs leading up to now. Today, it well, in the last, let's say 150 years, philosophy has really bloomed because a lot of new fields have come up, have risen and they really taking the world by storm and you may not know it, but you you are living if you're living in the Western society, you're living a lot of these ideas every day. In fact, all of these ideas really shape our world and our philosophy and our in our outlook and just how we treat and talk to each other and how we behave. Our social norms have been formed by a lot of these Not to mention our politics. So what happened? So existentialism was a movement that essentially put the center of the focus of attention instead of God on the individual.

And the important philosophers. They're not all of these guys. I mean, there's more but these are some of the core philosophers are Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus and john paul start Sartre. Then there was modernism and post modernism. The reason I don't have philosophers listed under modernism is because it's probably just good to take a look at it as a movement first, then post modernism has a couple of prominent philosophers, feminism, which is a very fundamental philosophy that we embody in our society today. And I'm a few and a few other philosophical movements that I just want you to look into this just to know what they're talking about so that you have a very well rounded view of philosophy.

And that's nihilism. ethics, metaphysics and aesthetics. And if you do that, and if you just spend a couple of hours or a full day YouTubing all these things, each video that needs to be needs to explain it is maybe five or 10 minutes long. And I obviously couldn't make this because this course is not a philosophy course. So this is it would be outside the realm of this course for me to actually put together tutorials for all these. If you do this and spend a day on this, you will get essentially the takeaway, that maybe a minor or a major in philosophy gets Can you imagine that?

That's almost the equivalent because you you will have the basis you will have the understanding of the history of philosophy, all the major fields of thought, all the major field fields of philosophy, and all the major philosophers, of course, the students who take these courses in universities They spent the whole semester on some of them. But guess what they forget almost everything and they remember only the core things and so will you, if you just get the cliff notes or the basic YouTube primers on these guys. And when you do look into them, then use a whatever perks your interest the most do pick up books on these that are longer and try to get into them. Because the actual books have a lot of gems in them and they're just they can be really wonderful because it's really intellectually challenging to read. And it will really stimulate your mind and get it working.

And the actual books have a ton of other ideas and just the phrasing of how these guys talk and reason is so intellectually enlightening at times that you will really can change you long term and make you kind of uh, just think on a different level.