Deconstructing Philosophy Video

[AtmanIsBrahman]

This video would be a follow-up to the video An Intro to Serious Philosophy - Top Advice for Philosophers.
It could even become a video series.

The idea is to deconstruct academic philosophy—the history, the methods, and everything. This would close the loop of the Deconstructing Rationalism series, which was more focused on science, but doesn’t touch on the limitations of academic philosophy as much. Of course, the two disciplines are related, especially in modern times where analytic philosophy is prevalent, but they aren’t identical. 

This video would be important because there are basically three knowledge sources humans flock to: religion, science, and philosophy. There is already a lot of content explaining what is wrong with religion. The series Deconstructing the Myth of Science and Deconstructing Rationality do the job of showing the limitations of science. But philosophy gets little coverage on the channel, which is surprising because it’s probably considered the most legitimate source of knowledge by serious intellectually-minded people. A new philosophy video or series would fix that gap in actualized.org content.

The goal would be to show that actualized.org is a better body of “knowledge” (whatever that means) than academic philosophy. This could include going through the most famous philosophers of all time (such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hume, Camus, Nietzsche, etc.) and explaining what they get right and where they go wrong. Then there could also be a portion explaining the different philosophical schools of thought that exist in the modern day and where they each go wrong. This could include going over the continental/analytic divide or delving into certain problems in the philosophical literature and explaining what the answer to the problem is or how it is misguided in some way. 

This video would be perfect for someone who is intellectual and deeply cares about truth, and doesn’t care about practical stuff, but wonders: “Why should I listen to actualized.org when there is a whole body of philosophical work I can draw from? Why should actualized.org be better?”

@Leo Gura

Edited 4 hours ago by AtmanIsBrahman