Name: 哲学とは何か？ (What is Philosophy?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:50:10.000Z
Duration: 1 h 8 min 13 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

hello and welcome to this online section of introduction to philosophy

基礎受動態

this series of videos is recorded for my HUP 101 course

a class that I teach at laguardia community college

my name is doctor richard brown and i will be the instructor of this course

uh... my online classes at laguardia colleges as I just mentioned uh... but

i've taught this course of for many years i taught it at brooklyn college

and so uh... these slides these powerpoint slides also accompany

uh...the philosopher's way which is the book that students

represent what I kind of drew on the board, or whatever

the first question that we've got to start with

just by way of introducing the topic uh...is well, what is philosophy?

what is it that we're going to be studying in this series of lectures?

and answering this question is very difficult because if you ask

a hundred different philosophers what it is they do you're liable to get a hundred

um so it's not a very easy question to answer. Different people think

sometimes people conceive of philosophy as asking certain kinds of questions

well you know very deep questions about the meaning of life and

what's real and those kinds of things and it's true that philosophers do ask those questions

and so one way of talking about philosophy is talking about those kinds

of questions that philosophers deal with and the kinds of answers that they give

and so we'll talk about that at the very end this lecture, talk about the

uh... another way of thinking about philosophy is

what the word means and how people have thought about it historically

and so that's what I want to turn to first uh... i want to actually spend a little bit of

talking about what i call the pre philosophical way of thinking

uh... the way that people thought about reality

and there was some characteristic differences

in this historical way and so one thing you'll notice uh... in these lectures is

the questions were interested in in this kind of historical perspective so we

will be going uh... historically in order

let's give a very brief introduction to the origins of society and all of this

should be taken with a grain of salt, of course

because when we're looking back on history we're doing our best to

uh... only uh... fragmentary evidence of which survives so we must always remember

so we'll be referring to this timeline here

and so here I'll mark where we are now the present-day CE

and those of you probably know that we used to use 'BC' and 'AD'

'BC' for 'before christ' and 'AD' for 'Anno Domini'

which uh... means in latin 'the year of our lord' uh... and year one here is supposed to

mark the historical birth of uh... jesus of nazareth

not everybody is a christian and so having these christian-centric dates

uh...there is a movement away from naming them that way so we changed it to

and 'BCE' for 'before the common era' and i use those prefixes here suffixes here (whatever)

but the turnaround date is still year one there where historically

jesus was actually born. There is some debate about that, as i said earlier,

all of this is sort of piecemeal knowledge that we have

but there are...some scholars think well maybe he was born slightly earlier than year one

or slightly later than year one, by which I mean the actual historical jesus

uh... so we're not sure but that's the date that year one is set

uh... and that's why it's set at year one

now of course there are many cultures that don't

there are cultures that don't start over when they think that jesus was born and so for

uh... they will number the year not 2011, like us, but five thousand something

but so roughly speaking then if this timeline were to extend

a good space using this same kind of rough metric that I've had here

uh... so this is the invention of farming you may not think of farming