Summary of Philosophy as Methodology

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The video discusses the idea that philosophy can be used as a methodology, and that there is a balancing act between two forces - the force of matter and the force of experience - in order to achieve a successful result. The video argues that experience is ultimately the better path to follow.

00:00:00 The speaker discusses the idea of telos, or a goal-based mentality, and how it can be found in various Indo-European languages. He also discusses skepticism, stoicism, and Epicureanism.
00:05:00 Western philosophy often believes in the idea of teleology, which is the idea that there is a plan or design behind natural occurrences. This idea is usually found in Western philosophy, specifically in the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Donna Haraway.
00:10:00 This video discusses how philosophy can be used as a methodology, and how there is a tendency for people to think that things in the world are goal-directed and have rules. It also discusses how reasoning can sometimes follow a similar trajectory.
00:15:00 The speaker discusses how Socrates' constant drive towards rationality and abstraction can be seen as a parallel to Lady Macbeth's character in Macbeth. Socrates is often criticized for driving in the wrong direction, but the speaker argues that he is part of a larger trend in Greek philosophy.
00:20:00 The speaker discusses the distinction between being "ready to hand" and being "present at hand." He argues that when something is present at hand, you are more conscious of it, and when the difficulty of the task increases, past and future selfhood become less salient. In programming, the default state is "ready to hand," where you are less conscious of what you are doing and the task runs smoothly. When the task becomes more difficult, thoughts of past and future selfhood start to creep in.
00:25:00 In this video, philosopher Daniel Dennett discusses how philosophy can be used as a methodology, specifically in the area of art. He points to Victor Schavsky, a Russian critic writing in the early 20th century, as an example of how this can be done. Schavsky opposes Stalin and lives into the 70s, so his thoughts on art are relevant today. He also discusses how poetry can act as a means of exposing the hidden beauty of the world. Finally, he discusses how poetry can make familiar objects seem unfamiliar, and how it can reproduce all that it represents.
00:30:00 The author proposes that consciousness is bounded by levels of entropy, and that within conscious awareness, there is another valley known as the mundane. The mundane can be described as a state of being where things are either flowing or on autopilot, withdrawing from experience can result in the sensation of wrongness or surprise.
00:35:00 This 1-paragraph summary of a YouTube video titled "Philosophy as Methodology" describes how philosophy and science can be used to step back and look at the tools themselves, which can help to snap a person out of experience and back into the present moment.
00:40:00 The video discusses the philosophy of Socrates, who is often seen as leading people away from happiness by teaching them to learn more about concepts. The Buddhist prescription is to return to experience, de-familiarize oneself, and be mindful. The article "Hana Sauer's The End of History" argues that we should stop being historicist in philosophy, and instead focus on the good life.
00:45:00 The author proposes that there are two ways of snapping out of experience: towards experience and away from experience. He suggests that Western philosophy does not like Goldilocks zones and wants to push in a certain direction, even if that direction eventually stops working. He speaks as a sympathetic Buddhist, Taoist, and fringe thinker who would like to see a health model of inquiry that takes these other perspectives into account.
00:50:00 The speaker proposes that there is a balancing act between two forces - the force of matter and the force of experience - in order to achieve a successful result in any inquiry. Within inquiry, the speaker identifies two rationalist moves - identifying what is rational and making lists - and proposes that one direction is towards experience, while the other is towards conceptual thinking. The speaker then proposes that one is right and the other is wrong, but that experience is ultimately the better path to follow.
00:55:00 John Dewey suggests that philosophy should be used as a methodology to help others do their jobs better. He also argues that knowledge is the byproduct of competent inquiry, and that it is important to be able to test theories against experience.

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This video discusses the idea that philosophy can be used as a methodology, and that it can be helpful to others in understanding complex concepts. The speaker argues that the correct product of philosophy is not truth, but rather a methodology of tools that can help us understand and solve problems.

01:00:00 The video discusses the idea that philosophy is not about finding right answers, but rather producing a methodology that can be applied to achieve different goals in thought. It also discusses the idea that the history of philosophy is important, but that the texts of ancient philosophers should not be taken as seriously as texts in modern physics.
01:05:00 Philosophy as a methodology should preserve its history in order to study how concepts progress and how they are enforced over time. In the opinion of the speaker, this is not a bad thing because progress in philosophy does not mean that its concepts can be replaced by new ones.
01:10:00 In this video, the speaker discusses the idea that philosophy is not just a set of answers, but a way of getting right answers that requires a lot of human effort to keep things around. He goes on to argue that, because of this, philosophy is still useful, even if it has a history.
01:15:00 The speaker argues that abstract truths cannot be known with certainty, and that instead, they can only be believed with certainty. He also argues that beauty and concepts like "Beauty" are not necessarily related.
01:20:00 The author argues that the correct product of philosophy is not truth, but rather a methodology of tools that can help us understand and solve problems. He points out that current philosophy is full of mistakes and that physics doesn't seem to be advancing ontologically. He suggests that the correct way to view philosophy is as a set of tools that can help us see reality more accurately, and that it should not be viewed as a way of gaining knowledge of reality itself.
01:25:00 The philosopher discusses how progress in physics is not solely reliant on theory, but also on technology. He also talks about how philosophers who write often do not fit this category, and how he sometimes has trouble remembering what he said.
01:30:00 This video discusses the idea that philosophy can be used as a methodology, and that it can be helpful to others in understanding complex concepts.