Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "The Philosopher Tier List" video.

You need to make the video you want us to see. If you know so much about "Islamic, Indian and Chinese philosophers", then why aren't you telling us about them?
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@realhashimdiab But philosopher means something slightly different in the West to the "East". The Western tradition begins with the Greeks, 2600 years ago. Since he wrote in a Western language: English, you should assume he means Western philosopher. Had he wrote "World Philosopher Tier List", you'd have a legitimate complaint. Had he wrote in Farsi but excluded Persian philosophers you'd also have a legitimate complaint. Also, because he's only talking about Western Philosophers, he's able to talk about the connections between each; which would not be the case had he included philosophers from other continents. When including philosophers outside the Western tradition, one should do a new video for each distinct, relatively isolated (from the West) tradition.
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@realhashimdiab No. It's not my duty to read every philosopher and look at every idea ever thought up before I post to YouTube. I'm only concerned with the ideas which got me where I am. Those are the only people whom I can talk about. So Jared wasn't talking about Bayle or Montesquieu - he was talking about the thinkers who influenced him - "Western Philosophers". BTW: I doubt one can personally understand Confucian thinking unless on understands tha history and culture from where it came.
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@realhashimdiab @realaymandiab So according to your logic, or argument :- Were I an Hindi, writing a blog post - considered philosphical - I would be mandated to write about Chinese, Arabic, Greek, and general world philsopophy - despite not being an expert on such. You clearly don't think that. It's not woke or PC to say that at all. It's also a daft stance; because it's utterly impractical. In order to understand, say Chinese philosophy, one would have to be steeped in Chinese history, religions, and culture. No one has the time to study every culture, and every philosophical tradition which ever existed. It seems to me you're quite hypocritical on this topic. In that you'll only try to bully white, Western, men to talk about ALL philosophy; whilst being content to let other writers post whatever contingent philosophical ideas they have. Because that's how you've been educated to think and behave.
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@realhashimdiab Do you think Buddhist philosophy should be included? If "yes", then wouldn't that be quite demanding? If "no" then woouldn't that be too exclusionary - according to your reasooning? Discussing Buddhist philosophy is hard because - in order to understand Buddhism - one needs to live it. Because Buddhism is really not just its ideas - it's more a set of practices which lead to, and demand, particular states of mind and lifestyles. So to achieve these states of mind requires rigorous self-discipline. Most people would think these demainds are: unfashionable, impractical, unsociable, and overwheliming. 90% of people can't even attempt to live such lifestyles.
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Talking about philosophers is senseless. Talk about their methods instead. Not so much about what their final ideas were, but about the thinking which led them to have those ideas. That's how one should teach wannabe philosophers to philosophize. In my system, I'd be putting their philosophical systems on teirs, not the philosophers themselves.
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Agreed. For Rand to be Nietzschean, she'd have to have the same method as him. But I dount anyone can explain Nietzsche's method; least of all his followers!
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@realhashimdiab If you see connections between the concerns of Chinese philosophers and "some random British Philosopher from the last two-three centuries" then please tell us all about it. We want to know what those connections are. I'm especially interested in connections which are extra-cultural, or outside of culture. One point I'd raise is - had there been deep connections between the concerns of the Western tradition and, for example, the Chinese philosophical tradition - them some philosopher would've found those connections and written about them by now. But please don't question me about it. Tell us about the connections you found yourself. I was wondering how long you'd take to accuse me of "racist", "exclusionary" tendencies while claiming to be my "friend". Not long I see. A "Westerner", talking about the philosophical tradition of the West is NOT racist. No more so than an Indian talking about the philosophical tradition of India would be. BTW: My own interest in the Western tradition is mostly my interest in The Enlightenment and Empiricism. I have no racial bias, but I may be biased by my relative lack of interest in Stoic, Christian and Ethical philosophy, and my actual antagonism towards anything metaphysical. As Groucho might say: "Those are my biases, and if you don't like them, ... well, I have others."
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