EASTERN VS WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS | History Teacher ERBreakdown Epic Rap Battles Of History

[@advancedlevelgaming]

Hey Eddie, glad to see you react to this again. In the intro you said you studied Western philosophy and like it a lot, but in the old one I thought you said you studied Eastern? Am i misremembering? And besides studying Confuscius who I already have, what philosophers from the Eastern side would you recommend, preferably not from China? Vietnam, Japan, etc.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Sorry I mispoke then, I studied western philosophy. Other influntial eastern philosophers I would reccomend are; Shankara Bhagathpada (India) Siddharatha Gautama, (aka the Buddha) (East/SE Asia) Ramanujacharya (India) Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (Islam) Rumi (Islam)

[@makslesniewski]

@@TeacherEddieHistory It would be good to point out that Siddhartha Gautama was the FIRST Buddha, since Buddha is a title.

[@babull4751]

@@TeacherEddieHistory The link to the original video leads to a video about the JFK assassination, just let you know

[@irenaveksler1935]

@@babull4751 LOL

[@Crazael]

My favorite way of describing the Socratic Method is "You keep asking 'but why?" until they either run out of answers or order your execution".

[@xaderalert]

TIL my young kids are adherents to the Socratic Method...

[@nosu5530]

But why

[@m.h.7364]

In hindsight, 70 cups of coffee a day explains a lot of Voltaire's behavior.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Very true

[@BFCrusader]

Not to mention the sheer amount of stuff he wrote

[@EiferBrennan]

As I just commented a minute ago (at the time of writing) Voltaire was essentially the 18th century Tweak, from South Park.

[@travisgilmartin3569]

Well coffee back then was probably alot weaker than coffee today. But if you were to down 81 cups of coffee you can use 100%of your brain and have a seizure.

[@Tirath]

It's still a lot of coffee, but a European coffee cup that Voltaire would have likely used would have only held between 4oz and 5oz, as opposed to the 8oz to 12oz standard in the USA.

[@xaderalert]

"I think you owe your students here an apology" gets slept on pretty often since they didn't capitalize "Apology". But you'll recognize this as a reference to The Apology of Socrates, which was written by Plato, a student of Socrates.

[@sonamadinolf6096]

The "French Drip" line was a double: The Drip is also a euphamism for gonorrhea, and Voltaire was notoriously promiscuous.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

drip is also slang for looking stylish, there can be many interpretations cause its deep.

[@Rob-xp9ss]

You get a chef's kiss for this one Eddie, one of the best yet even though I saw the original. Loved this and your passion for the subject, and that you played a verse and then broke it down.

[@magnumkenn]

Can’t believe this only has only 800 likes. You rocked this history my man

[@HerrZhukov]

Fucking hell… a 5 minute song turns into an hour long analysis. You are the only person I have ever seen do shit like this. Much love.

[@MrTrellheim]

Easily, one of the best ERB ever. The detail, the study of the subjects, the production values... are superb. You can watch it 50 times and discover new things each time. One thing that shocked me when I read it is that, for a war treatise, the Art of War is quite anti-war. Like: - War is the last resort you should get to. - If you get to war you should make it as short as you can. - If you can't make it short try not to make it too destructive. - If you have te be destructive at least make the destruction make sense.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

just shows that he was more a Wiseman than a Warlord.

[@tiffyw92]

@@UltimateGamerCC He was never a warlord, actually. He lived in a time in China during one of its messiest wartime periods. One could imagine he was quite sick of seeing war everywhere, especially when many warlords of the time wanted him dead and he had to be on the run a lot. To be fair, you ain't really among the great Chinese philosophers if there wasn't some great power after your tail. There are exceptions, of course, but for the most part, Chinese philosophy often led to many a great shift in cultural thought, but it usually took a lot of time and across multiple student-teachers' teachings that followed the greats. The irony of modern-day curricula is trying to teach millennia-full philosophy in a few college courses. Those students won't learn very much. I was one of them.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

@@tiffyw92 fair, China really was at arms with itself for ages, makes our civil war look like a minor scuffle in comparison.

[@42Mrgreenman]

I kind of see it as the total package as far as general strategy goes. (No pun intended) But you can read it both ways, hence why it's so often used in other fields (Ok, I guess I intended that one)... You need good soldiers to fight your war, so you want to preserve your resources by having happy and productive citizens...you want to maintain your happy and productive society, you need proper defenses against threats...All war is based on deception. Meaning, exploiting the unknown is the key to victory over your opponent. To do, you must know. Therefore study all the things that make people do what they do..."Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are sure to be defeated in every battle."

[@edwardblair4096]

"with my method, man" is also a reference to the Socratic Method, which you talked about earlier.

[@saevusbrutum2796]

I love how in depth you go. It's knowledge that I didn't expect but definitely is cool to know. Keep it up teacher Eddie

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

I appreciate that!

[@fightingforlife1211]

Man I am Pumped to get home and watch this. An hour?! Heck yeah Eddie

[@Yezhanium]

Life happens, ERBs get rewatched :D Glad things are coming back, loved the reaction - great breakdown as usual. Still hoping for Guy vs Che... To come soon x3

[@MrWahotts]

In reference to the Confucius jokes toward the end, one of my favorites was always “Confucius say, it takes many nails to build a crib, only one screw to fill it.”

[@michaeldekar9579]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned. But the 50-75 "cups" of coffee is believable if you know what the french drip machines were like in that time period. The cups were essentially just shot glasses that you would expect an expresso machine today would have. So he'd be drinking around 2 litre's of Coffee which isn't too unbelievable. I drink about a litre myself everyday in a Thermos.

[@SebasTian58323]

Sacrebleu is a stereotypical and very old fashioned French curse, which is rarely used by the French these days.

[@DMXIII]

I was waiting so much for you to see that Battle, to much things to learn to...

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

This one is my favorite ERB so far

[@edwardblair4096]

Fortune cookies were invented at the Japanese tea house in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. They were modeled after Japanese treats, but adding the paper fortune was for the American tourists.

[@pringleton]

While I'm sorry for you losing all your prior work, on the plus side we and you get to watch them again! Am sure I said before but this is my favourite ERB, so layered, seen it >50 times and still finding new things (Knee-Chi!) Always love your reactions man though Chewbacca didn't contribute much- you're way above that weak wookie!

[@saber1epee0]

I'm also SO HAPPY that he gets to revisit this old one now that he has plenty of followers and isn't afraid to dive deep (for instance into his professor who had opinions on Daoism!!!)

[@nitrousdave]

Definitely my favorite of your breakdowns so far.

[@Lilyina444]

I’m glad you pointed out the racist meaning behind that line. A lot of people let it slide in ERB’s because of satire or puns, or they didn’t mean it, etc.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Yea that one hit awkwardly

[@Badd111]

Oh trust me, they've said worse.

[@EiferBrennan]

So wait you're telling me, that if that coffee thing is true, Voltaire is essentially the 18th century version of Tweak from South Park?

[@darcraven01]

14:15 "its really almost like a jedi way of thinking" *me, playing a jedi knight in star wars the old republic as im listening to this* 😏

[@Blackbird0188]

this was a fun watch, and the hiphop references were fun especially since MC Jinn (Confucius) was also once a Ruff Ryder

[@duccmanz]

I didn't know that Chewbacca was into philosophy...

[@thehollowking]

I will watch the first half of the reaction now before working and the last half after I am done from work

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Thank you

[@mainstreetsaint36]

The bar "I'll be taking apart your woo with my Method, man! " could also be him stating that he'll take apart his way with his Socratic method.

[@thatguy_5240]

I'm actually 90% sure that the Jedi way is basically a copy/paste of taoism. But their attire and fighting styles is more based off of the samurai

[@mitchellgeorge6031]

It’s a combination of Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity

[@Orion5010]

Thank you, happy to actually see this one this time around.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Thank you my brother from another hulkster

[@archfiend221]

On the coffee thing with how they rebrewed coffee beans (since they were ridiculously expensive at the time ) and french drip is usually in a 2 oz cup from my experience it would be possible and the caffeine content would be around 1100-1500 mg of caffeine (which I've drank many times before in a single day) would be possible though his organs could not have been happy Tldr:Voltaire could have easily drank as much coffee as he reportedly did

[@goldeneaglefr]

Okay, I'm at 7 minutes of video, wanted to say 2 things : - No, Sacrates didn't write anything, he was against it for many reasons, one being that you cannot converse with a text, it doesn't respond and always says the same thing (oversimplification but that's the idea, it was intentional, he didn't wanted to write his ideas and didn't do it). - Saying that Nietzsche is a nihilist is probably the worst thing to say since he was the absolute opposite. He was mostly criticizing many other philosopher to be nihilists (like Plato and Socrates for example). Yes, he talked a lot about it, but he himself was absolutely not a nihilist. It would be like saying Karl Marx was a strong believer of capitalist ideas

[@adarkmessenger8443]

"Wise man say forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for late pizza." That's about all the wisdom I have BUT I remember it to this day. Lol

[@brianrigsby7900]

52:46 I’ve heard California too😂

[@TextrovertSolidork-KT]

I think my favorite Confucius joke is “man that go to bed with itchy butt, wake up with smelly hand”

[@alastorvulpes]

In Latvia it's not a symbol of peace but fire and the symbol was believed to assist in battle.

[@scamlikely3457]

Voltaire is my favorite philosopher and this rap battle is actually what made me interested in philosophy

[@Hurricayne92]

Indepth knowledge of both philosophy and rap/hip hop must be a rare combination.

[@Vrandack]

I was thinking Eddie. If KZbin hasn't been able to help you get your old vids back, it might be worth putting the files on a thumb drive, so you can just reload them if this shittery happens again.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Yes absolutely

[@Vrandack]

@@TeacherEddieHistory he who watches good teacher review video, will review teacher video good

[@samshackleton9768]

Please do Lance Armstrong vs Babe Ruth next

[@MrTrellheim]

That Babe Ruth second verse...

[@JoaoPucci]

Important to note that there is no official historical record indicating that Lao Tzu was an eximious beatboxer.

[@lestervaladez6127]

Confucius say baseball all wrong, man with four balls can't walk

[@kGorilla12]

Hahahaha I love that chewy is chilling with you lol. Great video teacher Eddie.

[@demiboi0315]

My favourite out of all ERB battles 😀

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Same

[@karendebbiejohnson7480]

The french don't say Sacrebleu in my part of the world (Québec, Canada) anymore. But, if I am not mistaken, Sacrebleu was a swear word that was originally supposed to be "Sacré Dieu". Which was blasphemous in the eyes of the Church as it called on God's name in vain. So, people started saying Sacrebleu instead and it became a swear word like F*ck.

[@pink_alligator]

I like to translate Übermensch more to what it sounds like "Over-man" (or beyond-man is acceptable) bcs I feel like that instantly gives you a more accurate idea of what that concept is. Superman or Superhuman being words that are SO colored by other things for us When you first hear it, it makes it sound pretty unrealistic for example which it very much isn't

[@alej15pr]

Confucius say: “Baseball lie, man with 4 balls cannot walk.’

[@lv2wap]

Love this! Thank you.

[@ChaosArchives667]

Confusious Say: It takes many nails to build a crib, but it takes one screw to fill it.

[@shaitan7ddd]

Confucius say " man who goes to sleep with itchy ass wakes up with stinky finger.

[@jonathansands3304]

Ah, Confucius jokes. “Confucius say: Do not raise your hand against a child. It leaves the groin exposed.”

[@The_One_In_Black]

I was under the impression that Confucius was several centuries before Laozu. Might be a good excuse to brush up on my Chinese history.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Lao-tzu was senior to Confucius but they lived at the same times

[@Taz.K]

Hey Mr.Eddy, are you fully fluent in Russian? If so, how long did it take you to become fluent?

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

I was raised with Russian with my grandmother and yes I am fully fluent

[@realname9847]

Sun tzu is Timothy de la ghetto he was an old school KZbin and also Battled under the name Traffic. Confucius is played by MC Jin he won freestyle Friday’s on 106 n park. He has a great song called ABC where he raps in English and Cantonese about being an American born Chinese person

[@flupflup12]

Omg i legit get an itch when you are talking about So crates 😂😂

[@michaelmartinez3893]

When I was a little kid in the Bronx, my favorite was Confucius say Man who stands on toilet is high on pot

[@leftnut1055]

I like how chubaca occasionally nods as to agree with you

[@42Mrgreenman]

24:15 I think you actually got that wrong, he's talking to Sun-Tzu, and his family was from the province of Wu...you know the Sun family if you've ever played Dynasty Warriors...

[@larrydavis9851]

"I never said all that shit."- Confucius

[@grahamsmith6764]

Thanks Eddie. When it comes to ERB breakdowns I turn to you and Knox Hill. Great work as always

[@TomasioTV]

It's funny that in the end, whereas the rappers dance, the philosophers just debate with each other.

[@punktlig7354]

Haha Thanks to this battle I have never forgotten how to spell Nietzsche’s name! Lol

[@kyletucker3811]

29:08 😂 This reminds me of a time when I was in an Anime club in community college. It was before I was one of the officers. Basically we had Terror in Ressonance on the schedule (an anime about domestic terrorism) and the week it was scheduled it just so happened it was the same one that the Paris bombings happened. Because the ones left on the schedule were only available on DVD, there wasn't a real option to switch it out so the officers had to do some disclaimers about it and not supporting domestic terrorism. It was funny in hindsight but in the moment they were mortified. I had a moment like that of my own when I was president and I took someone's words on the trigger warnings for one anime only to discover during the first episode my friend hadn't noticed it was an Ero-Guro anime. ☺️

[@DrowningSorrows1]

This one is still my favorite ERB.

[@TimisDaniel]

Great reaction but I;m still waiting for the Vlad the Impaler vs Dracula, cause you know it's Halloween soon.

[@edwardblair4096]

I'm pretty sure "KRNFX" is a stage name for "Korean Effects". Like the 80s band "INXS" = "In Excess".

[@TheTsalop]

Nice reaction :D This reminded me of a thing... I used to drink like 30 mugs a day and depending on Voltaires cup size 60/70 isn't that far... But definitely won't recommend. Also Eastern loving Swastikas... It has not been that long, maybe couple of weeks or months when one anime caused a small panic in West as the merchandise contains prominent manji symbols all over the hoodies, shirts, shoes and such. And well, manji symbol is type of swastika, just facing different direction than the other one.

[@archfiend221]

If I remember correctly though I could be wrong the swastika was just the manji symbol turned sideways and just another thing Hitler destroyed which is sad given it's true meaning

[@TheTsalop]

@@archfiend221 Yeah, you are right... Also variations of swastika are rather common in different cultures and religions... We Finns had "tursaannyrkki" that was basically swastika with the arms ending with arrow heads.

[@archfiend221]

@@TheTsalop also because French drip coffee is usually served in small glasses between 2-6 oz it's entirely plausible that Voltaire drank a literal shit ton of coffee also due to the fact coffee was expensive alot of places rebrewed beans and grounds to get more out of it this lowering caffeine content

[@nightangelx1513]

Hey Eddie, had an idea the other day. Would you consider doing breakdowns like this to some regular hip hop ? I enjoy 90’s rap, but I think I miss some of the references because I wasn’t alive during the time they were written.

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Can’t due to copyright issues

[@voiceaton5630]

I’ve had this question How did you learn Russian?

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

My grandmother

[@IAmAlwaysJohn]

Also, Chewy for the win.

[@IAmAlwaysJohn]

We're all students of Socrates, IMO.

[@pringleton]

Nah Eddie wins, he's way above that weak wookie..

[@saber1epee0]

FWIW, eastern languages have a top-rolled R that we don't have, which is the closest thing to our R or T since it's rolled but also the top-of-toungue sound. Same thing with their "J" sound which is a more breathy sharp J,... Which is why Pe-King and Bei-Jing are THE SAME WORD

[@ayo9974]

56 minutes? Why do you spoil me

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Cause I care

[@bigdavezilla]

That was a great ERB.

[@ZachNight]

Sun Tsu was born Sun Wu. His kingdom was also known as Wu.

[@comonaocraftar]

Teacher Eddie have you played star wars: the old republic before?

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Yes

[@comonaocraftar]

@@TeacherEddieHistory I'm a newbie there! Just finished my first class quests as Trooper! I'm glad you played that game too.

[@corneliusantonius3108]

I'll see your Voltaire and raise you a Spinoza 👀 "I believe in the God of Spinoza." quote: Albert Einstein. 😜 Greetings from The Netherlands.

[@artembentsionov]

The Wu bar is even more layered. Wu was Sun Tzu’s kingdom

[@ScarECrow7227]

Asian people pronouncing words with R sounds instead of L sounds can come across as racist, but it actually just comes from traditional language. I don’t know anything about Traditional or Mandarin Chinese, but I do know a thing or two about Japanese. In Japanese, the L sound isn’t used, so Japanese people never had a reason to develop their vocals and mouths to make the sound until they were introduced to Dutch, Portuguese, and other western languages.

[@LED816]

French drip was a term for gonorrhea too

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

TBF who hasn't been there tho?

[@theneedleandthread902]

Hey Eddie 👋🏻 I stumbled onto your channel via your reaction to Boyinaband “Don’t Stay in School”. I’m binging your videos and thought I should repost my comment here because I doubt you’d see it on a video 5 months old. I’m a teacher and I agree with you wholeheartedly. Have you thought about writing a book? I read “Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire” by Rafe Esquith when I was 16 and it was a huge inspiration for me to get into teaching (for the right reasons, and I don’t get summers off where I work). Your videos are just as inspiring. If you wrote a book, I’d be really excited to read it!

[@philipp0209]

so crates, everybody knows him haha

[@Karbonix]

My favorite has always been Voltaire he has an awesome flow and is one of my favorite philosophers

[@saber1epee0]

My favorite (still fucked up) way to describe the "Me no Riley"... From Jimmy Carr.... Yeah that's some RAZY LACISM...

[@powderedphantom5765]

11:38 Europe is western

[@samshackleton9768]

What university did you go to?

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

Hard knocks

[@theenchantedzombiebrothers791]

The swastika is also in the Norse Mytholgy btw

[@UltimateGamerCC]

ouch, that's fucked that some of your breakdowns were removed, guess the best thing to do is do em again and keep moving on forward.

[@charlie.3872]

Hey Eddie, just a question. When did the video get taken down? I remember watching this before.

[@Lilyina444]

watch the first few minutes of the video

[@ghoulxghxul5091]

Wu Tang Clan aint nothin to fuck with

[@thegrayshaws]

See it again for the first time :)

[@sarahdrake3007]

So good

[@i.aladdin]

1 algorithmic comment, philosophy philosophy, ERB philosophy.

[@The5armdamput33]

Also... to "be frank" is to be blunt... - To not "sugar-coat" his words...

[@edwardblair4096]

It's similar to the Candide line in the previous verse.

[@The_Charlatan]

5:27 Socrates 101, He never wrote anything.

[@innatemeerkat4506]

Here's a little fun Fact about Plato, no one knows his real name, because Plato was his wrestling name!

[@LED816]

Thought his real name was aristocles?

[@innatemeerkat4506]

@@LED816 I believe that is a different person

[@waberoid]

So Socrates is pronounced as So-Crates?

[@pringleton]

By Bill and Ted 😉

[@waberoid]

@@pringleton Oh ok! Thanks. I haven't watched that in forever

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

That is why pringleton is the GOAT

[@pringleton]

@@TeacherEddieHistory Eddie, maybe just a little comment for you to make but that actually made my day and gave me a boost when I needed it. Thank you, much love x

[@TeacherEddieHistory]

@@pringleton always look forward to your comments 😀

[@LED816]

You can never take it to far in a rap battle. Third reichy bars are ok lol

[@PaoloMG]

If you compare "The art of war" with "the prince" from Machiavelli, the prince is much more cunning than the art of war and imo better for military officials! Even if Machiavelli focused on governance and not on warfare

[@PaoloMG]

God has sent out a new world ruler Ánton Castillo

[@TheTemperedWolf]

As someone that drinks way more coffee than anyone should, I can say drinking 75 cups of coffee a day would be extremely difficult. Let me explain why. There is only way I find this potentially possible is that he did not go to sleep that day at all. Voltaire would have to been awake for 24 hours straight to even achieve this. The most coffee I have drank in one day (and this continuously brewing pots and drinking as much as possible) is 4 pots (My coffee maker makes: 1 cup of 8 fl. oz. per 1 pot so 4 cups x 4 pots = 16 cups of coffee). That was the most I've ever done is 4 pots or 16 cups in like 12-14 hours nonstop. So he would've drank more than 4 times that amount! That would be almost 19 pots of coffee drank if done today! Logistically, for him to even do this once (all assuming cup sizes are the same or similar size and their method of brewing was around the same time to make) he would've had to been continuously drinking and brewing coffee for 24 hrs. straight! I'm not saying its possible, but there is simply not enough time in the day to brew and make this many cups of Joe unless you genuinely tried and were trying to break a record or something. My most educated guess is that whomever recorded/documented about his coffee intake made an exaggeration of sorts. I would also guess that this comment was made because Voltaire simply drank more coffee than the average guy in France and some people thought it was irregular and drank much less than he did. A lot of people today give me shit because I average about 2 pots of coffee a day, but I'd be a lightweight compared to Voltaire! (allegedly)

[@decorummortis5175]

So one time I drank 5 cups in only 2 hours. I should note that my mug at the time took the place of 1.5 your cup... I couldn't drink anymore after that cause 1 my heart and 2 I needed food lol. But in 2 hours I drank 5×1.5=7.5 cups... at that rate I could have drank 75 cups in... 10 additional cups... so if I could keep up with 5 cups in 2 hours.. i could have done it in 6 hours... possible? Sure... if i could stomach but yeah... also cups in France and most countries in europe aren't 8 ounces

[@TheTemperedWolf]

@@decorummortis5175 good to know. Yes, all that coffee would make your stomach hurt for sure. I'd be curious to know how much food our good Ole friend Voltarie ate along with his 75 cups of coffee

[@40ozAk]

Lovin' these, you gotta do Donald Trump vs Ebeneezer Scrooge soon!