The Most Influential Philosophers Explained in 26 Minutes

[@jaydonehistory]

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[@cdot.]

nice introductory video , i didn’t know socrates was killed for his “crimes”, having read his defense i was under the impression that he was deemed innocent, crazy how we treat many of our geniuses in their lifetimes

[@MultiCappie]

Is part two where you explain that actually the most influential philosophers of all time were Thales and Epicurus? I mean, I'm not holding my breath, but your list says more than you might think.

[@SassyyjuicyMaria]

No Sartre??

[@sheerluckholmes7720]

@@MultiCappie 🤔...🤫...✌

[@MultiCappie]

@@sheerluckholmes7720 The fathers of science and human rights? I mean...

[@Elgato-u6p]

One must imagine camus happy -Sisyphus

[@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-hi]

Socrates --> Plato ---> Aristotle ----> Alexander the Great (somehow)

[@aidanm.655]

This is surprising to people? Fun fact, Cleopatra is actually Greek, her great great great Grandfather was Ptolemy. Ptolemy was a general of Alexander. So basically the whole Mediterranean is descended from Alexander’s inner circle, which was made possible only by his education from Aristotle. Talk about a legacy of a philosopher!

[@immanuelkant7176]

Aristotle=Plato>Socrated

[@somethingrandomyt8367]

​@immanuelkant7176 love your book critique of Pure reason

[@timothyvenable3336]

@@aidanm.655I recommend the channel “useful charts”, they have a video on the Greek and Roman rulers and inner circles, as well as a video on descendants of rulers.

[@FirestormX9]

Alex was a jackass.

[@sylviaowega3839]

You omitted one great philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, who in fact influenced many of those philosophers that you mentioned and was a great revolutionary. He influenced many of the ideas of the French Revolution, and even all the enlightenment philosophers.

[@kobebenson2508]

keep it up brother ur one of the best channels doing this form of content in my opinion

[@QuestionsAskMeAnything]

Love these crash course videos! So quick and so informative ❤

[@merandom5938]

Keep dropping bangers man, your on the come up 🔥

[@SeanAnthony-j7f]

More philosophers: Bergson, Husserl, Dilthey, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Popper, Frege, Leibniz, Spinoza and Kierkegaard

[@mcpauldjrickmusicmaker4504]

I agree, that was a small list. Where was the naked dog, barrel bowl, at the gates of Athens guy?.?? Gotta love him. 😮😊

[@alansimmonds9030]

None of those are top shelf originals, though I do have a soft spot for Kirkegaard's' Christian Existentialism.

[@williammarriott6131]

Is that supposed to make you look smart?

[@crasherbasher8067]

@@alansimmonds9030 Berkeley, Russell, popper, Hobbes, Leibniz and Spinoza most definitely are the front pages of philosophy, esp Hobbes and popper for the phil of science

[@alansimmonds9030]

@@crasherbasher8067 None of those are in the upper echelon.

[@faithb1111]

I love your videos keep up the amazing work

[@HeinzKlier]

Schopenhauer??

[@evidervishi__]

he wouldnt want to be included

[@jax5838]

Heyll nah. Bro is not influential

[@boxernath]

He is​@@jax5838

[@curls9032]

Great posts. There are so many rabbit holes to dig into after watching.

[@Jennypenny3467]

Lao Tzu, Buddha, Spinoza

[@Lord_Tourettes]

No Machiavelli?

[@JezelJordan]

Looking forward to part 2! I'm not even going to point out everyone you missed because you can't get them all in 1 video.

[@manhattanBridge]

No mention of the great Schopenhauer? One of the greatest philosophers of all time!

[@NicolasSchaII]

The original incel

[@davem3295]

@@NicolasSchaII why do u say that?

[@indiependent121]

​@@davem3295 he openly hated women

[@dumbodirectioner28]

I swear my serotonin goes up when this guy posts

[@lolitamartinez6054]

Where's my dearest Diogenes of Sinope?

[@fucksakese]

realest mf here

[@falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962]

Perhaps you should look for him in the dog kennel. But leave him there. He will be happier, and so will the rest of us.

[@EMDS04]

Probably shitting like a dog somewhere on the streets

[@dashry1283]

He was not very influential

[@deargatekeeper]

me when i only follow philosophy for tiktok memes

[@GalaticHunter]

avicenna is missing?

[@alaudaeltia9981]

Ye why

[@Randomytname1]

It’s His list not yours

[@Randomytname1]

@@alaudaeltia9981because it’s his list not yours

[@GalaticHunter]

@@Randomytname1 ok lil bro but its my comment 😂

[@Sneakysneak123]

​@@GalaticHunterok bro, it was his response to your comment.

[@isaacgarcia4141]

Amazing video, your style and topics are unmatched in the platform. Keep going !

[@LeechUFC]

Only 1 non-western philosopher is a little silly. Laozi should definitely be here, wrote the Book of Tao, the first organized form of Taoism in writing, now followed by hundreds of millions of people today. Sun Tzu was also a philosopher, groundbreaking military philosophy written in a time of brutes

[@falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962]

The problem with the Tao Te Ching, imo, would be simplifying it for such a concise entry. It is a lot of ambiguous spiritualism that borders on self-effacing disavowals and poetical occlusions. It is a window that obscures its own insight, or so I would say if I was Lao Tzu.

[@Methodizations]

If y'all didn't wanna build walls for millennia,... Literally and figuratively...

[@Hypertrophy1971]

Yeah it’s the same old euro centric crap from the 20th century..rest of us know what’s up

[@Lucylou7070]

Did Confucius influence western civilization and vice versa? Early on, when was there cross cultural feeding of philosophy thoughts that influenced all of us? Maybe a program on non-western philosophers and another on ALL women philosophers.

[@bkfishing5650]

Start a channel and make your own content.

[@markhathaway9456]

Well done. It's amazing how many people have attempted to understand reality, our world, man's comprehension of self and reality, and nobody has truly nailed it down.

[@elizabetheaton3882]

Thanks so much for this really well made video. This is the first time I've ever heard most of the subject of philosophy. It'd be nice to have this graphic and well summarized introductions in a small coffee table book. I'm saving this video! 😊

[@addsy9415]

keep up the amazing work man, i love all your videos 💪

[@TheClearSighted]

Where’s Jim Carey? Where’s Eddy Murphy? Where’s Vin Diesel?

[@joefearn9694]

Don't forget footballer Eric Cantona.

[@sheerluckholmes7720]

Hanging out with Russel Crow !

[@natefour69]

On the grind💯 I’m seeing you grow every video

[@kevinburke6095]

please add more Chinese philosophers like Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu

[@claudiuseisenrauch6754]

Do „every classical composer explained“ next pls :)

[@h.p.lovecraft6904]

Love how a third of the list is just Germans, I hope these people know how much they contributed to humanity.

[@TheJaminator128]

Instead they wanna self flagellate themselves for all time over 12 miniscule years where they weren't subservient to international financiers and their attempted exploitation of all Europe.

[@sheerluckholmes7720]

Yes,but they still omitted the greatest German philosopher of all....Oswald SPENGLER ! 🙄

[@zekeriyamustafa9952]

avicenna, algazel, averroes. many arab philosophers that form a crucial bridge between aristotle and aquinas and therefore greatly influenced western philosophy

[@KomodoXVIII]

None of those guys were arabs

[@joyous7944]

@@KomodoXVIII Persian, Persian, and Arab (albeit in Spain).

[@TheScholarlyBaptist]

Some Muslim philosophers are often times over looked.

[@TheScholarlyBaptist]

@@KomodoXVIIIit’s crazy how people still don’t differentiate between ethnicity and religion. Religion is far more important.

[@ccahill2322]

@TheScholarlyBaptist , "Religion?" The only 'religion" the Greek" philosophers had was the "religion' of reason. "God" had not got around to writing "the bible" yet. Wonder why it took so long? And why it took until an English "king" had to (pretend) to give it the OK...with lots of "influence" from several places of "financial and political" power.

[@salvadoralvarado8685]

in any list of influential philosophers the names of arthur schopenhauer, bertrand russell and john dewey must be included

[@Tellmewhy235]

How the hell you don’t have Spinoza on here?!?!

[@rickyvalentino5307]

I just found you and I'm glad i did , keep it up man i love your content ❤

[@YerDa67]

David Hume. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lexa3210]

From Edinberg lol

[@joefearn9694]

Thomas Reid. Great Scottish philosopher.

[@astonrichardson5288]

@@lexa3210yeah the pronunciation is kinda irritating but on the whole, educational 😊

[@ewdenver1]

Thank you for educating ❤

[@Pussaychop]

Great effin list mang.

[@phpn99]

No Spinoza, no Leibniz, no Abélard, no Epicurus, no Zeno, no Democritus, no Quine, no shit...

[@olskoolmama]

Another banger, how about a vid on the most influential women of all time?

[@Zpahcihfaerry]

Short video idea

[@Sneakysneak123]

​@@Zpahcihfaerrynr. 1: caitlyn jenner

[@chupapi-o5u]

15 sec vid

[@JohnSmith-xx9th]

Aphrodite and Cleopatra? 😂

[@JazzyJonas]

I really enjoyed this. I'd like to see a part 2 with my favorite sad boys, Schopenhauer and Camus. Also, Sartre and how he was influenced by Marx would be cool.

[@eddiequinn1335]

When growing up I thought I was unique in my way of viewing God and the world until I read about Baruch Spinoza . He and I are in agreement .

[@thegavinchase]

great vid!

[@MD-lf3gt]

Schopenhauer??!!

[@gyuuggg22]

Wish there was more content like yours.❤

[@Paracelsus23]

Well done!

[@kirasfilm]

Love ur content 😁

[@paula4910]

Confucius say - "Man with hole in pocket, feel cocky all day"

[@satishgupta-c8j]

From philosophy to natural science, maths to literature and literature to innovation and technology to warfare, every corner is dominated by western. Love from Nepal 🇳🇵. Long live western civilization.

[@kameelffarag]

I think you can have a follow up video naming apostle, Amenmote, Paul, Tau, Buddha, Espinoza, Schopenhauer, Kitaro Nishida, etc.

[@ChrisSmith-lo2kp]

cue Monty Python's "Philosopher's Song" about how much all these guys could drink

[@amarkantasthana]

One of the greatest philosophers Baruch Spinoza is missing from the list.

[@RHYTHMGOYALTECH]

The title should be The most influential western philosophers of all time

[@ARISE24]

We think they shaped Christian thinking it may have shifted things but there were Christians in the days of Plato and before . Paul him self was of mix origin .

[@wambowombax2631]

You are aware that platon lived a couple hundred years before jesus

[@believeinpeace]

Excellent!

[@CrashOutCam74]

why no marcus aurelius

[@NicolasSchaII]

Because he as s

[@heinzyellowmustard5176]

The og philosopher king

[@CrashOutCam74]

@@NicolasSchaII uncultured swine

[@AlbertStrand-nq4po]

Hello brother. Thank you for the video, it was helpful to me. May I ask a slight suggestion if you would be interested; I think the picture here depicting Kant, is a picture of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi who was a critic of Kant. Thank you for the work!

[@beshoyyoussef2814]

You only touched on western philosophers not including confusious lol this list is wildly incomplete what about the Arab world or other great minds of Asia

[@edwright480]

Look, it's hard enough to get a woman mentioned, good luck on your quest.

[@chupapi-o5u]

There's 2 lost characters on the thumbnail

[@jaydonehistory]

W reference

[@istvannagy7946]

Heidegger???Being&Time is arguably one of the most intricate,mesmerising,eloquent and influential philosophical works ever put to paper….

[@patmac104]

Strange how several of these guys died in late August. 2 on the same day in August.

[@bilalmuzaffary6824]

Not mentioning people like Diogenes the Dog, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolo Machiavelli, should be a crime.

[@Geranimo1983]

Much of what we know about Socrates comes from the writings of Plato, as Socrates himself left no written work. Some suggest Socrates did not exist, instead only in Plato’s own philosophical ideas

[@rickbushwood]

This but with mathematicians, scientists, engineers, artists etc

[@malvinderkaur541]

It’s a factual yet strange truth that while these later period or even earlier philosophers were writing their virtuous right thinking, in ancient Asia till Persia and beyond similar minds were already grounding thinking writing same principles of life and No, they had no idea if each others existence till silk route got established and they couldn’t have read each other because language was not known especially if India whose ‘ Mahabharata’ and Bhagwat Gita’is the most ancient account written even reflecting modern day politics dysfunctional family systems mired in control struggle among other ancient books vedas so it only proves that select human minds think on same wavelength somehow catching what is out there surrounding as energy around us and our brains catch them invisible matter

[@edwright480]

It's the 100 monkey's effect.

[@Jnana99]

You left out the Buddha, Nagarjuna, Dharmakirti, and Vasubhandu.

[@williammarriott6131]

Thanks for NOT including Camus and Sartre. On the other hand where are EPITITUS, SENACA AND MARCUS are MARCUS ARESLIUS (sic?)

[@justsomeguywholikesmangoes1363]

no camus? :(

[@NicolasSchaII]

Tbh he didn't really add anything new and his writing and thinking is mid

[@gamer-ni5kl]

@@NicolasSchaII absurdism is pretty cool

[@TheRealMarkyPea]

14:13 which university? 😉 It’s names like Edinburgh that show you what’s AI and what isn’t.

[@NitzanAmitExtraMoney]

would love to hear about Spinoza and Adam Smith

[@Sphotamevs]

How did you miss the Buddha and Aryabhatt?

[@MoneyMitrovic333]

These are not the most influential, but most popular out of the most influential.

[@joefearn9694]

May i big it up for Arthur Schopenhauer.

[@nour-eddinefahssi9323]

You jumped from ancient grece and canficius directly to Christian and modern time. What about Islamic philosophers. e.g., Averroès who influenced the european Renaissance.

[@Ukrainadian]

How you have Confucius ranked but not Lao Tzu?

[@kevinanderson1516]

Syntax is too difficult but thank you for the effort.

[@christianlantan2094]

Is there a reason why most influential philosophers are German? Or studied in Germany?

[@krasserdude123]

he even forgot Kafka

[@rileymaclennan4749]

It seems a lot of them are the youngest child in their family.

[@whatsgoingon4]

"Woman was God's second mistake" ~Nietzsche Great wit!

[@thekingofallblogs]

Wittgenstein made all other philosophers irrelevant, because he showed philosophy was just a matter of how you defined the questions.

[@Stukupgorgeous1]

Did socrates make plato clean his plate? And yes this is a serious question ive heard to be someones understudy was also a sexual relation...

[@stanhankins3175]

What about Yogi Berra?

[@kinnjohn]

No Spinoza?

[@neoman1858]

Gautama Sakyamuni- The Buddha. Nagarjuna. Śantideva who followed.

[@joshuamachnik1039]

The Worst Tornadoes in World History

[@project-pe6ly]

where is my man Spinoza? he literally redefined god

[@kenbair]

for Hegel, genocide defines a "win" where none survives, there's no one to accuse life's victors can't be too concerned with sin where stakes are lethal if they were to lose morality's the refuge of the weak who'd bind the strong in self-imposed restraint perversely finding virtue in the meek misrepresenting martyrs to be saints a feral world's the prize for one who's strong as innocent as Nature sketched by Hobbes unless if fails, no violence is wrong and justice is administered by mobs no higher goal than keeping death deferred permits no meaning in this life absurd

[@kookamunga2458]

The first one that comes to mind is Confucius.

[@bazonics]

I'm happy to say, I never learned at thing.

[@NocturnalRoman]

How can you leave Heiddeger out , that is an insult to philosophy.. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Central figure in existentialism and phenomenology. His Being and Time redefined questions of existence, time, and human experience.

[@ibrahim_khalilx]

Where is dianosis lf synope

[@beerman204]

I am especially attracted to ancient Chinese philosophy and I Ching and Taoism. Not sure why.

[@gfsrow]

Wrong. Spinoza must be included in this group. Spinoza is arguably the most important and the most influential philosopher since the mid-1600's.

[@mcpauldjrickmusicmaker4504]

Arguably

[@istvannagy7946]

Extremely important yes, but to say that he was the most important is a hyperbolic stretch….Kant is by far the most influential thinker in the west, since the Great A.

[@asafashar1]

Nice but a bit too fast.

[@MikeFuller-d4d]

It didn't help Socrates that he tried to do what he did but was considered very ugly.

[@kameelffarag]

Was Buddha a philosopher?

[@KadirPeker]

The most influential WESTERN philosophers (plus Confucius)

[@Formerhuman_]

Eastern philosophy is just yoga with extra steps. It's all about spirituality and uninteresting concepts. It's like the pseudo-scientific part of science

[@gamer-ni5kl]

@@Formerhuman_ the Buddha pretty influential imo

[@joshb.1118]

Dude. You are missing some of the most important philosophers - Francis Bacon, John Stuart Mills, Karl Poppers - that helped establish science and scientific thinking. Without them we are stuck on relying on deductive reasoning and endless, untestable theoretical exercises.

[@Nooneself]

You missed Lao Tzu. Taoism started as a philosophy the day be a religion. 👍

[@Tinjinladakh]

Bro left out Buddha 😭

[@brp5497]

Its as if asia does not exist. Lots of wisdom to be found outside of Western Civilization.

[@Randomytname1]

It doesn’t

[@ANIMESHRAJ-t1h]

Title correction: Most influential philosophers in the West

[@NicolasSchaII]

Like yeah, overall probably the most relevant and influential

[@ANIMESHRAJ-t1h]

@@NicolasSchaII to westerners only. More than a 500 million people are following the nastika philosophy of Siddhartha Gautama, Nagarjuna ,Chandrakirti in the East Asia alone. I havent even included astika philosophers like Shankaracharya, Vatsyayana, Kassapa etc. Buddhist philosophies have shaped many greek schools like Pyrrhonism etc, not to mention the Upanishadic, Charvaka, Jina schools of philosopjhy which were already active pre buddhism in India.

[@NicolasSchaII]

@@ANIMESHRAJ-t1h ok bro yeah I agree with you, we should not neglect all of that realm of philosophy

[@JuanDominguez-y8i]

Falta el más importante, que fue D. José Ortega y Gasset. Predijo hace cien años todo lo que está ocurriendo actualmente, tanto la sensibilidad social como la Filosofía, o en ese caso, la falta de ella. Su sistema raciovitalista y su análisis de la sociedad de masas no ha sido superado por ningún otro pensador. No obstante es español, y como tal, tiene que ser postergado por una serie de filósofos, cuyos países los han sabido vender bastante mejor, sin ser por lo visto, nadie consciente simplemente de que han copiado en su totalidad el pensamiento del maestro español.