The ONE RULE for LIFE - Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy - Mark Manson

The script for this animation was written and narrated by Mark Manson, an American self-help author and blogger. As of 2024, he has authored or co-authored four books, three of which, "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck", "Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope", and "Will", were New York Times bestsellers.
In this video Mark Manson explores the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 - 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy, being called the "father of modern ethics", "father of modern aesthetics" and, by bringing together rationalism and empiricism, the "father of modern philosophy".
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[@EricCoplen]

"I would love to come out and party tonight guys, but I Kant" 😎

[@vissal4505]

Hah!

[@Omni-King2099]

C'mon don't be such a Kant 🗿

[@AANasseh]

This!! 😅

[@jamesrichey]

Lol

[@awan266]

Love it 😂

[@jordancraig8911]

“Instead of grabbing his crotch , Kant made his argument with brutal rationality” 🤣 best line ever 😂

[@Thalantanis]

I couldn't stop laughing, best analogy ever!

[@SuperKeithers]

lolol and i think ghandi said it in the other mandela universe ^^

[@ashbrooks89]

I LOL’d on that one too!

[@arachnidtea]

16:10 for anyone wondering

[@MonsieurMoustachio]

where is the joke though? honest question.

[@Victor_Andrei]

"Treat humanity as ends and not means." Is precisely the kind of thing I'd try to get everyone else to believe.

[@patrickfarley8036]

Sounds a lot like "Love thy neighbors as (you love) yourself." Jesus of Nazareth

[@ajaxthegreat3515]

Indeed

[@yakncast7530]

@@patrickfarley8036 Yeshua.

[@Cheyne4Chelsea]

Wow. You explained Kant's rule so simply a kindergartner could grasp it Well done. EXTREMELY well done

[@notmelah]

Imma kindergardener and I confirm

[@user-lj9we2rf1n]

The fact I still understood very little then might not be good news for me

[@-Robert]

@@user-lj9we2rf1n that's not true. You can watch the video multiple times or try writing out the script for yourself. The video has a very complex topic as basis and understanding the whole philosophy in one go is not easy if you're not already accustomed to the ideas surrounding it. The video is really well made. If any, I'd recommend you'd take notes for this or watch/listen to it multiple times, because realising that being moral means not wasting your potential is an important idea for people of all ages and times, and can improve anyones livfe manifold if they act upon it. You're not dumb, and telling yourself you are is immoral. Have a great day.

[@dfazo1616]

@@-RobertW

[@volodymyrdemydiuk8321]

I believe it's not wrong to say author of this video got Kantscious

[@ekurisona663]

evil begins when you start treating people like things instead of people

[@OffGridInvestor]

A bit like the average corporate stooge

[@Rickety3263]

Evil begins in the absence of God

[@paulgoogol2652]

as you can see how animals are treated.

[@chucksolutions4579]

Someone read Pterry?

[@samvarcoe]

Granny Weatherwax ❤

[@raycecil4643]

I agree with Kant. Im turning 38 this year, and after living a life pretty much exactly mirroring Kant's up to now, I have actively decided to stop chasing the glamourous things, and start chasing the meaning behind my actions. Everything now must have a purpose, and a meaning.

[@cheesball96]

Thanks for you comment. I always learn from comments like your.

[@victorenock]

Good luck

[@PaulJackino]

YES!

[@geekahertz]

Can you give examples of what chasing the meaning behind your actions is?

[@raycecil4643]

@@geekahertz Sure! So, for example, I am a homesteader. Why? What is the meaning behind all the extra physical and mental work I have to do to live this lifestyle? Well, I have to first define homesteading as a Means, or the end. For me and my wife, its a means. We are doing this so that we become physically and mentally healthier, and raise our children in such a way as to teach them practical life skills that are not easily taught in a neighborhood, especiallyone with an HOA. The "end" here is to produce responsible young men, who will be productive not only for themselves, but to their family, community and friends. I homestead, but I also work as a mechanical engineer....engineering work is the means I use to afford the homesteading lifestyle. Its important I think, to make sure my "end" is serving of others. Once I maintain that servant mindset, I in turn get to enjoy my experience through life more, than if I was self-serving. So far, it has proven true, that serving others brings more satisfaction.

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

"Do unto others as you would have them do to you" is the Golden Rule for a reason. Everyone is the Main Character in your story.

[@agnesarellano6033]

this is not necessarily what he means, cause you could be treating yourself horribly and therefore unto others as well

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

@@agnesarellano6033 True. I think Jesus took the assumption that the listener was in a healthy mental state of self-worth. It's definitely an issue that projecting one's own self-loathing onto others leads to all sorts of horrific acts.

[@CerealDust-nStuff]

Do unto others as you would have them do to the person you love and respect the most.

[@BlakedaBull]

But first love god with all your mind and heart .

[@mRahman92]

Everyone is the main character in _their_ story. You are still the main character in your story, but recognizing other people as people and not treating them like NPCs is supposed to be the goal here right? Although, there are some people who act like straight up wind-up dolls.

[@joex222]

I'm 43 and have been trying my best at self-improvement in the last 6 months. This video really makes me feel like I'm doing the right thing. I've also recently had a theory that everyone is just the same person inside a body with extremely different experiences. Treat people how you would want to be treated. I think the best thing you can do is help someone else self-improve by doing it yourself and showing everyone what is possible.

[@shrunkensimon]

The golden rule. Love thy neighbour as yourself - "because he is yourself. Literally." Bill Hicks. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.".

[@happydogg312]

"Everyone is just the same person inside a body with extremely different experiences." Thats a bunch of hogwash. This is the kind of hypothesis that rises from too much deep thinking and not enough living life. Some people are psychopaths, born that way. Some adjust to that and lead useful and productive lives while others become serial killers but they are both fundamentally different from the average person. They aren't psychopaths because they had different experiences.

[@Path-of-Islam-]

Sounds like The Egg Theory: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmfJlH6Vm7eMl6ssi=UwFrh9iVYAVUPVwi

[@RPcropland]

Yeah but not everyone wants to be treated the same as you. Work on understanding people instead. By assuming they are just like you, you are merely projecting yourself on them thereby robbing them of their autonomy and falling short of empathy. Like you said everyone has different experiences and that's what matters.

[@AfterSkool]

Each person must never be treated only as a means to some other end, but must also be treated as an end themselves. Don't allow yourself to be treated as a means. Do your best because anything less is to treat ourselves as a means rather than an end. Are you maximizing your potential? Or are you treating your mind and your attention as a mere pleasure receptacle?

[@RemotelySkilled]

Well done. Kant is difficult to be taken for granted, but you managed to deliver his ideas as axioms that need to be researched to be debatable. Astonishing outcome and my respect!

[@sadgearmy4892]

Yes I agree. When an 7' tall alpha bully at work gets angry and yells to coerce others into doing things his way then this is unethical and immoral because he is using others as a means to an end. Normally I just choose to not react out of stoicism and being a sigma, but he is getting out of hand. Because I have self respect, tonight I will tell this bully off. Thank you.

[@scotchbarrel4429]

Interesting and timely perspective. I'm deciding whether to take a promotion earn more money and undoubtedly more stress and workload. The comfortable mindset is telling me to ignore it, ya dont need the stress, your job is great and it suits your lifestyle, but then the promotion and increased income is also a drawcard, and I'm stuck trying to weigh up what's more important - effing nightmare! Right, with that out of the way, lets see if this vid has any solutions. Edit: i agree with the progression from living life with the promiscuities of modern life, and maturing into middle age and reconciling all the things that have brought you to that point. Knowing thyself, probably the only takeaway i got from this vid, everything else is now common sense, at least to progressive societies.

[@DavidLucas-zq8gb]

Didn't Kant come up with the "universal principle" in which a behavior can only be deemed moral if everyone in society could engage in the same behavior without destroying its own ability to exist? For example, lying is immoral because if everybody were to engage in lying then communication would be destroyed thus making lying impossible because no one would bother to talk to each other. Stealing is immoral because if everyone were allowed to steal no one would own property thus making theft impossible.

[@KingSnowyKerr]

​@@sadgearmy4892let us know how it goes 😅

[@user-gf8hk3oc7t]

Guys i feel so much relief when he said that no one would make a sustainable routine until the midle age, im 21 years old and im making pressure on myself to be thé best version that i Can be. Kant IS truely Amazing

[@FoozyWoozy]

Same here. I was so hard on myself when I was 19 that I'm not waking up at 5a.m. like Steve Jobs does, and I don't exercise 2 hours a day like that dude on KZbin. I really feel you 😅

[@Mawyman2316]

@@FoozyWoozy mimicking successful people will never lead to success, at least not on trivial matters like when you wake up. Forge your own path

[@LibertyGoose]

This kind of thinking is RUINING our nation. Perpetual adolescence is NOT the answer. 18 is considered adulthood and people should act like adults at 18. Don’t excuse your own or others’ behavior because they aren’t old enough yet. Grow up dude. Get off your parent’s couch.

[@LibertyGoose]

@@FoozyWoozyextending your adolescence isn’t the answer either. Don’t you want to be like the loser Kant, wasting 12 years of your life and being meaningless??? Or don’t you want to change the world.?

[@LibertyGoose]

@@Mawyman2316it absolutely will increase your chances at success. You don’t mimicking ppl, youre mimicking the behaviors that make ppl successful and in turn building self-discipline required to find and maintain your own potential

[@markhiebert4553]

"Treat others as you would want to be treated, and don't make exceptions"

[@CrazyTariber]

This is truly amazing. I have tried and searched for the last 10 years for a deeper understanding of life, at least for myself. I have never heard about Kant or at least I don't remember but I knew, from all the psychology videos I watched, I needed to work on myself first. All my hard work understanding myself and others, learning to communicate and being strong enough to open up, finally paying off. It is unbelievably hard to improve myself, and standing back up doesn't matter how often I thought "I keep trying, and it's changing nothing". It is not about doing everything perfect, but at least try your best. If I help others and give them the tools I learned, they will also make a positive change. Now I see the ripples from my positive feedback and being open, it's just the start. I never before felt so happy and proud. The internet is an incredible resource. I could write so much more. I never thought there would be a video that captured my belief system so well. The golden rule always comes back to my mind, and I think the Kant's one rule of life fits even better. Thank you for this video, I appreciate it a lot.

[@joex222]

Yes, this video hit me hard because im 40 and finally got some discipline and I am on a journey of self-imporvement. You become a beacon of hope for everyone in your life that sees the improvements you have made. Then you see others improving themselfs as well and the world around you becomes a better place.

[@etownshawn]

"Something to hope for" seems to be the only thing keeping me alive

[@redlight3932]

Spend some time out of town it will change how you view the world

[@vettie]

Just like me fr.

[@WhiteWolfos]

Then find something to do and find someone to love (even if that's under conjecture of some-things and ones to love like pets, hobbies, family, people, places, hanging out, routines etc). In a way, it circles around with something to do, but if you love those to-dos then your view gets that much brighter.

[@TheMrEwe]

​@@redlight3932 in theory that sounds great. I'm just getting by financially so I imagine spending some time out of town could involve running out of gas and foraging my way back to civilization, or just perish.

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@redlight3932 Yeah because everyone has disposable money to just call off work and f*** off to wherever

[@djayjp]

Kant also believed we had an absolute duty to always tell the truth under any and all circumstances, without exception.

[@Sweethands4]

That proposition is unbelievably naive, as was Kant's idealism.

[@djayjp]

@@Sweethands4 Agreed!

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Autistic behaviour. Not possible for most humans.

[@dixiedownunder1]

Imagine how wonderful that would be if we lived in a world where everything and everyone was honest and transparent.

[@djayjp]

@@dixiedownunder1 It would be better, overall, for sure, if people state things that are objective, relevant, and not redundant (like telling someone fat that they're fat, unless the fat person doesn't believe that they're fat).

[@davida1606]

I grew up thinking something is wrong with my brain, but turns out I'm just a philosopher with an exuberance for understanding what is and what can be. So I have embraced my way of thinking. Immanuel and I would have been great friends.

[@joewoodhead2712]

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. It’s great because it really enforces the issues we all know we should address, but don’t due to cyclical negative behaviours. It makes you concede to your own biases…. And then gives you hope by saying that there is still time to change.

[@ItsFundamental]

All seriousness please make more content on Philosophers, Ethics in school was never taught like this

[@iunnox666]

Yuri Bezmenov knows why.

[@Slayer666th]

Wasnt it for you? My philisophy class spent half a school year only on kant and in total 2 years just on ethics.

[@CloudWithoutASky]

The phrase that should be shaking the world right now is "self respect isn't about feeling good about yourself, it's about KNOWING YOUR WORTH." THIS is what the honest and dishonest sides of toxic positivity and self love culture fails to understand. You don't need to love yourself for any reason. You just need to respect yourself and know you are worth something. And that is enough.

[@lightworker2956]

I mean, that sounds good, but lots of especially young people don't feel that they have worth -- partly due to cultural messaging, partly because they're not contributing that much (they can't afford to have children) and partly because they're just another interchangeable person and the world wouldn't be different if they stopped existing. I'm not saying that people have no worth, I'm saying that people feel that they have no worth.

[@CloudWithoutASky]

I would also argue they not only have worth, they also have the means to have children, many first world problems are entirely mental. if there is a will, there is always a way. its a universal truth in the human condition. Humans naturally have a self defense mechanism put into them biologically even, aside psychologically since birth. Humans naturally want to keep living, and when humans are fired at and put under direct attack. We defend ourselves. whether if its fight or flight situations, even reputations publically, or even when people are insulted on the internet or in person, are people prone to fight back and stick up for yourself? When you get bullied as a kid, you learn fast how to appreciate yourself the longer you survive, and know your worth, and to not let people get away from telling you different. People start sticking a finger in your face and telling you that you aren't any good. to "Afford" to have children is a cultural concept that is an arbitrary line drawn telling you that you can't survive with what you have, much less children. and it puts people in the spot where they self defeat themselves and even prevent pursuing from having kids. Fear is what controls the masses, and it controls people from living life and having kids. If a woman really really loves children and really wanted a future with kids, it isn't gonna stop her hearing what the world has to say over money. Money is only as powerful in your life as you let it be on your mind. what i was saying is that people need to stop FEELING so much when it comes to their worth as a human, and simply look at their actions of survival. most people, even depressed people still have their self defense mechanism implanted in their very bodies. the world doesn't matter so much as what you do in the world, and you do things not to change the world, but you do things for the sake of it. You don't become mother theresa or Einstein because you decided you wanted to put your mark on human history. They became who they are simply because they felt a mission to do specifically what they had done, they felt they had to do it. @@lightworker2956

[@mogalixir]

Society, both men and women, teach young men they're worth nothing unless their deeds amount to something. The only thing, which came from the Men's Rights Movement initially, that Mr. Tate is right about. It's the ugly cloth that coats all socialization of boys growing up.

[@iunnox666]

@lightworker2956 That changes nothing other than difficulty of the task. Feeling good about yourself for something other than your worth is not going to help anyone. Celebrating obesity, for instance. It's completely unhealthy, trying to feel good about something you don't feel good about isn't a solution.

[@X-SPONGED]

I've stuck with this particular quote a lot. I think it fits quite well in this context. "Pride is not the opposite of shame. It is the source of it. The true cure to shame is humility." Humility, not being an overconfident asshole but not downplaying your strengths because of your insecurities. A humble man will know when to step down from things he cannot do and to step up when he can. The ideal man, a true man.

[@GabrielLopez-we6yn]

Best channel nowadays in KZbin. Thank you for your strong messages

[@dtthebarber8695]

The philosophy is spot on. These are the words for the thoughts that I’ve been trying to properly structure.

[@hadessss9723]

There was this quote, I can't remember it word for word, and I know I'm going to butcher it, but it went something like: I wanted to fix the world, but when I realized it was unrealistic, I thought perhaps I can become president. When I realized that I couldn't do that either, then I figured, I could at least become the mayor. Eventually I thought well maybe, I could just try to fix my family and friends. I learned that I could not change anyone but myself. But If I fix myself for the better, perhaps it could change my friends and family, who could then change a city, and a city to a nation. A nation to a world, and indeed I could change the world.

[@whataboutthis10]

..then I grew out of my twenties and realised how such thinking was childish

[@lancecereal3673]

@@whataboutthis10 and it may be childish, yet it is that childish hopefulness that keeps us from abandoning the world to nihilism. For, if we were to accept the unrelenting cruelty of the world, we must also accept that the world is full of kindness and compassion born from that childish nature.

[@peterpan4038]

@@whataboutthis10 Indeed it's highly unlikely, hence borderline childish. But it's not impossible, the odds are just horribly stacked against us. And what do you do if the odds suck, but the "price" is to good to ignore? You try again and again and again, or even better: motivate more people to join in. If enough people work on themselves with the goal of becoming a better influence on their community, and the world at large => then the odds of actually changing the world for the better get much better.

[@falco2508]

You are the world... ❤

[@MrJeffrey938]

So glad Kant seems to be becoming the next philosopher everyone's reviewing online; I was getting tired of Marcus Aurelius.

[@sswan5271]

So was Marcus Aurelius

[@enzocarranza]

@@sswan5271what?

[@jub7345]

So was i ​@@sswan5271

[@LEKSANDER01]

He is stating that, Aurelius, if he saw how his works, life, and mostly all written things about him and what he believed were available for him to see, Aurelius would probably disapprove. @@enzocarranza

[@hhjhj393]

Ayn Rand is who I have been reading lately and she HATED Kant. My god her and her other objectivists hated him.

[@MrMelonsz]

This is a really fine video. The illustrations are fantastic and the script writing is some of the best I’ve seen on KZbin lol. Great job guys!

[@Yaruandromedano1111]

This is my first time learning about Kant and I’ll say that he was WAY ahead of his time.

[@Wafflethyme]

I tried to decipher the thumbnail for about 2 minutes before giving up and watching the video.

[@sporter527]

lmao same

[@chardibinx]

Yup

[@OnivertInHouston]

Best intellectual click bait 🤓 ever

[@yonmoore]

Me too

[@Cree_84]

I'm grateful for After Skool. The weaving of uniquely beautiful art with thought provoking wisdom is executed masterfully. I purchased both of Mark's books and the accompanying journal a moment ago. Can't wait to dive in! Thank you for everything you create and provide to the world 🙏

[@AfterSkool]

Aww I really appreciate that. Your encouragement goes a long way. God bless.

[@turtletom8383]

Interesting I usually really like after schools and I didn't hate the message it was more the way it was presented the guy goes on about kant in the first 2 minutes with a bit to much hyperbole making some really glorified statements. Im used to afterskoolz being a bit more reasonable

[@HeLpLOstGOdAny1]

@@AfterSkool So how would you attempt to convince people of a particular cult that forcing children in to marriage is breaking that one rule, when their agenda says otherwise?

[@turtletom8383]

@@HeLpLOstGOdAny1 kants work at best is unfinished some say their are no true ends only means

[@AnAntidisestablishmentarianist]

Mark's end here was getting people to buy his book to enrich himself. I read part of the Subtle Art and gave up half way through because there is nothing there of any substance. It's 100% marketing - he's the edgy self help guru who swears a lot and gives useless counter-intuitive advice and his audience is rebellious people who want justification for not trying.

[@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet]

I have one rule that covers 'most' aspects of life "Create no harm, loss or damage for your fellow Man and if you do (accidents happen), make it right". Simple. Short. Comprehendable by all.

[@DomFortress]

So when pain isn't harm, then how do we make right to the generational harms we inflicted on the minds of younger generations, now that we coddled them from most emotional discomfort through hedonistic overindulgence?

[@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet]

@@DomFortress To be brutally honest with you, if you need to be told the answer that question, I don't think you're ready to know. Not to mention it's a far deeper subject matter than could be properly addressed in a youtube comments section.

[@DomFortress]

@@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet "brutally honest"? Or merely pretentious postering due to reasons other than comfort and convenience? Why don't you surprise me by yourself ignoring the fact that for the past decade, I've been developing myself away from my behaviors addictions and chronic depression? How is it possible to experience post traumatic growth within the contexts of immunometabolism, metabolic psychiatry, psychonuroendocrinology, and muscle centric functional medicines, by myself consistently practice Valsalva maneuver during powerlifting and kickboxing, Wim Hof method for none shivering thermoregulation during cold plunges, time restricted intermittent fasting protocols, elimination diet of all ultra processed food products, and optimizing my gut microbiome diversity using single ingredient whole foods as natural probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics, just to name a few? "All your excuses are lies" - Jocko Wilkins

[@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet]

@@DomFortress Brutally honest...you're just too young, inexperienced, unlearned and unbegun to be able to pick up on these things. Sorry for you. You're clearly a keyboard commando. Life isn't lived or explained in a comments section there genius. Grow up gamer boi.

[@krausewitz6786]

How does this cover consumption? (It doesn't)

[@earlschandelmeier751]

This is one of the best videos I have listened to in a very very long time! What a perfectly succinct and modern way to deliver Kant's message! A few f-bombs, a little irreverence. A few cultural references... Just completely perfectly well done!

[@David-he6uj]

I've been reading the stoics for 5 years straight. Kant really sounds like an extension of stoicism. So, now I've got a whole lot more reading to do. 😅

[@Rattus-Norvegicus]

I would suggest looking into Taoist philosophy. It combines stoic tenets with a more natural view of existence. Effectively it's stoicism without the self.

[@dontlistentoanythingisay]

I’m starting to see men repurpose the idea of stoicism into an excuse for being generally rude and selfish. Nothing to do with your comment of stoicism other than the thought popped in my head. When I think of stoicism, I recall a magnet my mother gave me a long time ago. It showed a cowboy carrying a lamb with the caption “be strong in deed and gentle in manner”. It’s not about purely sucking it up and being a man, but knowing what a man should be first and his actions follow

[@joesandbank3645]

I disagree. Kant had an extremist philosophy where things are black or white, right or wrong, with no room for nuance. I don’t think that’s the stoic message at all.

[@ubitubee]

Afterwards try Nietzsche ;)

[@drchill8837]

@@joesandbank3645 exactly. How someone could think that Kant was in any way stoic is simply depressing. As is Immanuel Kant.

[@jamessizemore7103]

Holy shit this is literally "How to be a Good Person in Every Aspect of Life. In 20 Minutes or Less"

[@thomasmaughan4798]

I can do it in less than 20 minutes. What I do is good. What I do not is bad. Easy peasy.

[@xcrazy98x51]

It also means, you have to go vegan :)

[@sarahalderman3126]

This is amazing. So much of this stuff I've struggled to understand/acknowledge on my own, likely due to the extensive SA I lived through until I was around 12. It really is about seeing our own value... which is exactly what childhood abuse destroys, our ability to see value in ourselves.❤

[@dudeman4071]

This was actually some beautiful philosophy. Something I want to integrate in my life. Thanks for making this video.

[@user-qb9gb2yg4i]

This is a vid you have to watch multiple times because you'll come across something so thought provoking each time. thanks

[@sirreginalddukeofchutney234]

I’ve been following for a few years. The art is always so impressive and beautiful. This was a wonderful episode. Thank you!!!

[@zin6730]

This has been the most interesting video I have watched in a very very very long time! We need more like these and hopefully it touches more people to bring at least a change in one person!

[@dothacker333]

Wooahh, when you held up your book I recognized the font and title real quickly. Turned around to my book shelf and sure enough I see your other book about the subtle art of not giving an F. That is so cool. Good video and I enjoyed the journey!

[@Ex_877]

"A global governing body that would guarantee peace across most of the world." You might want to reconsider that line.

[@adavies3]

😂 I was thinking the same thing, I just scrolled through the comments section and you are the only person that pointed this out! All the best 👍🏼

[@LoveratLoves]

@@adavies3 I just came to the comments to spit on the idea of One World Governments and their insistence we will own nothing and be happy, we will eat ze bugs and live in the pod.

[@triforcelink]

As bad as the news makes it sound, I don’t think we’re doing too bad.

[@lexluong8155]

Already exists called America lead hemegony.

[@funnymcfunfuns1455]

First thing I heard that made me realize this guy was full of crap

[@aditya.sood077]

I was browsing Twitter and realised that I'm not doing the best I can. So I came here to watch this video. This surely is way less addicting than Twitter 😁

[@Kingdeathtrooper]

And that's proof of something Kant got wrong. Wasting time led you here, to a better outcome. He doesn't account for random chance.

[@androgynouslibra7607]

I studied Kant in Ethics class, and his ethics really made me think deeper about how I look at treating other people

[@user-vn2ii6mu9g]

The quandary that plagues man is the overwhelming desire to improve ones lot in life often requires canceling others quality of life.

[@longhairdontcare122]

Fair point about not fully using one's ability at any given time being immoral I have much to rethink.

[@joshuasantomauro2283]

Thank you, this has given me a broader outlook on life, and changed my perspective on what we do. I will always do my best to ask myself what is my means to an end according to any actions I take.

[@williamwilliams7706]

I've been on and off reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' and this video explains the ethics of Kant in a much simpler way than the author did.

[@Cbr_auh]

5:33 is very much in line with what Pirsig writes on value. Something like: 'Facts do not exist until we assign value to them'.

[@StefAdr]

Thank you for this video! It seems that my morals align 100% with what you show, so I'm not alone in the world!

[@paulluberg2503]

Your videos tear down the veil of the dysfunctional reality I was stuck in for so long - thank you from the bottom of my heart!

[@AfterSkool]

Thank you!

[@citycrusher9308]

@@AfterSkool 7:20 - hey, thanks for admitting your w ife doesn't love you. And that intimacy with her is something you, yourself, see as bad. (self loathing - you gotta love it)

[@kyo_.]

​@citycrusher9308 I'm not quite sure what ur trying to say, do u think doing something for someone just to sleep with them is a good thing?

[@citycrusher9308]

@@kyo_. yes. There is nothing is wrong with men wanting intimacy. That is what sx is to men. It's like saying - ''its a bad thing for men to look after themselves or consider their wants and needs''

[@kyo_.]

@citycrusher9308 It's good when sex is the means for both your happiness and hers. It's bad when sex is the end. The difference is whether or not ur willing to use her as a means to get laid the difference is that doing it ONLY for yourself regardless of what she wants vs doing it for both of you, and as kant said its hard to tell which one is it for other ppl but its often shown that ppl are willing to resort to things like cheating, manipulative tactics like silent treatment etc to get sex, disregarding the happiness of the other (this applies to both parties of the relationship) so sex being the end goal also means that the means maaaay include other selfish things, bcuz after all your end would not be including your wife's happiness in this case otherwise she would be included in it, and not just "sex".

[@ser6Ijvolk]

"Starting with yourself" is often either misinterpreted or even used maliciously to mean "mind your own business" or "do it yourself, if you don't like it". When, in fact, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't complain or should personally fix the problem, it means, among other things, that you should do what you can to change the world for the better, and depending on the circumstances, that can also mean complaining and raising awareness of other people doing a bad job.

[@rentenfuchs3025]

"Starting with yourself" is not very popular among those people who want to save the climate, the Global South, the proletariat, or whatever is the thing du jour. More often than not these are the very same people who cannot be bothered to keep their room tidy or at least in a decent condition.

[@jonathanisernhagen6515]

Complaining is lazy and usually cowardly.

[@fmlAllthetime]

Kant seemed bothered to me. What's all the fight for?

[@jpm199]

​​@@rentenfuchs3025 yeah ok buddy go ask a palestinian to keep their room tidy before they start demanding better conditions,

[@wstavis3135]

How did you rationalize that? Starting with yourself means fix or improve the only thing you can actually control. There is nothing new about the philosophy. It shows up in Chinese wisdom, for example. "If you want to change your country, change your state. If you want to change your state, change your city. If you want to change your city, change your community. If you want to change your community, change your house (family). If you want to change your house (family), change yourself." Both the Chinese proverb and Kant imply a radiating effect outward. This is because it proceeds from "truth" or visual principal. The reason most people who "want to change the world" are looked at as immature and ignorant is because their desire comes from a desire to force others to acceed to their desires while exempting themselves from the same. So, no, that is not what Kant means at all. In fact, he rather explicitly says so as well.

[@boydwyatt]

All that time and effort and he just re-engineered the GOLDEN RULE and defined it in greater detail. Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself.

[@josefn.8297]

I knew that Kant is still very relevant for our modern lives, but not, that he is to that extent. Many thanks for these great insights.

[@graydogger5711]

I know nothing about Kant but the lying statement stood out to me. Suppose Person-A lied to Person-B so that Person-B would not be exposed to some sort of distreasing information at the time. So that at a later time, Person-A may then reveal the truth when Person-B is better able to handle it. Is not Person-B still the end in this case and lying would be justifiable?

[@matthewagooden]

I think that’s why the creator of the video said Kant is still hotly disputed to this day. There is a lot of gray area in how humans interact with each other, and how that correlates with outcomes and consequences. I agree with Kants points in principle but nuance must be applied to situations. Especially in a world as complex as the 21st century

[@Gbhmagic]

a simpler was of stating it is. You are in Poland(my country) You shielding Jews... Nazis ask "do you know where the Jews are"?

[@dixiedownunder1]

I think you can avoid or delay unpleasant interactions, but you cannot lie.

[@WinkLinkletter]

My ex-girlfriend, when she was a little girl, dropped the Thanksgiving turkey on the kitchen floor when her grandmother let her take it in to the dining room her first time. Distraught in tears, my ex was told by her grandma "Don't worry about it, sweetheart, go tell the guests it will be a couple more minutes and grandma will get the spare turkey out of the oven...our secret.". She then, of course, proceeded to wash off the turkey and bring it out as the 'spare' turkey, never letting on the truth. It took my ex growing up to realise what really had to have happened that afternoon, and how kind and sweet her granny had been. I am a big fan of the mercifully and judiciously applied white lie.

[@thomashiggins9320]

@@WinkLinkletter Children are not really fully functional and capable moral actors. The primary responsibility of a parent is to protect kids as much as needed *while at the same time* educating them to eventually become morally responsible, intellectually and emotionally capable adults accountable for their decisions and their actions.

[@djsaintmichael]

I was just thinking today when I woke up, there isn’t a video on Jordan Petersons mention on Efficiency. Talk about getting my wish…and you swore so much too. Very Kant of you.

[@WinkLinkletter]

The 'Free Candy' example drawing is a dark af but accurate depiction of this deception's extreme.

[@programmers_sanctuary]

Not only are you great at sketching and color schemes, but you're great at explaining a philosophy!

[@thecomprehensionhub4612]

We're making it out of the darkness with this video! Bringing humanity up ⏫

[@kendradorman6014]

Okay… I haven’t actually laughed out loud so much in a long while. THANK YOU! I don’t know who wrote this but love how you keep it real.

[@lake5044]

This is the issue with how philosophy is taught and studied: you build a theory on top of an assumption but you never stop to question that assumption. The whole way Kant is defining what it means to be an end is non-sensical. You don't eat a burrito because it's an end. You eat it because you predict that it will minimize your emotional suffering and maximize your emotional happiness. The brain is literally unable to control what it wants. The consequences it predicts for a thing determine how it will feel about it. You can't love or hate a person or a thing without having a prediction that they will make your life less miserable and happier or more miserable and less happy. Even when you do something that will hurt you in the long run, you do it because the present suffering exceeds the uncertain prediction of suffering in the future. Morality can exist; when the rules of the game make it the best strategy. But in objective terms, if something will benefit you, in all direct and indirect ways (such as others adopting the same behavior), then it cannot objectively be labelled "immoral". The only issue is that accounting for all the consequences of an action is hard. Feeling something is "good" or "evil" often just means we disagree on what the consequences of something will be. Also, play this ncase.me/trust/ it explains nicely what I mean by "morality exists when the game rules allow for it".

[@TheMessage25]

Didn't read all of it right now but I will come back too this

[@asdfasdfasdf1218]

It's a hypothesis, at least from this video alone. Does it match previous knowns, if it does, then maybe it has predictive power to unknowns i. e. moral situations you're not familiar with.

[@fmlAllthetime]

Kant seemed bothered by life. Imagine that... constantly being bothered and striving. Towards what exactly?

[@eonbeats]

The brain can certainly control what it wants. That's what makes us human. The burrito analogy was weak, but it was just to spark a beginning understanding of the philosophy. At a deeper level, Kant is asking us to define what ends we are aiming to achieve, and to be honest as to the means towards those ends. I don't think he expects us to never eat burritos for our own pleasure or enjoyment, but the framework he is providing is an excellent place to start to reflect on what intentions you are using behind your actions. Eating the burrito is a means to some end; what end are we aiming towards when we eat it? Can we be honest with ourselves on whether the end is the satisfaction of our moment to moment desires, or on whether we are doing it towards the end of bettering the human species by nourishing ourselves in the healthiest manner possible? Kant is not expecting us to be perfectly moral, but instead, to begin to question what our ends are and what means we are using towards those. Everything you said seems to me an attempt to discount a very valuable framework by being particular about the usage of the certain word 'immoral'.

[@fmlAllthetime]

@@eonbeats Being particular is the realm of philosophy is it not? Just confused what exactly your objection is in regards to OP. It would seem you're arguing semantics doesn't play any role here, but given Kant's cultural and religious upbringing, his use of immoral definitely has layers to it, would it not? Pointing that out and dissecting it as a term used seems valid as any other point in my estimation

[@Cerviel]

The part about self-actualization is soo true. I achieved so many goals and hit a lot of marks in life in order to be “successful” but honestly, the thing that makes me happiest about my success is what it allows me to do with/for my wife and dogs. They are what makes me truly happy, and their happiness flows back to me.

[@Sunny-gj6mh]

I felt like clicking Mark Manson's links was the "end" here and the video was the "means". It goes deeper first, then comes to a full circle. KZbin is the "means", making our eyes mostly see stuff they want is the "end". Under the circumstances, Afterskool's desire to show me these is the "end" and Mark Manson is now the "means". I love these videos, AfterSkool. I hope you keep doing 'em and use whatever "means" to do so!

[@rumpeldumpel675]

Man I'm not gonna lie you kinda just blew my mind

[@paulgoogol2652]

this text sure is the means to end the functionality of my brain.

[@whataboutthis10]

"whatever means to do so" did you not just watch a video explaining how some like consciousness is off limits for 'means'..

[@karuchiu]

Mark Manson is my best author. I love his humor.🔥

[@watermenplumbingfiltration144]

I believe there is a way to know how to precisely make someone happy. At the very least, in the short term. Whether one “should” is a different discussion. (which I would love to have btw) Thanks for this .

[@Lifes4fn]

Thanks, not only for the correct content, but also for the fine way of illustrating.

[@ReynaSingh]

Kant upheld reason as the source of our knowledge, which is understandable considering the historical context behind his ideas. but not all things that we know to be true can be rationalized, and that’s the problem we try to ignore today

[@RadioStationEXP]

Can you give an example of something that we know to be true that can't be "rationalized"?

[@RemotelySkilled]

Sorry, but that is an oversimplification. There are nature and nurture in humans. Nature displays e.g. in the social drive (herd mammals, 300.000 year old drive) or fight, flight and freeze (the limbic system we share with many species) in psychology also debated and referred to as the four Fs: Fight, Flight, Feed and sexual endeavours... Nurture is what you learn (with your neocortex) when experiencing the world from a 1st person perspective. Feeding spots, danger, procreation opportunities etc. and foremost and most important to me: Music systems such as twelve-tone or Raga. Kant did not distinguish really about the causes, but just abstracted the effects (what it should be like to be human). Therefore it is impeccable in that context, but it doesn't link need and means at all. E.g. who wouldn't lie when in lethal danger to circumvent it? It is a luxury that many many humans living today do not have. But it is absolutely prime and valid to strife for!

[@donniebgood1486]

I Kant understand what yall are talking about

[@ak-zxr0358]

Exactly, its not wrong… just idealistic

[@millanferende6723]

​@@ak-zxr0358It's only idealistic because this is not something we are being taught in schools. Our philosophy and self knowledge only scratches the surface in schools. But it is not something that we cannot change.

[@SupercarEnjoyer]

What a phenomenal video. Thanks.

[@michaelelder3945]

Great video. I'm glad I stumbled across it. It fills in some gaps in my own personal philosophy with some solid axioms. And thank you Mark Mason - I have subscribed to your KZbin channel.

[@melodyofloveinblood]

I wish someone like this every six months so that I can come back to it and watch it again

[@swedebug2889]

An excellent episode. I needed to hear this today. ❤

[@Tletna]

I never had interest in reading Kant until now. Thanks for the video. I don't know if I consider what was laid out in this video to be a true moral guide but it definitely serves as an ethical guide.

[@mr_gio7728]

Now I'm questioning my self Thank you

[@PeterOmelchenko]

Thank you so much! I love your video

[@christaylor8337]

I Kant say enough about this one.

[@bradbeckett6189]

😂😂😂

[@tacituskilgore3246]

... and so it begins.

[@driizzxoxo8751]

Kant disagree with this comment either

[@fishtacos007]

I wish this video was available last semester when I was taking business ethics. We discussed Kant throughout the entire course

[@harrisc8101]

It is a wonder why there is any study of business ethics. Businesses start small and have morals, typically. Then they grow large and just become monsters. Profit takes precedence over all other concerns especially ethics. So I is not wonder what makes that happen and whether or not business ethics is even viable.

[@AQBPlays]

Ofc it is viable. Run even a tiny SME when other peoples lives depend on the success of your business. You’ll soon change your mind.

[@josef2012]

I assume on the final there was "Of course,all these ethics will seem quaint once you enter the real world of Market Capitalism. Enjoy!"

[@JR-bj3uf]

My Great Grandfather was a creature of habit like Kant. The family had the same meal plan every week (roast in Sunday, hash from the leftover roast on Monday). My dad said that he had taken his little wagon with Grandpappa to the store. All the employees knew him and they had his order waiting on him. He got the same things every week. He worked for Railway Express as a manager. After the trucks left he would sweep the shop and the employee's said that when Pappa laid his broom on the central pillar and rolled down his sleeves it was straight up noon. He walked to a bar called the Blazing Stump once a week for a shot of whisky. He was hit by a car and knocked down. He was in his late 70s at the time. The police came, an ambulance was called and he was taken home. My grandmother made a fuss over him but turned her back and he vanished. He hadn't had his drink and he had set off once more.

[@johnogilmorejr6691]

THANKS!!!

[@itwasmewasntit2448]

This is super cool,the drawings are really good complements of the topics. (Also,those drawings are ART,damn) Thanks for making this!

[@ciaranlaurings9326]

Mark Manson garners more respect from me as the years roll on, now i find that he also likes Kant, who is my favourite philosopher and my pick for the smartest human being ever to live, in terms of pure intellect. Stunning presentation of some fundamentally imperative ideals

[@q23main]

Thanks, I needed a video like this

[@joshuageckles802]

Wonderful video. Very informative with beautiful and thought-provoking art. Instantly subscribed.

[@09Dragonite]

So I generally don't have much care for the philosophies of Kant, however, a professor of mine once quoted Kant's "treat everyone as an ends, not as a means to an end" with that slight twist of wording. That's when I realized that our entire species and everyone with power, wealth, or an opinion to post on the internet was entirely full of shit. Like, it was a wake-up call to just get off of social media and *live* my life with the people who make life *worth* living to begin with. The world is a big place. It's much too big to let yourself be treated and used like an object. And honestly, that sounds a little victim-blamey, but *SO* many people *literally* allow it to happen. Like, there is an enormous difference between being brutally forced into being an object or a tool and just actually letting yourself be seen or used as one. BUT even MORE IMPORTANTLY, don't use people. That was the takeaway that I got. Too many people with too much "power" just use people, and WE LET THEM. Not necessarily ourselves (although social media uses us 100% of the time thanks to selling our personal information) but we, as human beings, literally *allow* for people in power to socially "justify" the horrible ways that they treat other people for money, and that fucking pisses me off beyond reason.

[@user-dg7df3sv7r]

I took a college Philosophy course when I was just a Junior in High School. *AMAZING* Professor. A lot of it was over my hormone-riddled head, but Kant resonated so deeply with me, I almost feel like he has been a constant friend throughout this lifetime 🥰

[@Alastair_Adana]

If you had a bad professor, how would that change your experience? You have no choice over which professor was chosen. Would you have the will to continue the study despite the professor? Where did this will originate from? If your parents taught you the strength of will, then did you really make the choice to study the subject or was it made beyond your control long ago and your whole life has been leading to that moment? Thanks.

[@jayjefferson7523]

Powerful introduction, definitely did Kant justice.

[@michellesoria5110]

Wow I really loved this one! His way of explaining is hilarious and easy to understand

[@larryappelbaum2245]

Simplified: You get to do whatever the heck you want, I get to do whatever the heck I want. Only one rule applies; neither of us gets to violate the rights of the other.

[@VultureXV]

Not the best simplification without a definition of what "rights" are though. "Rights" are not a universal civil consensus and are subject to culture and history. Kant's description, at least, is clear-cut enough (with the ends/means wording) to give a better definition as to what could be proper boundaries. Without it, one can simply say something like, "right to self defense is not a right to my culture" or "right of sexual liberty is not a right to my religion." Etc etc. Hopefully I'm not overanalyzing again.

[@sebbkovic4224]

What you describe sounds like PARADISE to, where I'm from, 😢.

[@h20deliriousfan82]

This omits the protection of one's self. Which is to say, it is immoral to do whatever one wants if it effects anyone negatively.

[@ColburnClark]

That's a good reason to be vegan

[@OGTK00]

Except it doesn't exactly work that way because we live in a society where stuff what one does utlimately ends up impacting someone else (even if not at the moment).

[@SvetlanaTulasi]

This is so great, the speaker is an absolute GOAT

[@zachhoy]

I like that the higher self is always teal in this art style. Also nice summary of Kant, a great refresher or first lesson for many I bet.

[@user-pt2gf2ou5d]

I believe every one just does things to help themselves either emotional or physically

[@joex222]

Well they try.. Most people do things that fail to help.

[@AtTheDoor]

You always manage to make magic with your art, combining this timeless wisdom that I haven’t dived in yet with the incredibly deep symbolism of your art to help us absorb the wisdom. I had to pause every now and then to let the words and art sink in. A truly marvel, thanks bro!

[@MrLuigiFercotti]

The would is full of users, who see people as means to an end. Everyone has done it at some point, but for some it’s a way of life. The great irony is how they often see themselves as moral people.

[@dixiedownunder1]

They're the worst kind of people. Evil people who truly believe they are good.

[@user-vp1nn2lb8g]

literally sweated a little when i heard, he repeated the same routine for the rest of his life. Truly terrified of him, of how powerful he must've been. He was a free man for sure, not being bounded by his automated habits allowed him to ponder upon such incredible philosophies.

[@ajisenramen888]

Thank you Mark 😊 As always Food for Thought ❤

[@ATRTAP]

Humanity has to be continually saved from itself, ethics could often get it the way- dangerously.

[@zarathustra1430]

Please elaborate?

[@SoutheasternPaCommunityWatch]

Very good video. Thank you

[@Sharmazan]

Thanks! It's awesome style of teaching!

[@LinoDuszynski]

Enlightening. Thank you.

[@shyamnair555]

Never treating someone as a means but an as end themselves is probably a good version of humanity and respect put as a rule.

[@helinn6140]

so having doctors is a means to stopping people dying?

[@jonezyho]

This might be my favorite one yet 🤞🏾📈✨

[@willieluncheonette5843]

" I am reminded of a great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. He is a specimen of those people who are absolutely in the mind. He lived according to mind so totally that people used to set their watches, whenever they saw Immanuel Kant going to the university. Never - it may rain, it may rain fire, it may rain cats and dogs, it may be utterly cold, snow falling … Whatever the situation, Kant will reach the university at exactly the same time all the year round, even on holidays. Such a fixed, almost mechanical … He would go on holiday at exactly the same time, remain in the university library, which was specially kept open for him, because otherwise what would he do there the whole day? And he was a very prominent, well-known philosopher, and he would leave the university at exactly the same time every day. One day it happened … It had rained and there was too much mud on the way - one of his shoes got stuck in the mud. He did not stop to take the shoe out because that would make him reach the university a few seconds later, and that was impossible. He left the shoe there. He just arrived with one shoe. The students could not believe it. Somebody asked, “What happened to the other shoe?” He said, “It got stuck in the mud, so I left it there, knowing perfectly well nobody is going to steal one shoe. When I return in the evening, then I will pick it up. But I could not have been late.” A woman proposed to him: “I want to be married to you” - a beautiful young woman. Perhaps no woman has ever received such an answer, before or after Immanuel Kant. Either you say, “Yes,” or you say, “No. Excuse me.” Immanuel Kant said, “I will have to do a great deal of research.” The woman asked, “About what?” He said, “I will have to look in all the marriage manuals, all the books concerning marriage, and find out all the pros and cons - whether to marry or not to marry.” The woman could not imagine that this kind of answer had ever been given to any woman before. Even no is acceptable, even yes, although you are getting into a misery, but it is acceptable. But this kind of indifferent attitude towards the woman - he did not say a single sweet word to her. He did not say anything about her beauty, his whole concern was his mind. He had to convince his mind whether or not marriage is logically the right thing. It took him three years. It was really a long search. Day and night he was working on it, and he had found three hundred reasons against marriage and three hundred reasons for marriage. So the problem even after three years was the same. One friend suggested out of compassion, “You wasted three years on this stupid research. In three years you would have experienced all these six hundred, without any research. You should have just said yes to that woman. There was no need to do so much hard work. Three years would have given you all the pros and cons - existentially, experientially.” But Kant said, “I am in a fix. Both are equal, parallel, balanced. There is no way to choose.” The friend suggested, “Of the pros you have forgotten one thing: that whenever there is a chance, it is better to say yes and go through the experience. That is one thing more in favor of the pros. The cons cannot give you any experience, and only experience has any validity.” He understood, it was intellectually right. He immediately went to the woman’s house, knocked on her door. Her old father opened the door and said, “Young man, you are too late. You took too long in your research. My girl is married and has two children.” That was the last thing that was ever heard about his marriage. From then on no woman ever asked him, and he was not the kind of man to ask anybody. He remained unmarried."

[@marshacookie]

Mark Manson will forever be goated ❤

[@zia636]

Useful info, thanks.

[@alzhin]

I like this new, more humorous approach, lol. I also believed for a while that prosperity of humanity stems from individuals rising to higher levels individually, not through changing institutions to produce common good.

[@LEKSANDER01]

The author Mark Manson, who narrates this video, has that nice humor in all his books, it's great.

[@Lawrence330]

Unfortunately, you need the power of institutions to protect the rights of others. Some institutions (existing power structures, capitalists, religious figures) seek to manipulate the minds of their masses, using those masses as a means to maintain power and influence. The current fight over abortion access, for example, isn't fundamentally a religious battle, but the religious voters are being weaponized by people who want to control female sexual empowerment. In a country without socialized healthcare, it should be wrong to force a family to birth a truly non-productive child. That sounds harsh, but consider that society accepts none of the burden yet takes the choice of accepting or rejecting the burden away from the mother/parents and their doctors. When institutions are weaponized against humanity, humanity must change institutions to enable freedom of individual choice.

[@jessbarry856]

I love everything about this theory. It resonates deeply.

[@andyschubert6730]

Excellent video. Human society needs to adapt this philosophy more.