As someone who sort of, stumbled my way into Roycean(?) Idealism (without having read him) after finding Berkeley convincing, this series is super helpful and pulled me in immediately.

This man is very energetic. I never had such a professor in my philosophy departments.

you have to still put this video into the analytical tradition playlist...

Thanks for this! It would be great to have it in the playlist.

You are tooo good👏👏👏

Royce is indeed a great writer! I found his Lectures on Modern Idealism at a used bookstore recently and was quite taken with it. C.I. Lewis and George Santayana, both his students, are two of my favorites. Santayana was perhaps an even better writer.

It was so helpful. Please keep sharing such videos.

very interesting and fascinating lecture!

You have some bright students prof!

Are ideas particular mental entities and thoughts universal mental entities (in the sense of the particular/universal distinction in plato?)

This conversation would be greatly clarified by the addition of the two faculties of mind: memory and imagination. The concept of bearer seems different from agent, but is it? Finally the percept green and the concept of number or the pythagorean theorem are both indoctrinations. They are both imposed, but while the "sign" for number is supplied by human convention the sign for green is supplied by nature. The difference is that colors have no instantly available, reproducible, "sign" whereas the "sign" for numbers is an indoctrinated memory. Green is a memory, number is memorized. Green is a percept that has been stored in memory, number is available only as a "sign" that has been memorized. Where green is available to consciousness number is only available to imagination. Green is created by nature, number is created by man. Although man is part of nature, to conflate man's creations with nature's would be to find a watch on Mars and not infer man.

Interesting

Thank you for uploading! Is this part of the course on the Analytic Tradition?

then the thoughts would be the essences from Aquinas?

i have a question regarding Kant as an idealist and the murderer at the door, that seems like moral realism to me, although its not really justified by a form of truth, but rather an inherent evil in treating people as objects, i dont know how to phrase it as a question really but it seems like there is some contradiction there.

Royce = Thomism. Universals cognized = mind

Idealism 1: 0 MIOs. Berkeleyian insanity. I2: No epistemic access to MIOs (even if there are such). Kantian wretched subterfuge.

The world is that part of the universe that obeys physical laws. The world is made of such things that obey the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Ideas do not obey the 2nd law. The world evolved in ways that allowed electrical impulses to flow in a complex network with delicate feed back process that allow thinking processes. The collective thought processes creates a world of ideas. it is a mistake to create that he world of ideas is the real world. Jupiter is a real world with no ideas of its own or of any of its matter. Physically, we are bits of the Earth. All our molecules and its organic components were part of Earth one thousand years ago. Not a single atom has been created anew for me or for you. If this were a painting, we would be the figures with the capacity to paint more.

Berkeley fails to appreciate the substance dependence of qualities. 0 substance > 0 qualities. Bundle Theory false. Of course, there are 'bearers' and borne.

I still do not understand how such a intelligent person can support trump.

beats around 25 bushes, never gets to the point

just pick up a mathematics book already!!!