Krs-One full lecture on philosophy

we point our lesson here today to the

realm of

philosophy and what is philosophy is

going to be our first question I put

this this this picture up here because

you know they say picture speaks a

thousand words but this is a famous uh

uh picture it's a famous drawing that

philosophers uh when you're first

putting your foot on the path of

philosophy these are some of the

drawings that you're shown because this

is the point to philosophy in and of

itself you'll notice that the gentleman

is within a reality but then he is

somehow able to poke his head out of

what we call physical reality and see an

entirely different reality something

dealing with the universe other planets

and so on this has been a long this is

an Ancient Ancient technique that you

could be on earth and somehow figure out

how to get to the universe from where

you stand now a lot of this was done

with medicinal herbs and plants that's

why you see this down

here these represent like these are

mushrooms and these represent medicinal

plants same thing with the uh the

rainbow all of this represents medicinal

Enlightenment uh you you know those that

uh those that take mushrooms maybe p

uh

iasa um even back in the days LSD those

who take hallucinogenics is what they're

called usually have this kind of

experience this is a drawing but the

philosopher tries to achieve this

experience without an artificial uh uh

means of doing so you can always sip

something drink something smoke

something and achieve this right here

but the object of philosophy is for you

to achieve this level of mind being able

to peer into the deeper parts of reality

without drugs without medicinal plants

with with with without it altering your

physical body you're supposed to be able

to do this through knowledge in and of

itself here's another p a part of that

as well a different picture but the same

concept you'll notice that this theme

when you are studying philosophy you'll

see this theme a lot and notice the

reality in which we're in this the

regular reality Sun stars and a tree but

he's peering out into another reality

and this is the point can you C can you

move your mind outside of the material

world and into a world of possibility a

imagination but based on truth the

intangibles not the material world but

the intangibles like love peace

forgiveness Mercy you can't touch these

things but we know they exist we feel

them we communicate with these forces in

other ways when you're feeling stuff

you're you're on this particular path

this is this could be called the

emotions and this could be called the

intellect you know to peer deeper into

reality is what these pictures are

showing so now we come to our first

question what is philosophy and I should

have had a piece on here that said and

how does it relate to Hip Hop but that's

that's a given in this particular course

all of this is related to Hip Hop all of

it what is

philosophy first felo is the word we

need to look at felo

means

love equals or is wisdom feel

Sophie felo love Sophie wisdom now these

are Greek terms filo Greek term Sophie

Greek term and what we deal with is love

love love wisdom like what is it love

wisdom love wisdom okay love of wisdom

it's also philosophy lover of wisdom

also philosophy as a matter of fact

lover of wisdom would be called the

philosopher here here's the compact

edition of the Oxford English Dictionary

you know we always pull that up in our

lessons because we go right to the

original definitions with the atmology

so that we clearly understand what's

going on here we are philosophy right

here definition one in the original and

Widder sense the love study and pursuit

of wisdom we just saw that or of

knowledge of things and their causes is

love a Love or desire of wisdom

but philosophi is a Love or desire of

wisdom or otherwise it is a profession

study and exercise of that wisdom and

know look how he spelling

wisdom which is the knowledge of

divine and human or here it says Humane

things now we always play games with

this word here Divine okay because we're

always Ty in

it when we think of the word divine we

think of what Hollywood's interpretation

of divine is we're not looking literally

at Divine like imagine in the definition

of

philosophy Divine is part of its

definition

Humane or human is part of its

definition we usually exaggerate these

words God evil good bad uh we exaggerate

these words we use these words

culturally but

philosophy the the reason why it clears

your mind is because it deals with words

literally the this would not be in the

definition if Divine was not a real

thing this the the the Oxford English

Dictionary is not dealing with fantasy

it's a dictionary it has to document

fact of language so what we have to over

understand as hip hoppers in a

philosophical sense is that we are

Divine Divinity is a real thing to

achieve and it feels good when you

do but Divinity is a real thing to

achieve and that's why we bring this up

at the top of philosophy we're dealing

with knowledge of the

Divine here and the way you get to that

knowledge of divinity is not by adding

more knowledge onto yourself but by

stripping away useless knowledge until

all that is left is your true self it's

a different kind of learning true

philosophy is about

unlearning you know you've been taught

so much nonsense we all have been

exposed to such propaganda philosophy as

with the original definition seeks to

know what's real what's true what's the

actual cause of this is this a fact or

is this fantasy well we bring up the

definition and we want you to see this

right up at the top what is philosophy

love of wisdom what is philosophy

knowledge of divine and Humane things

human things the WIS wise Dome the home

of wise okay this is this is the

relation of philosophy you know and I

and I'm emphasizing this because people

have all kinds of expectations about

philosophy as well we hyp that word up

too to mean all kinds of other things

that it doesn't really mean that's why

I'm spending this time on it right at

the beginning felo Sophie love wisdom

lover of wisdom seeker desirer of wisdom

you'll notice that this is not a study

this is a

character let's go forward philosophy

definition two that more advanced

knowledge or study to which the medieval

universities the Seven Liberal Arts were

recognized as introductory this was the

introductory course was philosophy and

here's how they did you it included the

three branches of natural moral and

metaphysical philosophy commonly called

the three philosophies hence the degree

of doctor of philosophy so we're going

to focus on these three that's why I

bring this up I'm going bring a few more

in uh like psychology theology is also

part of philosophy but we're dealing

straight we're going to start with the

ABCs first and the ABCs of philosophy is

natural moral and metaphysical

philosophy this Natural Science this is

science morality ethics and metaphysics

let's go

forward his natural philosophy the third

definition of philosophy the knowledge

of I'm sorry not the knowledge or study

of

nature or of natural objects and

phenomena natural knowledge now usually

called science because at one time to be

a philosopher or a philosophy itself