/lit/ - Literature

>>7272896
Philosophical equivalent to Krauss or Hawkings (nowadays).
All of them the academic equivalents of the Kardashians.

Maybe he should send his hair to the School of Life so it would stop dying

>>7272896

turned it off less than a minute in, saying that condemning buzzfeedesque celebrity culture is wrong because if you repress admiring people you'll end up admiring the wrong people. Are you serious?

Seems like a douche trying to be contrarian while having no actual contrarian points to argue for. Very few people if any will argue against looking up to geniuses or heroes

But that's just less that a minute in, maybe I'm wrong. I think not

>>7272915
Maybe watch the video before critiquing it

PHILOSOPHERS SWEATER: $10,000

hair

Alain de Benoist > Alain Badiou >>>>>>>>>>> Alain de Botton

>>7272926
Alain Corbin = Alain de Benoist > Alain Badiou = Alain Soral >>> Elaine Benes >>>>>>>>>> Alain de Botton

more like alain de butthole lmao

>>7272918

Nah, I don't like being tricked with these faux-triggers, and all these really bad reviews lead me to believe this really is mediocre and pointless

>Lukashenko
>evil dictator

What a weird thing to say

>>7272940
Don't worry, it was complete garbage

like that other video of theirs where some dumb broad illustrated the apollonian vs the dionysian with le uptight businesswoman vs le glamorous party broad or some other gay banal shit for subhuman retards

>Defends Le Corbusier
>Doesn't live in a cramped high storey flat

He's fucking trash

>>7272932
nice one beavis

they aren't bad but I've noticed a bunch of bias in it. A quick read of a philosopher on plato.stanford.edu is a lot better intro to philsophy.

>>7273140
what's the "bias"

I have seen this thread once before.
I am starting to have a feeling it is him who makes them.

More like Alain de BOTTOM (as in bottom of the barrel philosopher; also bottom in reference to homosexual coitus)

>>7272896
when asked about Kant
>we're not big fans of his work

>>7273375
another theory: These threads are a trick to get more views on his channel

>>7272896
>the media machine that creates celebrity culture
>that creates

Into the trash it goes.

>>7272896
I used to like their videos before getting/ when trying to get into philosophy. NowI think they're dull and simplified to a point some key concepts get distorted. I also bought this guys book 'Religion for atheists' a while back and couldnt get past the first few pages.

I'm pretty certain he has a deeper, richer understanding of philosophy than 99.9% of users here but he's deemed an SJW because he sees philosophy as useful to everybody and thus is anti-muh secret club and insufficiently edgy and thus bad

>>7273514
Nobody doubts philpsophy is useful to everyone. It can't be accessible to everyone though.

>>7273522
>philpsophy
>>7273522
And yes they do, hence the threads about how philosophy has left 'me' a tormented, despair-ridden layabout

>>7273514
I agree. And this is the board that extols stoicism and Meditations while whining about Botton being self-help shit.

>>7272896
>"philosophy"

The man's a BHL, a John Green, a Russel Brand, a hack.

>>7273952
He's a populist

>>7273514
This.
I saw a snippet of an interview where he explained his approach as being similar to the catholic church's; bringing the complexity of theology down to a level that a rube-ish medieval peasant could understand. Most people will never give a flipping fuck about philosophy and furthermore most people's understanding of the world will probably never go beyond about a 10 minute youtube video's worth of depth. Would you rather have people watching stuff about the Kardashians or gleaning well-curated nuggets from philosophy?

>>7273952
based tallis

>>7272896
it is only slightly better than john greens crashcourse, which is to say still complete dogshit.

beware pseudos who pander to the lowest common denominator and offer to break down complicated ideas for you.

>>7272896
I liked the episodes with the hot student philosopher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldj0RX3CqXA

>>7273514
>he's deemed an SJW because he sees philosophy as useful to everybody

>>7274462
>he doesn't think he's deemed an SJW because he sees philosophy as useful to everybody

>laughinggervais.gif

>>7274458
>fred-rik nitche

How can someone consider Heidegger harder to understand than Hegel?