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What do you think about The School of Life, anon?

>> No.15047402

>>15047335
the philosophy videos can be a little misleading

>> No.15047416

>>15047335
Comforting little blankets of nothing to fall asleep to. Absolutely zero intellectual merit, and is often quite reductive for the sake of simplicity and clarity of communication, but his voice is gentle and soothing. Its basically consoomer philosophy for the ASMR crowd.

>> No.15047439

No one can understand a philosophy reductively. To read philosophy is an active notion. You must do more than simply process information, but intellectually ascend to the argumentation and mode of thinking. This applies to textbooks that are on the market today, not just youtube cucks.
There are good ways to explain a philosopher in contemporary language, but it's best done by scholars.

>> No.15047443

>>15047335
Absolutely wrong on every single thing

>> No.15047447

>>15047443
Care to give some examples?

>> No.15047448

I don't expect such short videos to be overly informative or edifying, so there's no point in criticizing the veracity/completeness of the content presented in them.

Hopefully people who watch those videos go on to embark on a serious investigation into the works of the figures he discusses.

If he introduced even one person to Samuel Beckett (I'm pretty sure there's a video on Beckett) and persuaded him to give the trilogy a try, then I really can't complain too much.

>> No.15047465

>>15047448
>I'm pretty sure there's a video on Beckett
There is, but I think it was more focused on his plays than his fiction, which would make sense, given that they are a far more digestible format of his ideas and aesthetic sensibilities. I think the kind of people who watch School of Life videos are unlikely to attempt the sheer autistic slog that is reading the trilogy (though that isn't to say they are bad books in the least)

>> No.15047470

>>15047335
They are fun to watch when you've just started, but as you go deeper into philosophy/literature you realize they are way too simplistic

>> No.15047471

>>15047335
they are advertizing actually philosophy which is good thing but overall they are reddit tier

>> No.15047503

>>15047335
I want to cave Alain de Botton's face in.

>> No.15047537

>>15047335
Perfect example of genetics determining your philosophy. de Botton is the prototypical prematurely bald softboi whose worldview is dominated by failing with women as a young man.

Interestingly he hasn't gone full far-left as so many onions boys in his position have. But the resentment bubbles up in many subtle ways.

>> No.15047665

>>15047448
>>15047465
I watched the video and it invoked no interest whatsoever. I still don't know anything about his style.

>> No.15047825

>>15047537
xD

implying you aren’t prematurely bald
implying he’s had any failure with women when his family is worth 300 million

>> No.15048700

>>15047335
A money-making cult like any other

>> No.15049845

Self help cultish bullshit. Its like Peterson but without any redeeming qualities.

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>>15047335
I WANT TO TURN THEM INTO PEEPEE POOPOO MASH!

>> No.15049865

>>15047335
blatantly biased on terms of religion. One of the reasons I squit watching their videos.

>> No.15049873

>>15049865
And not their retardation?

>> No.15049906

Often wrong, but I like their Machiavelli videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXl0Ll_t9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQlnmWCPgA
I'm glad they didn't fall for the "I-it's satire!" meme.

>> No.15049928

>>15047335
It's bad. It's not even their fault, as I believe it is impossible to encapsulate the entire body of work of a philosopher or a writer in a short video mean for laymen.
But their editing style is really neat.

>> No.15049951

>>15049865
Wasn't this channel the one with the retarded St. Augustine video? Or am I confusing it with another?

>> No.15049958

>>15049928
Bullshit, that would be easy, literally just put a few weeks effort into it.

>> No.15049969

>>15049928
then you criteria for judging something is bad. learn how have some nuance in your criticism instead of being a typical 4chan dumbass

>> No.15049970

>>15047335
more like The School of Kike

>> No.15049971

>>15047335
>heres my personal view stated by a philosopher

>> No.15050036

>>15047335
Academy of Ideas>The School of Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfyCzLbcAvk&list=PLAYxecbGotUyqiNRXY_VrUvF952rLmyNl&index=2

>> No.15050091

I'd rather listen t0 Eric Dodson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFVK4dptbPM&list=PLe10TYAZJ_uke3sfEwjSnOtR5T47A0b-H&index=9

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>>15047335
bland neoliberal self-help hogwash that hides behind a thin varnish of misread philosophers to appear smart. pretty disgusting.

>> No.15050206

Not a big fan, reading Encyclopædia Britannica would be more informative.

>> No.15050281

>>15047665
Just watch one of his plays, many of them are short and surprisingly funny, especially if you're a fan of black comedy. This is one of my favourites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl5VsAadRwk

>> No.15050342

>>15047471
advertising philosophy is an actively bad thing. even plato writes about obnoxious teenagers learning just enough philosophy to argue in bad faith and says we'd be better off limiting the study of philosophy to those who have already shown aptitude in gymnasia.

>> No.15050395

>>15047447
> Hegel has had a terrible influence on philosophy. He writes horribly. He is confusing and complicated when he should be clear and direct. He tapped into a weakness of human nature: to be trustful of grave-sounding, incomprehensible prose. He made it seem as if the mark of reading deep thought is that one cannot quite understand what is going on. This has made philosophy much weaker in the world than it should be. And the world has paid another heavy price for Hegel’s problems with communication. It has made it much harder to hear the valuable things he has to say to us.

>> No.15050496

Based channel btfoing pseuds who spend months reading philosophy and not actually understanding it. Ive never even read any philosophy, just watched school of life videos and my philosophy knowledge is already 100x greater than all of yours combined. Of what use is reading philosophy if you cant extract the most essential information from it. Hundreds of pages of mostly irrelevant information, while all I have to do is watch a 10 minute youtube video.
Its understandable that you dislike the channel: its merely the sunk cost fallacy at play.

>> No.15050921

>>15050395
>He writes horribly
True.

>It has made it much harder to hear the valuable things he has to say to us.
Also true.

The rest of it about Hegel's writing having a bad influence on philosophy is retarded though, I agree.

>>15050496
this is low quality bait

>> No.15050977

>>15047335
We watched some of those in my high school philosophy class since most of us didn't have enough brain cells to read actual philosophy.

>> No.15050980

>>15050496
Tell us literally 2 things about Hegel

>> No.15051021

>>15050036
I was literally about to mention him. Good on you anon for vocalizing the same opinion as me.

>> No.15051141

>>15050977
jesus christ

>> No.15051146

>>15047335
Thanks for asking. I'm against it.

>> No.15051281

>>15047335
Their Hegel video missed the point imho.
I guess he was hard to understand with all his dialectics (his logic and his phenomenology are really important when talking about Hegel) so they took his philosophy of history and extracted what they would need to make him easy to understand.
But now people really know nothing about him. The video was no help at all.

>>15047416
this

>> No.15052497

>>15047335
Don't forget to buy your Philosopher's Jumper for only $199.95 today!

>> No.15052873

Theres something about the accent of the narrator that kinda attracts the audience people in here have complained about. What if the narrator was a black ghetto dude or a hispanic guy with the funny stereotypical high pitched accent? since it's a eloquent voice it sounds trustable.

>> No.15052905

>>15050921
Your midwit inability to read hegel doesn't mean hegel is a bad writer. You're being retarded. while one of the most notable philosophers alive is a Hegelian.

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>>15047335
Are the books they publish any good?

https://www.amazon.com/The-School-of-Life/e/B00X7ELRP8

>> No.15052936

>>15052905
Summarise his ideas in one sentence.

>> No.15052974

Bite sized pieces of philosophy can only do so much. I prefer Cuck Philosophy, because I'm not interested in wading through hours of intellectual masturbation just to realize we live a society.

>> No.15053050

>>15052936
History is on a path.

>> No.15053140

>>15052974
Check out Plastic Pills

>> No.15053601

>>15047335
They opened up a yuppie pop-up shop in my city, someone ought to throw some molotovs in there or something.

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>>15047335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jnlu4_QMfQ
/lit/ meetup when?

>> No.15053623

>>15047335
The definition of a channel for pseud dilettantes. I can see the appeal of the videos and the guy certainly has a soothing voice but it has zero intellectual value and is a terrible misleading educational tool

>> No.15053646

>>15047335
A channel for people who think glancing some basic (and typically inaccurate) “”””understanding”””” of philosophers will somehow make them smarter or more sophisticated

>> No.15054564

>>15049865
>Aquinas was a champion of secularism
One of their worst videos

>> No.15054618

What is it about minimalism that attracts the kind of people that watch this crap like a magnet?

>> No.15054972

>>15047335
Its Alain de Buttons philosophy channel. Nothing more.

So do not watch it to learn anything but Alain de Buttons philosophies. Which are pretty good, if you take into account his bourgoise insular life.

>> No.15055072

>>15047335
Academy of Ideas is better

>> No.15055212

>>15047335
I hate his annoying fucking voice. I listen on a very low volume with english subtitles.

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>>15047335
Awful. The videos actively delude and appeal to the naive or scum.

>> No.15055318

>>15047665
Read Watt. It's a good example of his writing style. It's somewhat repetitive because of circumstances surrounding it (his friends in France were getting killed in the War and he wrote it to prevent himself having a breakdown), but it's a good example of his surrealistic story-telling. I also don't believe that Beckett is either plot or character-driven; he's symbol-driven. Whatever the thing of most significance is in terms of how the character appears drives the story.

>> No.15055323

>>15049906
Given that The Prince is both short and really easy to read, I'm not surprised they got this one right. Dude who makes them probably doesn't have the attention span for larger works.

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>>15047335
Horribly oversimplifies philosophic concepts for normies which leads to misunderstandings.