David Brooks: Genius, God and Morality

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Join New York Times Op Ed columnist David Brooks for a talk that's both uplifting and grounding, as he identifies the qualities that define moral geniuses-remarkable people who lived their lives in the real world, yet cultivated an inner life of admirable self-reflection and character development. What part does religious belief play in morality? Can you be a moral genius without faith in God?
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[@classicalsteve]

Maybe the most transcendent lecture ever offered by a political commentator and columnist. I'm floored.

[@robertmcclintic2014]

I am a republican survivalist who believes in the highest moral principal as the only choice for a path forward in and I am deeply disappointed in the direction that the Republican Party has taken. David Brooks is a moral visionary who articulates a rational view of the character that will be required to perpetuate the multiplicity and ethnic citizenship required in our open and welcoming democracy.

[@tomasinacovell4293]

You should be talking about ethics, they harp all day about morality and scapegoat all issues of taxation as they plead poverty for 1% and corporation antitrust all day long, with their underlying neoliberal Strausian claptrap. He did a lot to make Trump possible.

[@billmitchell2080]

Oh if this was only true. He is buddies with Harlan Crow, and visits him regularly. He probably enjoys Harlan's signed copy of Mein Kampf with a fine glass of scotch from the airport restaurant. This guy is a fake. A New York Times reporter that is in deep with the wealthiest dirtbags around.

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Boo...RepubliCONs

[@mofralojan]

There is something great being transmitted here. A valuable synopsis/act of synthesis. Thanx KZbin!

[@mammietoe2496]

I love your thinking, David, I believe that you are one of the best.

[@willmpet]

I have been a person who knows about George Marshall and respects him deeply. How he went from someone whose brother feared would embarrass them to somebody who was thought of as the very best one could be. He could have been head of that great invasion that was called Overlord to someone who respected his duty and stayed to support Roosevelt instead because of a sense of duty. He could have been Eisenhower but instead decided to stay in the roll that he had become-Chief of Staff of all of the US military. He gave of himself every part of his being!

[@pferguson6]

Intelligent and interesting speech on character.

[@miketodd9581]

YOU ARE TOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!! A GREAT MAN WITH A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR BEYOND YOUR INTELLECT!

[@davedemski8277]

Fantastic, deep, and inspiring lecture. Thanks David Brooks! You hit me in my soul.

[@francispena2818]

wow... just wow...

[@womenswellness1577]

Excellent ~ thank you for sharing!

[@SusannaSaunders]

Thanks for another great talk! Are you able to give me a link to where I can find the Dorothy Day essay that is mentioned at 33:30? Many thanks!

[@kitjohnson3776]

Brooks for president ! Wow, so helpful. Thank you David.

[@jimbeam4140]

I'm Liberal, but I like this guy. If more conservatives were like him we could get somewhere in this country.

[@jcarter8765]

I could not agree more.

[@omirie]

Brooks is not a conservative.

[@Hever73]

Definitely!

[@leenelson303]

He is billed as a conservative on PBS newshour.. The only thing conservative about him is his clothes.... He is a hater of Trump & his employer, the NYT, would not allow it.. he'd get fired.

[@mikescafuri9486]

I've always said this too!

[@caroljohnson3516]

Excellent.

[@TRUTHorSTFU]

I love listening to David Brooks because I always learn something new about the world and about myself. However, at the beginning of this talk he uses women as the butt of jokes 10:08-12:42, including his former wife 2:11, with a level of dismissive humor & camouflaged arrogance that I would NEVER have expected from him. This ought to be the subject of Brooks' next book since he's previously admitted that he likes to write books on topics that he needs to learn more about! Maybe in THAT book, Brooks can quote women more than he does men.

[@williamhiggins6321]

Thank You Very Much!

[@jeffroix]

A lovely thing.

[@Ahoj4U]

Not to disparage this talk, which is very good. However, much of what is said is simply reflecting standard Judeo-Christian wisdom down through the ages - a distillation of the thoughts of theologians and saints brought to an increasingly secular society, perhaps hearing it for the first time. Thank you Mr. Brooks.

[@RobertWF42]

Yes, but all considering the Judeo-Christian tradition is in desperate need of a distillation of the good stuff from the bad.

[@suzannemcclure7412]

When David Brooks speaks... I listen.

[@katerivera1464]

Full circle values shift. Discarded stones become foundational.

[@bijosn]

Wow!

[@TRUTHorSTFU]

Different types of individuals and how to overcome one's natural tendencies 25:11

[@vinkoivomilicdiaz6932]

A regular on NPR all things considered, and with Mark Shields on the PBS NewsHour. Very interesting. #ThisIsNPR #PBSNEWS

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

Thank you.

[@stephaniedeprima]

...I am a life-long liberal Democrat, but David Brooks is a rational, and compassionate human being that calls himself a conservative...and if more Republicans were like him, then the GOP would be much more acceptible as a viable Party!

[@lunchmind]

He is an apologist for the status quo.

[@michaelbrickley2443]

Stephanie DePrima, and what are they now? MAGA? Red Hat wearing delusional cult members. Scary

[@judithbeers7598]

@@lunchmind many of us do not see it that way

[@lunchmind]

Another example of what Chris Hedges called'Death of the liberal class

[@fedup745]

That's interesting as I see the Democrats as grasping, corrupt grifters who are full of hate.

[@francispena2818]

i was expecting this to be EXTREMELY BORING... but nope.... not a minute waisted here

[@majorharris8194]

I found Jesus to be the one personality who represents all that is character.

[@veritas6335]

One doesn't have moral "dilemmas" if one knows right from wrong. Most do. Choosing to do the right thing instead of the wrong thing is just a matter of character. Or what used to be called backbone. The right thing may be the tougher thing to do. The wrong thing is usually taking the easy way out. But "dilemma" means there's some sort of quandary or confusion when in fact almost everyone knows what's the right thing to do in a given situation. The moral thing. . Having the character to do it is what matters.

[@DavidBuehlerPhD]

A dilemma by definition is a CHOICE between two competing Paths or Lemmas. Some Dilemma are Right vs. Wrong, others Right vs. Right, still others Wrong vs. Wrong. Having spent most of the last three decades teaching on Ethical Dilemmas, I must disagree with your first sentence. Most of my Ethics students begin by telling us they "know right from wrong" but when injected into real--or even abstract--Dilemmas, many are baffled about making Hard Choices.

[@SY-jq4yw]

Sin is internal and needs external redemption. Ephesians 1:7 (NKJV) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

[@kitwright4566]

lindsey graham has now sold his soul..........

[@coptic420]

Holy shit David Brooks

[@joylynne1343]

❤ TY ❤

[@dinowalpa6648]

#Hush. Duly noted.

[@TRUTHorSTFU]

CAN you name your last [most recent] moral dilemma? 13:15

[@riokriok2863]

what morality he talks this guy he knows what it is ethics and morality look his background

[@TRUTHorSTFU]

What is CHARACTER? 24:38

[@cvan1075]

transcendence with ego hushed

[@TRUTHorSTFU]

ADAM 1 & ADAM 2: 5:20-9:25 43:31

[@garyleimback9576]

Nothing will disprove a theory like hearing it three times. This is the third video where Brooks has talked about Adam One and Adam Two and I realized that this is a false distinction. Some of us believe that living by deep moral principles provides the basis for outer accomplishments and success. What kind of person would disconnect these two things? A deeper and more difficult conflict occurs between our wild Dionysian drives that lead to sin and salacious behavior versus our higher Apollonian drives of light, reason and kindness.

[@DavidBuehlerPhD]

Required Reading, Gary: Either "Steppenwolf". or "Narcissus and Goldmund," both classics by Hermann Hesse.

[@miketodd9581]

THE QUESTION IS ALWAYS WHY?

[@ChristopherLeeSJ]

Morality is leaving your wife of 27 years to marry your intern who you had an affair with, who is old enough to be your Dad.

[@danafranchitto8751]

What did he teach lunch?

[@mariochacon6789]

24:05

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

יהוה הוא איש מלחמה

[@TRUTHorSTFU]

The dilemma of human nature 40:13

[@user-jb6th1qx9p]

06:19 Genesis 2 features the same event as Genesis 1 and merely elaborates on God's best creation (mankind). There's no contradiction between the two. Brooks doesn't seem to realize his inconsistency. He contradicts his own duality claim by saying Adam (Adam 2) wants to honor God, the same person who gave Adam (Adam 1) the dominion over earth.

[@martinskala6318]

Two contradictory stories of creation. First focus is on God creating man in image and likeness, all good. Second Adam version creator is Lord God who requires dust to make man who immediately becomes a sinner through disobedience. The first is spiritually true creation, second the mortal reversal of true creation.

[@IB4UUB4ME]

Adam 1 is a physical Man Adam 2 is a Spiritual Man Good and evil God and Satan Life and Death The choice is yours and yours alone.

[@drfoxcourt]

I always make a point of listening carefully to Mr Brooks. Here Brooks speaks of sin and morality. As an open Anti-theist, I discount notions of sin, but Brooks still has golden nuggets of wisdom when he speaks about commitment to some structure, some greater thing. For me, I find it dangerous to establish a supernatural entity as that greater thing, but commitment to humanity, nation, or some platonic ideal is a Adam 2 foundation I believe is essential to the ethical & moral.

[@veritas6335]

Same talk, same jokes. One of the problems with KZbin is that, although these guys can give the same talk to different groups all over the country and it seems fresh to that group at the time, those of us who come across these talks on KZbin and watch them all, hoping to hear a progressing theory and to continue learning, find that these guys really just have one talk that they give over and over again. The tenth time you have to listen to the same tired jokes and the same stories gets disappointing. Brooks needs some new material.

[@adleor137]

A moving speech dear David, just have no idea what God has to do with character…, God , Allah, Jaweh, Budda, Atheism (no possibility to become a moral genius), sorry if you would God out of it, your ‚talk‘ is a motivating one, the term God ruins that!

[@ernestknight6597]

GUMB❤️/GODBLESSUMrBrooks2013☝🏾 (“YourThoughts2020WON/GUMP45❤️?) TUF❤️THANKYOUFATHER☝🏾 Isaiah53,Psalm91,Ephesians6:10-20 🙏🏾

[@tomasinacovell4293]

He's a neocon hack at best.

[@lunchmind]

As he drowns himself in "virtue", he shills for the corporate class.

[@LeoDeki]

yawn!!!!

[@adleor137]

A moving speech dear David, just have no idea what God has to do with character…, God , Allah, Jaweh, Budda, Atheism (no possibility to become a moral genius), sorry if you would God out of it, your ‚talk‘ is a motivating one, the term God ruins that!