PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault

[@ivanzu2069]

Foucault: Schools serve the same social function as prisons and mental institutions Foucault's mum: You're still going

[@saberzer094]

😆

[@sophitsa79]

That was my thought in year 10. If only I was in the kind of environment where someone would hand me a book by Foucault. I would have loved it and and I wonder where is be now...

[@Ozrictentacles87]

You did have that kind of intellectual grasp of society at age 10... sorry

[@sophitsa79]

@@Ozrictentacles87 year 10 at school and is age 15

[@Rustsamurai1]

:D

[@sodiumraccoon991]

"Foucault entered the underground gay scene in France, fell in love with a drug dealer, and then took up with a transvestite"........... Well that escalated quickly

[@airmark02]

Mmm yes agreed ,,...a bit heavy on Foucault 's sex life habits ... but interesting, I guess you have to be a trust fund brat to have the time to deconstruct social realities, lol.

[@essdearr]

+Penguin It is not so difficult to understand, many people seem to experience pain in the head when thinking revolutionary ideas that lead to new perspectives, which in turn leads to further questioning of society, or whatever it is they are thinking of. So rather than experiencing the pain they waste their life enjoying mundane entertainment like TV. I Don't consider video games being a waste of time though ;)

[@chmarequanimity8681]

May I ask why aren't video games a waste of time in your eyes even if watching TV is? Would you label watching documentaries as mundane entertainment as well, or are you talking specifically about a type of entertainment that may be running on TV? Also, what else is mundane entertainment except of "TV"?

[@jfalconredskins]

He wasted no time.

[@jthemagicrobot3960]

Sodium Raccoon do you expect any different from a Marxist?

[@dbueilrb]

The person who put Korean subtitles translated ‘medical gaze’ into ‘medical gays’ lolol

[@rosed.4754]

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[@bradenwilson8325]

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[@indiangirl874]

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[@SamuelCEllis]

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[@KRW200]

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[@henripascal8617]

1:57 That's my Dad!!!! I was watching this video at about 3am in bed and low and behold that picture of my dad pops up !!! I sent him the video link the next day and asked "Dad is there something you're not telling me!? Were you Foucaults Lover and drug dealer in Paris? Haaa" He still denies his involvement but being the french hippy he doesn't remember much from that period! The photo is taken from a performance he did with a theatre company called 'The General Will', a piece called 'Masculinity' in which he paraded around with a fake hairy chest mocking the idea of masculinity and machismo!! Anyway Hilarious that School of life chose that photo, thanks for much unintended jokes haaaaa!!

[@V-D.]

True, that’s really cool! Wow!! Cool how someone never knows that someone else can become anyone :)

[@raniamouzakiti9074]

your dad sounds like a really cool person!

[@chatarohs]

that's so dope, also your dad sounds so cool lol

[@jadabraaksma6877]

Wow, that's crazy

[@GabrielTortomano]

HAHAHA thats awesome bro

[@grace2872]

dude's life escalated in the span of 6 seconds lmao

[@mello750]

I went from 🤔 to 😬 to 😨 to 🤯

[@suttree3233]

"He covered his walls with violent images of torture by Goya..." *Looks at bedroom wall covered with Goya's Disasters of War*

[@samragni8013]

Shizzzz man

[@SamiShah2004]

I'd do the same though, Goya is a nice painter.

[@Rolkarz420]

Edgyy

[@JaimLawson-u1h]

In da trenchessss

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

He also shows how you can interpret history to suit yourself.

[@elmerfadd]

history is always interpreted to suit the interpreter

[@MichaelShulski]

wrong

[@TrueGoat-Bahhh]

And written for the wealthy , and ignored by the masses

[@irreversiblyhuman]

MakeMeThinkAgain perfect comment. I truly believe that Foucault, like many other gay people living in the shadow of contemporary culture he rebels against his own family and ancestry. #justifyanything

[@fremenchips]

There definitely is historical fact because we know that there exists its antithesis. Let's say I have two theories. 1 William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 because we wished to become king of England. 2.William the Conqueror invaded Brazil in 1066 because their system of discipline encouraged aggression towards people from Indonesia. One theory can be completely disproven no matter how much interpretation one applies to it. The other can be argued about and debated and perhaps the process of argument gets us closer to an objective truth. We may never know if we've arrived at the objective truth but we can logically say that there is one.

[@hotelmario510]

I should know better than to go looking for philosophical insights in KZbin comments.

[@coldtruth6354]

I agree (a little) because I find many informative things... but why may I ask.

[@ItinerantIntrovert]

You have to be willing to dig into what normal people are saying when they have a veil of anonimity over them. There are plenty of insights to be had there.

[@johnhardesty3167]

Just breathe deep your own gathering gloom, that's most discerning in itself!

[@bigMACDavey]

Brant Liu I think you're mistaken 2 view the greater acceptance of homosexuality as a causative Force. It is sadly true in my view that the scourge of HIV and AIDS forced and otherwise willfully blind Society to engage the homosexual community that was marginalized.

[@maryakrivopoulou3584]

I mean whether you go to Harvard or the youtube comments section, it's still people that share ideas. It's just that Internet lacks the order an amphitheater would have.

[@topologyrob]

He dismissed child abuse as "inconsequential bucolic pleasures", "barely furtive pleasures" and rage against it as "petty" ("History of Sexuality", p. 31 (English translation), campaigned in 1977 to allow rape of children, and has been accused of raping children in Tunis. This colours his philosophy on sex I would suggest.

[@tylerdordon99]

He was accused of raping children in Tunis but the Tunisian government must have known about it which explains their media's total silence on the incident.

[@I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid]

Colors his dreamy idealism? Like with what? Link from the blood mixed with other fluids?

[@puzer1]

...yup, pedophile with Daddy issues...

[@FoundSheep-AN]

I’m happy somebody else know this This is horrific and we have to stop studying the “philosophy “ of perverted evil being like pedos

[@PrisonOrDeathPenalty4Congress]

He is the perfect example for modern leftist parasites

[@crieverytim]

"becomes an alter boy, yada yada yada, he starts cutting himself. "

[@kafkafication3449]

I mean...me too though.

[@chenjeremy9672]

@@kafkafication3449 please don't

[@imadeddine850]

And turned gay, I believe that every child that grew up in church would either become gay or a pedo

[@Rhygenix]

Seems like Foucault's writings were fueled by the resentment for his childhood

[@Mattia-wo1dp]

I' m pretty sure about it. I think childood is a stage of life which heavily influence our adult life in many aspects.

[@jpviscaino]

Exactly. Most resentful extremist and revoutionary writers (like Fanon) had perturbed minds

[@Mattia-wo1dp]

@@jpviscaino yeah. But i don t think perturbed minds always lead to great things ( good or bad, doesen t matter). Like other things in life you need luck and specific conditions to attain certain things.

[@jpviscaino]

@@Mattia-wo1dp agreed! I am critical of some of these writers (the ones I read, obviously), unfortunate as their lives may have been.

[@Rosedeclemence]

Why are there so many comments about this? As if being raised in a homophobic oppressive culture of bourgeois competition isn't a legitimate reason to write about how much it sucks.

[@ronstoppable1133]

"Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives trying to get over" 😉

[@opinion4755]

But is the pedophilia accusation true though?

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

I think that entire generation of French intellectuals were traumatized by the German occupation of France.

[@opinion4755]

@@MakeMeThinkAgain and bourgeois bohemian lifestyle was a real blow too.

[@malichelete_music]

😂😂😂 Legendary comment

[@aashishmiya6823]

Plz tell me whose quote is this

[@Keytaster]

Not a single remark on Foucault's notions of discourse, dispositif, épistéme, etc., or his seminal studies "The Order of Things" or "Archaeology of Knowledge", but obscure remarks on his sexuality? Come on... a video on Foucault and no word on DISCOURSE? Like making a video about Beethoven without his 9th or 5th ...

[@ary9514]

they should have talked about the biopolitics too!

[@stzn5896]

What else do you expect from a channel that presents simplified versions of philosophy

[@ary9514]

you're right...

[@jennifertaylor2893]

pompous ass

[@jennifertaylor2893]

steen why don't you rise to the challenge and develop your own channel since you are such a genius

[@tnvheiseler]

The most important part is missing: the epistemic Foucault (Order of Things, Archelogy of Knowledge).

[@MMfish_]

Till Nikolaus von Heiseler why is it important

[@tnvheiseler]

@@MMfish_ Because in this less popular and scientific more profound books Foucault made a contribution to epistemology, which can be applied to many different fields.

[@MMfish_]

Till Nikolaus von Heiseler Ok. Thanks for the reply! Truth be told epistemology isn’t something I have completely clarified, so as I come to read more I hope to clarify more things within me so that I can make connections for myself.

[@tnvheiseler]

@@MMfish_ The classic epistemology is about absolute criteria of truth. Foucault, in contrast, reconstructs the historical foundations for the attribution of truth to a proposition or an idea.

[@mistert2875]

@@tnvheiseler well thx man, this is one of the first sensible comments i've read so far over there

[@Nobody32990]

Wasn't this the guy who adamantly opposed the laws of consent in France, signed the open letter to abolish them altogether and was heavy "child lovers" apologist?

[@donsal.t.1765]

I was asking myself the same thing...

[@heberpelagio7161]

The attempt to normalize pedophilia is a natural consequence of the thought that "it is forbidden to forbid". The biggest irony is the defense of this type of stance comes from apologists for totalitarian political regimes, like Mao Zedong's China

[@Nobody32990]

@@heberpelagio7161 how is it "forbidden to forbid"? Are we this far gone into the rot that there is need to explain why diddeling kids is wrong?

[@katianna7306]

@@Nobody32990 thank you for this . Pple are just plain dumb

[@emikabrekker]

Sartre and Beauvoir signed this shit too

[@red__guy]

There should be a "Post-Modernism vs Modernism" video To notice the similarities and difference between "Romanticism vs Classic" in a more "up to date" view. Especially when Foucault is mentioned now.

[@edwardthe_22]

Can't help think that the public execution is heavily related to what happened to George Floyd as a result of smart phones and social media

[@SamuelCEllis]

Correct. It revealed that the system is not kind, and brought sympathy to the victim and shame to the executioner and became the focus of protest. Just like Foucault said, or Alain de Botton, whoever.

[@feliperamos3578]

I think it's related with the discursive democracy (Habermas) too, internet is a public sphere.

[@markmulholland6796]

Exactly my thoughts

[@Totoofwarful]

yeas exactly

[@chandler6407]

@@arklowrockz well it could be argued that it was. But regardless of execution or murder systematic racism and racial profiling is a huge problem (all over the world) and people have every right to go out and stand up for their human rights. George Floyd wasn't the first or the last but it happened at a pivotal moment and a lot of people finally started to listen.

[@sibanought]

Personally, If I ever get seriously ill, I'd far rather have a qualified medical doctor looking at me as "a collection of organs" than a postmodernist looking at me as a subjective phenomenon open to personal interpretation.

[@arvinpillai681]

Jokes aside, Foucault's ideas have heavily influenced modern medical education. Nowadays, students are taught to look at patients not as a medical problem but as a whole human being comprising bio-psycho-social spheres. If I take the kidney failure example, while the bio is the organ damage, this will extend in cause to, for example, poor diet which is due to a hectic work life (social) which leads to stress further exacerbating the condition (psycho). In terms of effect, it can extend to how a patient deals with life as someone with kidney failure, including the stress (psycho), the physical pain and discomfort (bio) and how this impacts their social circle (social).

[@lissie3669]

@@arvinpillai681 you are bae for typing this so true

[@enekaitzteixeira7010]

@@arvinpillai681 Pretty mistaken.

[@Vekikev1]

​@@arvinpillai681didn't need Foucault to figure that one out. You're wrong.

[@ShivaMaharajMusic]

Doctors don’t even really know wtf is going on with us

[@matthewwrafter8159]

Not a single mention of the concepts of biopower or governmentality?

[@KDC_1899]

No, the far left post-modernist who evidently operates School of Life also did a video on Rousseau without even mentioning his state of nature "forced to be free' contract. Pathetic!

[@matissparadise5799]

so we're all being brainwashed by youtube's agenda to make more idiot people who just follow trends without having any intention for learning and knowledge which results in more idiot youtubers making money through ad revenue due to low IQ followers whom being sold hopes and dreams every single minute

[@Nalicow]

Because its reasonable to expect them to make a video to cover the entirety of a philosopher's work while still being concise enough to get people to watch it, and see why they should care.

[@SuperEekie64]

@@KDC_1899 Alain de Botton is a far-left postmodernist... yeah lmao

[@HareHaruhi]

6:28 It's called Hentai, and it's art.

[@subfreak1996]

The Office!!

[@Melki]

Suzumiya Sama, whatever you say it is, it is

[@Melki]

@Christopher Hinks it is messed up, but its sexy

[@mirfangu]

Wibu?

[@Heliux15]

I love seeing these videos after reading through the actual bodies of work. -like seeing lines on a map to understand what it feels like and experiencing the thoughts and impressions you have actually being in the place. -Read his works; they're great and will change the way you see the world.

[@phoenixgrove]

Please could you guys create a section on poets?

[@keke7078]

Dear School of Life, May you please make a video on Bertrand Russell please?

[@The22on]

One psychiatrist correctly diagnosed his problem as his name. "Fou" means crazy or mad in French. The psychiatrist noticed that every time Foucault wrote his name, he was reminded how crazy he was. He advised him to change his name to Gaicoult, which he did, and never had another problem. (Gai means happy - it only ironically has a second meaning). Once he changed his name, he took up golf and performed at French stand up comedy clubs, most notably, Club Morissette. Ironically, the proprietor of that club is no relation to Alanis. He planned to have the first gay wedding, but he called it off an hour before the ceremony because of his despair at the irony of the rain on his wedding day.

[@vibzzs..5027]

I think all his philosophy was an act of rebellion.

[@anon-rf5sx]

More like attention whoring

[@hahdhsjsjrkfn]

Iconoclastic*

[@blackmore4]

Or maybe a 'hip' hissy fit.

[@gcodex3434]

Rebellion a.k.a. childish tantrum.

[@MidTierVillain]

Amused Outsider brilliant satire,good sir.

[@XerosXIII]

Always thought public execution as inhumane, however execution conduct privately behind curtain is just us fooling ourselves it's none of our concern.

[@logictruth1]

XerosXIII Imprisonment itself is worse than execution. At least we wouldn't be alive to sense anything...

[@Carltoncurtis1]

Executions are on a steady decline worldwide but hitting someone with a life sentence is worse imo. you will still die for your crimes but the state won't kill you. Time will.

[@darrellgoudeau7642]

XerosXIII whats so inhumane about human execution human executions are meant to serve as examples so that other people dont get brave enough to do the te other guy got killed for

[@logictruth1]

darrell goudeau Notice: you have just objectified a human being....

[@darrellgoudeau7642]

John Smith think about it if your a ruler of an unstable nation how do you keep people in line? through fear, so you kill people who stir up trouble. i mean our lives really aren't worth anything whee somebody dies another person will take up that persons spot. like cogs in a machine when one wears they replace it.

[@johnsorrelw849]

Nicely done. Remarkable introduction given the brevity. I appreciate the inclusion of the biographical details (that Foucault would likely have preferred omitted!). My one criticism is that Foucault is presented as making ethical cases, whereas he goes to lengths to avoid or problematize judgements of mores (he was and is in fact often criticized as a relativist). His perspectival quasi-relativism is an important feature of the "postmodern turn" to which Foucault contributed. This comes through in Foucault's very interesting style of writing and point of view, which deserves to be reflected in how his works are described, even in a short introduction like this. In defense of how he is presented in this video, it's fair to say that the impact of Foucault includes how his "archeologies" have informed liberation movements and critiques of institutions, which has meant that many citations of Foucault lend them a more ethical slant than appears in his original work.

[@marclerenard7531]

Yeah and linking him to anarchism and making him a marxist is either erroneous or an oversimplification too! Great work though.

[@johnsorrelw849]

@@marclerenard7531 Yeah, that remark in the beginning about Foucault's goal being the bringing in of an "anarchist marxist utopia" (?) doesn't sound like someone who has read Foucault. He had his flirtations with Moaists in 68 and maybe Althussier's structural marxism when he was younger but that seemed more faddish than anything. If anything he was criticized from the left for NOT being clearly aligned with those or any positive ideologies.

[@schunka1051]

you really sound like someone who knows what hes talking about, nice

[@johnhatchel9681]

He's garbage. A million more words will not change this.

[@philbates7975]

Seems to me that most of those who have commented are either missing the point, or trying to showboat and show off their learning, or even to stake their claim to be noticed as philosophers them selves. These short videos are an introduction to something that many will go on to read in more depth. Surely this better then the alternative. Seems to me a few heads need to be removed from a few backsides.

[@mattwilcock5002]

Hi Alain. I've just read Siddhartha and between Hesse and yourself I think you've given me a beautiful key to unpicking an argument in my History dissertation. I'll try and outline the idea below when I have a more structured formulation. I adore the School of Life project. I have been a big fan since I read The Art of Travel, picked off by a younger me, preparing for his first sole journey. I recommend these videos to every one I know (you have made reading Goethe a joy, Weber less of a mystery, and failure less daunting). Watching these videos together with a friend always leads to the most wonderful and entertaining discussions. I love how easy you make what I feared to be dusty academic spheres that much more engaging, relevant, and worthy of one's consideration. On a more personal note, I have come back from a family funeral just yesterday. Over the past month, I have been watching many videos from your channel. I believe a direct result of that to be that I developed an outlook, no less compassionate (rather more so), that helped me deal with the situation, simply in a 'better' way... words, somewhat amusingly after reading Siddhartha, fail me at 03:59. I may only wish that this channel may keep your inspiring and consoling vision at its heart and that you may find some worth in my sincere appreciation of your ongoing work. Matthew Wilcock (That being my first KZbin comment, I may have been carried away.)

[@RahulSharma-uh1me]

true,

[@inkbythebarrelandpaperbyth6905]

This is a good start to answering why the West is so messed up. Great video

[@Herobeans]

How did Foucault mess up the West?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

"I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school ... [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him-and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys." - Michel Foucault, 1983

[@arpitdas4263]

HAA GAAYYY!!!!!

[@shragamildiner8472]

And boy does that last line take on a whole new meaning when you learn about his child-diddling

[@alessandra8911]

Why is there no mention of him being the inventor of discourse analysis. I think this is what he is most know for so why did you not mention this aspect?

[@DANVIIL]

Maybe because no one gives a shit about that or anything else about this perv.

[@zachgravatt5571]

@@DANVIIL this is a video about him with 2.6 million views

[@zachgravatt5571]

@@DANVIIL including you

[@jonnybirchyboy1560]

Because KZbin :/

[@Ardakapalasan]

"He still maintains a following among students in the prosperous corners of the world". Enough said.

[@jcryan3891]

"Guy uses history for best sex." -Foucault in a nutshell.

[@learn_french]

Thank you very much for this great video

[@norwa4878]

Michel Foucault is my grand-grand father's uncle

[@dorianweng8903]

And thank you so much for having helped 3 years ago when I was crumbling to learn French

[@mariusseran9911]

I wrote about Foucault last project "The Care of The Self" for my undergraduate study in philosophy and realize how great his contribution in philosophy study. 👍

[@DrFurb]

Can I have a read please?

[@mariusseran9911]

@@DrFurb sure, but fyi its written in indonesian? If you want i can send it to you

[@____darissa]

@@mariusseran9911 halo! can i also have a read please?

[@f45411]

the talos principle is the best source of philosophy I've had in a while

[@grozdaristic1220]

I really hope you are being sarcastic here

[@f45411]

Grozda Ristic do you know what it is or did you just briefly look it up and think its dumb because its a video game (even though thee philosophy is aspect of thee game is optional and mostly text based like most sources of philosophy)

[@RashidMBey]

+f45411 Will you explain to me the Talos Principle?

[@_erayerdin]

Make one about Noam Chomsky. :)

[@cigolsimons1768]

Lmao. What does that even mean?

[@jantewierik3905]

No, do Marquis du Sade!

[@jantewierik3905]

Or even better: William S Burroughs! Who dares?

[@cleoh666]

Yes!! I love Noam Chomsky

[@Breakbeat90s]

Burroughs, Hunter S Thompson and Chomsky next!

[@jovanyagathe2299]

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.” # Haruki Murakami

[@MCVessels]

Especially if there is a poorly-defined yet attractive woman in the next room, doing something enigmatic and sexy.

[@wawawawawa634]

So Foucault wrote books about subjects that he was clearly biased against because of his lived experience and used hand-picked, often inaccurate pieces of history to justify his claims?

[@douglasemsantos]

I guess so, but he clearly wasn't the only one. Philosopher's tend to think and write about what hurts them most

[@jonathanmontaluisa7950]

It looks like media with streps steps

[@rosihantu1]

@@douglasemsantos michel foccault had an IQ in the 160 range. he deconstructed language in ways that are philosophically difficult to put back together. and why did put his formidable intelligence to such a task? he wanted to construct a philosophically complex justification for his attraction to sodomizing underage boys......

[@GrizikYugno-ku2zs]

Truly before his time

[@JohnMiller-er8bz]

It's funny how fast you can get addicted to this videos! Absolutely genius! May I have one humble suggestion? One video on the meaning of archaeology would sit well on your channel, please do it. Cheers

[@JohnMiller-er8bz]

***** I was thinking about a video on archaeology in general, not only Foucault's conception of it. Thanks for the good reply by the way, will look forward for your videos. Cheers

[@pontevedra660]

Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Yes, Foucault was a genius, merci ana maria

[@75hilmar]

7:04 The clouds look like croissants

[@Otokage007]

They don't, it's just that you are hungry. Go buy the best croissant in the city!

[@75hilmar]

@@Otokage007 but maybe the clouds in France have to look like croissants. They define themselves in hindsight.

[@daan260]

​@@75hilmar maybe the french made their croissants look like clouds

[@Seanonyoutube]

Hahaha nice catch

[@brendanmckee1846]

You have omitted both The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge, my two favourite works of Foucault

[@junesilvermanb2979]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archaeology_of_Knowledge

[@ganjaericco]

When you use your power-knowledge to oppress Tunisian children.

[@iHKG0]

A perfect illustration of his theories are nothing but an justification for his degeneracy. In fact, I believe the reason why he is so popular among left wing is largely based on his advocacy of no rules no restrictions in life, rather than intended to help the disadvantaged. It takes a real man to help the disadvantaged in society and I believe most people are not up to standard to do so.

[@josbaljosbal]

imagine being stupid to the point of believing that a right-wing dude kept that secret for 40 years and only released the truth in an interview to speak ill of his work

[@samsonblue3444]

@@iHKG0 so i’m going to assume you’ve never read any of his work, but you’re very upset at what other people said he said lmao

[@Faiz9163]

Oooof

[@arquilli1]

@@josbaljosbal imagine going line by line through the comments to defend a dead child abuser from accountability. It’s not hard to figure out... an insane person who obsesses over expressing his power and sexuality ends up exerting his power to sexually abuse others, in this case, young children.

[@nottanner289]

Finally made it to the end of this playlist and can say it has helped me grow tremendously

[@Seanonyoutube]

Congrats on reaching top level human

[@thechiefofsinners1362]

He also wanted to get rid of "age of consent" laws. Sounds a little sus if you ask me.

[@InFellowShip]

He was a active pedophile btw

[@hectorroche7665]

At 1:42 it's not a young Foucault but Lewis thornton powell. Also, many people have pointed out he didn't want a marxist anarchist state. And those are not exactly his view on mental illness because he acknoewledged that other views (less developped) of human health had different day-to-day consequences that for THAT time weren't bad. (Today of course, if we can treat the mentally ill we should but back then they couldn't so a less developped view of the causes of mental illness were helpful).

[@enricomonacelli2720]

Nietzsche wanted history to be read to find concepts and examples to make our life better? Have you ever read Nietzsche? A concept such as "good life" would have made him cringe so hard. Furthermore, Foucault stated in an interview (released in Italy by Duccio Trombadori under the title "Colloquio Con Foucault") that: "Nothing is more alien to me (Foucault) than the idea of a master that imposes a Law. I do not accept nor the concept of dominion nor the universality of a law." He was everything you could possibly come up with, but he was not a Marxist nor an anarchist. He firmly believed that power is an essential trait of human's social life and there is no man without power. You should probably read better Foucault's History of Sexuality, especially the first volume, in which he gives a pretty precise defintion of "power". Plus, the whole nostalgia thing (the Renaissance was better, sex in Japan was so great, and so on and so forth) is utter bullshit, he never said that.

[@dillweeds]

good comment, watching this video makes me want to fucking die.

[@adamqadmon]

What do you think is the reason behind his constant misrepresentation? Ideological possesion? Philosophical stagnation and indolence at some point in the early enlightenment period?

[@0MVR_0]

This guy went toe to toe with Chomsky. Mad respect.

[@sithersproductions]

+Omar Omokhodion chomsky should stick to linguistics he is a moron

[@0MVR_0]

Every human has weakness.

[@sithersproductions]

***** foucault has his own bullshit to deal with along with the rest of the continental philophical post modern pieces of trash

[@academicned6236]

+sithersproductions Hes a genius, and you are full of hate

[@sithersproductions]

academicned6 "hate" lol go back to tumblr you scrub

[@WStallard]

Interesting, I just wish it was not spoken in such a breathless pace

[@caitlinashling4035]

Thank you for making this video! I have been studying Foucault for a bit now and it was so helpful to have the audio and visual components instead of just reading the words, it really helped it all click. Thank you!

[@mrcockney-nutjob3832]

Know your enemy, maggots Foucault.

[@MattVibes]

Isn’t Foucault another prime example of falsification? He wants to prove an idea and therefore nitpicks from the past to prove it

[@souravsaha3475]

Who's here after the news that Foucault abused young boys in Tunisia got released?

[@rudyardwalker9113]

Me and I'm not suprised. Back in 1977 he and a group of fellow philosophers tried to abolish the age of consent and promoted relations with children. Seems like people bury that part of him.

[@D91Mart]

No, I'm here because of the Book Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murry.

[@ImAliveAndYouAreDead]

It's most probably a hoax.

[@dusty_artichoke]

@@ImAliveAndYouAreDead It surly is - the guy who accused Foucault of abuse said he visited Foucault in Tunisia in 1969. How's that possible, when Foucault left Tunisia in 1968 (for students protests in may) and stayed in Paris is not explained. The random guy is just making sick PR for his new book.

[@wovfm]

A typical Left hero.

[@jjthelocator]

Thank you so much for doing this video. Your channel deserves more viewers, I hope the best for you!

[@jjthelocator]

*****​ thank you so much for doing this video. Not only is this going to help me explain him but this shows how important his views are to today's modern day philosophers

[@MarkFlavin1]

Top notch video. I went through the entire range of emotions from aversion to empathy and dismissive to accepting. I like how ya'll shared his history as a counterpoint to his ideas. It really made me consciously examine my own thoughts to the ideas raised. On the whole I think we could learn a lot from looking at how things were in the past and contrasting them to the reality we face today. The struggle those is going to be to remember that history is always biased. Not always in a deliberate manner but we do see the world in terms of our own perspective. For example while we may infer from history that the mentally ill were well treated we are only able to measure their treatment from the accounts of the people living at that time. Thanks for sharing these ideas and the history surrounding them I feel like I gain so much from each of your videos.

[@chancephillips7975]

A succinct, concise analysis of a colossal figure in continental philosophy. Great video!

[@FoundSheep-AN]

He was a pedophile

[@Lainehh]

I'd love to see one of these on Louis Althusser!

[@monstur148trash3]

Lainehh SAMEE

[@valeriexvegan]

Gross, structuralist “””””Marxism””””””

[@charlesnwarren]

The murderer.

[@IXPrometheusXI]

But of course, this shouldn't be taken as a motivation to go back to the way things were, but to try and develop new, even more modern systems that take advantage of the best aspects of the old and the new. For instance, a modern scientific understanding of addiction allows us to understand that it's not merely a moral failing of the addict, but something that could happen to any of us. This understanding wouldn't be available without the kind of distancing foucault criticised the professional physican for, but we can recognize that abnormal psychology isn't necessarily something that needs "curing," and instead treat addicts, and other kinds of mentally ill people, more as people instead of just a bunch of problems.

[@gahnz45]

Hope you will also do a presentation about Edith Stein and her phenomenological realism and feminine genius.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

[@phils3708]

Please also consider introducing Gilles Deleuze, who was a huge influence.-- Your audience would surely be mesmerized by his radical metaphysics (i.e. that difference is ontologically prior to identity). Even Foucault believed that "perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian."

[@topologyrob]

Another enabler of child abuse

[@kimothemo]

Al Ghazali, Ibn Sina, Ibn Batutta

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

Buah Cempedak they are not philosophers

[@Skenjbear]

Ibnu Khaldun

[@davidhalabi664]

Gibran Khalil Gibran would be very intresting!

[@cyanidesuperhero]

foucault was into gay bdsm?? iconic

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM

[@josefv1154]

I'm your 69th like

[@iHKG0]

he started his whole philosophy just to rebel against people who said gay was wrong. Don't misunderstand his philosophy as him caring about the less privileged.

[@tylerdordon99]

he was into young boys as well

[@DanielMclarty]

make one about xyz

[@altaroffire56]

Well, that was unexpected...

[@Carcosahead]

lol I love comments who makes references about other comments.

[@Vorador666]

Amazingly great video, blows your brain out. It makes you think long after you watched it. A true marker of quality

[@youxkio]

So good to find educative fields here on KZbin.

[@salomonflamenco7162]

What about a video on Voltaire or Descartes? Also great video, but you guys always put out great videos.

[@user-tg4hi6bj3j]

there are videos about both on this channel

[@arrinmixon5190]

I'd be really interested and appreciative on a video about Thomas Hobbes.

[@alexlazaridisf.7276]

I think the problem here is that these school of life videos are just so short they misrepresent the subject. Foucault may or may not have been right about everything, but he did offer valuable ways to analyze power structures (which I guess is the main point of this video so maybe I'm being a little hard on it). And in the end, he wasn't super optimistic that things would change. These days a tern like 'discourse" gets used casually. But it's mostly Foucault we have to thank for the proliferation of the term. The thing is though, contrary to how it gets used today to describe power structures, Foucault didn't think power was a strictly top-down exercise. It was also bottom up. A social contract.

[@LostMemoir]

I would love a video on Maurice Merleau-Ponty. There isn't a lot of accessible information on his philosophy and it's pretty interesting. Rarely do I encounter people who know who he is, which I think is unfortunate. Keep up the great work! This channel is wonderful.

[@blekberg]

I am astonished by the flow and aesthetic of the animations... its awesome, keep it up :)

[@beatriznascimento4332]

Aaaah Meooo Deoooos como sou grata de ter tido a MELHOR professora que alguem poderia ter na vida. Me apresentou este GÊNIO

[@healthAsylum]

How long does it take to make one of these videos? BTW I love them.

[@diogeneslantern18]

***** I feel sad at only getting to know about TSoL a few weeks ago. I would have gladly gone to the institute (for lack of a better word) during my sojourn to London in 2013. C'est la vie..

[@MCSkiure]

Can you guys make a video about Deleuze and Guattari?

[@NicolasIbarra]

can you be more of a cliché...?

[@purtzian]

this Video left out Foucaults involvement in the french petition against the age of consent laws in France

[@mackf7275]

His suicidal tendencies were probably brought about by the guilt suffered from f....ing little boys.

[@heberpelagio7161]

The attempt to normalize pedophilia is a natural consequence of the thought that "it is forbidden to forbid". The biggest irony is the defense of this type of stance comes from apologists for totalitarian political regimes, like Mao Zedong's China

[@khaledbenaida5676]

The medical gaze (dehumanizing attitude) towards patients was also depicted in the movie Dr patch Adams. A masterfully role played by Robbin Williams.

[@rickscottisanasshole.5658]

That movie sucks.

[@laru09]

Foucault: existed Teachers: H3 D1ed oF aiDS

[@PeterOwens1006]

Foucault scholar here: dig this video a ton! But we need to be reeeeeeaaalllyyy careful about saying his writings were meant to say that the present was “worse than the past” or that we are more barbaric instead of less. He’s not really trying to make that claim at all and attributing to him philosophically by looking at his personal life is super dicey. BUT the final bit about using history as a way of understanding how to be different/ourselves is spot on!

[@aocbbl]

True philosophers tend to cringe when bringing anything subjective into discourse. Even Chomsky smirked at the camera every time conversation led into his personal life.

[@PeterOwens1006]

@@aocbbl I agree with the sentiment, but I think also that we should be careful about saying "true philosophers" don't bring "subjective" things into discourse because... well, if we are being slightly picky, everything is "subjective" (viewed/experienced from subject position), even if what we consider to be the dominant knowledge regime is shared by most subjects. Further, any philosopher utilizing a standpoint theory is sort of necessarily going to need to interrogate their subject position in order to determine how truth statements fit into the overall knowledge milieu.

[@aocbbl]

@@PeterOwens1006 we're all technically philosophers so we need to differentiate the true philosophers from the regular philosophers. A true philosopher is a product of their ideas.

[@PeterOwens1006]

@@aocbbl I don't disagree that we're all philosophers, at least in the Derridean sense that "everyone has the right to philosophy," but I think we equivocate when we say something like "we're all technically philosophers" and introduce an artificial distinction that then needs to be delineated by introducing a "true" philosopher vs. a "fake" one

[@aocbbl]

@@PeterOwens1006 you can philosophize all you want while sitting on the toilet after coming home from your 9-5 white collar job but imho, you still won't be a true philosopher if you're not getting paid for your ideas.

[@estebansteverincon7117]

He used to piss his mother off, severly. Because every time he called to her, he'd say "Mother Focault!"

[@szymonharbuz9052]

Esteban Rincon Get out.

[@khayalakhemadlala335]

Get the Focault of here

[@Kroesial]

That joke only works if you don't know how to speak French...

[@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind]

Michel Focault? More like Michel foul-cult.

[@mariozarate5993]

i love this comment

[@n543576]

I love the realization sources I find on my own years ago are the same sources college professors recommend me to.

[@iwansaputra283]

Seems like you've had your share of good professors then

[@SuperSabeltand]

The main point of Foucaults work was not to analyze power relations, but how power relations created the Self. His entire work was about the Self as a prison for the body.

[@povilasrackauskas857]

YES, thank you!

[@Pippi-rippi]

Please make one for Gilles Deleuze! Your content is brilliant, thank you!!

[@antrant7533]

A friend of mine has severe autism but in some ways he is smarter than almost anybody else

[@ricsplazaras99]

really thankful to all these videos. the complexity of studying philosophy is reduced. thank you! but I am suggesting to make videos of legendary writers in literature like faulkner, marquez, and more especially those who won the Nobel Prize in Litt

[@lucasarean8997]

Please, considere making a video about Machado de Assis, the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.

[@ruolingliao511]

Thanks! This is the most intriguing academic content I've ever seen and it really helps me understand the school's thought.

[@Rident_]

Muchas gracias por éste hermoso video!

[@nerffan1]

PLEASE TALK ABOUT SLAVOJ ZIZEK! !!!!

[@gvstudios6038]

Angel Emilio Villegas Sanchez He's not a philosopher. What category would he fall under? "Conmen" or "Charlatans"?

[@nerffan1]

I'm pretty sure he is...

[@Elmirgtr]

Angel Emilio Villegas Sanchez I am really curious what de Botton thinks of him. I think they would get along well together.

[@fakeapplestore4710]

+Elmir Ma they wouldn't lol

[@NoahB.-]

GVStudios why wouldn't you call him a philosopher

[@dawnemile4974]

Foucault may not have cared for accuracy but I do.

[@Kaiser68]

Really interesting, his ideas about prison are especially relevant today!

[@antoineconstantincaille2711]

In which documents did you find a deep admiration of Sartre for Foucault??

[@KDC_1899]

or Rousseau!

[@blacksocrates1]

So all I need to do to find justification for my own indulgence and deviance is to find a period in time when such things were permitted and call that period enlightened. Got it

[@thewwefan57]

He also tried to reduce the age of consent to 15 in France in 1977. Disgusting.

[@junesilvermanb2979]

Eros en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros

[@iamacdr9998]

separate the art from artist

[@gothicfan51]

To anyone interested Chomsky did a debate with Foucalt back in 1971, here's a link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aajJf59ogZV6nJo Besides, when will we get a video on Chomsky, or doesn't School of Life cover anyone alive?

[@niory]

***** hahahahhahahah xD

[@mrrossjonathan]

Gothicfan51 Well the School of Life seems to be focusing more on Continental philosophers (bar Wittgenstein but who nonetheless was important for many of the Continental tradition) which is fine by me. But I would love to see a video on Chomsky, Kripke, and maybe Russell.

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

***** "We are very scared of living people - not really..." Lol! But seriously, Chomsky would be an interesting topic. There's certainly plenty to cover there, but it's a little disjointed, from his language theories (which I am skeptical about) and psychological theories to his politics and deconstruction of media imagery and storylines... and more as well. But every time I see someone requesting "please do one on so-and-so" I usually think, "haven't they already done him?" Sometimes you have and the fellow missed it; but often I think I imagine that you have and I'm wrong. I like the mix you're doing, and I don't think you'll run out of good topics or interesting thinkers very soon. I wouldn't try to steer your course at all. (Which is not to say I don't have my favorite thinkers and writers. I expect you'll get around to some of them eventually... and the rest will just remain my little niche.)

[@niory]

***** making a feminist video just to piss of some stranger is what philosophy is to you ?!

[@gothicfan51]

***** I would actually like a positive video on first and second generation feminist philosophers, I am all for thoughts from different branches of human experience being exposed as long as there is room for critique and a fair exchange of ideas. The only free market that I believe in is that of ideas, so I would not be pissed off if they did a video on that as long as they don't close down the comment section and forbid video responses.

[@divad7137]

I hope this is at least the only thing they are doing right in this channel, this kind of informative videos and that they are not biased.

[@diphyllum8180]

The nostalgia and romanticisation of the past suggested in this video seems in contradiction to how I've experienced the works of Foucault... take this quote for example: "I do not think that there is a proper usage of history or a proper usage of intrahistorical analysis -- which is fairly lucid, by the way -- that works precisely against this ideology of the return. A good study of peasant architecture in Europe, for example, would show the utter vanity of wanting to return to the individual house with its thatched roof. History protects us from historicism -- from a historicism that calls on the past to resolve the questions of the present" -- Michel Foucault Is it the opinion of the creators of this video that the bulk of his work contradicted this claim of his?

[@KathySolita]

8 minutes on Foucault's and his love life, yet no mention of "episteme" once. Can it be more shallow?

[@mulefa1]

these videos always have an odd fixation on the generally male thinkers' love lives, typically commenting on 'how many beautiful women he attracted' (see Derrida, Camus, Lacan)

[@MrImmi34]

What about when he said knowledge and power are feedback looped.

[@marumakoto]

Thanks for explaining it in a simple way. You helped me for my exam.