PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a philosophical historian who questioned many of our assumptions about how much better the world is today compared with the past. When he looked at the treatment of the mad, at the medical profession and at sexuality, he didn't see the progress that's routinely assumed.
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“Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French 20th-century philosopher and historian who spent his career forensically critiquing the power of the modern bourgeois capitalist state, including its police, law courts, prisons, doctors and psychiatrists. His goal was to work out nothing less than how power worked and then to change it in the direction of a Marxist-anarchist utopia. Though he spent most of his life in libraries and seminar rooms, he was a committedly revolutionary figure, who met with enormous popularity in elite Parisian intellectual circles (Jean Paul Sartre admired him deeply) and still maintains a wide following among young people studying at university in the prosperous corners of the world…”
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[@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

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[@grace2872]

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

[@mello750]

I went from 🤔 to 😬 to 😨 to 🤯

[@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.

[@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.

[@lordnoiado]

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

[@Mattia-wo1dp]

@@lordnoiado 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.

[@lordnoiado]

@@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@keke7078]

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[@mattwilcock5002]

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[@RahulSharma-uh1me]

true,

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@laru09]

Foucault: existed Teachers: H3 D1ed oF aiDS

[@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

[@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).

[@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

[@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.

[@dawnemile4974]

Foucault may not have cared for accuracy but I do.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@eterista3868]

@@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@povilasrackauskas857]

YES, thank you!

[@ruolingliao511]

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

[@janeedward]

Fernando Pessoa, please!

[@youxkio]

So good to find educative fields here on KZbin.

[@Rident_]

Muchas gracias por éste hermoso video!

[@Kaiser68]

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

[@thomasboguszewski7288]

“The maneuvers he performed in relation to sex are, again, very familiar” heheh

[@antrant7533]

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

[@aliAhmed-zq1tg]

I liked how his Ideas on discourse and power have influenced Edward Said in his controversial book Orientalism.

[@Amber90125]

My philosophical hero wrote my Philosophy Thesis at University on madness & civilization and language late 20th Century. I wrote my thesis way back in 1990.

[@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

[@penguin902]

Some of these folks just seemed like contrarians tbh

[@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.

[@Marxist2]

He´s admired all over the world, not only the ¨prosperous corners of the world¨, but also in the poorest corners. I am a woman, teacher, immigrant who lives in poverty but who adores Foucault.

[@MorganKing95]

You adore Foucault? I feel sorry for you

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

OMG.

[@davidwilliamson5406]

I think when Foucault said “we” he really meant “I”.

[@gcodex3434]

Lol, is that so apparent? I thought only I noticed that. Projecting his own bs onto the collective.

[@BobMarley-id8mz]

It is a french academic tradition : "I" is perceived like arrogance, and "we" like a humble attitude.

[@s0.0s]

Isn't that the essence of being a thinker?

[@BobMarley-id8mz]

@@s0.0s you are true

[@gravenewworld6521]

Maybe, read his work rather than watching an 8 minute weak explanation before rejecting it.

[@tymbusrobins6105]

I think it is useful to identify the influence of existentialism on Foucault's thinking, from his criticism of psychiatry and his rejection of psychoanalytic explanation to his concern with the the care of the self.

[@ik3z735]

This is not an accurate video at all... but it is understandable since Foucault is one of the most complex philosophers of our time. It took me three years of college education even to begin to understand him...

[@dlphinzwlazerz978]

Didn’t he also have controversial opinions on Age of Consent & argued for adult/adolescent relationships? Something I’ve seen said about him, not sure how true it is. Great breakdown of a long career/life!

[@barryoffeastenders]

Very true unfortunately. He and others (including Barthes and Satre) petitioned the French government to lower the age of consent to 12, and to free specific prisoners who were convicted of statutory rape 😬👀

[@michaellwalker8748]

This sheds new light on the way he thought about power.

[@maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark]

What about Jacques Derrida ? :)

[@maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark]

Of course, awesome as always :)

[@laurentdemaisonneuve4990]

+Mark Matis Derrida must be impossible to summarize in 5 min.

[@keyvankh3922]

Yes please do Derrida!

[@enriquetamedina8870]

What about Emil Cioran?

[@محمدإبراهيمخليلالزيتونسيناءجبر]

What's about Claude Leavi-Strauss ?

[@williambunter3311]

Foucault did not say anything new or profound when he said we should learn lessons from history. This is something that could be said in any discussion in a pub. What he did was to put his ill-considered arguments into language which was deliberately complicated (and often meaningless) so that gullible readers and egotistical academics would be impressed. As for his ideas on letting mad people roam freely, I wonder what he would say to the relatives of people who were murdered by the likes of Sutcliffe, Hindley and the Wests. Lord Longford was, I would think, a big fan of Foucault.

[@김재민-r6h]

Faced with some inaccuracies in his claim, Sorman later adapted his statement, saying there was a "convergence of troubling evidence".

[@johncaze757]

What do you mean?

[@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489]

Thanks for this. I just completed a talk on my KZbin about: "Anthropological Culture & Christianity". Indeed, philosophy and religion are guided to some degree by culture.

[@ouisellmedia]

Send me a link

[@JavierBonillaC]

Chomsky says he’s a despicable individual.

[@SirBoggins]

Kinda was.

[@ICANTHEARHER2222]

What a goat. Always interesting to hear the backstory that led to their ultimate journey. It humanizes philosophers and makes you feel like anyone could use their pain and struggles to help build up the community

[@Dez-E]

Wow! Just Wow! I heard bad things about this channel, but... I thought people were just being hyperbolic. People will actually leave here thinking they have learned something significant about Foucault and his work. They would be wrong. Eeeeesh!

[@Lars3953]

a dangerous, nihilistic mind

[@innate-videos]

This is an inspirational overview of Foucault and I am encouraged to learn more of this man’s thinking. By the way, PhD’s don’t look after patients, they are generally researchers. Medical Doctors have the qualifications Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, abbreviated in many ways, e.g. MBBS, MB ChB, MB BCh, MB BChir (Cantab), BM BCh (Oxon), BMBS). These are the two first professional degrees in medicine and surgery awarded upon graduation. You mentioned Foucault had a habit of getting his facts wrong, so try not to do the same.

[@jakbowtell9367]

There are many people with PhDs that look after patients, as well as people with DClinPsy, DForensPsy etc. MBBS degrees and the ilk are not “professional” degrees, they are primary medical qualifications in the United Kingdom allowing a person to provisionally register with the GMC to complete a foundation programme. Some MBBS students go on to other things, some intercalated to earn honours and generally speaking the degree is awarded as a pass with a handful of distinctions without honours. Maybe you’re thinking of the old professional licentiates awarded to practice medicine by the old medical schools? Many physicians and surgeons in practice also conduct doctoral research in their fields and earn MDs or PhDs.

[@redlady935]

"I'm soooooooooo blogging about this"

[@ballayran9321]

What about “Power”

[@AG-fx5bk]

Your forgetting his push for acceptance of pedophilia

[@BROTERS707]

For real ?

[@movlent5197]

@@BROTERS707 Well it was about the acceptance of Pedophilia, yes, but not in a sense of allowing to have sex with children, but to accept, that some people have this attraction and they should be open about that, so they can controle it, instead of beeing stigmatized and criminalised.

[@BROTERS707]

@@movlent5197 oh well now that makes sense , ppl here are just sayin the pedo thing

[@vinny5638]

@@movlent5197 Except that's horseshit because some ideas are worthy of stigma and criminilization, like the inherent impulse to prey on children sexually. Or the inherent impulse to harm others. Or the inherent impulse to steal other peoples property. The push for the normilization of pedophilia is perverse at its core and serves no purpose socially other than to normalize sick outcasts who should be segregated from society considering their insatiable psychosexual desires.

[@movlent5197]

@@vinny5638 Well you understand him wrong, like most people do. First: Your opinion is of course completly legit. I can truly understand why you think so and your resoning. Second: Foucault dont want to "normalize" these things. He wanted to show them in public. It was never about letting people do, what they desire. It was about understanding, why they desire such things and how to work with that. Surpressing these kind of feelings, doesnt segregate these people, but make them hide it. It will highen the pressure, until they break out in a mania or soemthing like that and then they cant controle themselves. Instead, when they can openly talk about it, you can "cure" it in a way. stigmatizing and criminalizing, jsut because they think of something, is dictatorship. so you may think, that some ideas are worth to stigmatizing. thats you opinion, but history shows that this wont prevent it. so ... dont call it horseshit, when its a legit idea and another aproach on something we still cant handle.

[@magicknight13]

After this one and the Goethe video, I just don't know about this channels consistency anymore which sucks because I want to like them😕

[@SOMJSO]

So happy I discovered your channel !

[@PaulaBirch-cf1zi]

I know this is a strange question... but on what program do you achieve this style of video collage?

[@lazmotron]

Incredible research. Thanks School of Life.

[@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.

[@johnboylan3832]

This guy has a lot to answer for in regard to how we do business in the social sciences. The funny thing is his obsession with power dynamics and oppression is a result of his sexual perversions and complete amorality.

[@_sarpa]

how exactly was he amoral, except for the age of consent laws thing?

[@thoughtbell2]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Foucault never argued against the claim that modernity was sexually liberated. He argued against the view that industrial society was sexually repressed.

[@rudyardwalker9113]

No mention of his 1977 attempts to abolish age of consent. Odd.

[@nikogruben9573]

Because it doesn't really have to do much with his philosophy? It's a pretty separate issue, and it has no place in a video explaining his contributions to philosophy. If this is an attempt to discredit his theories, then it is incredibly pathetic, as the truth of the theory is obviously independent of the theorist himself.

[@Ocean_Jack]

Foucault. About as unhinged and destructive a character as one person can be.

[@Lord_Killionaire]

Please do Baudrillard

[@MrCmon113]

I want a time machine, just so I can send Foucault back to the 17th century and alleviate his delusions.

[@CJMeyer-xu2gy]

The KZbin Algorithm is a prison.

[@hendcharaf7714]

Thanks a lot

[@sudombd1230]

In my list of philosophers, Foucault's school of thought is "The philosophy of being butthurt".

[@generalthewinter]

La pression sociale exercée au plus haut niveau engendre le génie

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@alibombasta7004]

The most overrated philosopher, ever.

[@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

[@MattVibes]

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

[@phoenixgrove]

Please could you guys create a section on poets?

[@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.

[@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......

[@BilalKhan-er3jz]

So he made a philosophy of history out of his own desire to legitimize his sexuality and seek social approval for the things he was performing poorly at. Aristocrat with all the luxuries goes mad because of his homosexuality, criticises every institution that serves to maintain order in which people can grow without starting wars. Quite a lonely madman.

[@jcryan3891]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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?

[@paulaustinmurphy]

Are all these The School of Life videos completely uncritical? There isn't a single critical remark about Foucault or his ideas in this video. Now if that's a The School of Life (as it were) policy, then that's fair enough. However, if this is only the case with this video, then it simply shows the writer's extreme bias in favour of Foucault and his ideas. If Foucault could plunder history for his own political ends, then perhaps that's what the writer of this video did too.

[@aocbbl]

Everything is critical when you deconstruct it all

[@paulaustinmurphy]

@@aocbbl I don't know what that means.

[@aocbbl]

@@paulaustinmurphy everything is subjective in nature; there are no objective truths

[@paulaustinmurphy]

@@aocbbl Is your own statement "everything is subjective in nature; there are no objective truths" also subjective? It must be. But if it is, then why should anyone else pay any attention to it? After all, by your own logic, it is only "true"(?) according to a single subject - you. However, if it *isn't* entirely subjective or simply a single subject's viewpoint, then it can't be the case that "everything is subjective". That's because your own statement itself is seen as being an exception to the rule.

[@aocbbl]

@@paulaustinmurphy I don't know what that means.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@norcalgal692]

Foucault is overrated.

[@elemperadordemexico]

And a pedophile