LITERATURE - Voltaire 

It sounds like Olly

May I recommend my own channel, I talk about the Enlightenment regularly, recently talked to this Diderot scholar: ​ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jyn_nTC6_ks.html​

It’s Alain de Botton I think

He's the main founder and contributer to the School of Life. I got to see him speak at one of their conferences. Smart dude.

What is rational religion?

Or originally by Evelyn Beatrice Hall in The Friends of Voltaire 🙈

@@norajacobs6723 i was just about to say but... 🥂

@@marfesh.hlimawma8882 i guess great minds think alike… 🥂😋

Brilliant

A powerful line.

Corvus Morve Do not tattoo this as Voltaire lol Actually this quote is misattributed to Voltaire it was a man named Peter Gay who was summarizing Voltaire’s work who actually used the metaphor.

Things have changed. "Earth is a spaceship and we're all crew." Buckminster Fuller. Sadly the billionaires want to build lifeboats, while sinking the ship.

@Corvus Morve Not true. The economy would be smaller, but in fact more more people would have jobs, in way more local and regional businesses. Mass production kills jobs. And robots and AI will make this much worse in the near future. Other indicator: Trump just bailed out big business and still many many Americans lost their jobs. Clearly saving big corporations doesn't help people on the ground. And then you clearly don't mind plastics in all your food, dying ecosystems, a damage that continues due to corporate lobbies. Just check 'biggest threats to our planet' we're guilty of.

The narrator is Alain De Botton, you'll find a lot of information just by googling him

+Luca5197 Hi Luca! He is one of the greatest and most original thinkers of our time. And certainly the best " teacher of life" I know. You can listen to the Tim Ferris podcast, for a two hour interview with Alain. It's on youtube too. It is also a great idea to watch his documentaries. He has another youtube channel, where you can find all of them. Just search for the documentary " The Status Anxiety" you'll find the channel. You can also subscribe to "The Book of Life" which is the brain of this channel. Have a nice weekend!

Pali and Sanskrit pronunciations could be improved.

Abhilasha Jha Ok Abhilasha

@@bolivar1789 Hello. I'm the guy who suggested you mariage d'amour music composition. :) Did you listen that? Btw I love reading your such comprehensive and compressible analysis in comments.

if you're interested they have an article on Hume in their webpage, I think it is schooloflife.org or something like that

+Ellis Farrow and dino buzzati

Same.

same

SAME!!!

sammmeee'')

Same :)

No, you did it all because you're EVILLLL!

I bet you haven't read any of his work. You pretentious piece of garbage.

@@lronhubbard5915 why are you so angry, L.Ron? Go preach about Xenu or something

@José Miguel Martin is a huge chad. But seriously now I think he's the embodiment of the opposite view of Optimism, a counterpart to Candide and Pangloss. He's also hilarious.

@@miguelbranquinho7235 I agree lol, I feel like Voltaire possibly used Martin to write himself into the story a little bit as well, or to represent his views 1:35

+The School of Life You're awesome! Thank You very much!

Montesquieu: "Commerce is a cure for the most destructive prejudices … wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and that wherever there is commerce, there we meet with agreeable manners."

+StarDragon77 I prefer the word wealth, but I get the point

***** Hmmm, yes. In retrospect, probably the better word would have been "greed".

wetteefun In other words "money talks"?

StarDragon77 greed if tou want, the thing I want to address is that money is worthless while wealth is not, for example, you can print more money, but you cant print more wealth

best of luck!

I took my A level Lang exam yesterday. Best of luck!

assassin's creed level?

+Mayuri Singh thank you so much!

+That space dude probably 😞 I just hope I'll be calm.

I love them too and Nietzsche highly regarded Voltaire he even dedicated his book "human, all too human" to him, i think that thanks to both europe broke away from old superstitions even though sadly today their ideas are still quite misinterpreted...

Of course...

+Imran Meco who did it better?

+Imran Meco I did a report on Candide during my 2nd year at College. Candide is one of my favorite books from the 1700s.

Candide is very funny, one mishap after another.

+Obvious Turtle You mean Kulturbolschewismus?

***** Yep. We do need a video on Habermas, Adorno and Reich even.

Eidolon Binks Eidolon Binks There will always be extremists within any ideology. While applying critical theory to everything may be unnecessary, it is not to say the theory or framework is irrelevant

But he never said it

+Gabriel Noel and Twain

i agree

+Blue Blizzard I was about to ask the same thing! I love these videos, and I hope to see Dostoievsky portrayed here soon :)

I think I agree with you, but can you please explain what you mean? Has the term liberal changed?

I think he means that liberal characteristics have evolved in such a way that only regressive fucktards would call themselves liberals

Ramsay Redbeard classic liberalism are the modern conservatives values,modern liberals are regressives

Classical liberals (like Voltaire) are very similar to modern conservatives (like Theresa May).

little gian the satan it's bullshit. Classical liberalism just doesn't make sense because people reached needed rights and laws in all of the progressive countries. Now liberals can choose between social-liberalism and neoliberalism. Both are not regressive and more close to conservatives - neoliberalism

+SnotPockets How about Mozart and Beethoven?

Also lacan.

Its the simplest to conceive yet the hardest to action. All you have to do is ask yourself what is the best possible choice you could make, in any given situation. Ask without attachment to emotion and only utilise rationality. Imagine being confronted with a cake and a carrot. We know full well that the better choice would be to eat the carrot, rather than the cake. Yet we rationalise a reason, or set of reasons to eat the cake rather than the carrot. We do this with everything; sometimes we choose the carrot, but most times we choose the cake. The number of us that would choose the carrot most times, is very small and usually we dislike the carrot eaters, because we know that carrot was the better choice, but we chose the cake. The carrot eaters remind us that we are not perfect or inherently "good", which encourages jealousy. The true secret (which is not so secret because in my opinion it is obvious) is that we can retrain our feelings to feel "good" about being reminded that we are flawed and not inherently "good", thereby no longer feeling jealous towards the carrot eaters.