School of Life
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The video is unavailable to me O.O. Can you give a TLDR? I started from his LITERATURE review videos
No problem. TLDR he has a clear social leftist bias that taints his interpretation of philosophy and presentation of certain philosophers. Very watered down and commercially viable content. Still gives a good baseline tho.
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Fair I wouldn't agree 100% with his views especially on Religion but as you said it's a good baseline. From his literature reviews I was able find new authors . When I watch these types of videos I ain't trying to get bombard with info I want that water down gin and tonic feel XD.
I knew he had a lefty views but I wouldn't call him socialist more of neolib in my opinion .The day I find a channel that does what School of life is doing but with Non-white philosophers I will SCREAMMMM WITH JOY. Thanks for the TLDR!
Social philosophy, psykology and sociology is generally always left leaning,
Yes but his presentation of 200 year old philosophy is left leaning
Just finished watching the video, everything seems ok to me except for the last part.
He is trying to present and teach beginner philosophy, and its pretty hard to cater to the average person about a boring subject like philosphy, especially centuries old philosophy.
Havent watched too many of his videos about philosophers, but im guessing he tries to explain it as easy as possible, and the easiest way to explain something complicated is explaining it the way you interpreted it, so no wonder its a bit biased, especially in a subject that is inherntly opinionated. Either way he is doing a decent job imo.
Conservative generally means harsh, hypocritical, and crass. The crowd they draw are often ill-educated and suicidal who undermine themselves before their blind support hurts the people they think they are hurting.
They give religion a bad name walle. That is why people find it easier to deal with lefties because you can argue with them and dismiss them without consequences. Some of them are less educated of course and are biased, misuse science for confirmation bias and are filled with rage about God. But generally, I take a lefty over conservative out of hatred of hypocrisy. Not to say many in the left aren't hypocritical or racist themselves. I prefer liberals over conservatives always.
They give religion a bad name walle. That is why people find it easier to deal with lefties because you can argue with them and dismiss them without consequences. Some of them are less educated of course and are biased, misuse science for confirmation bias and are filled with rage about God. But generally, I take a lefty over conservative out of hatred of hypocrisy. Not to say many in the left aren't hypocritical or racist themselves. I prefer liberals over conservatives always.
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My favourite comment on right wing thinkers
- [Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact](http://theconstitutionalistblog.com/wp-content/uploads/Dark-minds_Republican-thinking.pdf)
> Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of contact with out-groups. **In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology. A secondary analysis of a U.S. data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on antihomosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact. All analyses controlled for education and socioeconomic status**. Our results suggest that cognitive abilities play a critical, albeit underappreciated, role in prejudice. Consequently, we recommend a heightened focus on cognitive ability in research on prejudice and a better integration of cognitive ability into prejudice models.
- [Cognitive ability, right-wing authoritarianism, and social dominance orientation: a five-year longitudinal study amongst adolescents](https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?&article=2164&context=hbspapers)
> **We report longitudinal data in which we assessed the relationships between intelligence and support for two constructs that shape ideological frameworks, namely, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO). Participants (N = 375) were assessed in Grade 7 and again in Grade 12**. Verbal and numerical ability were assessed when students entered high school in Grade 7. RWA and SDO were assessed before school graduation in Grade 12. After controlling for the possible confounding effects of personality and religious values in Grade 12, **RWA was predicted by low g (β = -.16) and low verbal intelligence (β = -.18). SDO was predicted by low verbal intelligence only (β = -.13).** These results are discussed with reference to the role of verbal intelligence in predicting support for such ideological frameworks and some comments are offered regarding the cognitive distinctions between RWA and SDO.
- [Conservatism and cognitive ability](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.599.1603&rep=rep1&type=pdf)
> **Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated. The evidence is based on 1254 community college students and 1600 foreign students seeking entry to United States' universities.** At the individual level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, Vocabulary, and Analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with measures of education (e.g., gross enrollment at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels) and performance on mathematics and reading assessments from the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) project. They also correlate with components of the Failed States Index and several other measures of economic and political development of nations. Conservatism scores have higher correlations with economic and political measures than estimated IQ scores.
- [Does Lower Cognitive Ability Predict Greater Prejudice?](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721414549750)
> **Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views about society that preserve traditional societal conventions and norms (e.g., Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). Such ideological belief systems are particularly attractive to individuals who are strongly motivated to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity in preference for simplicity and predictability** (Jost et al., 2003; Roets & Van Hiel, 2011). Theoretically, individuals with lower mental abilities should be attracted by right-wing social-cultural ideologies because they minimize complexity and increase perceived control (Heaven, Ciarrochi, & Leeson, 2011; Stankov, 2009). Conversely, individuals with greater cognitive skills are better positioned to understand changing and dynamic societal contexts, which should facilitate open-minded, relatively left-leaning attitudes (Deary et al., 2008a; Heaven et al., 2011; McCourt, Bouchard, Lykken, Tellegen, & Keyes, 1999). **Lower cognitive abilities therefore draw people to strategies and ideologies that emphasize what is presently known and considered acceptable to make sense and impose order over their environment. Resistance to social change and the preservation of the status quo regarding societal traditions—key principles underpinning right-wing social-cultural ideologies—should be particularly appealing to those wishing to avoid uncertainty and threat.**
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> **Indeed, the empirical literature reveals negative relations between cognitive abilities and right-wing social-cultural attitudes, including right-wing authoritarian (e.g., Keiller, 2010; McCourt et al., 1999), socially conservative (e.g., Stankov, 2009; Van Hiel et al., 2010), and religious attitudes (e.g., Zuckerman, Silberman, & Hall, 2013).**
* [Cognitive ability and authoritarianism: Understanding support for Trump and Clinton](https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/bitstr...mitted Oct 26 2016.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n)
> With Donald Trump the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton the Democratic nominee for the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, speculations of why Trump resonates with many Americans are widespread-as are suppositionsof whether, independent of party identification, people might vote for Hillary Clinton. **The present study, using a sample of American adults (n=406), investigated whether two ideological beliefs, namely, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) uniquely predicted Trump supportand voting intentions for Clinton**. Cognitive ability as a predictor of RWA and SDO was also tested. Path analyses, controlling for political party identification,revealed that **higher RWA and SDO uniquely predicted more favorable attitudes of Trump**, greater intentions to vote for Trump, and lower intentions to vote for Clinton. **Lower cognitive ability predicted greater RWA and SDO and indirectly predicted more favorable Trump attitudes**, greater intentions to vote for Trump and lower intentionsto vote for Clinton.
- [Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167212439213)
> In Study 1, alcohol intoxication was measured among bar patrons; as blood alcohol level increased, so did political conservatism (controlling for sex, education, and political identification). In Study 2, participants under cognitive load reported more conservative attitudes than their no-load counterparts. In Study 3, time pressure increased participants’ endorsement of conservative terms. In Study 4, participants considering political terms in a cursory manner endorsed conservative terms more than those asked to cogitate; an indicator of effortful thought (recognition memory) partially mediated the relationship between processing effort and conservatism. Together these data suggest that **political conservatism may be a process consequence of low-effort thought; when effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases.**
I clicked on The Good's youtube link but it didn't work for me either. It said the link is not avialable. I searched in Youtube and found this one below, not sure if it is the same, but see if it works.
If it doesn't work, watch it on your tube after you search the same title of the video: What is wrong with the school of life? Or The Problem with the School of life?
Damn! they killed the conservatives in these studies. As a muslim though, I am in the middle and have the luxury to see both sides and their biases, weaknesses, strengths and motivations. Helps to have an outside culture to sift through the screams from both sides.
There are bad things about the left that drive many to not vote for them. But first, Conservatives are self-annihilating and have no love for anyone. They see religion through race because their religion happens to falsely teach God turned into a human walking on earth, and God is a human like. With their bias and racial obsession, the picture they are used to as representing God in the form of a man then happens to be some dude who looks like them, and the rest is history. Hard to take people like that and their man made religion seriously.
As for the left, their undermining of human values and what majority of human beings dislike or find disgusting is what makes them unfavorable. Pushing homosexuality on cultures as normal, blanket blame on spirituality and religion, bias confirmation and misusing science to promote their non-belief-belief system, their mistaken view that big words can stand for common sense, and lastly, not living up to their own argument of being rational human being kills them in the end. They belittle the human ability to reason, people's ability to think for themselves and make a decison for themselves regarding a creator. To them, you are an atheist and smart or you are brainless automaton, a view that backfires and exposes their lack of honesty.
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Thanks I found it on YT - I agree with some of these points ,but I think he was being a bit harsh on the channel nearly every channel has merch and books that doesnt make them hypocrites cause of the pricing . Supply and demand exists for a reason. I doubt anyone takes everything they see on YT at face value or I would hope XD
