Schopenhauer and Camus are my touchstones against suicide. They both have such empathy for the human condition, that their understanding and description - without the usual "enlightenment" pablum - is the salve that stings at first, but consistently delivers relief.

He's a genius..." If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it "

Schopenhauer is one of my favorite writers.

Schopenhauer is my man. A true visionary.

Schopenhauer was the final push I needed to commit to a meditation practice. Understanding his idea of the Will consoled why I'd found it so difficult to just be, and not do.

The guy had a point!

Our very existence is premised upon lack, insufficiency and our constant response to this. If I dont eat, sleep, work I die. If I dont have good friends, meaningful activities or a thriving sex life i suffer. If I am born to bad parents, end up with disease or burdened with some physical or psychological ailment I experience pain. If I am deprived of the many needs and wants that I was endowed with by mother biology, I suffer. This very premise is awful as the capacity to take control of all these matters can be, for many, impossible. We are bullied into action by fear and suffering. We rely on out minds ability to cloud its own judgements by fantasy, wishful thinking, etc.

my life is a continuous experience of mental emotional suffering so I agree with him. and in the end I will die, which will probobly be my most heroic experience.

The Grand Master - Arthur Schopenhauer ❤

I have to say that after 62 years of living that Schopenhauer's observation below is spot on. "“When you find human society disagreeable and feel yourself justified in flying to solitude, you can be so constituted as to be unable to bear the depression of it for any length of time, which will probably be the case if you are young. Let me advise you, then, to form the habit of taking some of your solitude with you into society, to learn to be to some extent alone even though you are in company; not to say at once what you think, and, on the other hand, not to attach too precise a meaning to what others say; rather, not to expect much of them, either morally or intellectually, and to strengthen yourself in the feeling of indifference to their opinion, which is the surest way of always practicing a praiseworthy toleration. If you do that, you will not live so much with other people, though you may appear to move amongst them: your relation to them will be of a purely objective character. This precaution will keep you from too close contact with society, and therefore secure you against being contaminated or even outraged by it. Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.”

Schopenhauer is absolutely right

He sounds like my spirit animal. Crossing my fingers for a lecture on Cioran.

I loved your capacity to explain such abstract and deep philosophy in such clear and didactic way. Congratulations! 👏 I would like to add that Schopenhauer's view about the vail of Maya and the lack of reason of existence has a connection with the knowledge theory of Kant, to whom the causality rule exist only in our minds, it is a way to know the world, not necessarily the rule of the world itself. That's why we can say that the world exist "without reason". And from this comes everything else, all the absurdity of life.

"If devils and demons have come into this world, they have taken on human forms, and are now atoning for the crime" Schopenhauer

Memory is a real drag.

When you realize that humans are no different from any other living organism or earth, everything starts to make perfect sense. We’re not special and we don’t have some kind of special destiny

I can't say that I disagree with any of Shopenhauer's philosophical positions. It's somewhat liberating.

The more she elaborated the more I liked it. Schopehauer is my type of philosopher. I can't help agreeing with this guy on every point. Pessimism is cool.

Seeing the smile and liveliness on your face while discussing Schopenhauer is quite an irony.

I always appreciate your thoughtful analysis. You have a real gift.

You're brilliant. This channel was definitely one of my best finds of 2022!!

Pessimism? Schopenhauer actually only said what the Buddha said in the first noble truth: Dukkha. This means that we actually always feel suffering or an unsatisfying state. Physical suffering, being united with something we don't love (work, for example), being separated from loved ones, wanting something we don't get, boredom, mourning the past, thinking too much about the future etc. etc.. We almost never live in the present moment. The Buddha recognized that satisfaction can only be found within oneself, not in the outside world. And putting a final end to further becoming in the next life (samsara): Nibbana. A state that cannot be explained with our words.

Arthur is the Man! Thanks very much.

I love this channel, I cannot stop watching even I am an accounting nerd. Thank you, keep up good work.

Schopenhauer was NOT a Pessimist ~ he was a Realist.

I found this strangely comforting

A great presentation. I might add that Schopenhauer on one hand describes the blind force of will as something which must be overcome through a renunciation of will to life (i.e. saints, monks, Buddhist priests, etc.) but in Book 3 of Volume one when discussing what appears as his aesthetic hierarchy places music as the highest form, stating it is the pure embodiment of the Will as opposed to other genres which merely embody the Platonic Ideas which he views as a mediation between Will and Representaion. I have found this exaltation of Will in music, something I'm sure Wagner loved to read, compared to his normal negative view of Will to almost be contradictory. It seems that given his beautiful sublime principle as well as music capturing a pure essence of Will that when the veil of maya is removed from his own creation, he is a little divided over Will the moment the arts are involved. Also, what I have always reflects his true brilliance is his analysis of Kant's Critique in his 100+ page appendix. The irony is that both Hegel and Schopenhauer touch on an issue of making the noumena outside the catagories when causality is intrinsically implied by the thing in itself affecting our intuition of data. On this not these opposite thinkers meet. In Hegel's case I am referring to his remarks throughout Science of Logic. When they get out of their own respective systems there is an interesting overlapping of how the critique Kant's Critique.

I liked the clear and easy way to show us schopenhauer. Congratulations.

I love Schopenhauer. Hard to argue with his philosophy.

This was awesome. Thank you for sharing this lecture.

Love Shopenhauer so, so, much.

Gotta say, though, E.M. Cioran makes Schopenhauer look like an optimist

Fantastic overview. I am a Schopenhauerian. I get drugged up on antidepressants, magnesium and melatonin every night and listen the "The Sufferings of the World" as I drift off to unconsciousness. Basically, I think he sums up our terrible circumstances perfectly. It is funny that Hegel and Schopenhauer had a philosophy seminar scheduled at the same time, and everyone went to Hegel's, leaving Schopenhauer's lectures totally empty.

I am enjoying watching and learning from your monologue.

This is very well done

Well done. I hope you’ll summarize Peter Wessel Zappfe and Thomas Metzinger in the future.

Thanks!

*Schopenhauer did live with dogs -- who loved him*

If happiness is an illusion, and a terrifying chaos lies just below the surface, and these are the unalterable facts of life, and nothing can be done about it, why are you telling us this?

I love the sound effects

Great review!

No way!? I didn't even see you covered Schopenhauer! I love it.

So interesting . Thanks .

Well done - very clear

I agree with Schopenhauer on his outlook, but I must say your video presentation does bring me joy.

Once I learned that Will can be exchanged with Force or Energy, I really started to understand him. Will sounds like there is a subject, but there is none. Instead, there is the vital force that governs our lives for good and bad. As Dostoyevsky said in Notes from Underground, our reasons stands for 1/20 of who we are.

Brilliant overview

Best explanation of Rustin Cohle I've seen.

By far the best presentation on A. Schopenhauer I have heard! Thank you!

This was very clear and well-presented. Thanks. Leibniz's old claim (this is the best of all possible worlds) also took some heavy fire from Voltaire's _Candide,_ which would've already been old-school in Schopenhauer's day. Given that he was fluent in French, I'd be less than surprised to find that the phrase was somewhat a reaction to Candide. Of course this is speculative and anecdotal, but the little book sure stuck in my craw; one only need read it once and the failure of Leibniz's solution to the problem of evil will become apparent. Loved his calculus notation, tho.

If Schopenhauer feels to be on to something to you, the next place you should go is David Benatar. I would recommend The Human Predicament

Great video and a whole discussion can be had on this, very well put together Ellie.

Wow, as if a beauty from an old master's brush came alive and talking about pessimism of Schopenhauer.

Two of my favourite writers, McCarthy and Houellebecq are inspired by Schopenhauer. I’m very curious about him.

It is bad today, tomorrow will be worse, and so on until the worst day of all.

Thanks.

Also, another great pessimist thinker is Leopardi. His book Zibaldone was recently translated into English.

Compelling argument, however, I like how you group your red books together.

You are my favorite of all times

I enjoy these talks very much. It’s interesting that, so far, only the talk on pessimism includes the cartoon eyes and figures of evil. It’s a display of how verboten it is to espouse doom and gloom here. The red eyes and such are a defense mechanism: don’t take me seriously about this, folks. Nevertheless, as usual, great job explaining the material so cogently.

Some people here says "I'd rather be delusional and happy than realistic and miserable " Ok good for you , but who gave you the right to make another being into that state of exhistance .

Rust Cohle, True Detective

the picture seems to be stretched.

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Great video! Really good explanation and delivery of information. Just subbed 😊

Listening to you is opposite of suffering

Professor Anderson could make my life meaningful....

wow what a beautifully short and detailed introduction to schopenhauer's philosophy I've been meaning to study his works, can you guys please tell me which book should I start with

FYI some species of ant have slaves. Also, I am definitely happiest in that state of falling to sleep wherein I do not feel my body yet not quite unconscious. I can feel the relaxedness of my body. I do not feel fear or pain. It is like being on opioids and it's the only time I am ever really comfortable

love her face

Thanks for this wonderful channel. I tend to agree with Schopenhauer. Love seeing those books there. I can see some french editions (Folio & NRF from Gallimard), some even have those yellow Gibert stickers

I would have love to meet Schopenhauer only to be left disappointed.

He thought that the best thing is to deny the will. There is no good in all of the strivings of the human will. We are living in a nightmare spectacular.

Influenced True Detective, well one of them.

This makes me wanna read Schopenhauer

Animals have an amazing ability to suffer. The literal kind when they're slaughtered, when they experience a loss in their tribe, when they're stuck in a situation and know there's no way out and see their fellow animals disappear and understand that they're next...

He had a good point. Just ask the women of Afghanistan in particular and women under Islam in general.

Gosh, I must be related to this guy😊 Very good breakdown, of the deep and somewhat dark material for us brain-dead, but eager to learn folk👍

Schopenhauer - the O.G and the most REALISTIC philosopher! He said it as it is, firing truth cannons one after another..which can be a bitter pill for most to swallow - much like the TRUTH. So they conveniently label him 'pessimistic'! Humans...meh.

I agree with all of those points. but In the same sense, I am stuck in awe at life and reality since I was a child. But now I'm getting older and life is going by. I think about my mortality a lot. I think about time and why I was meant to exist. Why any of us exist now, at this moment. And that countless others lived their lives thinking the same thing for hundreds of years. It's mystifying that we all share this weird state of existence. And that's why I think our friends or anyone we care about will always be connected to our experience, even beyond death. It's the most light one could enjoy, love. If anything can make you do dumb things, promise things based on hope, it would be love. In all this I find if I have that, I can be brave enough for the progression of time and my demise.

The video editing 🤌🤌

Schopenhauer has the same thoughts as I do 😆

Love your channel, subscrubed!

Could you load something up from E. Cioran

"...has a reputation for being a pessimist" Made me bust out laughing

Would love to hear any comments you might have on Emil Cioran or Fernando Pessoa

Better not to exist at all then exist as a human being

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 8:37

I totally agree with schopenhauer. At least based on this video since I've never read him

According to Buddha suffering is caused by wanting without getting satisfaction and not wanting what we actually have!! Suffering is caused by attachment which has two side’s clinging and aversion, both are kinds of attachments. Reality is in flux everything is in constant change and dissolution, when we cling to something and lose it we suffer, when we cling to the desire of wanting what we don’t have we suffer, when we are in aversion to something we do have we suffer!! Buddha’s way is to not cling to impermanence as if it was permanent but rather be in flux ourselves to be open to the flow of reality!! Buddha also says that all is mind, that mind is the important reality and not matter and energy. Furthermore Buddha points out that the true nature of mind and thus reality is emptiness!! Mind is empty, and so is reality. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form as the heart sutra affirms!!

At 7:17 "nothing is separate" . Schopenhauer corrects Kant's idea of each phenomenon having it's own Ding an Sich ...thing in itself... by saying the NOUMENON cannot be multiple, but only ONE.

Schopenhauer deciphered the universe.

Great explanation to something too deep, but in my opinion, so real (or under the vail).

Schopenhauer, now he’s my guy!

Schopie, my kind of guy.

Since I have always worked to become a more logical thinker, I have studied many different philosophers, even a couple you have not covered in videos, and disagree with all of them on some points. You are, by far, the best philosophy professor I have ever heard. As an old "ex-hippie," about to turn 70, I find myself now understanding life backwards, to paraphrase Kierkegaard. Thanks for your videos, and keep up the excellent work, Professor Anderson.

I see french books to your left. What is the title of the big Gallimard? Beauvoir?

Can you recomand me some of the most well-written books of Mr.Arthur ?

My favorite pessimist. (I’m not a pessimist.) In particular I share his dislike of Hegel. ☺️

I would really appreciate it if you could link the books you’re working from in the description