The Dark Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer was a German Philosopher known for his deep philosophical reflections.
For Schopenhauer, the underlying force of reality is the Will (also called will to live or will to life), which is the essence of existence. It is an unconscious and blind desire that restlessly strives for more activity. The will is the tornado that swirls inside of us and throws us from one place to the other, it is the source of our insatiable appetite that results in strife and misery.
But if the world is will, it must be a world of suffering. Each individual bears within himself a disruptive contradiction; the realised desire develops a new desire, and so on endlessly. For Schopenhauer, life is evil because pain is its basic stimulus and reality. Pleasure is merely a negative cessation of pain.
As soon as suffering ceases, we are overcome by boredom, in other words, more suffering. Boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence.
Schopenhauer’s writing is far from the sterile and academic German of the time, his work is straight-forward, colloquial, concrete, full of metaphors and anecdotes. His philosophy sent him on a quest for tranquility and peace of mind. He offers as alternatives the denial of the will, the wisdom of life through philosophy, aesthetics and ethics.
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(0:00) Introduction: Arthur Schopenhauer
(7:47) The World as Will and Representation
(15:07) The Will to Reproduce
(16:36) The World as Evil
(22:52) The Denial of the Will
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@Eternalised 2 жыл бұрын

*"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and ennui."* - Schopenhauer Become a Patron (exclusive content): www.patreon.com/eternalised KZfaq Member (exclusive content): kzfaq.info/love/qos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkAjoin Official Merch: eternalised.creator-spring.com Donate a Coffee: ko-fi.com/eternalised Transcript and artwork gallery: eternalisedofficial.com/2022/03/25/philosophy-of-schopenhauer Thanks a lot to my Patrons: Jay B, Evangelos Barakos, Lynne Benson, Ryon Brashear, Jeanette, Mr X, Spirit Gun, Ramunas Cepaitis, Justin Raper

@OSuzieQBabyILuvU 2 жыл бұрын

Is that a direct quote from Schopenhauer?

@satnamo 2 жыл бұрын

Schopenhauer is a Buddha

@Hermetics 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, vatch my last video and you vill knov everything ;)

@thesongoftheever-free1013 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother I'm from India, Here it is very difficult to find the volumes of Hegel, Kant, Schopenhauer.. Also it is very difficult to read all work through PDF What should I do ??

@tonyburton419 Жыл бұрын

And boredom is not a pleasant experience. You recognise your mortality, time drifting, and don't know what to do with it.

@Sylentmana 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing will make you a pessimist faster than interacting with the legal system.

@ReginaApple007 Жыл бұрын

Bureaucracy is the most dehumanizing thing in the world

@crevice5369 Жыл бұрын

follow the law and keep to yourself and its a pretty mundane experience :)

@aaronball4700 Жыл бұрын

@@crevice5369 Injustice exists for both the guilty and the non guilty, remember there are over 30 men currently in prison for murder that haven’t been let out even after evidence came forward they were not guilty. The same thing happened with the man the FBI pinned the blame on MLKs assassination on, if you don’t believe me there is public documentation of the civil suit Martin Luther Kings family placed against the US government, they won. The US also tested radioactive isotopes on pregnant women(declassified information) aswell as giving syphilis to black inmates without their knowledge to study its effects untreated, not to mention the dozens of manufacturing towns that poisoned their own citizens through negligent disposal of harmful chemicals which the US Government covered up as the companies involved had contracts with them. My point is step on enough toes with the truth and it doesn’t matter if you are a good person or a criminal, you’ll get put in a body bag under mysterious circumstances anyways.

@benwinter2420 Жыл бұрын

@@ReginaApple007 Kafka

@benwinter2420 Жыл бұрын

Charles Dickens

@PJ-ns6um 2 жыл бұрын

"Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend mine thinking about it." -Schopenhauer

@Paulo.1984 Жыл бұрын

apparently was Irvin D. Yalom who said it?!

@gabrielsilveira1438 Жыл бұрын

Wow that's pretty deep

@randomguy4738 Жыл бұрын

Irvin D. Yalom*

@JC-du6sn Жыл бұрын

Look up Within Heaven's Gates by Rebecca Springer 😇

@pleaseenteranamelol711 Жыл бұрын

"Better to cum in the sink than to sink in the cum." - God

@PJ-ns6um 2 жыл бұрын

"To marry is to halve one's rights, and double one's duties." -schopenhauer

@threethrushes 2 жыл бұрын

Based

@guadalupe8589 2 жыл бұрын

Wise words indeed

@halestorm123 Жыл бұрын

🖤

@averayugen8462 Жыл бұрын

To marry without love that is. Germany was a very emotionally cold place for a long time, Psychologist Lloyd Demause devoted his life to working on this stuff...and describing the cruelty towards children that results from such coldness

@halestorm123 Жыл бұрын

@@averayugen8462 Well when my mother and father got married they apparently loved each and the horrors that resulted from that union was barbaric towards a certain person. People have some strange notions over this thing we call love

@tarhunta2111 Жыл бұрын

It's not "dark" philosophy it's honest and true philosophy.

@phaedruslive Жыл бұрын

Any proponent of any particular school of belief would say the same thing. Given that Philosophy is kind of like thinking as an artform, it's difficult to posit that any one form is true. Just that some feel compatible with our experience while most others don't.

@Red-Brick-Dream Жыл бұрын

"I'd consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms, I'm what's called a 'pessimist.'" "What does that mean?" "It means I'm bad at parties."

@jwinnfield9192 Жыл бұрын

bare bones philosophy if you will… as a representation… yeah

@struggler6244 Жыл бұрын

@@Red-Brick-Dream alright, alright, alright

@aljoschalong625 Жыл бұрын

I also can't find Schopenhauer very dark; to me he seems to be a very clear thinker. Especially in "Parerga und Paralipomena" he's actually very funny. Black humor, beautifully worded.

@arielconstante212 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite philosopher, even not agreeing with many of his ideas. He had a very raw vision into pessimistic views, but very realistic by his time standards. Many of his views are still present in our relationships and society. I love his criticism of the academics of his time.

@Wingedmagician 2 жыл бұрын

Also not agreeing with his hatred of women. Haven’t gotten into reading him yet. I hope he hates men as much that should make us feel better about it lol

@blackpillr9kr428 2 жыл бұрын

@Rob Vel he doesn't hate women; he just calls out their true nature.

@tonyburton419 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed - many wise ruthlessly honest views on the human condition and animal life. Boredom especially the forgotten painful/negative experience

@IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT 2 жыл бұрын

Schopenhauer ❤️

@IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT 2 жыл бұрын

@@blackpillr9kr428 most men today are conditioned in the female imperative world view and will never be able to understand what you are saying. Schopenhauer raw honesty about female nature and behavior will never be understood by these types of men.

@PJ-ns6um 2 жыл бұрын

"Since love is a deception practiced by nature, marriage is the attrition of love and therefore must be disillusioning. Only a philosopher could be happy in marriage, and philosophers do not marry." -schopenhauer

@averayugen8462 Жыл бұрын

Love is no "deception practiced by nature". The "deception" is in his inner wounds which robbed him of true love from or FOR anything.

@daddycool228 Жыл бұрын

@Danger Bear maybe you are not prepared to put in the work required to maintain love.

@scarycrow3638 Жыл бұрын

@@averayugen8462 define love

@andrie4384 Жыл бұрын

Actually is the devil and not nature that deceives love

@personalitysforeveryone5493 Жыл бұрын

@@scarycrow3638 yes thank you Go define love maybe you're confused about love Love isn't security and all that pathetic magical stuff .... love is a state of awareness.... why else the chefs add a extra garnish for passion , for the eye for the appeal ? To be attractive is to have attention .......but to be attentive attracts attraction

@WeltgeistYT 2 жыл бұрын

A good introduction to one of the most profound thinkers ever. The World as Will and Representation changed my life, as it has changed many others.

@AudioPervert1 Жыл бұрын

It's pessimism - sort of similar like Budhism (not the type sold today). However both again have serious flaws, and should not be taken as religion. Faith.

@milkbottle4u Жыл бұрын

Yo, I love your videos!

@WeltgeistYT Жыл бұрын

@@milkbottle4u Thank you!

@providence1961 Жыл бұрын

1:40 the importance of being polyglot for social scientist. 11:00 The definition of will by Schooenhaur 15:07 The most evil will of reproduction 25:10 The importance of thinking your self 28:30 The importance of any kids of art. 30:43 The importance of being altruistic.

@dolphineachonga555 2 жыл бұрын

I read his book once and got too depressed about life after. So avoided reading any of his works. Perhaps dismissed him too quickly. From your perspective, I've actually found a sense of hope there. I think I'll dust the old books and read them again. Thanks for all your hard work. I love the simple way in which you tackle these philosophers.

@ignaciomartinez3267 2 жыл бұрын

what book?

@veiserexab1428 8 ай бұрын

If you know about stoicism then you'll be like "who cares"

@Horvat04 7 ай бұрын

What did you expect other than getting depressed. His intent writing it wasnt to lift you up. He was caught in depression and when you read it again nothing changes.

@ayda2876 6 ай бұрын

yes @@veiserexab1428

@thomaslodger7675 2 жыл бұрын

A fantastic video on Schopenhauer. However, this is still an introduction to him and his entire work. I honestly cannot imagine a more fitting introductory video on Schopenhauer; he is one of (if not) my favorite philosopher. To all the people who watch this video and are interested, please delve deeper into Schopenhauer. Nietzsche nearly worshipped him until he realized that there should be no idols. Look into this mans beautiful thoughts and make sure you understand him. Eternalised, you did an amazing job (as always, your videos are so good; I don't think you can impress me more than you already have) and I hope that you make some videos on him in the future (whether it be near or far).

@tonyburton419 2 жыл бұрын

Yes agreed. Bryan Magee RIP ( philosophy populiser) held his views in high regard. His views on women are not acceptable. But these older philosophers often held views now recognised as wrong. Hume expressed racist views for example.

@sciagurrato1831 2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyburton419 your description of Magee as a “popularizer” is in error. If you read any of his several anthologies of interviews he conducted with leading academic philosophers you would not be so condescending.

@tonyburton419 2 жыл бұрын

@@sciagurrato1831 The word has a number of meanings, one of which is to make - "increasingly accessible". The book "The Story of Philosophy" is a great starting point for folks wanting an introduction to the subject. Beautifully illustrated and still a great introduction. The UK Newspaper, The Times described Bryan like this - "As a POPULARIZER of Philosophy Bryan Magee is unsurpassed" -1998. "Confessions of a Philosopher", and the British BBC2 series on "The Great Philosophers" in the mid-1970s helped bring the subject into the mainstream of public knowledge. The irony for you - is that your very own words are themselves a fine example of how it is to be - "so condescending". Go and get triggered over something of more importance, I suggest. (Now writing that was such fun...back to reality)

@sciagurrato1831 2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyburton419 I’m sorry, I mistook you for a serious reader. Obviously you didn’t think much of his books on Richard Wagner Karl Pöpper, his summum opus on Schopenhauer, or any of his other more than 20 books. You especially didn’t like his “Confessions of a Philosopher” (regardless of what the critics said) -- probably because he misspelt “popularizer”.

@tonyburton419 2 жыл бұрын

@@sciagurrato1831 No, l have these book on Popper, & Magee's own biography on Schopenhauer. Writing "lm sorry I thought you were a serious reader" is obviously sarcasm, and listing the other readings of Magee you have done, is an attempt to display how so much more Knowledgable about Bryan than l. You need to prove that you are far superior in having read so much more of Bryan, by listing these titles (of which I am aware). . Now, you need to look at yourself in the mirror and ask "what function did writing this serve". "What am l trying to achieve in this self-to other comparisons in listing all of this material". Superiority,? Recognition and ego pleasure? What l asserted was in essence correct. No further replies from self over such a pedantic issue. Regards.

@StudioHighway Жыл бұрын

In 1969, when I was 18 years old, I came across a book in German: "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung". Though I couldn't wrap my mind around it yet, this voice really got through to me. Schopenhauer's perception of life awakened my intellect and self-awareness up to a point, that not only I learned how to think for myself properly, but also how to put it into words. Language and ideas appeared as being closely connected and interconnected. Through their interactions they procreate and bear fruit. The highest value within the human realm is compassion. The capacity to take the suffering of other humans (and all living beings eventually) at heart. And goodnes is the will to act upon it and reach out. The greatest disaster in our existence would be losing our humanity. Love only can be perfect between imperfect people. At the end of his life, Schopenhauer came to a stunning conclusion: goodness of heart is the greatest, most valuable treasure, it surpasses everything else, even genius! Worshipping intellect leads to self-depravation. Unselfish love and unbiased observation: the pillars of human existence!

@PJ-ns6um 2 жыл бұрын

"Where as history teaches us that at each time something different has been, philosophy endeavors to assist us to the insight that at all times exactly the same was, is and will be." -schopenhauer

@shinetah360 2 жыл бұрын

The man who changed my life.

@whinda4702 2 жыл бұрын

I’d be interested in hearing how

@c1rcu267 Жыл бұрын

if you cannot perceive the world in your own way, you'll suffer forever until you die. pain and suffering is human, it is apart of life.

@shinetah360 Жыл бұрын

@@c1rcu267 that’s exactly true. I tried to convince my sister that but she never want to understand me. Me, when I first battling depression, I wasn’t happy very much. I used to be very nihilistic as if I already lost my self in battle. But after I read Schopenhauer, he made me obsessed with the word “Will” and “Suffering”. Schopenhauer is a very dark philosopher because he didn’t believe in optimism. He had the tool in his hand, the word as his Key instead of using it to go beyond his ego of “the world is a terrible place that’s how it is mindset.” I figured that I can say, the world is a terrible place but at least I can make it work in my own way mindset. Because it is my will. And the will is an energy embedded in our veins and spirit. It can only use through actions by a communion of mind, body, and spirit. If I say I can and I will, then it will be done if I put in the work. I can’t take out the suffering of the world from the people who are ignorant and lazy to their own Will, that makes their life miserable and painful to suffer. That’s how this man changed my life. And I am so happy you brought that up because a lot of people just know that the world is painful but it’s just their way of seeing it and accepting it that also makes them go through a whirlwind of suffering too.

@sariahlace5944 Жыл бұрын

@@shinetah360 Truly well said. 💯💯👍👍

@jakekrupicki Жыл бұрын

I love how Arthur Schopenhauer wanted to learn deeply about many different subjects, I feel like it was that which gave him the ability to be so simply direct yet to make such informative analogies to explain his ideas.

@andersnelson6888 8 ай бұрын

Well said. personally speaking, I love how concrete ( and in-turn, relateable) his analogies are. For instance, the hedgehog analogy 😂

@malcador Жыл бұрын

My favorite philosopher. I discovered his work through True Detective season 1. This whole arm of philosophy is the only thing that really helps me feel understood. It's really difficult to have conversations with "regular people" about such taboo ideas. But, it's the truth, and it can't be unseen.

@PJ-ns6um 2 жыл бұрын

And fulfillment never satisfies. Nothing is so fatal to an ideal as its realisation. -schopenhauer

@luciferangelica4827 Жыл бұрын

when all of your wishes are granted many of your dreams will be destroyed -marilyn manson

@Lornext Жыл бұрын

Karl Marx should have read some of his work.

@horustrismegistus1017 Жыл бұрын

The entire point of an idea is to realize it

@steggyweggy Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a quote from Bojack Horseman “Either you know what you want, and then you don't get what you want. Or you get what you want, and then you don't know what you want."

@JayTX. 5 ай бұрын

Dostoevsky notes from understand hits on this perfectly I believe

@mushroommagic1697 2 жыл бұрын

I really love Schopenhauer, he has a very living and interesting writing style.

@austinmonroe3894 Жыл бұрын

This is my first time listening to this all the way through from beginning to end, not in bits and pieces. It’s really well done. Thank you for making it and sharing it.

@BobHank2 Жыл бұрын

Amazingly paced and delivered. The visuals enhance the narration by 10x. Yours is the only idea channel that I don't only listen.

@PaleRiderTCG Жыл бұрын

My all-time favourite thinker. World As Will And Representation absolutely changed my life.

@bujuben1020 Жыл бұрын

Can you tell me how it change. Very curious 😊

@ramilurazmanov Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for such a huge work you've made for this video to happen❤️ It's amazing!

@punkchaos187 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these videos. This is world-class content. Keep being so great.

@tjm11015 2 жыл бұрын

Pessimism is healthy, to a point. Like most things, the key to everything is in moderation.

@guadalupe8589 2 жыл бұрын

Very stoic of you

@whinda4702 2 жыл бұрын

Very generic

@luisd5098 Жыл бұрын

@@whinda4702 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Sarke2 2 жыл бұрын

So much glad i have found your channel, quality content and work.

@ikdeikke Жыл бұрын

I really resonate with this, I agree with a lot of the things he said. life is really rough and I understand people that just want to move on and stop existing. They just cant handle it any more. Im sure anyone that has had some extremely rough times has thought about it plenty of times, like myself. But its still very sad when people leave us. But I can totally understand why.

@ProjectMoff 6 ай бұрын

Is it sad that they leave us? Or that they leave us behind? Because we’re going there too. It’s fate, I think it’s a good thing, deep down what we all desire is an end, because this is a state where there is nothing to worry about, nothing is wrong, it’s perfection and completion, and we’re blessed to have it as our birthright, death hurts those who are attached to a clearly transient life, we suffer our imaginings of what we desire life to be, not death, the answer is to align with nature.

@you_cifer Жыл бұрын

Incredible video; informative, articulate, and complete. Thank you!!

@Davlavi Жыл бұрын

This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.

@commente Жыл бұрын

Excellent piece about my favorite philosopher. Thanks!

@ignaciomartinez3267 2 жыл бұрын

the most clear minded philosophy about existence that i have read. like when you listen a song so good that is ridiculous, and you laugh, that happened to me too often reading this man lol. was such a relief seeing finally someone explaining how behind this materialistic "life" (that nowadays looks more like a videogame simulation) and hedonistic societies that have formed, lurks this state of awareness, that with the cesation of all activities during our day to day we are able to experience it, that is tedium. and the coping mechanism to not face that aspect of their lifes in many persons, becomes autodestructive and unhealty actions against them and their enviroment, or the ceaseless desperate search to talk filler futile conversations or activities just to not face one self solitude, leading to uncomfortable situations while you have in mind that you're escaping from something, but you do it anyway because of how could you look in the eyes of "society". such an important topic that needed to be talked and knowed about in the skyrocketing developing of an industrial society with a cientificistic mindset that will lead to what we got now.

@gigangreg7837 Жыл бұрын

Least pretentious philosophical pessimist

@seemoremoreable 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great video as always!

@felipesena2985 2 жыл бұрын

i just find your channel yesterday, and i ve seen lots of videos. very helpfull. salutes from Uruguay

@artistannie720 Жыл бұрын

Never heard of the guy until now but amazing job on the video. It really gave me some peace, thank you!

@Zero-iw3tj 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Please keep up your dedicated way of illustrating great ideas and interesting topics with amazing images for the viewer to behold. Very insightful and actually meaningful content as always, thank you!

@juice_lime5114 2 жыл бұрын

Reading these actually calmed my inner storm too, which was always restless to seek more understanding. I don't fully agree to the pessimism of the ideas in seeing the end, but also can't deny it because of reality. I see the meaning of life in the process, not at the end. However, the liberation of the will, is actually really true. "The Sublime" is one of the rare states to experience when in full control of myself (or just in flow), when drawing out my thoughts onto paper. The feeling is: I'm in reality, but also not there. Speaking as one that seeks to understand, while navigating the troubles of everyday life.

@gabriel.cashez Жыл бұрын

dude, ur videos are just... amazing. Great work, congrats.

@user-we2qv1cx6x Ай бұрын

Fantastic. As always. Thank you 🙏🏼

@johnscott7195 Жыл бұрын

He felt compassion was needed..but felt a lot of contempt for the masses of stupid and vulgar people..the depth and breadth of his thought is remarkable...and isolated quotes of his are profound.."Healing sorrow..the panacea of our misery"...is a favorite of mine...

@hidokun9145 2 жыл бұрын

Today, Eternalised teaches us the joy of living.

@nethercords Жыл бұрын

another brilliant production

@padfooteee Жыл бұрын

Greatly done video, such a fascinating philosophical approach.

@calico1208 Жыл бұрын

I like how you explained everything on this video. thank you

@louiesimon5292 Жыл бұрын

Great introductory video. Thanks for doing this. One thing I did not find here that I think should be mentioned: Schopenhauer's writing can also be hilariously funny. "A book is like a mirror: if an ass looks in, one cannot expect an angel to peer back." That's just one example. I often burst out laughing while reading his masterwork. HIs philosophy changed my life for the better and I am grateful I encountered it at a young age.

@mlg4035 Жыл бұрын

Most excellent, wonderful explanation of Schopenhauer's philosophy and it's connect to Eastern philosophies!

@ndavid_ 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your work!

@TheSeppomania Жыл бұрын

Great video 👍 Makes me want to read even more about and from Schopenhauer.

@PopGoesTheology Жыл бұрын

0:05 Among the first thinkers to bring oriental ideas into his philosophy (before 1818). 2:57; 7:59; 17:42 Suffering is the cry of existence itself. 20:05 22:55 27:12

@anthonymedina583 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤ Amo éste Canal! Buen trabajo.

@jackcutler9096 Жыл бұрын

Bravo my man, what a fascinating video that was

@ClarksonFisherIII Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. You have taught me quite a lot with this video.

@johnsy59 2 жыл бұрын

Looking for insights and came to the right place. Great video. Obviously I need to look more closely at Schopenhauer.

@michaelparinchy8607 Жыл бұрын

Thank you as always brother. Thank you

@theITGuy-no3nt Жыл бұрын

If one gives the YT algorithm the correct parameters, you get this. Great work, man! Happy I "found" it.

@uberwolf1424 2 жыл бұрын

This is the best essay on Schopenhauer I’ve seen.

@JohnSmith-wt1lx 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the philosophical pessimism; good job sir.

@mikolajochocki2810 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this

@cwsi Жыл бұрын

Brillaint Video, thank you so Much! I believe living life with your eyes closed is the dark reality of today and anyone who shines any light in this darkness is only to be praised, Schopenhauer was indeed a bearer of light, its time to wake ourselves up from this dream...

@LucretiusDraco Жыл бұрын

This has been a brilliant presentation I was completely wrapped up for a min I think I disappeared that hardly ever happens

@ravingsofa...6 Жыл бұрын

He seems optimistic in the sense he’s releasing his work and hopes people will read and understand it.

@DhruvPatel-zg1zs Жыл бұрын

😂😂 He knew only few will understand it in billions. but he still tried this suggest he was hopeful about future philosophy students

@miap6844 Жыл бұрын

I very much enjoyed this. Great in-depth video!

@sandro-nigris 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, nicely done!

@hugomarquez3189 Жыл бұрын

My favorite philosopher, and I’m an optimist by nature, but I still can’t help but to agree

@ioannisaliazis 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! I’d really love to see a vid on Jiddu Krishnamurti 😊🙏🏼

@Ignaciotechera Жыл бұрын

i would like to say that this channel is perfect, simply perfect.

@ezreality 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you... This video saved my life!

@PokerYogi Жыл бұрын

Finally, someone I see eye to eye with! Where have you been all my life, Schopenhauer?

@wiseone1013 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent work on this great thinker. I like how gets Buddhist insight and Eastern wisdom and incorporates them into his philosophy.

@bigsmiles768 9 ай бұрын

I think in your videos you do an excellent job distilling the works and ideas of these figures and concepts, presenting them in an engaging and educational way. I'm sure you've encouraged a lot of people to explore and enjoy some quite important material. It gives me joy to see your example.

@bowieupland6112 Жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation.

@nitsugaparodi8521 2 жыл бұрын

"Each individual, each human face and each human existence is nothing more than an ephemeral dream of the infinite spirit of nature, of the will to live; It is nothing more than a new fugitive image that is drawn while playing on an infinite page of space and time" Good video. Schopenhauer is one of the most interesting philosophers I have ever read. A great influence on the part of Cervantes and Pascal is perceived in his writings.

@M1N3TA Жыл бұрын

The only philosopher that clarify my thoughts.

@timolson9722 Жыл бұрын

Loved it great listen

@janmajdowski Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this knowledge

@PJ-ns6um 2 жыл бұрын

"For only after philosophers tried their hand for thousands of years at merely objective philosophizing did they discover that, among the many things that make the world so puzzling and precarious, the first and foremost is that, however immeasurable and massive the world may be, its existence hangs nevertheless on a single thread; and this thread is the actual consciousness in which it exists. This condition, with which the existence of the world is irrevocably encumbered, marks it with the stamp of ideality, in spite of all empirical reality." -schopenhauer

@PJ-ns6um 2 жыл бұрын

"Thus as a rule the course of a man's life is such that having been duped by hope, he dances into the arms of death." -schopenhauer

@unknowninfinium4353 2 жыл бұрын

Thata deep.

@halestorm123 Жыл бұрын

🖤

@c1rcu267 Жыл бұрын

are you happy with your life? have you ever felt what you would perceive as love? his views are very much outdated, things in the world then were very gloomy and deadly.

@unknowninfinium4353 Жыл бұрын

@@c1rcu267 Is this some kind of Yoga, spiritual woo woo stuff? Law of attraction stuff?

@c1rcu267 Жыл бұрын

@@unknowninfinium4353 I don't do yoga neither am I Buddhist. I am agnostic theistic, It is not my place to say what happens in the afterlife or who is there. Your world is how YOU perceive it, love is the eyes of the beholder. everyone has different views but you have to be open to other peoples. you have to want to be happy to be happy.

@BecoBecoming Жыл бұрын

Wow... The Sublime... Transcendent through space and time. And music's distinction as the art closest to The Will is clear. It is the most abstract form of creation for us, who treat sight as the most objective of senses, the one who grounds us the most firmly, perhaps, with this reality. However, each individual arranges a unique kind of marriage between their available senses and their intrinsic biases: one being able to feel in a visual art what other can feel with music.

@davidkr6635 Жыл бұрын

increíble, gracias por la traducción. y su buena interpretación

@chelonianmobile Жыл бұрын

"Schopenhauer was right, wouldn't you say? Life without pain has no meaning. Gentlemen, I wish to give your lives meaning." - One of my favourite fictional threats ever, from Red Dwarf

@user-hm5hg9jy2t Жыл бұрын

No, authentic creative self- expression and few, yet close relationships is what gives you meaning. Exactly, what Schopenhauer and probably most people don't have. What remains is emptiness which leads to pain. I guess

@karkasnatschka5779 7 ай бұрын

@@user-hm5hg9jy2t Schopenhauer might have lacked love, but creative self-expression? He was one of the strongest voices coming from the 19th century

@JL-go3 7 ай бұрын

WE DO NOT WATCH BBC 2!!!! EXTERMINATE!!

@ronmackinnon9374 Жыл бұрын

I commend this video not just for its verbal content, but also for juxtaposing it with such well-chosen artwork -- by Munch, Cezanne, Goya, et al.

@ZenXnxrchy 2 жыл бұрын

🙏 A mental prostration to yet another expression coming through you and your application from the intensity of experience(s) - truly a Great Paradox thereof: the existential introspection of Western/Eastern philosophies revealing the razor’s edged path of dualities/non-dualities (and beyond), difficult to navigate yet cuts through ‘evoluting’ thoughts and intellectual egotism appearing to create this dense reality in which we find/place ourselves within until the appearance of Death, to remember the Reality which never ceases to be as the original state, and ‘tat tvam asi.’ A “love of lonely study” for this “flight of the Alone to the Alone” of which a multitude of songs wonderfully infer yet is revealed via self-effort and auspicious timing (grace, so to say) - maybe even to sing about or express as you continue to. Thank you again 🙏 Back to my cave ✌️

@20thcenturyfoxyoutube Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video.

@caerbannoghare4744 Жыл бұрын

“All satisfaction, or what is commonly called happiness, is, in reality and essence, negative only... We are not properly conscious of the blessings we actually possess, nor do we prize them, but think of them merely as a matter of course, for they gratify us only negatively, by restraining suffering.”

@raulitoramirez Жыл бұрын

thank you for this. at a time in my life this has great significance and poignant to me and how I am trying to prioritise my purpose.

@c1rcu267 Жыл бұрын

we have no purpose. we all die. that purpose is irrelevant.

@SemirGospodarSvihSvjetova Жыл бұрын

thank you for your amazing work

@golds04 Жыл бұрын

To me- beautiful writing. Articulate and concise. That said the adage goes “ the world is not as it appears, but as we are”. I find this to be the writing of a courageous , brilliant somewhat depressed human being. His existence is not of many who are either content or joyful, but seemingly one of chronic loneliness.

@jhljhl6964 Жыл бұрын

I read "On the Vanity and Suffering of Life," and it had a lasting affect on me. Only a fool thinks this is the best of all possible words.

@mountaindew371 Жыл бұрын

When the optimist asserts that this is the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist shivers in fear that the optimist is right.

@conniemarie8702 Жыл бұрын

Facts.

@c1rcu267 Жыл бұрын

pessimist die alone. with no full understanding that the world, feelings and emotions are what YOU perceive.

@c1rcu267 Жыл бұрын

yes, our world could be better. why dwell on something that is likely almost impossible to do? he spent his whole life alone. not loved.

@c1rcu267 Жыл бұрын

he even believes perfect is a thing, nothing is perfect. therefore it is imperfect.

@Philo-Vids Жыл бұрын

We all have experienced those sour moments of pessimism and fatalism, but to endure the flagellations of pain, despair, boredom, depression and one thousand of other evils, would require some self-imposed discipline, sturdiness, mental fortitude, and best of all, a passion for some healthy activity distracting our mind from the awful specters of existence.

@LiliKollins Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video! It was very interesting.

@benjasandoval5749 Жыл бұрын

This channel is gold

@kellieeverts8462 Жыл бұрын

An acquaintance of mine who I spent considerable time with...told me I didn't want anyone to have hope!...I noticed she was in denial of many things including our friendship....but I never held it against her

@TheDhammaHub 2 жыл бұрын

I find it a bit unfair to call him a pessimist in the same way the people call Buddhism "pessimistic". In addition to acknowledging suffering, both also show a way beyond. That's not pessimism ;D

@yeaown8139 2 жыл бұрын

What way did he show out? As far as I know he pointed to art and philosophy as temporary escapes from the inherent suffering of existence, but the suffering would always remain as fundamental.

@TheDhammaHub 2 жыл бұрын

@@yeaown8139 He pretty much embraces Buddhism as a way out

@guadalupe8589 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDhammaHub no he didn't

@oliviaalmonds2255 2 жыл бұрын

@@yeaown8139 the suffering comes from imagining, taking the meaningless life "seriously" is your source of pain. Philosophy is pursuit of ultimate truth, and the reason he recommends is because its the only way out. Read his books, he talks about "Pain is positive, pleasure is negative".

@edgyintellect177 2 жыл бұрын

@@yeaown8139 There is no permanent way out. What we can have is temporary periods of elation.

@TheNaiveMonk 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing ❤

@mumsow Жыл бұрын

Listening to this was fantastic thank you. I became interested in his ideas in my teens but wandered off in differing directions... It was good to revisit.

@kellieeverts8462 Жыл бұрын

This Lady was younger then me probably closer to my daughter's age...we had sympathize with each other that she felt but couldn't identify yet I saw aspects of myself in her emotionally in my youth

@Sir_Maximus_Hardwood Жыл бұрын

Reading Schopenhauer was a really formative experience for me. I'd recommend to any younger person feeling a bit lost. It will either help or exacerbate your problems.

@bujuben1020 Жыл бұрын

I was in a dark place. Avoiding every sad and existential thought. I read somewhere, your will to live will come from the dark. I think that is very necessary to see, feel and endure dark times.

@teachedteach Жыл бұрын

Found this video by sheer chance. Stunning, I'm simply dumbfounded. Greetings from Uruguay.

@thatfeeble-mindedboy Жыл бұрын

The most coherent summary of his works I’ve ever come across.

@amanni7636 2 жыл бұрын

Optimism and pessimism are alike objections. Optimism assumes or attempts to prove that the universe exist to please us, and Pessimism that universe exist displease us. I think pessimist approach might be more accurate than optimist. If you don't believe look at the full moon night, though its so beautiful, it makes to feel sad somehow.

@finlaymcdiarmid5832 Жыл бұрын

The universe does not care for opinons, but for actions. I never thought of schopenhauer as a pessimist, but a realist. He realises that life is not about happiness, as it is merely a emotion that masks reality, but he also realises life is not pointless and should not be a misery as that is just as much of a mask on reality. Life is about getting to the place you want without breaking your principles, with some despair and some happiness along the way. People who are happy all their life will never get what they really want, the same goes with people who are too despaired and demoralised to try to get what they want. If everyone was happy with doing nothing spectacular, no one would really be happy and humanity would grind to a halt, if everyone was cripplingly depressed and couldn't do anything the exact same result is true.

@kellieeverts8462 Жыл бұрын

I feel having been a parent good or not so good at times is an important part of our life