Schopenhauer
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Published 2011-12-12
All Comments (21)
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think Schopenhauer's theories are continuously reassured through the study of modern psychology. Dan Gilbert of Harvard, in his enlightening studies of human happiness, constantly brings me back to Schopenhauer. The second I accepted the notion of being 'ad interim', continuously becoming and never being, I suddenly found myself overwhelmingly content with the notion that I will never be content! It was liberating...
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I love philosophy. Thanks for uploading these videos.
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Schopenhower's pessimism and misanthropy is hysterically funny! He should have become a stand-up comic.
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Thank you for posting !
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Thank you for uploading this video.
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This is the best discussion I've heard on Schopenhauer.
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Just when Béatrice Han-Pile points out that Schopenhauer thinks life is ultimately meaningless, the programme has to stop abruptly, because of a fault. Quite absurd and somehow fitting.
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That's an excellent reference! I began my philosophical pursuit in Taoism (Daoism) with the Tao Teh Ching, then became utterly entranced with the book of Chuang Tzu [penguin translation] (aka Zhuangzi). The parallels between German pessimists and Chinese philosophers allows me to justify putting them all on the same book shelf together! :) I also very much enjoyed Montaigne's essays on solitude, incidentally...
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As Zhuangzi (Chinese daoist philosopher of 4th centiry A.D.) succinctly put it in the 18th chapter of the book that bears his name "Happiness is the absence of searching for happiness." or, in Burton Watson's translation, "Perfect happiness knows no happiness"
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Ah, thanks for the re-up!
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Thank you Lord Bragg. Excellent work.
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Fantastic video thank you
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Wonderful lecture!
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Great videos from this channel.
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Simple explanation of "will to live", this fits exactly to the "survival of the fittest", the ones who does have this quality survives, the ones with low will to live perish, because of the failure in the fight with the environment to survive. So the quality of "will to live" is better and better coded in our genes.
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He certainly identified the "need" to reproduce as a philosophical imperative, but also recognized the renunciation of biology....inherited from Goethe and built upon by Nietzsche
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On another (ironic) note, Beatrice's chuckle at the end was ember to my will to life.
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If anyone is interested in researching Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation," then click the link below where you will find a compilation of sources for this work. We are always adding sources and welcome suggestions for new citations. https://ithinkphilosophy.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-world-as-will-and-representation-by.html
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Just interview Beatrice Han-Pile, tell the interviewer to shut up, she's got this all figured out.
