The key point is that the average people are always duplicitous and double faced , regarding their own propensity for deceit as a sign of intelligence rather than that of a base character. In fact , the tendency to camouflage oneself under some misleading guise has to do with the survival instinct that both humans and animals share and has nothing to do with a higher type of intelligence or a higher level of consciousness as they tend to argue.Women in general are more capable of deceit than men precisely because of the same survival instinct which becomes stronger when motherhood is involved. The biological function from which that instinct derives is forcing them into that direction , apart from the need to compensate their fragility and weaknesses with cunningness . The weak is always shrewd and more equipped for facing life difficulties than a person of noble character.The lower type of consciousness is generally concentrated more on reproduction and copulation like for example insects in the animal realm .Among some humans we may find the same tendency .This explains why humans with a fine character are so scarce .Eating and copulating are therefore the most cherished activities for 90% of the population with an increased percentage in those areas were the population explodes like Africa , Asia etc , places where the general impression is that the favorite pastime with very few exceptions is gaming or beating the drum, hence the level of education.However , precisely because of the activities of gaming and beating the drum they can succeed in life and survive since those are based upon and can be used for deceit. These are their strengths whereas a noble character is often seen as naive and therefore weak.I can remember in relation to this one relevant line from " Lawrence of Arabia" , a reference that was taken from a very old quotation dictionary by the script writer :"I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state from a little city ."

Professor Anadale! How do you then expect to become popular on KZbin by showing your intelligence? :)

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Facts.

This is magnificent work. Thank u! ❤

Thank you.

A chicken is the egg's way of having another egg

Thank you professor! 🙏 Excellent work!

You can fool some of the people some of the time...and you can fool all of the people some of the time...but you can not fool all of the people All of the Time ⁉️

pity about your HORRIBLE Intro music/Noise...

Fantastic exposition!

Funny, when I sense someone is much smarter than I, I am fascinated and want to learn everything I can from them. Seems to me a better attitude.

I love you. Thank you for reading philosophy classics.

Thanks Christopher for sharing these passages, and reading. I appreciate you doing this. This wisdom is vital knowledge to understanding social behaviours. I look forward to more of your videos. Topic reminded me of these quotes: For this reason, since the dawn of time, great minds have always given themselves a wide berth from the crowd. ~ Wilhelm Reich Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world filled with conformists. ~ Nikola Tesla Mediocrity cannot see anything higher than itself. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sherlock Holmes, Valley of Darkness

Where can I get the book you have

Sadly, Schopenhauer expressed some very insightful truths here about people being so resentful of people of higher intelligence. I know when I have mentioned that for instance, that hardly anyone will chose an individual with superior intelligence as either friends, or romantic partners, I am always met with either immediate denial, or they take this to umbrage.

The one that receives the most flack and violence and oppression is the highly intelligent woman, especially if she is attractive. She is often disliked my the women of mediocre intelligence for the reason that she is both attractive and more intelligent than her; and she will not be liked by me, because she unconsciously make him feel intellectual inferior and be hurting is male pride. If she is attractive, he’ll only put her in the sex only category.

Thanks for the reading and explanation. This is easier for me to listen to than reading it myself. His wording is long winded and puts me to sleep when i read it.

Cuckosophy. I am 6’4 and I’d rather have a huge strong friend next to me so we can look more attractive as a group and pull better women overall. And I’d rather hang out with smarter people too

1:53- "Protective Coloration"

Chanakya defined friendship 2000 years age: The one who stays beside you in celebrations, rebellion, famine and epidemic, in a court of law, and in a funeral ceremony, is your friend. But, after listening to this video, i am wondering even if that is true.

More Schopenhauer please!

I think Dosteovsky and Shakespeare would absolutely agree. Denmark and Russia a Prison.

Well there is no small irony in the mini ads that play on this wonderful Channel when talking about schopenhauer and self-sufficiency in relationship to society and to the economic order of Amazon and Audible app and make money on Audible etcetera etcetera. It's a good channel, but the professor has a few too many Advertisements. Peace

Excited for more Schopenhauer. Really enjoyed your vids on Counsels and Maxims. Just finished reading it yesterday. 👍

Thank you , great job at presenting Schopenhauer to not academy people as I am . 🙏🙏

Brilliant! And I stand with Schopie who would say Christian Zionism is an abomination!

Genius confirmed

Shopenhoyr is my favorite philosopher. His views are depressing but absolutely true. I am old and life was hard. I wish I had known about him when I was young.

So grateful for today’s lesson… understanding … Love … 🦋🕊🌹… Thank you, Professor!

Thank you so much for reading and adding very helpful commentary of my first Schopenhauer book. Really enjoyed this series

thanks!

Much appreciation, thank you!!!🙃🙏

Especially in the USA, the MAGA are hostile and feel intimidated and inferior around anyone with average or above IQ. It's ridiculous. These people are anti-education and to not read and to be ignorant are seen as positive virtues.

I listen to these every evening. 🏆

Thank you sir

Most “intelligent” people just parrot the ideas of those before them. Bloated knowledge is vanity if it doesn’t help you reach your goals.

Its amazing that Schopenhauer was so impressed by eastern philosophy because he could have only had very rudimentary translations of various scriptures . Apparently he said that the Upanishads were the great comfort of his life and named his dogs Atman 🕉️

Professor David Benatar is the modern torch bearer for Schopenhauer.🕊️

These are just deas from Schopenhauer how said that the intellect is driven by the will to live

Good luck is also intimately intertwined with good looks. There's an interesting societal taboo against recognizing or debating that particular truism, for some reason...

Great video. I do not know everything, and I am very well aware of my intellectual limitations; however, I do know that my liberal education and years of self-education after the completion of my degrees makes me completely incompatible with non-college graduates. This is not to say that everyone who has a college degree is intelligent or culturally literate, but due to today's deplorably low standards of secondary education, one has little hope of becoming culturally, civically, and scientifically literate without a college degree. The jobs I have worked with non-college grads have been literal nightmares, and I would rather be homeless and destitute than ever work in such environments again.

It's like schopenhauer advicng Nieschze .. from the future

Great series! I've got a new positive view on pessimism! Happiness is ephemeral and attached to the opposite. How true and realistic is this guy! Keep it up especially the commentary because I can't seem to understand parts of it( especially Nietzsche). Thank you so much!

You cant make precise movement for long term goals, make a move in the general direction. Life is like chess. We don't set an unconditional plan, we make adjustments to the player (Fate) so that our original plan won't be the same at all We are often wiser than we think. we are more foolish than we think Interesting! We make decisions based on our deep being/almost like an intuition but when we look back we will apply abstract thinking (looking at influences) that aren't helpful and just critical. Only at the end of our life can we look back and see deep influences of our core being (liable to influenced by abstract thinking that doesn't apply to us)

Absolutely amazing vedio.

Academically intelligent people often have very stupid ideas about how the world should be run. Noam Chomsky is a good example. Probably very good at the old linguistics game but absolutely clown shoes about politics.

What a master presentation.Prof., you sure deserve a huge like🎉🎉🎉🎉