The Dark Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer

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[@klausschwabshubris]

Wonderful and magnificent.

[@Vollkoman]

what's the difference between pain and discomfort and which one fosters more self-growth and imrpovement?

[@klausschwabshubris]

@Vollkoman depends on your upbringing, environment and opportunities.

[@Vollkoman]

@@klausschwabshubris I just want growth and improvement in general.

[@klausschwabshubris]

@Vollkoman that exists inside you, the place that is invisible.

[@jorisbuck4073]

Schopenhauer is one of the most underestimated thinkers in the history of Western literature imo. He had much influence on Darwin, Freud and Nietzsche, all thinkers that are very well known and had massive influence on the develepment of Evolution, Psychology and Philosophy, and all togehter, what the Western world view is today. Just because Schopenhauers writings can come across as dark, doesn't make them less valid. He was a genius.

[@MakeMeLo]

It's spelled philosophy, sorry I couldn't help myself.

[@jorisbuck4073]

@@MakeMeLo Oh yeah of course, thx for the correction 😅

[@henry6525]

Underestimated or one of the most disliked? It is rather obvious why. Inconvenient truth. He is not a pessimist but a truth conveyer, exposing the obscure (but the most prevalent) side of what we call human being. Truth is mostly hated, so the genius of Arthur Schopenhauer wasn't acknowledged purposefully. He has made many feel very uncomfortable when they recognize their own nature via his writings.

[@jorisbuck4073]

@@henry6525 Yeah very well put. If you want to appreciate his writings you’re forced to ask yourself some very uncomfortable questions and overcome your bias towards wishfully thinking. Most people, even intellectuals are naturally and unconsciously opposed to that. And for some reason he was overshadowed by Hegel who lectured at the same University as him at the time and was way more popular. They weren’t ready for Schopenhauer’s harsh truths I guess.

[@henry6525]

@@jorisbuck4073 They (home erectus) aren't ready today even more. The truth can't be harsh. It is just the truth, whether we like it or not. Schopenhauer detested Hegel (communists love him).

[@somerandomguy___]

Hope is overrated. What people need to have more than hope is courage.

[@Crumbsoftotailtariansim]

I agree, although because many cannot muster this, a balance of hope is crucial.

[@kresovk5]

Since you can't control everything, you must hope that things will go well. And if you are hopeless, how can you be courageous? Courageous for what? It's moot point, they are both needed.

[@dauphinviennois]

Hope is not a life strategy.

[@kinglll5604]

Both 👍

[@kresovk5]

@@dauphinviennois Neither is courage. They are both essential tools we need. You might be surrounded with people who need more courage or hope in their life, and that's because they lack that aspect. But they are both equally important.

[@LawrenceCarroll1234]

When -- as a 19-20 year old student -- I first learned about Schopenhauer's "darkness" I was delighted! Here was someone who didn't hesitate to "tell it like it is" ! I still feel this way about him! Humanity should never delude themselves. Seeing the truth is the most joyous and liberating thing there is, no matter how terrible and depressing it may be initialy, because seeing it is the ONLY way to transcend it. There is no other way. I am currently 67.

[@saxa21]

This is Genius by Schopenhauer he understood Humanity more than any other philosopher. The Will is the answer.

[@grantsmythe8625]

Consciousness, Consciousness of the Will is the answer, for only with consciousness of the Will can one pursue the solution posed by the problem of the Will.

[@aldousorwell3807]

​@@grantsmythe8625 Water, Water is the answer. For without water we'd be too dead for our dried out brains to be Conscious of the Will... 🤪

[@peripheralparadox4218]

Buddha understood more.

[@DruidTimer]

If you want to really experience the Will To Live, experience a life threatening injury. If you want to depolarize from the idea of suffering, have a Near Death Experience, flatline and cross the thresh hold of life and death briefly. There's an old saying: "You have'nt lived until you've almost died", it's true.

[@aldousorwell3807]

@@DruidTimer ...Or just take 3 long hits of DMT...😁

[@djkymaera]

"Our Schopenhauer was such a Durerian knight; he was destitute of all hope, but he sought the truth. There is not his equal" -Nietzsche 'The Birth of Tragedy"

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The richest person is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.

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The Greeks knew all too well the melancholia that comes with life and death.

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[@livingsacrifice7639]

Reality is groundless, it seems that it can be whatever you want it to be, you can see it as either hell or heaven depending on your perspective, but in the end its all just a perspective. We know nothing all we have is beliefs when it comes to existential questions

[@PunksterOS]

_"Schopenhauer was right, wouldn't you say? "Life without pain has no meaning," Gentlemen, I wish to give your lives... Meaning."_ - Dr. Langstrom, Quarantine, Red Dwarf.

[@djkymaera]

What a guy.

[@derbucherwurm]

I love Schopenhauer. He is one of my favourite Philosophers. His thinking has a great influence on my since I found his philosophy and Nietzsches since i was 16 Years old.

[@LordDiabetusIII]

I can only speak from my own experience but so far it's been impossible for me to really the deny "the Will" as Schopenhauer called it. To reflect on my desires and follow them while being aware of what I'm actually doing did wonders for my mental health. Whereas trying to be all-good and moral and living in denial of my own nature and the nature of things more generally only made me bitter and miserable. This is not to say that I have given up on morality or that I no longer try to do good and avoid evil. It's just that I no longer judge myself and others as much for failing at it or behaving in a more amoral and more selfish kind of way. If all is merely a manifestation of the will after all, so are our moral inclinations. In the end it's up to you how you want to act, and to act morally out of my own genuine will rather out of some compulsive guilt has been rather freeing. All this is to say, to whoever is reading this, if you agree with Schopenhauer's premise of the Will, be careful with reaching the same conclusion as him. By all means, try it, but don't be surprised if this sort of ascetic pessimism won't bring you peace and satisfaction in the end.

[@johanponken]

Thanks. I'm inspired to watch "A Shock to the System" now. To not blindly follow my desires, but still follow them, while reflecting on them, and so being aware of what I'm actually doing…

[@adsm92]

"Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know"

[@jackwebb3757]

And some people who don't speak also don't know 😂

[@adsm92]

And some people who speak know 😆

[@jackwebb3757]

@@adsm92 we did it

[@aldousorwell3807]

Statements like that are why I'm not a fan of speaking in absolutes... For that statement to be true, we'd have learned nothing from the brilliant, but self-imposed illiterate mutes who came before us.😂 Each of us would know only that which we have managed to figure out completely on our own, with no outside input. ...And we'd be doomed to never teach anyone else any of it. ...It's a Catchy Phrase on its face though...😂

[@peripheralparadox4218]

Therefore to make that statement, you don’t know, for if you knew, you wouldn’t have spoke. Incongruency dressed as wisdom.

[@Brooder85]

This inspires me to reread his work. I can't forget to appreciate what a treasure trove of real world philosophical wisdom he is.

[@SageTrader007]

Pessimism is much closer to reality than the childish and mischievous mental gymnastics of optimism. Existence is nothing to write home about.

[@rationalevidence9095]

Your existence proves you're thesis incorrect. Hope is healthier because it's how we're SUPPOSED to live (and because it's true). Joy (and even hope) are signals you're getting closer to the truth. if you are a pessimist, it's only because you're so far from the proper way of life that you can't find hope in the future.

[@SageTrader007]

@rationalevidence9095 Hope is for deluded beasts. Life is an evil and gets destroyed.

[@JoeAmericanLiberty]

Pessimism observes the world and says "I cannot change anything, so I shouldn't try." Optimism observes the world and says "I may be able to change something, So I will try." Both are self fulfilling.

[@rationalevidence9095]

@@JoeAmericanLiberty there's one important difference. Optimism reproduces itself, pessimism kills itself. This is why humans are inherently optimistic (until trained otherwise). The pessimistic genes don't get passed on long enough to make it.

[@rationalevidence9095]

@@SageTrader007 yet here you are... still living. You're the embodiment of a hypocrite. And I'm glad you don't believe yourself because i'd rather have you around to eventually see the beauty that shines even in this fallen world. You need Jesus, friend.

[@Abstract_Assembly]

Great video, bro!! Very timely

[@What_is_wrong_with_this_world]

The realist we all need

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Happy New Year Academy of Ideas 🎉

[@kiowhatta1]

This is exactly why I cannot stand the dogmatic optimist: the one who insists on positive thinking as a solution, talks of good and bad, and persists that existence is a gift. Happy delusion doesn’t serve me at all, I would rather live with authentic reality

[@metalrules1135]

Optimist, "What can really go wrong? Full speed ahead." Pessimists, "Practically anything. Proceed with caution." Optimists have caused far more damage than pessimists ever have yet optimists get lionized and pessimists get demonized.

[@johanponken]

15:25 I looked up the word "meted" in Merriam-Webster, and made a satisfying find. The example quote was "She realized the stern retribution which justice metes to the murderer." from - Edgar Rice Burroughs. But as I looked up from which book (a Tarzan) I also found a nearby sentence "She knew that murder lay in that savage heart…". I'll be thinking on about that. ERB has written a lot about non-savages killing (war), sometimes on the red planet.

[@annieabraham1379]

If all there is, is the Will that in order to live, takes away from the Will itself, how is there so much beauty in this world? How does one explain that? And doing away with all desire is not a creative solution.

[@FactsCountdown]

Desire is the root cause of all suffering - Buddha

[@guitarjourney6024]

@@FactsCountdown "Did you ever say Yes to one joy? O my friends, then you said Yes to all woe as well... For all joy wants -eternity!" -Nietzsche

[@guitarjourney6024]

Schopenhauer argues that the beauty you see in the world is a manifestation of the Mind, which imposes order on Matter. Mind and Matter are interlinked, both dependent on each other. Together they create an illusion, a representation. (this is to say if you are referring to the apparent orderliness of the world, beauty in nature and so on)

[@annieabraham1379]

@@guitarjourney6024 for me personally, from having lived 56 years with knowing of my own inner self, and also the world I live in ( humanity's history, the great beauty of nature), the tried and tested way, the way of Christ, is the hope and resolution. Paul rightly identifies that I am carnal, and hence it is no wonder my desires are selfish. Left to my own devices, in my striving to live, I have brought death to others and myself, millions of times (James 1:14,15). But as I awaken to faith, I see the higher way, dimly. My desires have changed and are changing nearly every day. I desire to be true and to serve my people, and all people. Mere consuming was a most base way of life. It made me weary. Faith was/is not easy, but it is quite joyful and may I say, the solution to suffering.

[@FogelsChannel]

'How is there so much beauty in the world? How does one explain that?" There is so much beauty to you individually. Beauty is an Interpretation. Define 'so much beauty'. For any example, its beauty is temporary and becomes ugly, decay the permanent condition that always defeats beauty. "An optimist bids me open my eyes and look at the world, how beautiful it is in the sunshine, with its mountains and valleys, streams, plants, animals. These things are certainly beautiful to look at, but to be them is something quite different." -Schopenhauer

[@mountainghoti1671]

15:45 So the spiritual-minded, or religious person, will recognize here, the third main need: Elevation. Above Consumption and Reproduction is the need to 'put off the natural man,' and not rely on beauty for distraction, but strive to grow the spirit within. By focusing on the immaterial self, we can find lasting joy and peace through love and service- by aligning our thoughts and actions with something greater and more eternal than this dark and temporary world.

[@IAmVenix]

you’re not smarter than schopenhauer

[@empyreuma]

Maybe some people are wired for spiritual connection or spiritual evolution as another need & others use it to try & exert influence? Still others may have no interest but still manage to survive, thrive & reproduce? Worse still some people claim their spirituality is holier than others who must be considered evil, enemies & a constant threat And at some point some people claim to be the Messiah - to which they are labelled insane, maybe because the story is to teach & connect, not claim religious celebrity?

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Notification squad 😎

[@slfurnovkfcatria]

I remember I had watched your videos on Schopenhauer many years ago and found them so interesting, I subsequently bought a copy of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation. To say the least, it was a very depressing book (which is funny, because if anything he's just a realist for the most part) but it was also... disturbingly accurate... about everything. I was pretty depressed for awhile after that, feeling everything to be demonic and such (as Schopenhauer puts it in no unclear terms). But as you alluded to at the end of this video, and very prudently, I agree that staying in that purely pessimistic state of mind, while honest, is not pragmatic (and perhaps one of the few oversights in Schopenhauer's philosophy). This makes sense, then, that you would naturally follow-up with Nietzsche and his recommendation for one to face up to life and continuously make goals in spite of it (as you and he put it, "that which must always overcome"). How Buddha extolled The Middle Path of moderation, rather than pure asceticism (which, again, as you said, is simply unrealistic for most modern people). How Alfred Adler said most mental illness is caused by the lack of a goal in one's life... In short - great video, as always.

[@CorvusCorps]

Thank you

[@asclepiushermestrismegistu7489]

Philosophy needs to be in schools and to force many to see and live in a world to know what they are up against.

[@kasumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin]

For a "pessimist", he sure took his love life seriously! :)

[@wiseone1013]

Extremely insightful and useful content, looking forward to the next one.

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Can’t believe I’ve just seen a ball earth cartoon on this great channel.

[@philosophicusrex9639]

Excellent overview!

[@meinking22]

So in the end, Schopenhauer was a Kantian. It is no wonder that Nietzsche had to take him further.

[@huarwe8797]

If you can't handle ugly, seek beauty not truth. 🐰

[@star_duck]

"One must imagine Man happy"

[@Bow503]

3:06 what painting is that?

[@Lucas-jy7cv]

That's a wonderful painting

[@SC-fk9nc]

A brilliant man he was.

[@fraidoonw]

❤Thanks a lot!

[@annturi5826]

If cessation of WILL is a result of Asceticism (or is it vice-versa), which as it seems, is a result of a struggle, and struggle is a result of a will/want, which we do not WANT, can we therefore not say that the Purpose of Life (at least for Schopenhauer) is the ultimate Rejection of Life? Without pain one cannot know the pleasure, without agony one cannot experience the ecstasy, and so on. This is what life is all about, (experiencing the "good" and the "evil") is it not? According to the Bible, Eve wanted (had a strong will, desire) to know, to feel alive. Was she WRONG? Is it better to be a lifeless thing, a robot? Without WILL one EXISTS (or does one), but is NOT REALLY ALIVE...Hating PAIN is not a good reason to hate LIFE, am I wrong in saying that? I am not sure how to take this kind of Pessimistic "wisdom"; as a STRONG WILL (!) not to have a WILL, to be DEAD? Or is it a case of profound DEPRESSION? Mental illness? Something else? Any other suggestions?

[@eyuelnegash2681]

I love this channal.learned a lot from it,and Schopenhauer is my all time favourite philosopher. Thank you Academy of Ideas.

[@lilpenguin092]

The wicked wolf is the righteous one

[@Fafazami]

Wtf

[@DenzilPeters]

I'm currently going through all of schopenhauer's works. Starting with the free gutenberg ebooks (a few of the essays which were translated by T Bailey Saunders). And I've got the oxford translations of his bigger works in my Amazon cart. If anyone here has extensively read Schopenhauer's works, I would appreciate suggestions about the best English translations.

[@JustOneWillingSoul]

If you go for The World as Will and Representation, Payne's translation is fantastic. I read some other one first and it was full of errors that undermined the meaning, but Payne's is beautifully written and make sense.

[@DenzilPeters]

@JustOneWillingSoul Thanks for your help. I think you were referring to the Haldane-Kemp translation which was the first ever English translation and full of errors. Payne's was the second, and the Oxford ones I found are apparently the third and even better. I think I'll go for whichever edition is available at a better discount for now.

[@DenzilPeters]

Edit: I mentioned in two comments that I found an Oxford edition when it was, in fact, the Cambridge University Press edition.

[@cleganebowldog6626]

This was a great video, thanks!

[@Philmunda139]

To simply be, devoid of any societal constructs, not only is extraordinarily difficult that a handful have ever achieved, it reveals the truth n reality of life. That in words could be described as, to fill one's self up with emptiness is wholeness, then live who you are, not what you became, is the only purpose to being alive n living life exactly as it is.

[@MilesBellas]

I read "Essays and Aphorisms" many times. One of the best philosophers. I like direct writing styles. Orwell too.

[@observer4916]

Schopenhauer's world view is the only one that has ever made sense to me. Learning about his philosophy was like an "a-ha" moment for me, and suddenly life and our existence made sense.

[@bboyneon92]

The timing of this video! Just last night I was up until almost 3 chatting with chatgpt about the paradoxical nature of humans being the jurer and the executioner of lives. The reality of how one life takes multiple other lives to survive. Looking forward to Neitzche's response!

[@jamesskinnercouk]

I think despite the horrors that nature commits upon itself there is actually more peace and beauty in the world than pain suffering and tragedy. If there was mostly horror it would start to go unregistered. I get the impression Schopenhauer is like that of someone who constantly watches the news all day long thinking how bad everything is. But the reality is that most life is alive and growing, and the horror that comes upon is typically quick (I personally believe all life moves on in spirit including mineral and element like a frequency that’s still around after the TV or radio has been smashed).

[@ZPG61]

Buddhism has so much in common with this and much of the content that you post. It would be great if you could dive into the teachings of Buddha or the life and sayings of Siddhartha Gautama, and this common theme with many philosophies 🙏. Love your channel ❤

[@ennuiblue4295]

he inspired Philip Mainlander too

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Tks and thumbs up, of course!

[@monkeydotbizness]

Beautiful art all over your videos. So many times I want to know the names.

[@freesk8]

Fascinating. Thanks! :)

[@FogelsChannel]

"Nietzsche's response to Schopenhauer'. Nietzsche didn't understand Schopenhauer's theory of Will. N equated it to sophism. Nietzsche's response to 'just do something , happily', isn't really a philosophical analytical response. N merely dismisses Schopenhauer w arrogant snide opinions, like a soldier uninterested in philosophical concepts. . For where in Ns writings does he say that the Will is not all pervading, not within every atom, merciless without rest? N misconstrues the term 'Will to Life' by mocking 'How can a living thing Will the Life it already has'? S didn't mean 'Will' in the sense of an individual desiring an outcome for themself. S meant it like energy. Ss Will is the energy that created the Big Bang and the energy that drives discomfort in your body. An organism can never control Ss Will, for how can you control the atoms in every one of your cells? The cells move without your consent.

[@RoyMcRoyerson]

Sometimes when I'm pessimistic or depressed, I feel oddly superior like I'm the only one who sees clearly. And I see the same attitude all the time in others, especially when they're making some anti religion argument. But when I look at what people who believed in a greater purpose than survival have accomplished, I can't help but feel they're the superior ones.

[@empyreuma]

It's ok to see the suffering, feel sad & experience pain Becoming lost in despair & feeling hopeless isn't fun, but perhaps part of the journey to discovering what you actually need in life, what matters, what you value & that finding your own purpose is valid & vital We all end up dead - we all have some degree of choice while alive & conscious

[@in2dionysus]

The mind is contemptuous! Action is the mind in a void that the body is strewn into. Solution is the bodies actions coming back into the mind. It is only solvent in direction and continuum. The preface is the minds erratic motions trying to come together as one. Peace is just a futility at hand. Yet the aspects are never fully conscious, the premise is never really defined. Ones directive is the point of system one maintains in the motions ahead.

[@Adrification]

Well said!

[@lilhax7971]

I started giggling gleefully like a baby when I saw this post.thank you soo much for the effort you put into your videos 🫶🏾

[@con_sci]

just finished critique of pure reason so this is in good timing

[@runePV]

philosophy itself is 'humanity trying to figure it out because incertainty makes us anxious.. we are not a strong species at all and it's clear we are not gonna make it. The last 200 years show us that we are on a road to nowhere .. my philosophy is: enjoy life YOURSELF with living with 'empathic' values.. it's not our problem future generation is gonna see 'the end' comming..it is inevitable

[@SoFloPepe]

Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

[@drewnight3944]

A psalm of Moses written a millennium before Plato

[@ashishc.s4353]

He was more darker than entire DC universe 😊😊

[@XplorerOfLife]

I always thought this was a prison planet but i did not knew how to explain/describe it as a child and now everyone calls me mad whenever i bring it up. One plausible proof of this is how preety much every organism has to rely on the death of another in order to live. Social norms that we create don't really make it any easier. Conditions that one planet has to fulfill in order to sustain life is very pretentious and rare. Fill in if you believe i missed any.

[@JacobGrather]

I can somewhat agree with your point that our system of life is filled with a need for death to occur for our existence to continue on, but as there is much death, there is just but as much life. But, that life will at some point have to go thought the same conditions that the adult of birth did, and from there a cycle continues. But, even to that, that is but the condition of life, a constant cycle of life and death, aka the ouroboros, so even though that is a part of existence that could also be seen as the beauty of it. The cycle of evolution in the minds of the youth and the more comforting conditions that follow. I will also amite that the temporariness of time is constantly draining our lives away to the ever-growing past, we must move past that and learn to live the best existence that we can feasible posses. Also, social norms really do need to change from the old mindset of "work, eat/sleep, then die" for this doesn't allow any room for evolution and this is kinda why I want to replace a good bit of the old social norms with more modern and better one that will benefit people from others and the "world's" discrimination of them. But, your point is still fair to a decent point, but I feel (as an absurdest) that there is much to life and death is but part of it.

[@XplorerOfLife]

@@JacobGrather I was refering more specifically the social norms in society (Jungian collective shadow) because it just makes life more difficult for nothing.

[@JacobGrather]

@@XplorerOfLife I can actually see your point there, the conditions we set in an endless striving for a "perfection" of our condition and an element of some putting their desires above others, has caused a lot of commotion and has elongated our entertainment from the endless void of boredom.

[@vigofox]

This guy couldn't see the forest for the trees. But I forgive myself.

[@Crumbsoftotailtariansim]

We don’t get the best out of humanity, without having the worst out of humanity.

[@gregbors8364]

I can simplify that further: “Evil is good”

[@Crumbsoftotailtariansim]

@ Genesis 50:But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

[@dfaux2118]

The Buddha pointed to this over 2000 years ago

[@chadkline4268]

It's all because people desire more than they can provide for themselves. Wealth only exists for some because all others are exploited, enslaved, and stolen from. If you grew your own food + medicines on your own land, with a store for winter, with access to clean water, you'd be perfectly at peace. But that's not enough for most all, so you buy into promises of wealth, if only you will be a good little servant. And you perish in that servitude, because wealth+power cannot exist unless it's an exclusive club of a few that dominate all others. If everyone was wealthy and powerful, who would remain to generate it? 🤔🙄

[@Dark89Avenger]

It kinda bums me out that someone who inspired and had influence over many artists, psychologists, philosophers and even physicists( and yes quantium psychics is inspired at least to an extend from his writting)is remembered as some edgelord.

[@brianw.5230]

Schopenhauer basically ripped off Buddhism.

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

Philosophers have given us nothing but fancier concepts and theories. Like science and religion.

[@97alexk]

I really do enjoy Schopenhauer's musings. But i think Nietzsche wad more on point with his "Will to power". Not only the power that we think as oppressive and exluding. But also that power that includes and creates.

[@ElectricArrowRifle]

Life is suffering if you cannot tell because it's a demons dream of a beautiful hell

[@quintonovembris]

FINALLY!!!!!!

[@paulohyp]

The wisdom of life. My favorite book !

[@sanathansatya1667]

In essence, Schopenhauer's philosophy, though Western, resonates with Advaita Vedanta and Madhyamaka in its quest for understanding the nature of reality, the self, and the path to liberation. Both Vedantic and Buddhist teachings suggest that transcending the illusion of the world leads to the realization of a higher, unified truth, a theme echoed in Schopenhauer's work.

[@viktorkorol477]

Leo Tolstoy was a huge fan of Arthur Schopenhauer

[@speedysteve9121]

I'm here for the paintings

[@ciararespect4296]

Even i can't escape. When I see a beautiful painting I get jealous i can't paint 😂

[@pessimistic.zoomer]

I'm a philosophical pessimist, but i reject asceticism.

[@JustOneWillingSoul]

To reconcile Schopenhauer's philosophy with God, one only needs A Course in Miracles. In it, Jesus clarifies that this world was not created by God the Father, but by you, the Son, in a moment when the mad idea of 'what if I were separated from my creator?' was considered. This is impossible, but the fear introduced by the slightest belief that it could be gave rise to this dreamed illusory world of suffering. The explanation for the nature of this world then is 'what would happen if I were separated from God?'.

[@colins991]

Accurate but incomplete and one sided view of the world. He can see the competition but not the collaboration. Both forces are at work in the animal kingdom and world at large.

[@chrisgillard6129]

Do unto others that which you would desire to be done to you. Go as far as possible without surrender to be on good terms with all people. Love, compassion, mercy, honesty, self restraint, self control, are virtues to cultivate. Remove oneself from hateful, spiteful people. They are but brute beasts. Liars and deceivers are devils; reveal them and take them out. The sun, moon and earth are each a perfect size and distance from each other, as are the planets, such as Mars, Jupitar and Saturn. These are my observations and beliefs. I'm not very well educated but I've been able to live here on this earth for 65 years and have done reasonably well. When its my time of dying; I pray that the great creator that shines his lights in the sky be merciful to me; as I have tried to be merciful to my fellow human beings. Good day.

[@Choo-choo-chookcha]

Bro was advertising monk mode before it was mainstream!

[@ericthorsfeldt3030]

Wow! 97% darkness surrounds a single ray of light. Focus on this small beam of light.

[@GrassesOn97]

Then, Nietzsche came along and said, “Bet, old man.”

[@JamesPilgrim-y3m]

Humans are simply the most complicated vversion of all beasts in the current cast of woorldly inhabitants

[@ytpah9823]

🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:16 *📚 Nietzsche discovered Schopenhauer's work at 21, significantly influencing his philosophical outlook.* 00:27 *🧠 Schopenhauer's ideas also impacted Carl Jung, who found his discussions of world suffering and evil illuminating.* 01:42 *🌍 Schopenhauer viewed the world pessimistically, seeing life as filled with suffering and evil.* 02:22 *🔍 Schopenhauer sought to uncover the true nature of reality to understand why the world is so miserable.* 03:06 *👁️ Unlike Kant, Schopenhauer believed we could experience our inner nature directly, through introspection.* 04:16 *🔄 Schopenhauer argued that endless striving for survival and reproduction defines human and natural existence.* 06:22 *🌌 Schopenhauer posited that even inorganic matter exhibits a form of willing, akin to living organisms.* 07:57 *🔄 The "will to live" is a metaphysical force causing all beings to strive, according to Schopenhauer.* 09:52 *🌊 Schopenhauer saw individuality as an illusion, with all beings being manifestations of a single will.* 11:22 *⚔️ Schopenhauer described the natural world as a constant state of conflict due to resource limitations.* 13:27 *👹 Schopenhauer viewed the world as hellish, questioning the notion of a loving creator due to worldly suffering.* 14:22 *💔 Schopenhauer believed endless desires prevent lasting happiness, leading to inevitable suffering.* 16:26 *🕊️ Schopenhauer suggested asceticism and self-denial as paths to liberation from life’s suffering.* 18:43 *✨ Voluntary chastity and poverty are recommended by Schopenhauer for detachment from worldly desires.* 19:51 *🧘 Schopenhauer's asceticism has historical precedence, seen in the lives of saints and religious figures.* 20:45 *🤔 Nietzsche responded to Schopenhauer by seeking ways to affirm life, despite its inherent suffering.* Made with HARPA AI

[@neggit2063]

There's a big difference between being a pessimist and being blackpilled. Schopenhauer was blackpilled.

[@acem82]

Once again, the non-Christian philosopher smuggles in Christian morality, but denies its source. You can't call something evil unless you have an idea of what good is and his philosophy seems to deny that good and evil could even exist. I'm realizing that even CS Lewis argued against his idea of aesthetics. He couldn't imagine that aesthetic appreciation could be anything other than a glimpse of something even better. His character in the book "Pilgrim's Regress" follows that aesthetic appreciation until he runs into God.

[@Jontheinternet]

The world is my representation Schoppenhauer

[@Kane-ez]

Life has been cruel to me so much so , i beleive in nothing .

[@PomazeBog1389]

It's too cold outside. I'm hungry, and there's nothing to eat in this house . Also, I don't like this video. Did I do it right?

[@aeternaflux]

I wonder which of the two thinkers your own perspective resembles more closely: Schopenhauer or Nietzsche?

[@ballestabang]

Damn. I knew it wasn’t a phase.

[@TruthAgainstTheW0rld]

There is wisdom to be found in all philosophies. No single philosophy has all the answers. It is easy to look at life as meaningless especially in the age we find ourselves in, but I always come back to the simple fact that I am here at all is a thing to celebrate. To be content with the experience with all its highs and lows, its a part of the parcel. And if we are here but once then we should rejoice in the time we have here and if we reincarnate then so be it lol. Either way it is a wondrous thing at least, and not something to be taken for granted.

[@wanderingbiku451]

If anyone can recommend a good reader/primer/commentary on Schopenhauer i would appreciate it. I find his ideas fascinating but his style a little hard going. Thanks

[@JamesPilgrim-y3m]

Thats simply not true because all creatures would choose life and death over no life at all..

[@TheGadecka]

This is the person kriea from Star Wars Knights of the old republic two is based on. It just has to be.

[@frederickanderson1860]

Ok ne question leads to another question eternal return syndrome.thats hell on earth