Arthur Schopenhauer on Death

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A reading from Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Idea" Volume III, chapter 41 "On Death And Its Relation To The Indestructibility Of Our True Nature" translated by R. B. Haldane and read by Expatriate. This comes from LibriVox and is in the public domain. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. Note, the audio has been slightly edited.
"Look back at time before our birth. In this way Nature holds before our eyes the mirror of our future after death." Lucretius
"Death does not concern us, since as long as we are, death has not yet come, and once death has come, we are no more." Epicurus
#philosophy #schopenhauer ##pessimism

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@sean16hall3 2 жыл бұрын

Death is the gift.

@dalegriffin6768 Ай бұрын

Death is the only tranquility,Birth is the curse,we are thrown into a shit storm of lies that never ends, Death is what fills the holes of life's bullshit .

@dalegriffin6768 Ай бұрын

Death is tranquility,Life is not a personal story, it is just moment to moment awareness

@multiplescrotums774 8 ай бұрын

I will always be and I have always been. Yet the I cannot see itself.

@he_vysmoker 2 жыл бұрын

Ahh ,some easy listening....

@kokubo399 Жыл бұрын

I love this but that picture makes me feel like dying

@justinwalker4475 Жыл бұрын

just wait a while

@menzisaclown Жыл бұрын

Schopenhauer was never a pessimist He looked at life and death with a smile on his face Suffering must be enjoyed as life intend us to do Death is the final chapter, relief I will forever worship this man

@joejohnson6327 Жыл бұрын

When did he say that suffering must be enjoyed? 🤔 "They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person." -- A. S.

@Alphardus Жыл бұрын

@@joejohnson6327 Schopenhauer states you shouldn't commit suicide. Not to mention that suicide is normally committed for a supposed forthcoming conscious experience of relief or freedom from a current conscious experience of pain or discomfort, which you will not get because consciousness ceases at death with the destruction of the brain organ. This Schopenhauer also remarks upon as a contradiction. People commit suicide to end a current experienced pain/discomfort etc, but the conscious experience of ''Ending of pain, Relief from pain/discomfort'' for which they think suicide will give them at that moment, is a conscious experience, which they will not get because they will not be conscious in unconsciousness. The only way I can see suicide not falling for this contradiction is the act of committing suicide to avoid a perceived/imagined future pain/discomfort, which you are not currently consciously experiencing but think you might and you don't want to and knowing that death is unconsciousness. Such as when a soldier commits suicide prior to being captured, to avoid torture etc. The suicide would then not rely upon an expected conscious experience of a ''release'' or ''cessation of pain/discomfort'' of a current conscious experience, because the act to be avoided doesn't exist yet, so there is no expectation of an immediate conscious experience of relief after or in death. "Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment-a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to an answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer." - Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, from the chapter ''On Suicide''.

@AGirlyReader 11 ай бұрын

He definetly never said enjoy suffering, he put a objective negative value on life and was not a pro mortalist (at least not to my knowledge, he definetly condemned suicide as a negative). Schopenhauer was a pessimist by objectively judging life as a negative

@TheBellCurve_ 9 ай бұрын

Nah he didn’t want to be alive but made the best of it I’m sure

@dalegriffin6768 Ай бұрын

Death is life's enemy, Death is our comrade,life is a constant unnecessary beatdown.Suicide is basically just ending the curse early.If life was so important why is it in the middle?

@ReynaSingh 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these videos

@fernandostanlei 3 жыл бұрын

You are beautiful 😍

@justinwalker4475 Жыл бұрын

we need more deep thinkers. the deep slow meandering river of life has turned into a fast shallow stream of you tubers!o0

@Mostafa.7600 3 жыл бұрын

Please upload "The vanity and sufferings of the world" by the same reader. I guess it was around 45 minutes. Thank you so much.

@IbrahimHoldsForth 2 жыл бұрын

haha excellent therapy that one

@IbrahimHoldsForth 2 жыл бұрын

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@dalegriffin6768 Ай бұрын

Life : Random, mysterious, meaningless.

@YM-cw8so 9 ай бұрын

If only Kant writes as clearly as Schopenhauer, it's really a pain in the ass to work through his works because he unnecesarrily wants to specify the terminology he uses but results in an often self contradictory and messy writings.

@polymathable 6 ай бұрын

Schopenhauer writes really clearly. Its a breath of fresh air!

@polymathable 6 ай бұрын

where would you recommend starting with Kant. I wanna avoid the bad and overly verbose writing as long as pissible!