Schopenhauer: Suffering is Real | On the Sufferings of the World 01

[@whoaitstiger]

Certainly one of the darkest yet most cathartic books ever written, and I absolutely love it. This book has helped me through some very difficult times in my life.

[@catlover-banana24]

Thank you, Sir Christopher, for making this important knowledge accessible to the general public. It's amazing to see that Schopenhauer's diagnosis of the essence of life is the same as Gautama Buddha's even though the methods they propose are quite different

[@cej499]

Oh, I have been served up a gem by KZbin! I used to read philosophy long ago. Thank you so much, subscribed.

[@skeptickhan4239]

"It is bad today and it will be worse tomorrow and so on till the worst of all" - Schopenhauer

[@catlover-banana24]

what an optimistic guy!

[@kerenlev123]

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[@jamesmoran7511]

That quote is the view of a small mind unable to see the magnificent perfection. Schopenhauer was a fool who was unable to see the full context of our situation.

[@objectivityisourfriend9631]

Thank you so much for your videos. I am listening to it at night and they are very soothing, especially given all the craziness in the US.

[@Maxmaxmax63]

At 9:00 I can’t help but think of Dostoyevsky’s underground man, talking about if man was in paradise they would tear it down due to its unbearableness.

[@SuperBingo96]

The mouse experiment i.e. they gave a mice colony all the shelter and food it needed without struggle and the mice turned gay and murderous.

[@mikewalker8956]

@@SuperBingo96 I don’t buy that. I had pet mice when I was a kid that lived peacefully together in a large aquarium. They made nest, raised families, ran on their wheel and loved being hand fed by me.

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[@Brahmsian]

Thank you for continuing with Schopenhauer!

[@AsaphEhad]

It all becomes very simple once one acknowledges the true nature of this realm: this is hell, and we are spirits who were sent here for correction. Humans are demons, corrupt in their hearts, easy to abuse others, and only by good education one can improve and raise oneself from the demon world to higher levels. We don't get to see the big picture from down here, so we lack the understanding of Why we were sent here to suffer. This world is a correction facility, and for a correction facility, for a hell, it is pretty magnificent, a godly masterpiece.

[@freeonlinecourse5523]

I disagree with you. Sure there are many sufferings in this world, but the feeling of something like falling in love with someone, even after that person is gone, still bring nostalgic happiness and appreciation of life. Heck even the bad experience is usually the one that turn into nostalgia instead of the good experience. People say it's logical fallacy, I say it's how our brain keep us alive.

[@Samaelganzoury]

Thank you! The last words describe Schopenhauer‘s antinatalist sentiment. This is perhaps one of the core notions in his philosophy and I think it would have deserved more comments from your side. Thanks for the reading anyway! I really enjoyed it. :)

[@ChristopherAnadale]

I think I will include some comments on antinatalism in the next video, next week. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@ballestabang]

A new series, here we go. 🙏

[@SerkanSonel]

Brilliant!

[@Emin.V.Aliyev1]

Insightful. Thank you

[@bradrandel1408]

Thank you so much, Professor. I’m so looking forward to this series. I like the music in the beginning. You are a good teacher thank you thank you! 🦋🕊🌹

[@josj15]

I can't wait for this series Prof. !! Thank you!!

[@danu6718]

Fascinating. I'm happy to have found this KZbin channel. Brilliant presentation. Thank you.

[@yarivfreed1098]

Thank you. I appreciate your excellent videos.

[@Drunk-Fly]

Thank you as always, Sir.

[@noahbrown4388]

Once I discovered Schopenhauer it all made sense. He may have been kinda a jerk in real life, but I think he got it right. There is no meaning to life, it just is.

[@Daniel-ef7nk]

It is just that the meaning is to minimize suffering

[@EastLancashireJohn]

Thank you. I've ordered the text and look forward to your further reflections.

[@barbaramichiels5503]

Ya, yin and yang. No darkness without light. Desire generates pain . Take away desire, and pain falls away.

[@FogelsChannel]

truism linguistically. But not useful in daily life. If someone is not happy, and discovers the pain didn't 'fall away', then you can say 'You still possess desire, for you desire a pain that has fallen away. Once you don't desire that your pain falls away, you will be a Yin Yang joyful grasshopper" Hegelian proposition.

[@_ross5800]

Thank you!!

[@michaelroche5744]

Thank you, sir.

[@nikhilck629]

Thanks Christopher.

[@jayludus7737]

Hello sir, I really enjoy your reading on Schopenhauer. I recommend investing in a better camera, since the visuals are always quite blurry. Perhaps the setting are to be changed, to avoid the blurr. Thanks a lot

[@Dan-ri1us]

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.

[@noahbrown4388]

Indeed it is

[@eohrefare7346]

10:36 We're already there boss. No prosperity for all.. Not even close.

[@marktapley7571]

Someone said that "most men live out their lives in quiet desperation.” Schopenhauer explains this to be inevitable because of their striving of the will. It is only close to the end of life that some realize it was mostly all in vain. That is why those in Christ press on toward a higher calling so they can say as Paul, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith and for me the crown of righteousness."

[@sm-eo3wf]

Thoreau

[@mattevans8090]

Woo first

[@IlluminatedGame]

I'd watch you review any translation, but I'm certainly relieved to see the choice was Saunders for this series. Although reddit seems to highly praise the cambridge translation, sadly for no reason other than that it is the "newest and most modern" translation, which schopenhauer himself ironically warned against.

[@francisdec1615]

As a Swede who is fluent in both English and German and who has read literally *everything* by Schopenhauer in original, I'd say that there is a flaw here and there in the translation, but all in all it's a good one. The word of the Master should be spread as much as possible.

[@GreenTeaViewer]

Reddit? Enough said...

[@Maxmaxmax63]

Do you have any recommendations as to how best start reading Schopenhauer? Through watching your videos I got “The Essential Schopenhauer key selections from The World as Will and Representation and Other Writings” edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher. But fear some stuff may be cut out that I’m missing..

[@blsabjflkdsafjb5768]

So are you doing studies in pessimism as a series?

[@ChristopherAnadale]

For now I'm just doing the first essay, On the Sufferings of the World. I did his dialogue on immortality a week or two ago. Might try the whole book, but not committed yet.

[@blsabjflkdsafjb5768]

@@ChristopherAnadale ah ok!

[@marktapley7571]

Schopenhauer was ahead of his time with his antinatalist sentiments. Most people of his day were still rural agriculturalists and so needed to raise up a labor force in order to do the never ending farm chores just to survive. Now the majority of humanity are urban dwellers in a situation where children are mostly a big obligation and expense. Modern technology and finance have created a situation in which the planation livestock, despite vast increases in productivity and innovation, are hardly any better off than the medieval serf laboring under the feudal landlord. The fiat banking cartel in collision with the governments not only levy onerous direct taxes but also massive indirect taxation through the monetization of debt which is in effect a transfer of wealth to the top. All countries levy this financial fraud which in the U.S. for decades has run a depreciation rate ( so called inflation) ag ap. 50% every 17 years.

[@oskadavid2964]

Islam has similar views on the state of this life calling it a prison for a righteousness.A place of trials and tribulations to test a person’s beliefs, and this world as a delusion for the superficial materialistic person who only believes in this life and not the hear after.

[@snowfleece]

Loosh farm.

[@skeptickhan4239]

"There are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners condemned not to death but to life." -Schopenhauer

[@Daniel-ef7nk]

Anyone who claims that there can be more pleasure than pain in this life is only kidding himself, Schopenhauer argument is irrefutable

[@jamesmoran7511]

Everything is a matter of perspective. I believe everything is perfect in the world. Exactly the way it should be, just give it time

[@Daniel-ef7nk]

@@jamesmoran7511 It is quite objective not a matter of perspective. If you are honest woth yourself and look at your average day you should see that there is a lot more stress and struggle than pleasure, our struggles take a lot more time than our pleasures no matter how lucky or wealthy we are. I have talked to a lot of people about this and no one disagreed.

[@susanralph274]

this mans interjections are completely redundant, and not very wise at that. he is saying shopenhauer felt 'cheated' and those are his words, not shopenhawuers...this is malfeasance. if he felt cheated, that would mean he was stupidly expecting something...what he is doing is putting validation to the vanity of the 'preacher' solomon. a far philosophical cry from 'feeling cheated' sheesh

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[@susanralph274]

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[@FogelsChannel]

YES! TRUE THE WORDS YOU WRITTENED!