Schopenhauer: Life is Pain | Counsels & Maxims 1

[@gumis123PL]

I appreciate a Catholic (correct if incorrect) philosopher covering Schopenhauer in a clear and unbiased manner. One does not need to take everything he wrote as matter-of-fact, but his words really do make one suspect that there is something "fallen" or "incomplete" about the world we inhabit...

[@ChristopherAnadale]

I agree with you on both points. This is an enjoyable series for me to make. Thanks for the encouragement.

[@ChaitanyaGaurBME]

@@ChristopherAnadale I am really grateful to you for making these videos. Your commentary is really helpful for someone like me. I would be obliged if you could make such a playlist on the "World and Will as representation". Thank you so much.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

@@ChaitanyaGaurBME Thanks for the comment. WWR would be a very heavy lift. I'll explore it, but it seems like a huge project.

[@willows-bl3kk]

​@@ChristopherAnadale I have a reading problem, and some like your reading and explaining as you go is most helpful,

[@ayoubennaoui6107]

Schopenhauer really has good points and ideas,i liked his view on lowering our expectations from the world as i think this principle is important to be happy

[@SarcasticSamurai22]

I listen to this series before going to bed. Helps me counter the sad thoughts I am usually flooded with.

[@vessietaylor]

The truth sets people free. ❤

[@thomasvincent726]

I have been enjoying this series immensely. Clear interpretations delivered in a pleasant voice at a comprehensible pace without cutesy cartoons or superfluous music. My only sadness is that I was 71 years old before you brought Schopenhauer to my attention. Life would have made much more sense if I’d read Counsels and Maxims when I was younger.

[@yazanasad7811]

Happiness and pleasure as fake The hieroglyphic of joy, but not real joy. A show

[@GS-lp2up]

I’m reading Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms now. So, these are very helpful. Thank you!

[@matrixInvader]

Joy is the only guest who has declined his invitation to the party, a great analogy.

[@Natella3312]

Beauty of Mother Nature easies man's pain of living.

[@marktapley7571]

There is no Mother Nature but only God.

[@Natella3312]

@@marktapley7571 Have you deen God? Religion is opium for folks!

[@Natella3312]

@@marktapley7571 Brainwash

[@bubbag8895]

This book was super important to me during my incarceration

[@JB-kw2in]

happy for you

[@invest_in_dogecoin6398]

What did you do to get locked up?

[@bellakrinkle9381]

I can imagine. Provided by the institution's library? Or a good friend? It's good that you're out!

[@robertnicholson1409]

This provokes a much deeper thinking into behavior and the commentary is illuminating.

[@vessietaylor]

A truthful perspective of Life on earth. Had me smiling through it all. ❤ Thanks for sharing.

[@multiplescrotums774]

Thank you Dr. Anadale. So glad i found you. Better late than never.

[@Torgo1969]

We love some good old Schope!

[@dearservice1998]

Thank you so much for making this series!

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@Richard-1776]

J’ai apprécie la lecture. Schopenhauer fait sens. J’ai aimé aussi vos vidéos sur Aristote. Tout tes vidéos sont utiles pour moi. You read a bit in French, so I’m using that as an excuse to write in French. I assume you know some French. You might be interested to know Aristotole’s Ethics is what made me realize I needed to learn another language. And he was right! It’s the most stimulating thing I’ve ever done. I feel like I’ve been born again. There’s a saying, learn a new language, get a new soul. The only thing I could ever do well in school, was write, and better than most ( which is the consensus of most of my teachers, it wasn’t my idea). How that happened I don’t know because I was a multiple time flunkie, hate reading, and writing for that matter, which is why I appreciate your videos. I find them very useful. I learn better by listening, than I do by reading. Merci Professeur.

[@jo-mang]

Ez listening. These Breakdowns are sincerely appreciated.

[@kevinkemble3718]

Your readings have been super beneficial. Many of us have an intuitive knowingness. This plays it out beautifully. #thoughts #supplements #practical

[@SeanComer-qh4vr]

I agree that seeking pleasure, inevitably brings one pain. It’s best to accept and love what you have. ‘Lower your ambitions’, as shopenhour states. It’s in the striving that pain is found. It’s chasing a false, illusory world, that was never real to begin with. It’s only once we attain some worldly possession or accomplishment,that we realize, it was fools gold. We recognize that any pleasure we might experience as a result of said accomplishment, is ephemeral at best. …. Soon enough, we will be chasing yet another temporary high. It’s unfortunate that the vast majority will never arrive at this conclusion, opting instead to live forever, trapped inside the rat race, not knowing that they are only racing against themselves, and their own, misguided ambitions.

[@miles6875]

Thank you very much for posting this series

[@TheCrackupboom]

Excellent, thanks for the great read and commentary.

[@mellofan2012]

Thank you for this. I’m getting used to sleeping alone again and It’s helping take the mind off of my pain

[@owengreene382]

Thank you, Christopher for your wonderful clear and precise reading of Schopenhauer insite of harsher world during his time. He's advise are revelent in todays troubled world. I only came across your potential today,...25,10,24 Thank you.

[@nocigar7730]

I found your commentary apt and refreshingly concise! Well done

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Thank you!

[@lynnfisher3037]

Thank you so much for posting these writings. They are very clear and make a great deal of sense to me. I was intially intimidated by Schopenhaur from other teachers. I didn't have any idea that he had written such wonderful and insightful things. I will try and get a copy of the book you referenced. ❤

[@planetx5269]

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.

[@Ljtheog12]

I very much enjoying this whole reading along with my copy and sipping on a vodka drink

[@sojourn-gv4ue]

ditch the vodka, my brother...

[@sojourn-gv4ue]

Wonderful lecture...thanks! Looking forward to the others in this series and beyond...

[@jag2039]

Just found you Sir. Thanks from n Old Man kinda with 12 grad now 63 we have so much info. Is great cause lots of us have never heard of these ppl sad but life. Now been learning so much is really Cool Thanks ;)€

[@ncedwards1234]

Does belief change reality? Can hope be found in realism? Of course, that's why i enjoy the journey in the ups and downs cause i can look to the present or future by directing my attention according to a will toward harmony. Who says i can't? Prolly sad people biased by emotions they don't understand or believe in. i know i could be wrong, but that doesn't bother me. Does it bother you?

[@JasonMomoa999]

Remember, people hate to see others achieve their satisfying goals of acting, modeling and singing. Especially narcissists who are the most miserable people on the planet and want you feel miserable as well.

[@naturelover1284]

Yes and it wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for a select few that you witnessed get treated well. Plus someone that helped you when you were helpless stays with you but that's the myth they want to continue isn't it

[@godsonjohnson5549]

I've just watched a video of Schopenhauer - On Women". And I've began watching this series; however good these advice might be,,, and they are, what concerns me is ones' ability to then navigate through ones society and culture. It seems that ones adopted philosophy ought to commensurate with ones locality because it's all different and continually evolving. Dr. Jordan Peterson advocate for monogamy, whereas, Schopenhauer gives merits to polygamy.. What one adopts seems contingent on what is is that individual is facing in terms of what he wants, taking into account the culture and the surrounding norms

[@virtualselfie6899]

Loved it, Professor, your advisory: "Don't fall for the show!"

[@dalegriffin6768]

If life was so important why is it in the middle,Death is at the end for a reason,we should all embrace it, it's the plug that fills all the holes of life.

[@EconoPropertyWall-hz2me]

I enjoy your work sir. It helps me when I do some introspection.

[@MPK1637]

Thank you.

[@ishwarishivnani9380]

Excellent

[@JasonMomoa999]

I'm all about expression, giving, receiving, love and joy.

[@edgregory1]

Fear and Greed are the spawn of any Emotion.

[@JasonMomoa999]

The narcissist will do everything possible to dim your light, delay your goals, ambitions. They want you alone, isolated, and struggling to survive by stealing your energy.

[@Boulos-cb2un]

Sounds to me you’re blaming everything and everyone for your (I’m sorry) shitty life.

[@eldoradose]

The more you avoid pleasure the more desire for it arise - this is hell, life is not a hell. Man can gain wisdom only in olde age, when is too late for change. Love and friendly relationships keep things strait.

[@karenp5374]

Listen to the whole book.

[@BanannaSlipknot]

Thank you sir

[@johnmitchell8925]

I love this stuff. Im going for a walk now its cold and drizzling and my sciatica hurts 🤣😘

[@imperfekt7905]

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."😉

[@menschkeit1]

Schopenhauer is lonely, therefore loneliness is the greatest form of existence

[@johnterry6541]

I have a question. If I am bored or sad and drink alcohol to avoid the pain signal of those feelings, would that be what Schopenhaeur is teaching. But that would be bad for me, right. Perhaps, he meant not running away but to stay with the pain until one fully realizes they have control over themselves.

[@SinethembaDlamini-i4f]

A God, Arthur

[@ColinNew-pf5ix]

Fascinating, but unless we look at 'Loosh' and the soul trap by demonic entities, we are merely dabbling with a superficial understanding of how this hell realm is designed.

[@AgainstLife1000]

People do not want that kind of belief, even though it can be very evident that we are here serving some low entity our energy

[@JasonMomoa999]

Projection - Sometimes, I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

[@piehound]

thx

[@edain1640]

Whaaat the name of the intro music

[@JasonMomoa999]

I see many people who achieve contentment without major, ongoing suffering and pain.

[@JasonMomoa999]

Depends who you are around. My last boyfriend who passed away. I never struggled to feel joy everyday when he was alive.

[@benjaminmerrill2926]

“I didn’t know Schopenhauer was a phil-os-opher.” “Oh, yeah.

[@Charles-y4r]

Well, I think writing catharts pain and is a pleasure in itself. So is true of other arts. So may also some forms of. spirituality.

[@simonesewero9405]

✨❤️✨

[@theplanetruth]

First listen

[@TheGiantMidget]

I'm starting to see what Nietzsche was talking about. It seems like this whole philosophy is just a really elaborate justification for his own cowardice and a little bit of sour grapes from not achieving the level of success he thought he deserved. The thing is that all of his descriptive statements are basically true which entices the reader but then he starts giving his prescriptions which ultimately just amount to running away from life. The reality is that if you followed his prescriptions you are not eliminating suffering from your life because all that will happen is that you will become afraid of life and this fear will also cause you to suffer greatly

[@rangecow]

I'm not a linguist, but I'd think your Latin pronunciation would be right on in some Latin community were you able to get back to that era and look around. A language and its spoken version varies place to place. There's no one correct pronunciation across a language world. So don't fear speaking Latin. Your Latin accent would no doubt have been perfect somewhere.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Very kind of you, thanks!

[@robertvondarth1730]

My initial reaction is - one can take the bland path of room temperature oatmeal, or instead embrace the pain and drama, as it makes a much more interesting story. The trick is to watch one’s life unfold from a distance, a detached observer director of the play.

[@kludgedude]

He seems risk adverse

[@JasonMomoa999]

Projection - Sundown you better take care, if I find you've been creeping down my back stairs.

[@JasonMomoa999]

Dolly Parton did not experience ongoing pain suffering before becoming famous. She had a supportive husband.

[@juanquixote4186]

Oh, she did. Listen to her hit song, “Jolene”. It’s autobiographical and illustrates how close she came to losing her husband to another woman - and the pain, angst, desperation, and powerlessness the situation forced her to endure.

[@edgregory1]

Her rags to riches life is inspiring.

[@JasonMomoa999]

I'm a clinical massage therapist and the hacker, stalker thinks I'm all about pain and pleasure.

[@JasonMomoa999]

Never let a online covert narcissist get away with sadistic online, forced abuse. They target women they never met who lives at a great distance.

[@mattbutchercreativity4213]

There's a reason why Arty-Boy never got invited to parties...

[@JasonMomoa999]

A covert narcissist can not stand to see their target experience happiness and joy.

[@brianw.5230]

Atheism is more painful :)

[@donaldmiller5524]

Isn't that tantamount to inviting Pascal's Wager?

[@brianw.5230]

@@donaldmiller5524 Yep. What's wrong with that, my friend?

[@donaldmiller5524]

@@brianw.5230 No, I'm fine with it, just making an observation.

[@guangxidavidliu]

Life is Mental Pain and struggle. Life should be the enjoyment of mental pain, mental and physical struggle. That is how steel is made. That were how great men were made. That was how Deng Xiao Ping was made.

[@HaydenHanna-c6k]

MGTOW monk philosophy