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

[@danu6718]

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

[@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]

​@@catlover-banana24😂

[@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! 🦋🕊🌹

[@Brahmsian]

Thank you for continuing with Schopenhauer!

[@yarivfreed1098]

Thank you. I appreciate your excellent videos.

[@happynose96]

“What a piece of work is a man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[@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.

[@EastLancashireJohn]

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

[@michaelroche5744]

Thank you, sir.

[@ballestabang]

A new series, here we go. 🙏

[@Drunk-Fly]

Thank you as always, Sir.

[@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

[@nikhilck629]

Thanks Christopher.

[@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.

[@_ross5800]

Thank you!!

[@happynose96]

“Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all” - W.B. Yeats, Death

[@Dan-ri1us]

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

[@eohrefare7346]

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

[@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...

[@noahbrown4388]

Indeed it is

[@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!

[@mattevans8090]

Woo first

[@Daniel-ef7nk]

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

[@KakarotGoku2]

BLESSINGS 👍🏻✊🏻🙏🏻🤝🏻TO YOU. THANKS FOR TAKING TIME OUT TO SHARE YOUR WISDOM OF KNOWLEDGE THAT GOD GAVE YOU FOR YOU WAS CHOSEN WITH THESE GIFTS FOR YOU ACCEPT GOOD🥲😇🙏🏻🤝🏻

[@FogelsChannel]

YES! TRUE THE WORDS YOU WRITTENED!

[@jacki8211]

free free israel 🇮🇱

[@skeptickhan4239]

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

[@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

[@snowfleece]

Loosh farm.

[@susanralph274]

too much commentary my god