Schopenhauer: The Art of Putting Up With People | Counsels & Maxims 21

[@homagetv4481]

Loving this series. Schopenhauer's writings are so thought provoking and your commentary really adds to it

[@ChristopherAnadale]

That's great, I'm glad you think so.

[@lowieh.3451]

Thanks, succinct and thought provoking. Will have a look at the others. :)

[@Sergio-ht2bt]

Schopenhauer is a legend!

[@qbek_san]

Accepting the nature of other people goes against the idea of treating people with respect and as equals. If I treat other people as equals, I hold them to the same standards as I hold myself, so accepting different natures would force me to drop that virtue. I see great ethical dillemmas from Schopenhauer's philosophy.

[@Richard-1776]

Sorry, here comes another long one, but it's supposed to be a sincere thank you note. Sorry if it's a bit scattered...I am a scatter brain after all, and I can't change reality, maybe a liberal could wave their deluded wand and fix it, but I can't. I wonder If KZbin will warn me this is in violation of their ammended First Amendment. I'll find out now as I write these last words in the first paragraph, as I am about to hit post (I often rewrite the intro AFTER, I write the rant, since I never know what I might write). Thanks for these videos. However, I'm afraid you have created a monster, all from the parts of the same cadaver -- me -- I relate so much to Schopenhauer. , I now have a cocksure arrogance that I can't conceal or hide....I irritate myself, and I'm pretty sure everyone else. But, I have no friends, so I irritate strangers on KZbin. I really like Schopenhauer. He just makes sense, and says things I've always thought. I know I'm not some genius. But I'm not so dumb my grades say/said, or my life of failure says to the world, as it flashes "LOSER" brightly, in red neon in the night, nor as "fuckd-up" as the isolated, ostracized, outcast, misfit soul that is my very own, screamed in my own ear/mind - LOSER/FREAK, most of my life. I don't feel these things with Schopenhauer. I don't feel broken. I may be deluding myself, but I feel like a suit of armor after listening to him. I've always known what I've know, even If I wasn't certain if it was true...Now, I KNOW, what I know is in fact true. And thus, Now, I'm MORE isolated than ever, because I can NEVER back down from the views I have, because they aren't MY views, but they ARE TRUTH. I'm sorry to sound arrogant, I'm not here to brag, He's like oxygen in a choked of oxygen, and as a result brain damaged. He makes sense, in a world that has no concept of the word sense, and that lack of understanding holds true for both the most "intelligent" to the dumbest; from the "useful idiots" on the left, straight through to the apparent lobotomized eunuchs on the right, for they're no better...They truly are the "opposite side of the same coin" as they say. I've been so depressed, and without hope; wishing for death; lost and alone, but that changed. It's strange the "Pessimist philosopher," helped to make me feel alive. I know I've mentioned this before, and I'm not pretending ti be a scholar, or well read ( I can't sit and read...Hell, I can't even spell), and I'm no philosophy student, but two philosophers resurrected my dead soul...Aristotle, and Schopenhauer, maybe a little Neichez ( I have five or six spellings for his name, maybe more). I'm here to tank you for your videos. I learned through them, since I am not a reader, but I did read Aristotle's Ethics, which was hell, but now seems easy, and I couldn't do it without people like you. It sounds embarrassingly melodramatic, and almost like some form of limp wristed/dicked virtue signaling, so -o-speak. I don't want to come across as that, but that FACT is that Aristotle first and foremost, but also Schopenhauer changed my life, 75 percent of the way through that life. I feel alive. You're videos, and a few others who make similar videos, made that happen...You opened the door, in my case a cell door, so I could walk through and live. It's cost me though. I think I just lost my LAST friend, and my oldest friend, of about 45 years. I now find him intolerable, not because I want to, he's just so dumb, and it's because he doesn't THINK, he is a conservative, yet he is "woke." I love him, I can't help but love him because we have such deep roots, but he's regressed, or I've "progressed" ( Progressed is such a dirty word now)..And I have the most vile, profane tongue. I give the First Amendment a guilt complex, and nightmares, because I really don't hold back, no words offend me, except "lie" or any word that qualifies as such. But, damn, that word was hard to type in relation to myself...I guess because it is now ITSELF a LIE. It says progress, yet my senses see regress...As my old friend grotesquely displays. He's like a "coat-hanger abortion style," back alley surgically mutilated, transgender flasher. Does anyone want to see that, especially of a friend or family member? Anyway, in closing, and I've said it before, and I'm saying it again...Philosophy, specifically Aristotle, resurrected my dead soul. That's NOT hyperbole....It's the plain honest truth. I'm almost sixty, yet I've only recently been born. I'm sure I'll screw up this new life, like I did the old one, but, since most people are already screwed up, but now I KNOW they're screwed-up, far mores than me, because at least I value truth above all else, except freedom, , am I really a threat to screw up? I can only unscrew, for everything is already screwed. Thanks.