Schopenhauer: Why Old Age is Happier Than Youth | Counsels & Maxims 58

[@riverside9557]

Love this series of videos, professor. I enjoy your voice and cadence very much. And choice of material. Schopenhauer is wonderful. Might seem strange to say, considering he's thought of as being a very cynical and morbid thinker, but I've always found great comfort and companionship in his writing. The piercing clarity of his thought, and of his prose. It's beautiful and somehow cathartic to me. Your commentary is sharp as well. Thanks for making these.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

My reaction has been similar to yours: reading & commenting on Schopenhauer's popular philosophy this way make me appreciate his humanity more. There is a lot to admire there.

[@francisdec1615]

He's not morbid at all, just brutally honest. Life and the world are exactly as bad as he says. Schopenhauer, Mainländer and Zapffe are the most honest philosophers that ever lived.

[@georgettehadvina5712]

At age 85 I learned, some growth and creativity can exist all the way to the end of one’s life in some capacity. Reflecting of knowledge we gained do happens in our peaceful sunset years. Wonderful video.

[@havefunbesafe]

I agree with Schopy. At 58, I notice that the my days are filled with more joy than ever. At 28, I was living in a state of rapidity, unable to notice my surroundings and how they relate to me. I was simply just reacting, not a lot of introspection in that. Reading a book at 28 was unthinkable, I didn’t have the mindset, I was full of excuses. I’m still observing my shortcomings, I’m not there yet…but I know this now.🥳

[@boethius1812]

I'm 55. Life has been on a generally upward track since I left my family at the age of 26. However, life since 50, has been especially good.

[@lynnfisher3037]

SCHOPY!! 😂😂 love it. I appreciate Schopy more every time I visit his amazing mind.

[@jarinorvanto4301]

Time flies when you're having fun. But also when you get old.

[@saintsword23]

This is one of the better parts of Schopenhauer's more "everyday wisdom" sections. I'm only 38 but the fire of need for coupling has already left me, and I count it among the greatest of blessings my 30s have brought me. In fact, I also feel fortunate to have the intellect that has seen the pattern and generalized it, to where I can say that peace is brought through lessening one's desires, not fulfilling them, and wisdom is knowing this one thing.

[@mondo_stunts27]

I had a rapid loss of intellectual power when I got extremely sick from mold and dust and other spores working on a farm in Oregon, and sleeping in my car in the woods in the winter in Oregon. Lucky I was young and able to recover I think 100% maybe not quite.

[@homosapienssapiens4848]

Human life is all about power struggle where two types of people exist one is the dominating one while the other is the recessive one; this is my observation till whatever time I've spent on this Earth. What is Justice? This is the question that will come to my mind during my last years, regards.

[@kevinkemble3718]

Thank you sir! You channel for me is a phenomenal resource and I for one greatly appreciate and value your content.

[@noahbrown4388]

Subbed 👍🏻 Love your expositions on philosophy!

[@greyjedi75]

Thank You Professor

[@tiredironrepair]

5:04 That's an excellent metaphor. It cojures up many ideas about its application across other fields of study.

[@levity90]

I love that opening jingle.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

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[@StoneStraiff]

Thankyou

[@thehobbit5492]

I'm wondering what's your opinion on Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will. Do you find it somewhat accurate? Or a good furtherance of Kant's philosophy?

[@luisd5098]

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[@mr.giraffe7076]

I think as you get older time doesn't fly by quicker. I'm 30 and I can remember being 12 and the days seemed just as long. I feel like time perception is roughly the same for all ages.

[@lynnfisher3037]

You must get older to appreciate that truth. Don't worry as it will happen to you as well as everyone else. Btw I'm telling you this as a 78 year old. Despite the time confusion "Life is Beautiful" once you begin to slow down and really observe.❤

[@cej499]

Ah, wait til you’re around 60 and especially after 65 …you will notice at that point, young friend😊

[@robertburatt5981]

Schopenhauer neglected all the adult social customs that are hostile to the very things that make early life appear "longer" than subsequent adult life: young children concentrate their gaze on something that is to adults is "time consuming" and that adults are customarily not permitted to do, therefore making it appear as if "life passes one by" over time. Young children experiment with life through spontaneous play--also "time consuming " with no "practical" end for the adult, in which the child's imagination roams free without much constraint--w hich for adults is taboo for fear of being called "childish", "lazy", "crazy", "wasting" time, and generally looked upon with contempt, etc, etc,..... america is a dead society that is hostile to young children and human development generally.

[@Daniel-ef7nk]

For most people only after they are off the wheel they can see it was a rat race

[@lynnfisher3037]

SO TRUE MY FRIEND, SO TRUE❤

[@whoaitstiger]

It's easy to understand why Schopenhauer would hold this opinion, given his views that life is a very bad deal for us from the outset.

[@alexander777-n3s]

Not really all the impulses and passions do is enslave us.

[@whoaitstiger]

@@alexander777-n3s I don't disagree with this.

[@andreeazamfir9713]

is that an orthodox icon behind you?

[@Introgant]

4:49 I think, you meant the angular velocity is constant, so the tangential velocity increases as we go from inner to outer part of the wheel. (v = ω r )

[@Edward-my9nk]

Magnificent! boatload of take aways! abide!

[@elizabethk3238]

As a woman I am feeling totally invisible!

[@theinfjgoyim5508]

As a woman would complain

[@mondo_stunts27]

This is a recent construct, the idea you need to be seen or noticed as a women for simply being a women. Understandable but then same goes for men and men can have a conversation about men’s lives.

[@cam-dasmartman]

FIRST

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Congratulations Joe Mama

[@cam-dasmartman]

@@ChristopherAnadalethank you

[@mrwojna]

Time also flies when you’re full of dread. A theretofore infinite school day, seems to last only minutes when an angry parent awaits your return. To what does the older man look forward? Christmas Day? A tree overflowing with gifts? Nope. He put those gifts there and now awaits the bill. Does he look forward to a liaison? Maybe. But what comes of that? 25 years of child support and a prescription for valtrax? The “good” experiences of the older man are not, as it was in youth, decoupled from their antonyms.

[@alexander777-n3s]

When you are into music there is endless stuff to collect and look forward to. Just don’t have spawn.