Schopenhauer: Life is Pain | Counsels & Maxims 1

"Pleasure is only the negation of pain, and pain is the positive element in life."
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Introduction & Section 1 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 Introduction
3:00 Not Pleasure but Freedom from Pain
11:18 Life is Hell
16:01 Rule = Avoid Pain
23:45 Hypocrisy of the World
28:45 End
#Philosophy #Schopenhauer #Pessimism
Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis
Thumbnail Image: 1815 Portrait, By Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl - Schopenhauer-Archiv der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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Пікірлер: 13

  • @gumis123PL
    @gumis123PL2 ай бұрын

    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

    @ChristopherAnadale

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @dearservice1998
    @dearservice19982 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for making this series!

  • @ChristopherAnadale

    @ChristopherAnadale

    2 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoy it!

  • @MPK1637
    @MPK16376 ай бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @GS-lp2up
    @GS-lp2up2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bubbag8895
    @bubbag88952 жыл бұрын

    This book was super important to me during my incarceration

  • @JB-kw2in

    @JB-kw2in

    2 жыл бұрын

    happy for you

  • @FuckYouTube1776
    @FuckYouTube17762 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @rangecow
    @rangecow Жыл бұрын

    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

    @ChristopherAnadale

    Жыл бұрын

    Very kind of you, thanks!

  • @robertvondarth1730
    @robertvondarth1730 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @brianw.5230
    @brianw.52302 жыл бұрын

    Atheism is more painful :)