Schopenhauer's Genius Philosophy - Why We Act Irrationally

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What drives us to get out of bed every morning? What motivates us to go on living? What’s behind the human will that is pushing us forward, achieve great things or do stupid things?
The German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, argued that we are driven to live because there is a mysterious force inside us, bestowed upon us by the universe itself. A unified force that unites all humans, animals and even objects. We have little or no control over this mysterious force, yet we are all bound by it. So our rational conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg. While many philosophers ignored Schopenhauer, he had a profound influence on artists, musicians, novelists but most significantly psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
In this video, I’ll look at Schopenhauer’s life, summarise his philosophical ideas and tell you why pessimism is good for you in today’s world.
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Schopenhauer
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00:00 Background
02:03 Schopenhauer’s Biography
10:43 Schopenhauer’s Biography
24:15 sponsor
25:22 Hegel vs Schopenhauer
29:44 Pessimism
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  • @Fiction_Beast
    @Fiction_Beast Жыл бұрын

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  • @anirbellahcen5551
    @anirbellahcen5551 Жыл бұрын

    By the way, I discovered Schopenhauer at a bad time, I was facing an existential trauma, and then in my darkest depression, he came like an angel. Somehow his pessimistic philosophy was a cure (which I will reveal in my future book). I highly recommend his, and Epectitus's work to people who feel depressed ... Too much optimism is poison, and too much craving for pleasure and money it leads to disaster.

  • @thomasbarchen

    @thomasbarchen

    Жыл бұрын

    Right you are!

  • @lewkirk821

    @lewkirk821

    Жыл бұрын

    Can you reveal how he helped you here as we don’t know who you are or your book?

  • @stevenskimberly-zy5iu

    @stevenskimberly-zy5iu

    Жыл бұрын

    Aloha

  • @commoveo1

    @commoveo1

    11 ай бұрын

    Nicely said.

  • @anava84

    @anava84

    6 ай бұрын

    I need to buy your book!

  • @sandrasupportsyou
    @sandrasupportsyou Жыл бұрын

    His pessimism makes me very happy ... there's sweetness and sanity in disorder. Wonderful work of art you braided together!

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @CourteousKitsch
    @CourteousKitsch Жыл бұрын

    This is a brilliant digest of Schopenhauer that everyone interested in philosophy and psychology should listen to. Thanks!

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @idratherstayanonimous7020

    @idratherstayanonimous7020

    Жыл бұрын

    Agree. Very insightful and direct, and easy to follow. Keep up my friend!

  • @sachieasamizu4809
    @sachieasamizu4809 Жыл бұрын

    I have given up trying to understand the concept of noumena, but his idea of ‘blind will’ as a driving force of the universe was easier to comprehend. I read “Der lachende Schopenhauer” by Ralph Wiener, a selection of Schopenhauer’s writings from his books and letters. There were unsparing words about Hegel, academia, religions, women, Germans etc. I couldn’t help smiling. Only a genius can afford to be as extremely honest as him. Anyway, you made me take an interest in this remarkable man, so thank you (as always).

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Noumena is something like god. Kant was a religious man. Schopenhauer was an atheist so his blind will comes from nature or the universe.

  • @alexandertye3244

    @alexandertye3244

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Fiction_Beast At the core of the concept, there's a higher force leading us... Anyone can still call it God.

  • @gracefitzgerald2227
    @gracefitzgerald2227 Жыл бұрын

    I’m so happy I grabbed a beer and some Wiener schnitzel to watch this art that you’ve presented to us today. It took my breath away. ❤️

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    You're always so kind. Thanks so much! i need a beer now :)

  • @chancerobinson5112
    @chancerobinson5112 Жыл бұрын

    Actually, Schopenhauer was an optimist! He had no fear of his conclusions. “An optimist believes it’s true. A pessimist fears it’s true”. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

  • @alankuntz6494

    @alankuntz6494

    9 ай бұрын

    The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer

  • @evozeus

    @evozeus

    4 ай бұрын

    "A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of facts". Arthur Schopenhauer An optimist hopes for it to be true. A pessimist accepts that it's not.

  • @sciagurrato1831
    @sciagurrato1831 Жыл бұрын

    Schopenhauer has uplifted so many people that it’s inadequate to say he was a philosopher of “pessimism”. The more you read of his work, the more you grasp the enormous range of his vision. He was the last of the great European philosophers who encompassed the breadth and meaning of nature - including science, art, music. He was also the first European to investigate and understand Asian philosophy and thinking. Despite the significant increase in “scholarly” books and articles in the last decade, there are still enormous areas that remain uninvestigated to date. For example, recently Bernardo Kastrup, the protean physicist, has made a serious advance in thinking about Schopenhauer’s formal thinking in metaphysics, outdistancing older analysis. The elegy Schopenhauer wrote in memory of his father, on his father’s death, is one of the most moving and unforgettable father-son encomiums ever written.

  • @kevinmccabe33
    @kevinmccabe33 Жыл бұрын

    The older I get, the more Schopenhauer’s realism resonates. Also notice the influence on Wittgenstein’s philosophy.

  • @anirbellahcen5551
    @anirbellahcen5551 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent Work... Schopenhauer is the most intelligent person has ever been. Hegel can't articulate his ideas clearly as Schopenhauer did. Whenever I start re-reading Essays of Schopenhauer I feel like reading my natural logic. He is so accurate, so direct, so logical and never stops giving you his logical and reasonable examples. Since I discovered this great man in 2014, he became my religion and because of him I am learning German language and I aiming to write a book following his philosophical theories. Great Video, Thank you

  • @thomasbarchen

    @thomasbarchen

    Жыл бұрын

    Viel Glück!

  • @sciagurrato1831

    @sciagurrato1831

    Жыл бұрын

    The same happened to me - and I was long an avid reader of western philosophy. Schopenhauer stands serenely at the summit.

  • @santacruzman8483
    @santacruzman8483 Жыл бұрын

    This was a really good presentation...comprehensive, fair and easy to understand for the laymen. A lotta info packed into just 30 minutes. Your work is much appreciated!

  • @bia5141
    @bia5141 Жыл бұрын

    I only knew a little bit about Shopenhauver from high school but even that made him one of my favourite philosophers (along with Kirkegaard). Thank you for info ❤

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    That's awesome!

  • @paulheinrichdietrich9518

    @paulheinrichdietrich9518

    Жыл бұрын

    Is Schopenhauer taught in high school!?

  • @jhavajoe3792
    @jhavajoe3792 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation. On Love- so complicated at times.True, people get bored. I revisit old sayings differently these days, like - " Try to get along." Other sayings, long ago, that sounded trite, now make more sense in their simplicity- "Keep your expectations low ( in some situations)."

  • @wisdomseeker3937
    @wisdomseeker39375 ай бұрын

    I absolutely love your videos. I am learning so much. Thank you 😊

  • @WideSteve
    @WideSteve Жыл бұрын

    Well-made video, it really made me think about my own life.

  • @Hindko.Mahiye
    @Hindko.Mahiye Жыл бұрын

    Love your way of explaining... It adds to my interest even more ❤️

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much 😀

  • @summerbreeze5115
    @summerbreeze5115 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much You're doing a very good job Sir❤ My eyes are filled with tears😅

  • @walid7885
    @walid7885 Жыл бұрын

    Another great video. Thank you.

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks again!

  • @chrisrosenkreuz23
    @chrisrosenkreuz23 Жыл бұрын

    This guy was another fine example of making the right observations and drawing the wrong conclusions... Saw the false self for what it was but chose to handle it with more repression instead of grieving and release from trauma.

  • @aisthpaoitht

    @aisthpaoitht

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed about the right observation but wrong conclusion... who else do you recommend to read?

  • @chrisrosenkreuz23

    @chrisrosenkreuz23

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aisthpaoitht I think Nietzsche got most of it right IMHO. At face value when taken out of context and applied outward, his concepts have been incredibly damaging, seeing as they were used by his sister after his death to further her own agenda. But when applied inward, the whole master and slave mentality lies at the basis of human existence. Haves and have nots. A master chooses, a slave obeys. He obeys not his master but his circumstance. He does not choose to overcome because he does not understand his circumstance. Understanding can only be gained after accepting the situation but he struggles internally against it and hence the second step cannot naturally ensue. I believe this was what was meant and not at all to go and enslave others as the Natsiz did, perverting his meaning. Also of note is the concept of Amor Fati and eternal recurrance, overcoming one's fate by acceptance and understanding. I know it seems defeatist at first glance but this is crucial because without understanding, the man is an animal, purely mechanistic and devoid of choice. To understand is to choose. Only when one's circumstance has been understood (along with all the factors that have lead to it) can it then be overcome because recognizing this is to say there couldn't have possibly been any other way. If you into metaphysics check out Theoria Apophasis channel: some novel stuff there that can't be found elsewhere.

  • @aisthpaoitht

    @aisthpaoitht

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrisrosenkreuz23 thanks so much. Lots for me to ponder.

  • @seyproductions
    @seyproductions Жыл бұрын

    This has been a very thought provoking video to watch!

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Appreciate it.

  • @rightytighty9182
    @rightytighty9182 Жыл бұрын

    Great content

  • @The666Miraculix
    @The666Miraculix Жыл бұрын

    The first, very general, analogy between Schopenhauer’s metaphysics and present-day physics relates to the “theory of everything”. With his concept of the Will as the only motor of the world didn’t he prefigure the contemporary quest for the unification of the four fundamental forces of physics? (Teutsch, Georges: Reading Schopenhauer in the light of present-day science. Schopnehauer-Jahrbuch 93 (2012) , p. 356) In Schopenhauer’s thought, of course, will is not simply or merely the human being’s decision-making organ; it is rather an impersonal principle underlying all reality - and it may be closely akin to what the quantum theorists understand as the inner nature of subatomic reality - the quantum chaos and flux, moderated by […] tendency and probability. (Marcin, Raymond B.: Schopenhauer’s metaphysics and contemporary Quantum Theory. Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 93 (2012), p. 340) What contemporary quantum physics seem tob e telling us ist hat deep down, way below the microscopic level, the world is not a world of spatially and temporally located particles of matter - it is not the world of phenomena. Particleness itself is a subjective imposition that enterst he picture only when an observer enters. (Marcin, Raymond B.: Schopenhauer’s metaphysics and contemporary Quantum Theory. Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 93 (2012), p. 353)

  • @ChristianSt97
    @ChristianSt97 Жыл бұрын

    probably the greatest thinker of all time.

  • @outofoblivionproductions4015

    @outofoblivionproductions4015

    Жыл бұрын

    probably not though.

  • @alesjanosik1545
    @alesjanosik1545 Жыл бұрын

    Nice stuff

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 Жыл бұрын

    Masterfully you take us through philosophy, history, books and further my understanding immensely. Pessimism and Schopenhauer❤️These German philosophers , Nietzsche blows one awake. Again, I thank you so much.

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it

  • @VenusLover17
    @VenusLover17 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @johnstfleur3987
    @johnstfleur3987 Жыл бұрын

    I AM A PRODIGY MOST HUMBLY SPEAKING. THANK YOU KRISHNA.

  • @ratnamani8228
    @ratnamani8228 Жыл бұрын

    Upanishads basically Question everything Written in the Vedas, Early Indo-European Religious Literature. It's a Rebellion of ideas of People who Dare to Question. 😊

  • @aminathhassan6211
    @aminathhassan6211 Жыл бұрын

    Would really appreciate if you could condense his Art of Controversy book. I found it really illumination on the subject of rhetoric

  • @derbucherwurm
    @derbucherwurm Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Have you read Rüdiger Safranskis Biography of Schopenhauer? This is a great book. I love Schopenhauer!

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Not yet.

  • @bernardliu8526

    @bernardliu8526

    11 ай бұрын

    Safranski’s is perhaps the best book on the misanthrope of Frankfurt .

  • @yifuxero9745
    @yifuxero97459 ай бұрын

    S. states that Will is an undifferentiated Unity, (The One). But this is the same as Plato's Good and the "One" of Plotinus,. Also, he equates the Will with Consciousness, but this is the same as Shankara's undifferentiated Unity, or Brahman. Also, he identifies the culprit as Maya, but this is the same as the Buddhist and Hindu concept. As to the means of merging into The One, he offers music. But this is basically the method in the Rig Veda, which offers specific mantras or sounds as portals into the Transcendent (what S. calls The Sublime). The foremost example of this is the Mahamritunjaya mantra in the Rig Veda (cf. sacred Sounds Choir). There re countless types of music but not all are conducive to merging into "The One" in a nondual state of Consciousness.

  • @anurag5852
    @anurag5852 Жыл бұрын

    I am ayrprised to see my self watching your evrry video

  • @RichInk
    @RichInk Жыл бұрын

    The explanation of the nonexistence or bliss here is the sublime and what Joseph Campbell calls "the experience of being alive." Can you reconcile the two definitions of bliss? Perhaps that "nonbeing" is recognition of one consciousness. When our breath is "taken away" as when a chill runs down our spine at the sublime we breathe in and not out and hold our breath. This isn't expiration of a last breath. It is a holding on to our breath.

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403
    @bernardofitzpatrick5403 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Just what I was waiting for. Would you have time to review one of Bernardo Kastrup s books? Kastrup is heavily influenced by Schopenhauer. Wonderful vid 🙌🏽🤙🏽

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    First thanks for the kind words. I have seen a few videos of Bernardo Kastrup. the man is full of wisdom and also incredibly articulate. Which of his books you reccomend?

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403

    @bernardofitzpatrick5403

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Fiction_Beast thenks man 🙌🏽 Deconstructing Schopenhauer and also Deconstructing Jung , might be worthwhile books? Or maybe just one of them? So pleased you also like Kastrup! 🙌🏽🤙🏽

  • @DrJens-pn5qk
    @DrJens-pn5qk Жыл бұрын

    It's fashionable to talk about Quantum Mechanics, but also in Classical Physics it's impossible to make a measurement without influencing the thing that you are measuring. In most cases, the impact is too small to be important, though. And for the 2nd law of thermodynamics: It doesn't say things are developing towards chaos. It says things are developing towards higher entropie, which means higher probability of the state. Example: Put hot and could water together, and you get lukewarm water. The latter state is certainly not more chaotic than the one you started with. It is just more likely.

  • @alihaydar728
    @alihaydar728 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video. Seems like it took a lot studying. Thank you for your efforts. This video is a great help. Can you or anyone help me find a source for What Is Schopenhours Will's source. How did it come to existece and maybe he's ideas on why is there something rather than nothing Also, i'd like a source on Cristism Of Schopenhour's Blind Will. Maybe how humans are exception for Blind Will apart from animals and objects.

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    11 ай бұрын

    I think human sexual desire couldn’t be explained rationally so that’s a possible source.

  • @4irxx59
    @4irxx59 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot! Are you going to make a video about stoicism?

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Great suggestion!

  • @4irxx59

    @4irxx59

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Fiction_Beast super! I’ll look forward to it

  • @Andy-B1984
    @Andy-B1984 Жыл бұрын

    Consciousness is conscious of itself, others and things. The empathetic consciousness and intelligence in nature is indifferent. Nature will replicate and copy itself, consume and sustain itself, terminate and recycle itself. Reality is its own observer. Nature is aware its being observed, we are nature observing itself. And nature created us before we were aware of it. We never created existence. We're part of it and init. We're one of its many forms. We can change our own reality and physiology within reason and logic, but we can't change nature and reality as it is. We cant fully perceive reality for what it is. We can change our response to reality, we can effect how reality responds to us as in change of attitude. That effects how we are perceived and how others react to us. We can change our reality in that sence. Change of perception and attitude, point of view etc etc. The conscious intelligence in nature and our cells i think is empathetic conscious intelligence that is indifferent, empathy without compassion is the ability to be aware of self, others and objects. Empathy with compassion is the ability to feel others suffering and to be able to relate to other beings. A cell is aware of itself, what it is and what it does, it is also aware of other cells, they even communicate. It will always preform at 100% until it doesn't. And when its degrading it will still push 100% and shut parts of itself down and terminate itself saving itself. It will do this without a second thought, no getting swayed by other desires and emotions outside of its own survival. Its purpose is to survive and replicate its self over and over again, its all it knows. And it will consume itself to survive. What we see as it destroying itself. Is actually conservation and recycling. Empathetic conscious intelligence that is indifferent without compassion is like a robot. Through drugs and sleep paralysis hallucinations and observing my senses/perception. This is the order i place things in. Consciousness is the main thing. Its like its there aware of me while am aware of it but am also are it and init. Consciousness, devine/natural spark. Gut, appetite and instincts. Heart, Body and feelings/emotions. Mind, ego, higher self. Logic and reason! Ability to calculate and evaluate, judgments and imagination, perceptions, questions and answers. Pure consciousness has no questions or answers. Its pure contentment and a sence of all knowing.

  • @Goawaypleasenow

    @Goawaypleasenow

    6 ай бұрын

    Lay off the drugs

  • @Andy-B1984

    @Andy-B1984

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Goawaypleasenow goawaypleasenow

  • @Whatever_Happy_People
    @Whatever_Happy_People Жыл бұрын

    Hullo just wanted to recommend the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith it was wonderful.

  • @laurenth7187
    @laurenth7187 Жыл бұрын

    We don't act irrationally but according to the species goals, which uses our individual passions, to achieve it's own goals. And that's rational, at the species level. Try Hegel next time, it's interesting too.

  • @user-nt4zn3mz1g
    @user-nt4zn3mz1g3 ай бұрын

    I think Schopenhauer would be less sanguine about music if he heard heavy metal. In his day music was about melody, harmony, rhythm and timing. All classical elements. That concept of music was blown away by jazz, and the introduction of polyrhythms. And music can be quite bombastic and patriotic. If art is at one with Nature, and nature is blind, how can its appreciation be transcendental? Here I think our philosopher is an aesthete.

  • @tylerbaskin6968
    @tylerbaskin6968 Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know the artwork at 15:00 ? thank you for your attention to this!

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    School Rules by William Holbrook Beard, 1887

  • @johnstfleur3987
    @johnstfleur3987 Жыл бұрын

    THE NUMBER 2 EXIST ABSOLUTELY.

  • @michaellicchi4771
    @michaellicchi4771Ай бұрын

    Pessimism in philosophy is not the same as being “ a pessimist.”

  • @Erl0sung
    @Erl0sung Жыл бұрын

    Darwin quotes Schopenhauer in The Descent of Man, so certainly he did influence Darwin.

  • @DrJens-pn5qk
    @DrJens-pn5qk Жыл бұрын

    Today, even Hegel would admit that things are not getting better with time. Quite the opposite.

  • @user-up8jx3mt6j
    @user-up8jx3mt6j10 ай бұрын

    It isn't freedom which is illusory, it's free-will.

  • @bluespruce786
    @bluespruce78610 ай бұрын

    "We can only be entirely ourselves as long as we are alone; therefore, whoever does not love solitude, also does not love freedom; for only when we are alone, are we free." Schopenhauer 9:47

  • @DrJens-pn5qk
    @DrJens-pn5qk Жыл бұрын

    The question is not "Is Schopenhauer's philosophy a good thing?", the question is "Is his philosophy true?". There is no good or bad. There is just false or true.

  • @gumis123PL
    @gumis123PL Жыл бұрын

    First of all thanks for the video it was very enjoyable. But I wouldn't say his conclusion was "non-religious". I understand why you chose this phrasing but it's really more accurate to say he was anti-Catholic. His conclusions might as well just be a repackaging of eastern spirituality for western audiences, which are religious systems. Also you see similar ideas and conclusions even in past western religious movements - in gnosticism, manicheanism, catharism etc. Schopenhauer didn't just spring out of nowhere with this stuff, this philosophy has a legacy, and in the past did manifest itself in religious movements. Also I think it's a disservice to call Schopenhauer "pessimistic" because when he's read with an open mind this philosophy is truly liberating and life affirming.

  • @hotsauce1646
    @hotsauce164611 ай бұрын

    Illusion is freedom

  • @mkalasekar
    @mkalasekar Жыл бұрын

    At 23:59 - "that everything else becomes irreverent to you." should be "that everything becomes irrelevant to you." Remarkably, quite mis-state the underlying idea.

  • @WWS322
    @WWS322 Жыл бұрын

    Is it all dependent on opinion whether we become sensual or not?

  • @user-up8jx3mt6j
    @user-up8jx3mt6j11 ай бұрын

    The past and the present destroy every moment.

  • @Goawaypleasenow

    @Goawaypleasenow

    6 ай бұрын

    Not the moment that YOU control

  • @jamesadams8653
    @jamesadams8653 Жыл бұрын

    Do you know Ken Wilber, he tries to integrate west and east

  • @mkalasekar
    @mkalasekar Жыл бұрын

    At 6:45, it's funny to hear that in 1814-1831, the mother and son didn't exchange emails, phone calls - My, my, what way to present the facts!

  • @india........
    @india........ Жыл бұрын

    concept of maya, nirvana, non duality, etc., oscillates between all indian philosopies/religion,,, its better to be generic and mention them as indic religions/philospies,,, (i appreciate your work,, Good luck)

  • @marcpadilla1094
    @marcpadilla1094 Жыл бұрын

    He should be the existential guru. Irrationality is the paradox of good and evil. Watched a video on a couple parenting a child in the most unorthodox way. Child has the freedom to develop almost completely on her own. No education, no limitations, no cultural dogma. The parents know that by leading and not imposing they will allow the potential negativity to bloom into positivity or survival by cognitive selection. The approach dismissises the expectation of compulsory behavior and allows the child to develop and realize the merit of survival instinct and personal autonomy. Another example is pedophilia. Apparently adult men have lost the human connection they once had as children. Alienated. This alienation is generational and perpetuated by victims who become perpetrators. The clashing between reason and Irrationality blurs the line between what's positive and what's negative. It's only a matter of which energy provides the most power .

  • @janlappalainen
    @janlappalainen Жыл бұрын

    My problem with the pessimists is always the claim that only suffering is real. Suffering is a concept just as much as joy and peace - so why aren't they real also?

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine Жыл бұрын

    I don't feel that drive to live. I don't have this thing you're talking about. I'm completely unwilling to be alive

  • @sundeutsch
    @sundeutsch9 ай бұрын

    Just sounds philosophical,but meaningless. Freedom is freedom and it is priceless. Of course it can have many facets.

  • @rogerevans9666
    @rogerevans9666 Жыл бұрын

    @21:20 Peter's Denial of Christ

  • @asapfilms2519
    @asapfilms2519 Жыл бұрын

    Vedic philosophy teaches us that we are just branches of big tree…the roots of the tree are inside the unified field…..

  • @asapfilms2519

    @asapfilms2519

    Жыл бұрын

    Your body is participating in so many in voluntary activities. For example…our heart is breathing, our body is adjusting to the temperature of the atmosphere, our stomach is digesting our food….all that we feel, see or touch, is just a small part of our experience as human beings…the universe is much more active than it appears…it’s constantly moving in many directions….microscopic changes are taking place every microsecond….on the surface it appears to be still….but if we could look at that stillness closely then we will see that it is in fact dynamic and moving at a breathtaking pace….

  • @asapfilms2519

    @asapfilms2519

    Жыл бұрын

    All that points to is that you are only a result of a gigantic equation or algorithm working underneath. Invisible to our senses. Our senses are like walls, caging us inside a limited space.

  • @Marina-nt6my
    @Marina-nt6my Жыл бұрын

    nature, unified force, kind of sounds like pantheism then. actually, that sounds like a lot of other religions too, just not the ones where you worship some unnecessarily anthropomorphized 'higher' entities, which are oddly often some kind of patriarchal ruling over type of deal.. really just the same as some king of some land but ×2, or more.. whatever.. 👀you mean specifically corrupted over-simplified 'spiritual' belief systems/as all religions. you mean the popular and corrupted ones only. 1:04 because this sounds like the gist of many other spiritual belief systems/religions.

  • @michaelmaloskyjr
    @michaelmaloskyjr10 ай бұрын

    Well at least he rejected the two dominant worldviews for human behavior; nonetheless, Schopenhauer presents an interesting but fanciful idea in much the same way scientists considered "the humours" as bases for much behavior. Or an "aether" permeating the universe. Schopenhauer had no conception of genes, evolutionary biology, behavioral economics or even computational biology. There's obviously zero methods to test any of Schopenhauer's hypotheses, but they remain as almost poetic approaches to questions well beyond his era as a colorful tour in the history of ideas, but as footnotes not building blocks.

  • @johnstfleur3987
    @johnstfleur3987 Жыл бұрын

    IT'S SO OBVIOUS I AM A GENIUS.9

  • @jrsmith6737
    @jrsmith67378 ай бұрын

    But we can in fact eliminate our striving for sex and etc... Many things are achievable through constant training and those (sex, food and pleasure) are no difference One can suppress something in such dimension that it will die.

  • @ahmetdogan5685
    @ahmetdogan5685 Жыл бұрын

    Pessimism saves.

  • @johnstfleur3987
    @johnstfleur3987 Жыл бұрын

    JEHOVAH LOVES ME AND I AM LOYAL TO HIM ALONE.(11)

  • @johnstfleur3987
    @johnstfleur3987 Жыл бұрын

    A.I. POLITICS.

  • @wagdywilliam1869
    @wagdywilliam186910 ай бұрын

    Is shopenhaures you bragging about his philosophies better than the creator of the universe who has sent his only beloved son to the world revealing mysteries of the old. I wonder, indeed.

  • @helveticaneptune537
    @helveticaneptune537 Жыл бұрын

    Where are you from? Your quite mysterious

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m an alien. Learning what it means to be human.

  • @helveticaneptune537

    @helveticaneptune537

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Fiction_Beast fair enough...

  • @zsc.x
    @zsc.x Жыл бұрын

    What about Karl popper?

  • @BobHank2

    @BobHank2

    Жыл бұрын

    3-One - Popper is fascinating. But does he fit in Fiction Beasts genre of existentialism focused thinkers? I do love Popper, his clear description of Falsifiability iwas an AhHa moment for me.

  • @johnstfleur3987
    @johnstfleur3987 Жыл бұрын

    DOES HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS ACTUALLY EXIST?

  • @AWD1001
    @AWD1001 Жыл бұрын

    森林浴がすごいです。 どうもありがとうございました。

  • @thedezshow7212
    @thedezshow7212 Жыл бұрын

    The first incel was Schopenhauer

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    He was smart so I’m sure he got women but we can’t be sure.

  • @Animalis_Mundana

    @Animalis_Mundana

    Жыл бұрын

    You sound juvenile and ignorant, especially since people who prefer solitude have voluntarily chosen celibacy, besides Diogenes beats him by a couple thousand years. Seems lots of people haven't matured past middle school. Congrats, you have shown how shallow you are. That's why today our culture is so hypersexualized you can't even turn on the television without seeing the sexualization of children. Quite an animalistic mentality geared towards instant gratification and meaninglessness. Yay you, I remember my teenage years! Schopenhauer definitely wouldn't have cared about such ignorant labels. Feel free to project your immaturity onto me now...

  • @mikewilliams4947
    @mikewilliams4947 Жыл бұрын

    Schopenhauer never met Steven Pinker.

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine Жыл бұрын

    I don't have any reason or will to do anything or even to live at all in my life

  • @india........

    @india........

    Жыл бұрын

    watch jordan peterson lectures and videos in youtube,,, you will find meaning

  • @MagdaleneDivine

    @MagdaleneDivine

    Жыл бұрын

    @@india........ yeah I watched an entire course by that guy. And no. I think that guy is a hack and hasn't said anything original or remarkable EVER

  • @MagdaleneDivine

    @MagdaleneDivine

    Жыл бұрын

    @@india........ so just shut the fuvk up please and never ever talk to me again

  • @india........

    @india........

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MagdaleneDivine i personally found reason to live by taking responsibility,,,

  • @outofoblivionproductions4015

    @outofoblivionproductions4015

    Жыл бұрын

    Read the Bible. Your purpose is to work out your salvation.

  • @cannad6367
    @cannad63675 күн бұрын

    He didn't learn anything from his mother. His mother had proved that his philosophy was wrong. 😅😅😅

  • @MissLizaYangonMyanmar
    @MissLizaYangonMyanmar Жыл бұрын

    Russian Ukranian war finally showed me how right Schopenhauer is.

  • @umvemnyama
    @umvemnyama Жыл бұрын

    Asexual me is thinking that his philosophy of love is so under informed

  • @user-ug6ct5cv1h
    @user-ug6ct5cv1h5 ай бұрын

    มีหลายคนไม่บอกใครว่านับถือศาสนาอะไรเมื่อถูกถามถึงศาสนาที่นับถือก็จะยิ้มด้วยสีหน้าที่จริงใจที่สวยที่หล่อที่สุดเท่าที่จะทำได้อย่างสะกิดคนที่ถามให้ลืมคำถามนั้นไปหรือไม่อยากได้คำตอบนั้นอีกเลยหากแต่อยากติดตามอยากเดินตามอยากเป็นเหมือนซะงั้นแม้จะไม่ได้คำตอบหรืออะไรด้วยแต่สิ่งที่ขอแค่ได้เห็นหน้าทุกวัยซะงั้นนี่คือแนวเหนือฟ้ายังมีฟ้าเหนือปีศาจก็มีหม้อนรกขุมนรกไว้รองรับร่างปีศาจทุดตน😊🎉คนเราก็แค่นี้ความรู้แค่ทำให้คนอยากเป็นเพื่อนอยากให้ความรักและศรัทธาเป็นหน้าที่ของคนทำงานที่ดีๆทุดคนเชื่อสิค่ะ😊🎉

  • @jhljhl6964
    @jhljhl6964 Жыл бұрын

    It's difficult to reconcile the creation of existence with a benevolent God.

  • @Goawaypleasenow

    @Goawaypleasenow

    6 ай бұрын

    I don't find it difficult at all. For one God didn't create existence. God IS the creator and the creation. The creation of the universe came first. Then the days and nights. Then the earth and then the animals AND THEN THE HUMANS. So. are you referring to human existence? bc if using God in your argument you have to do it within the context of His word (the Bible) which means you were created last and there were things existing in creation before you. So what specific existence do you mean";]

  • @SouthPark333Gaming
    @SouthPark333Gaming Жыл бұрын

    I wonder what he would have thoughts of asexuality

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    he would say the blind will will show up in different ways, if not through sex

  • @smkh2890
    @smkh2890 Жыл бұрын

    I love Schopenhauer, but he is SO pessimistic and gloomy that he just makes me laugh! As a young man he was very handsome, like a young Byronic hero!

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    I think he’s realistic too.

  • @smkh2890

    @smkh2890

    Жыл бұрын

    He was very influential in the 19th century. Nietzsche said when he first encountered Schopenhauer he immediately felt he was speaking personally to him, a feeling a lot of us have experienced! Freud was known to carry a copy of World as Will , but never acknowledged its influence on Freud’s theory of the ‘UnConscious’ . In literature, Hardy reflected the idea of an implacable Will, aka Fate, and later the poet Dylan Thomas pictured the World Will as a ‘green fuse’ driving through all living things :

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine Жыл бұрын

    If I could just catch my life on fire and die I totally would

  • @Phorquieu

    @Phorquieu

    Жыл бұрын

    Think of it this way - you didn't ask to be born, but here you are. If you are sad or emotionally wounded, there is something wrong somewhere that you need to address and fix. A blade of grass does not question its existence, and sparrows don't contemplate suicide. Stop identifying with negative emotions that could threaten you... Start taking stock of what you are besides the mind that thinks too much.

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine Жыл бұрын

    This video made me feel even more suicidal

  • @JustinFisher777

    @JustinFisher777

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't think Fiction Beast mentioned it hardly at all, but Schoenhauer viewed art as a way to transcend ones self and suffering. The more abstract the better in his opinion which meant instrumental music. For him this was as close as we could get to dying in waking life short of killing ourselves. He was an inspiration to many artists because of this, especially Fiction Beasts main man, Proust. I love Proust too. Perhaps you should try to read in In Search of Lost Time in the original Moncrieff edition, unless you know French. And/or try to write a narrative about your life.

  • @MagdaleneDivine

    @MagdaleneDivine

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JustinFisher777 whatever dude

  • @JustinFisher777

    @JustinFisher777

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MagdaleneDivine I'm sorry I couldn't help you. I hope things get better for you.

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    Life’s a billion in one chance.

  • @outofoblivionproductions4015

    @outofoblivionproductions4015

    Жыл бұрын

    Joy is natural.

  • @xyzllii
    @xyzllii Жыл бұрын

    This narrator is speaking to a male audience from the start. Sausage and beer...ugh.

  • @Fiction_Beast

    @Fiction_Beast

    Жыл бұрын

    You missed the German reference. The country is known for those two things.

  • @xyzllii

    @xyzllii

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Fiction_Beast I know. THAT !!!

  • @fatimaa9699
    @fatimaa9699 Жыл бұрын

    Allah (God) is creator of all heavens and earth and He is the most merciful and forgiving

  • @AhtuMasculineMondello

    @AhtuMasculineMondello

    Жыл бұрын

    Hmmmm... just like Phil Collins. Interesting

  • @onlyyoucanstopevil9024

    @onlyyoucanstopevil9024

    Жыл бұрын

    FATIMA YOU IN WRONG PLACE

  • @BobHank2

    @BobHank2

    Жыл бұрын

    @Fatika - -actually Zeus is creator of heaven and earth. -actually Zenu built a Soul Catcher -actually my beliefs are without error, and everyone who disagrees is wrong -actually, the history of humans is people arguing and killing to impress God's who only exist in books

  • @fatimaa9699

    @fatimaa9699

    Жыл бұрын

    Allah guide you all, aameen

  • @The666Miraculix

    @The666Miraculix

    Жыл бұрын

    God did not create man in His image, but man created God in His image.

  • @SpenceCurry
    @SpenceCurry Жыл бұрын

    Illusion is freedom