Schopenhauer: Life is Pain | Counsels & Maxims 1
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- "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
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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis
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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...
I agree with you on both points. This is an enjoyable series for me to make. Thanks for the encouragement.
We love some good old Schope!
Thank you so much for making this series!
Glad you enjoy it!
This book was super important to me during my incarceration
happy for you
I’m reading Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms now. So, these are very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you.
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.
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.
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.
Very kind of you, thanks!
Atheism is more painful :)