Schopenhauer: Narrow Foundation | Counsels & Maxims 2-3

"Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life upon a broad foundation"
Schopenhauer playlist: • Schopenhauer's Counsel...
Sections 2-3 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 First World Problems
1:21 Narrow Foundation
3:10 Folly of Preparing
6:19 Optical Illusion
7:07 We Find Something Else
8:25 Magic Flute
10:54 Embrace Fate
12:56 We Are All Alchemists
#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...

[@robdavies4294]

Just discovered your, "counsels and maxims" playlist, it's fab. I've ordered the book as a next step.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Glad you like it, I'm trying to add one each week.

[@georgenelson8917]

Schopenhauer, Epicurean philosophers helped me find that others have the same thoughts I and I am sure many others think about life . Thank you for your work bringing this to the public.

[@yazanasad7811]

First world problems/trivial problems means life is good (again not looking for happiness nut avoiding pain)
Life changes landscapec as we move through it. What we want will change, from happiness to experience to wisdom, something different, something better
Realise in tbe hands of fate and fruit of life is experience not happiness. Related to learning in that exchange hope for insight
In their search for gold, alchemists discovered gunpowder, china, medicine, laws of nature (a good that we couldn't have anticipated)

[@carlalv7717]

I am grateful and pleased with your channel. Thank you.

[@GS-lp2up]

Thank you for these! This one was great too.