Thank you for your support David! I think they will come eventually if I just keep creating, although it is a bit slower than expected. But I do truly enjoy researching and learning about philosophy, and not to mention being able to bring it to other people. The big issue, I've found at least, is getting RUclips to share the content further than just through search. I think it will come eventually though if I can keep making quality content.
Kierkegaard said much the same thing in that you can only live your life forwards (unconsciously, using the body as the instrument of discovery) and understand it backwards (re-member and view our experiences dispassionately). Like car mechanics or medical students, we take things apart to understand them and put them back together, to make them work. Reproduction is necessary to replace losses to the race, through injury, disease and death through old age (wear and tear). Our will pushes into the future as our failures return us to internal contemplation (where next? what next?). Thoughts are like food. You digest one and replace it with another: everything is on a journey somewhere else; as we go through the universe, the universe goes through us - things don't so much change as exchange).
Schopenhauer is perhaps the philosopher I best know, and alongside Spinoza, the one I love the most. We could see him as the most important thinker of the nineteenth century (not saying that Hegel was bad), because of finally giving to the Will its metaphysical and ontological crown. No one has uncovered the nature of existence more clearly and honestly than Schopenhauer. I would say his philosophy is an heroic pessimism. He holds that existence is misery, but through aesthetic contemplation, compassion and humility, we can find peace in the eye of the storm, not absolute peace but peace non the less. That peace that he describes as a “nothing” only in relation to the thing in itself, I think it’s “God”, as the quintessential core of existence. If the Will is the thing in itself, the satisfaction of the Will through its denial would be the essence of such Will, and such essence is peace and bliss, God itself. His proposed path could be argued to be the same as that of most religions... but the greatness of Schopenhauer relies in how he justifies to a metaphysical level, the path the shows us. Contemplation, compassion and virtue are not just good things we must follow, they are the pure subject of knowing transcending the principle of sufficient reason, aiming to the platonic forms and the fundamental unity of existence: God.
Keenly put; I have not found many other philosophers which I enjoy reading as much as Schopenhauer. It always pleases me to hear that prior to his death he received the approbation he deserved.
Happiness is impossible because happiness is das absent of happiness since there is no happiness higher than rest. Break de flower-tipped arrows of Mara and death will never touch me again. Painful is birth; Painful is death; Painful is birth and death over again. He who crosses over to the other shore becomes arhat; Other people run up and down on this shore from death to death.
Thank you! I miss the time we were able to spend together as well. The boys are doing well and very much enjoying the time they get to run around freely!
I am aware of the incident, but read in some commentary that his mother had also pushed him down the stairs leading to their permanent separation. I am willing to accept that this is an erroneous account, but I am not sure how to confirm this. Thanks for bringing this up and taking the time to watch the video, cheers friend.
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I very much appreciate your continued support Allan! I do wish I could figure out the SEO thing, but I have been using Vid IQ for a year now without significant results. But do not fret, I will not give up on creating videos for I enjoy doing it. Time may be scarce at times, but I will continue, since, philosophy is what I love.
@@LetsTalkPhilosophy I think Nietzsche abandoned Schopenhauer's asceticism eventually because, he went through terrible medical ordeals. That's it; that's the formula of 'Amor Fati'. Overcoming describes new vision.
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I often feel annoyed that he wasn't able to read Darwin. Well, especially his "successor", Nietzsche.
I wonder what he would of thought of it!
Is idea of the Will is basically natural selection and the selfish gene
Terrific video! Just discovered your channel today and subscribed. Looking forward to watching your other videos 🙂
Thank you and I hope you enjoy the others as much as this one, let me know your thoughts on them and what I can improve upon!
I enjoy your videos immensely, please keep up the great work!
Thank you! I will continue to do my best!
Excellent video!! Keep up the great work
Thank you, I appreciate your kind words!
I wish you had more subscribers
Thank you for your support David! I think they will come eventually if I just keep creating, although it is a bit slower than expected. But I do truly enjoy researching and learning about philosophy, and not to mention being able to bring it to other people. The big issue, I've found at least, is getting RUclips to share the content further than just through search. I think it will come eventually though if I can keep making quality content.
+1!
Kierkegaard said much the same thing in that you can only live your life forwards (unconsciously, using the body as the instrument of discovery) and understand it backwards (re-member and view our experiences dispassionately). Like car mechanics or medical students, we take things apart to understand them and put them back together, to make them work. Reproduction is necessary to replace losses to the race, through injury, disease and death through old age (wear and tear). Our will pushes into the future as our failures return us to internal contemplation (where next? what next?). Thoughts are like food. You digest one and replace it with another: everything is on a journey somewhere else; as we go through the universe, the universe goes through us - things don't so much change as exchange).
Schopenhauer is perhaps the philosopher I best know, and alongside Spinoza, the one I love the most. We could see him as the most important thinker of the nineteenth century (not saying that Hegel was bad), because of finally giving to the Will its metaphysical and ontological crown. No one has uncovered the nature of existence more clearly and honestly than Schopenhauer. I would say his philosophy is an heroic pessimism. He holds that existence is misery, but through aesthetic contemplation, compassion and humility, we can find peace in the eye of the storm, not absolute peace but peace non the less. That peace that he describes as a “nothing” only in relation to the thing in itself, I think it’s “God”, as the quintessential core of existence. If the Will is the thing in itself, the satisfaction of the Will through its denial would be the essence of such Will, and such essence is peace and bliss, God itself. His proposed path could be argued to be the same as that of most religions... but the greatness of Schopenhauer relies in how he justifies to a metaphysical level, the path the shows us. Contemplation, compassion and virtue are not just good things we must follow, they are the pure subject of knowing transcending the principle of sufficient reason, aiming to the platonic forms and the fundamental unity of existence: God.
Keenly put; I have not found many other philosophers which I enjoy reading as much as Schopenhauer. It always pleases me to hear that prior to his death he received the approbation he deserved.
invisible guys in the sky?? yeah, turn in your philosopher card, you are utterly unworthy & think in magical nonsense
Happiness is impossible because happiness is das absent of happiness since there is no happiness higher than rest.
Break de flower-tipped arrows of Mara
and death will never touch me again.
Painful is birth;
Painful is death;
Painful is birth and death over again.
He who crosses over to the other shore becomes arhat;
Other people run up and down on this shore from death to death.
Well done Brett! I have missed our weekly chats. Please keep up your talks. You are amazing!
Thank you! I miss the time we were able to spend together as well. The boys are doing well and very much enjoying the time they get to run around freely!
🌹💙 You did an amazing job with this video! Thank you immensely. I just subscribed. Blessings! 🙏
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 10:34
Good one
Thank you!
He *allegedly* pushed her down! :/
His mother didn’t push him down the steps. Schopenhauer famously pushed a seamstress down the steps and had to compensate her for injuries.
I am aware of the incident, but read in some commentary that his mother had also pushed him down the stairs leading to their permanent separation. I am willing to accept that this is an erroneous account, but I am not sure how to confirm this. Thanks for bringing this up and taking the time to watch the video, cheers friend.
Man please work harder in SEO, visit Vid IQ channel and learn how to get to more people because your content is amazing, I don't want you to give up about your channel, you should have way more views, you only need to be discoverable
I very much appreciate your continued support Allan! I do wish I could figure out the SEO thing, but I have been using Vid IQ for a year now without significant results. But do not fret, I will not give up on creating videos for I enjoy doing it. Time may be scarce at times, but I will continue, since, philosophy is what I love.
I think a lot of his pessimism was due to boredom.
That was certainly part of it, how much a part I am unsure.
@@LetsTalkPhilosophy I think Nietzsche abandoned Schopenhauer's asceticism eventually because, he went through terrible medical ordeals. That's it; that's the formula of 'Amor Fati'. Overcoming describes new vision.