Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Some wonderful Schopenhauerian prose from LibriVox and read by D.E. Wittkower.
Chapters:
00:00 Start
00:21 On the Sufferings of the World
33:58 On the Vanity of Existence
46:44 On Suicide
1:00:55 Immortality: a Dialogue
1:12:10 Psychological Observations
2:04:43 On Education
2:23:10 Of Women
2:59:35 On Noise
3:12:14 A Few Parables
#philosophy #schopenhauer #pessimism
Here are the chapters (for whatever reason, they don't seem to consistently work on the channel):
00:21 On the Sufferings of the World
33:58 On the Vanity of Existence
46:44 On Suicide
1:00:55 Immortality: a Dialogue
1:12:10 Psychological Observations
2:04:43 On Education
2:23:10 Of Women
2:59:35 On Noise
3:12:14 A Few Parables
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My favorite bed time story
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Ahahaha 😂
Dude is top shelf!
@Chlem Elisha haha
Mine too
This isn't dark. This is liberating.
Ahhh. A perfect bedtime story to drag my consciousness underground after another 12 hour amazon shift.
Amazon shifts are no joke
@@precisi0n86 Phones/music/headphones aren't allowed on the floor :/
I hope you find a better job. Warehouse work suffocates the soul
I should be starting at Amazon soon.
Phew twelve hours, that's a stint, just finished a 8 hour at the recycling plant, yuk
"Life is fucked." - Arthur Schopenhauer
“Life is fucked, but we can make it better” - Albert Camus
“Life is fucked but who cares!". Slasian Z Mankrian
“‘Life’ is fukt because you like it that way & wouldn’t have it any other”
"Life is fucked or life is not fucked.. it'll regret both" Søren kierkegaard
A lot of these lines made me involuntary laugh. There's relief in confronting Suffering without the obligatory "silver lining" arguments people usually reach for.
Same. It's because it's absurd.
I believe because it's absurd
Yes. It’s actually more fun when you remember there’s ultimately no point to any of this
He GETS it.
it's both funny and sad that majority of this still holds true, he did get it.
I love this book. It's not often that one can find bitterness comforting. But Shopie finds a way to pull it off.
What do you find comforting? It honestly sounds like a man desperate to intellectualize his depression and misanthropy
This book shall be the consolation of my life and the consolation of my death. Thank you schopenhauer for speaking directly to me. You and karl popper have taught me so much.
Please don't call him shopie...
@@juanpablomontalvo4715 hope is a disorder that makes us struggle for longer than we need to, and this man gets it.
@@juanpablomontalvo4715 You say that as if depression and misanthropy are somehow undeserving of contemplation and articulation.
"In which ever way a man may have failed, he cannot have lost much..."
I don't find him miserable. I find he is comforting. ✨
How tho
I do too.
Its a paradox but he is the most comforting Philosopher
Much like Spinoza, whose Ethics seem inaccessible to so many first time readers-later, people often realize that Spinoza’s soft-determinism is actually consoling because of its accuracy.
So do I! It's a little like black metal music, comforting.
I listened to this every Sunday or whenever I'm feeling down, it always makes me feel better. Better because I can entirely relate. Life is essentially bullshit and every where you go poeple lie to you. They lie to themselves and live within a psychosis. Schopenhauer is cathartic even in pessimism. It so refreshing and freeing to hear honesty.
Imagine a world where the nature of existence was accepted as suffering. Then no one would have anything better to do than to work towards minimalizing it. Except that's what we all do individually and society likes to pretend that it doesn't only seek pleasure by punishing those who opening do.
Poeple like to think we were blessed to exist, that the earth was made for us but I would argue against that and it is easily provable. Step onto your front lawn and absorb how everything tries to eat you immediately. That is the nature of existence.
I do understand what you mean, nature is a pretty brutal game. A game that existence is playing with Itself. But there really is no winner or loser at the end, just existence.. should read a bit of philosophical daoism. Interesting stuff.
@@cloudfloat4179 I agree with you there. If you think of yourself as separate from nature, then yeah like is hard and things try to eat you. But there is also the though that we are the thing eating
Yes, if I understood you correctly. Every individual, that being the lion or the gazelle, has the feeling of being an individual "i", though not as sophisticated as humans self awareness but this "i" is the Self, existence it Self if you will. Of course every one thing or individual is different through different types of DNA, experience, patterns of vibration etc.. but let's say vibration itself of on and off is existence. I hope you understand what I mean...
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I agree with you in general, but I must say... you need a new front lawn
@@cloudfloat4179 This is what puzzles me. I resonated with your second sentence; A game that existence is playing with itself. Everything is made out of the elements. Then they 'decided' to form and differentiate into other forms. Some became sentient others not. The sentient ones thrive on eating, fucking and killing each other and exploiting/manipulating the inanimate for the same purpose. I cannot for the life of me figure why. It seems it's a game made to get rid of boredom. The game absolutely sucks!!!!
This is so true, reality is so miserable, and for what, we all end up dead anyway.
Yes, but we have to wait a long time until we are dead. So we have to find meaning otherwise what is the alternative?
@@aj5424 idk, it would be nice to free oneself from the suffering of life, from the anxiety of existence. In a way the acknowledgment of nihilism, nothing has any meaning or value and the belief in nothing frees you mentally. If we are to die in the end, if all of our efforts, all of our sacrifices, all of our suffering in the present moment are essentially pointless and meaningless. Then as the observer and experiencer of the present moment, why should I shackle myself to a dilution of meaning that will only increase the amount of suffering I experience. Why not affirm life’s meaningless? At least I hope that in practice nihilism can lead to mental or psychological freedom. I would hate for the meaning I gave to life to make life seem so serious that it becomes a misery worse than death. Also, the understanding that nothing matters, that death will eventually come for us, although it is sad, it is a part of life and when I have anxiety or life seems unbearable that thought is comforting and freeing. I’m not sure if I explained it well tbh I am still thinking about this, but it would be nice to be mentally free through nihilism, and then you would be able to strive for something in life without it feeling too serious and causing suffering.
Row row row your boat…
The way he SHREDDED women is so random and unprovoked, which makes it hilarious 🤣
Quiet down
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An exceptional reading, thank you.
I read Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Spengler, and Wittgenstein for the same reason: for sober minded philosophy, which doesn’t shy away from the bitterness of life, and the difficulty of thinking. Their work is a remedy to the ailments of life.
Lol. There's no remedy at all.
@@ConcreteJungleSickness care to elaborate
@@elia8544 An lol kind of guy is not the elaborate type. We have to at least philosophize to draw any conclusions about the value of life-even if it be the inherit meaningless of existence, or the lack of free will. When I say remedy, I don’t mean an opiate.
You either become strong enough to rise to the occasion or die like scum for letting down the culture that gave birth to you. Philosophizing on the "meaninglessness" of existence is a cop out. Calling life itself meaningless is a cop out.
It isn't such human stuff that an exacting High Culture can use to further its Destiny. The common man is the material with which great political leaders work. In earlier centuries, the common man did not attend the Cultural drama. It didn't interest him, and the participants were not yet under the Rationalistic spell, the “counting-mania,” as Nietzsche called it. When democratic conditions proceed to their extreme, the result is that even the leaders are common men, with the jealous and crooked soul of envy of that to which they are not equal, like Roosevelt and his coterie in America. In his cult of “The Common Man,” he was deifying himself, like Caligula. The abolition of quality smothers the exceptional man in his youth and turns him into a cynic.
This is what I like, an honest writer
Att: Nietzsche
@@abortodedios My username is a quote from his Beyond Good and Evil. I know Nietzsche well, señor.
I'm familiar with Schopenhauer, but I've never read this. I can tell right away that it is an instant favorite. Such a beautiful prose style, and so many bitter yet true insights. I feel like looking all this in the face is necessary on the path to enlightenment (the ways that the Buddha started with "life is suffering"). None looked suffering in the face so completely as this.
There is no enlightenment. Sorry.
There are many paths to enlightenment. It is a personal journey unique to you.
@@gointomexico But ones that do not suffer do not become enlightened...so is it...
This reader is amazing. I listen to this one frequently, often as background and he really makes mediocre readers stand out.
That's very true i agree.
This book has changed my life on a daily basis
Something else can change your life:
Getting the crap beaten out of you by a MMA fighter, minus the injuries.
Hands down the most uplifting experience I've ever had in my life.
@@nativeamericancowboy5028 ok?
True indeed
@@nativeamericancowboy5028 Curious, did the MMA beatdown experience expand or deplete the masculine ego? Or, perhaps, _refine_ it?
(I'm assuming it's about ego, but maybe that's not what changed in your case)
@@No_Avail it subdues the ego. It mellows and relaxes the ego.
You tend to desire things a lot less.
It puts you in a state of mine that everything is fine just the way it is, and no changes are necessary.
Schopenhauer doesnt seem like a pessimist rather an objective observer if the reality he's experiencing.
I find his work to be hilarious, deep, insightful, and encouraging.
When I'm reading schopenhauer it's like I've met a brother, a kindred spirit that speaks to my soul.
My favourite philosopher
I have chosen this for.my research in doctorate
Here to pay my respects. This audio is what got me into Schopenhauer. The narrator’s voice is like a narcotic, and Schopenhauer’s writing is so immediate that it resonated with me instantly. It’s way more comforting than I ever would have expected. His pessimism, as opposed to striking me as bleak and depressing, struck me as profound, consoling and freeing.
Thank you, D.E. Wittkower for bringing Schopenhauer to life for me. And thank you, Philosophy Overdose, for uploading it to TH-cam. (Fitting name, by the way!)
Same for me, although it was surely another video which this a clone of since it was almost 8 years ago.
Completely changed my life. I can barely put it into words and this is an experience common among many people, both common and uncommon, that came across this guy. We all felt as if hit by a train. As if God came down and explained to mere mortals in otherworldly clarity the workings of his world.
It feels as if it's wrong for a human to understand this much. Unholy, alien, forbidden knowledge.
I'm an absolute physicalist, these are just figures of speech.
..Sokrates and Plato,
Kant and Shopenhauer, they are the most original funmakers of the universe.
The others are just chewing on them.
Or try to.
I have PudelMan`s:"The world as will and imagination" for 12 years now.
Never got beyond page 100, though i made 3 attempts.
This book scares me.
Really.
Too much truth at once, such density, it definitely lessens the common ground you are standing on with "the others".
And at such speed, that you have barely the time to adjust your feet.
A Bukowskian poem of a Bukowskian fan I found on the internet.
Schopenhauer's works are exemplary of the saying "what has been seen cannot be unseen".
Utter revelation and disillusionment. Like Adam an Eve biting from the Tree of Knowledge.
Leibniz been real quiet since this dropped
At least i know that this guy, being dead, is not trying to grift me or spying on me. Tthank you.
Wittkower is the best reader of Schopenhauer I have ever heard. Absolutely brilliant.
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All libravox recordings are in the public domain.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Offer ends soon, but wait: there’s more…
- Soupy Sales
Yes! Take that Nietzsche! Will to Power is nothing other than recognizing the futility of our own existence!
Perfect, absolutely perfect.
uplifting!
The porcupine parable is justly celebrated, and I always think of it whenever I, unfortunately, find myself in any gathering of the uncouth.
After reading these comments I'm convinced 90% of you cherry picked specific chapters and barely made it through them. Look up the definition of pessimism and understand what these writings are describing. Even if you don't agree with something that doesn't mean it's not worth consideration. Chew on the ideas that you disagree with most and figure out why you dislike them.
At 1:01, the translator tries to justify replacing the original "Unzerstörbarkeit" (indestructibility) with Unsterblichkeit (immortality) in death because the latter is easier to understand, but 1) the former makes sense because once you're dead you can't be destroyed (indestructible) but the latter doesn't because once you're dead you've died and thus are not immortal 2) immortality would be a nightmare to somebody like S. who adopts the Buddhist view that all life is suffering and 3) in the realm of philosophy, being easily understandable is the same thing as banal/cliché because a revelation is necessarily entirely new, at least to Western culture, although it may already have been known to a small minority of Buddhist/Hindu sages.
Excellent comment.Thank you.
This really has little to do about pessimism. He is observing life. The part about noise is truly comedy😂😂 love it.
Amazing. Thanks for this😊
Boredom is just another form of suffering. - Arthur Schopenhauer
As Madam De Stael put it: “We must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”
Schopenhauer was like a great saint
Hi Arthur. I love you and I love this book
war greed sex drug addiction and and vengeance are all part of human nature. we should teach that to our children.
We do. That’s the problem.
You opened my soul in a most wonderful way with this lecture.
So true...every bit of it.
This book is only as dark as you allow it to be.
Once one understands how to properly see through Schopenhauer's lense of pessimism, you realize that the concepts discussed are an enlightened take on life.
Enlightening because these are fundamental and deeply freeing concepts.
Coming from a religious background, this blasphemy turns into a renaissance of reality.
This may seem pitch black, especially the first three chapters, but as long as you don't contrast your life with the points being made, and allow yourself to look at them objectively, the shade of darkness will lighten. As long as you have the mental fortitude to think about these concepts in regards to life in general, I believe this is fundamentally one of the most enlightening philosophical lenses.
Great to fall asleep to.
you're not supposed to fall asleep, you're supposed to listen and reflect about pessimism and pain.
You’re supposed to wake up !!
Thank you!
Great read.
I wonder if this guy partied down on the weekends after a long week of grinding out pessimism on the paper.🎉 🎉
I think he was virtually a recluse
Great reading
Well narrated. Thank you.
Why does nobody talk about this stuff daily?
Some do, but it's a minority interest.
itll make enemies, who usually dont like talking
people hold on to their delusions for dear life
It's because propaganda is making people ignorant. Do you think content like this would even have a chance on social media?
@@joeybeannwhat’s your email, we can start a philosophy discussion group
I love Schopenhauer
Thank you for uploading this you are saving me a trip to the library and if you’re motivated please put more Arthur Schopenhauer philosophy on here too.
Oh no I will also be buying a copy for the shelf
This book is only as dark as you allow it to be.
This may seem pitch black, especially the first three chapters, but as long as you don't contrast your life with the points being made, and allow yourself to look at them objectively, the shade of darkness will lighten. As long as you have the mental fortitude to think about these concepts in regards to life in general, I believe this is fundamentally one of the most enlightening philosophical lenses.
btw are u an optimist? just askin cuz im curious and scared to read Schopenhauer
Wow! just WOW!
Love=recognition of suffering...
The cracking of the whip sound is like ppl alarming thier vehicles with honking of a horn all day all night long
Thank You for your λόγοσ. Indeed.
This guy is like the source material for a lot of stand up comedy
Ahh pure chills
That Chapter 3, beautiful, RIP Kyle Connelly
I wake up every morning with that exact hair. Life is suffering.
His take on women is refreshing 😂.
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional
true
Ecclesiastes 1:14
King James Version
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Indeed.
Solomon Ecclesiastes rang out to me as some of the first nihilism writings.
I have sought after knowledge and madness, And with much knowledge comes much suffering
Each time our feelings drives us to pessimist emotions it s time to adjust to more awareness in order to feel better
Well put and beautifully said ,
unfortunately we men have fallen so far that are blinded to the consequences of men who lead us into this current mess that we live in.
Problem is in the 'men' that lead the 'men'. Being the men created by men. Its the snake biting its own tail again and again
Like Cioran, pessimism that gives strange pleasure
I cant find Matthias Claudius’ “cursed is the ground…” online anywhere! Anyone know where to find it?
I think the section on women is irrelevant and hypocritical, but the one on children is still relevant today.
Wow, this is really well, pessimistic.
Schopenhauer thought books were warping peoples world view, just image what he would think about today
well some of his views were certainly warped themselves
I ❤ schlopenhoove
Verry good 👍😉✌
The Edgar Allan Poe of philosophers.
what does "fila lefes" mean ..?
and the the other "fila..(somethings) that are repeated..?
Shows adequate concern about not brainwashing kids, in chapter six.
Lenin was best at leading any government in the world determined to eradicate inequalities and injustices. Had he lived a little longer, he might have implemented policies in child education to minimize brainwashing. He’d have insisted on teaching rationality and critical thinking as the main subject of all formal education.
I was going to listen to this to try and understand pessimism, but in the end I thought it wouldn't be very interesting, and not up to much ...
Thanks bro
Thank God for the Wayback Machine lol
8:30 absolutely, this one for Hegel 😂
Haha yeah
As Lindsay Buckingham said: “There are two kinds of trouble in this world: Living and Dying.”
this is lowkey great to fall asleep to
It is matter of bewilderment that a philosopher of such a high rank has reduced women to such a lowly creature whose only inclination is towards obeying the master. Its an indication of how tremendously the social structure has changed in the last two centuries.
And what has changed exactly? Instead of obeying their husbands they now obey the state
It's not exactly about the social structure. He really had a very hard luck with women. I know some highly intellectual men in this age who are as misogynistic as him. To be honest, I can't really blame them.
Nice picture 🤗
I wonder what Seneca would think or Arthur?
Yes! It’s back, I was hung up at around 1:40 hours then your channel got deleted, thanks so much :)
Btw, do you have anything of Deleuze by chance? Would be great!
Do you know why it was deleted?
Sumptuous
Why has the subtitle been removed?
Even his face looks like a study in pessimism. Holy crap Arthur, cheer up a bit
😂
Can't. Dead.
The direct and immediate refutation of pessimism is the continuous desire for life itself ! Few willingly choose death over more life, and this is true even among those whom suffer the most -- the life-long imprisoned, the permanently disabled, the terminally ill, the sick and tired elderly, etc.. The overwhelming majority affirm the value of life, as does the pessimist himself, although unwittingly, so long as he does not immediately commit suicide and continues to live.
The yes to life.
@@mikemo2168 Clearly you have an inability to comprehend what you read because I wrote 'few willingly choose death over more life...'. Anyway, people who commit suicide don't hate life as much as they hate themselves.
@@mikemo2168 The real coward is the one who cries 'life is too hard'. Really ? But there you are still alive ! See, that's the proof, you rather cry and feel something, than to die and feel nothing at all. Every breath you take affirms life, and proves that you still give a damn yourself.
Why would anyone emotionally invest (aka, give a damn) about someone who might commit suicide ? If you don't love yourself, then don't expect anyone to care about you. If you are not willing to care about yourself, why do you expect others to care what happens to you ? Are you really expecting people to feel sorry for you, when you don't even have the self-care to love yourself ?
Life can be hard, yet most people are strong and courageous enough to go on living and find joy in it. A few weak people who don't even have the self-care to love themselves expect others to feel sorry for them. Life requires self-care, self-love, love of life, and the strength and courage to daily face adversity. You can cry all you want, but life will go on, and most people will continue to find real joy and happiness in just being alive. If you kill yourself because you hate life, then life still wins because your hatred was itself part of your life ! You have the chance to love yourself.. are you worth it ? If your answer is 'no', then why should anyone disagree with you ?
@@mikemo2168 No time to read your long-winded rant... unlike you, I actually have a life that I love.
@@mikemo2168 You're still alive ? What are you waiting for ?
Can you imagine if a modern day philosopher came out with the same opinion of women as this bloke?
So what if a modern day philosopher were honest about the nature of women? Yes, that would be refreshing as Schopenhauer's chapter on them.
there’s no such thing as a modern day philosopher
It's mgtow now
They are all over the place in the Twitter manosphere. TellYourSonThis is one of them. Just not mainstream so they don’t attract a lot of hate.
Thats why the modern world sucks, fake and lies
Well gee, thanks for the pick me up.
You’re new here, I can tell.
It should be a site-wide requirement that uploaded videos have their audio normalized to the same dB level.
Yeah, I was gonna reupload it precisely because of the volume.
@@Philosophy_Overdose The funny part is, it's not necessarily that your video is normalized to -2dB, but that the channel I was watching before was -5dB!!!
@@penumbral_psithurism Well, I still think that the audio is too loud here. I always try to make sure that videos are now at a much lower volume and that it is the same volume throughout videos. But yeah, I agree with you about the variation. I absolutely hate the massive variation too, not only across a single platform, but across the same channels, and especially throughout one and the same video!
@@Philosophy_Overdose I thought I read somewhere that youtube automatically set volume at -14dB. Obviously not.
Yo this slaps
Who is the narrator? He is excellent.
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Miserable but brilliant man
You are miserable
This is the most German book I’ve ever read!!!
Arthur made me embrace my dark side
Don't do it Anakin
«Good, let the hate flow through you»
BASED AF
the good news of our day. Compared hegel's phenomenology.