Religion: A Dialogue by Arthur Schopenhauer | Full Audiobook

The complete Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 to 1860), his coolest and most provocative look at faith, books, and human nature. Unabridged. HISTORICAL CONTEXT Arthur Schopenhauer was the great pessimist of the nineteenth century, the philosopher who taught Nietzsche, Tolstoy, and Freud how to look at human nature without flinching. These essays come from his late masterwork, the Parerga and Paralipomena, the collection that finally made him famous after a lifetime of being ignored. The centerpiece is a dialogue between two friends, one defending religion as a necessary truth for the many, the other insisting on philosophy for the few, an argument that has lost none of its edge. WHY IT STILL READS TODAY Schopenhauer treats religion not as a believer or a mocker but as a naturalist studying a strange and powerful human institution, what it is for, who it serves, and what it costs. Around that central dialogue he gathers some of his most useful shorter essays: On Books and Reading, with its warning that reading is thinking with someone else's head; On Physiognomy, on what a face reveals; and his pointed observations on human conduct. It is Schopenhauer at his most readable and most quotable. EDITION USED T. Bailey Saunders' translation, in the public domain. Saunders produced the standard English versions of Schopenhauer's essays in the 1890s, prose that keeps the bite and clarity of the German. VIDEO STRUCTURE This recording covers the complete selection, unabridged, read essay by essay: Religion: A Dialogue, A Few Words on Pantheism, On Books and Reading, On Physiognomy, Psychological Observations, and The Christian System. The translator's prefatory note has been left out so the audiobook opens and closes on Schopenhauer himself. Chapter timestamps below. 00:00 Religion: A Dialogue 2:04:39 A Few Words on Pantheism 2:13:15 On Books and Reading 2:41:04 On Physiognomy 3:08:54 Psychological Observations 3:40:52 The Christian System Subscribe to Ancient Lantern for more public-domain audiobook editions of classical philosophy, ancient strategy, and timeless wisdom. #schopenhauer #religion #philosophy #audiobook #faith #reading #stoicism --- Ancient Lantern @ancientlanternbooks Timeless wisdom, read aloud.