Schopenhauer: On the Sufferings of the World (ALL PARTS)

Reading & commentary on all 3 parts of this essay UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO:    • Schopenhauer: On the Sufferings of the Wor...   Studies in Pessimism podcast:    • Schopenhauer's Studies in Pessimism   From THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: STUDIES IN PESSIMISM, Translated By T. Bailey Saunders (1890), https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10732/1073... PART 1 0:00 Part 1 Introduction 2:28 Good is Negative 4:55 Pleasure Disappoints 6:36 Consolation, Boredom 8:51 Pressure is Necessary 11:19 Early Youth 12:55 Earth as Barren as the Moon 14:57 Illustrations 17:56 Life is a Task PART 2 20:43 Anti-Natalism 23:21 Part 2 Introduction 24:11 Comfortless? 25:47 Material Basis 26:57 Reflection, Memory, Foresight 29:57 Luxury, Ambition 32:36 Human Sexuality 35:13 Thought, Death, Hope 42:17 Domestic Pets PART 3 46:18 Part 3 Introduction 47:59 Cosmic Origins 49:54 Against Jehovah 51:46 Two Evidences 54:45 The Fall 56:24 2 Attitudes to Death 59:20 Old vs New Testament 1:03:42 World as Penitentiary 1:05:34 Benefits of Pessimism 1:07:43 Virtues of Pessimism 1:10:22 Final Comment #Philosophy #Schopenhauer #Pessimism Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis Thumbnail Image: Frankfurt Am Main-Portraits-Arthur Schopenhauer-1845 (cropped) By Unknown author - Eberhard Mayer-Wegelin: Frühe Photographie in Frankfurt am Main: 1839–1870. Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH, München 1982, ISBN 3-921375-87-8, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...