Schopenhauer: Youthful Disappointment | Counsels & Maxims 55

How the second half of life differs from the first.

Second Part of Chapter 5 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)

0:00 Disappointment
2:19 Security
3:59 Doorbell
7:21 Clear View
9:04 Education
11:16 Side Door
12:18 Embroidery

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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis

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[jessedejager]

Sometimes, just sometimes, you see the right thing at the right moment. This video was one of such things!

[guilhermeherrmann]

looking forward to hearing your commentary please keep posting

[carlalv]

Very funny, naive boy " please come in", wise mature man, "please go away!" Thank you.

[whoaitstiger]

One can only imagine his disdain for novels was related to the fact that his mother Johanna, with whom he had a complicated and strained relationship, was a somewhat famous novelist. She was in fact the first female novelist to be published in the German speaking world. He mentions his dislike of novels multiple times throughout his writing. It's hard to imagine that this was coincidental. Arthur was, at least at some period of his life, distressed that his chief work was not popular. He only became famous later in life with works such as this one. I imagine he did have some envy towards her on this account.

[jarinorvanto]

"having fewer desires to be satisfied" (6:20)... This relief or sense of freedom reminds of the following quote:

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. (Edmund Burke)

[greyjedi]

Thank You
Lovely
Appreciate this series alot

[theotherguy]

youtube should have a 'super like' button available for these type of videos

[francisdec]

11:00 Schopenhauer was of course a proto-antinatalist, so he would better want people not to have children at all, but IF people had children, that would be the way to learn them how to deal with this charade of a world.