STUDIES IN PESSIMISM by Arthur Schopenhauer - FULL AudioBook | Greatest🌟AudioBooks

'Studies in Pessimism' by Arthur Schopenhauer - FULL AudioBook | Greatest🌟AudioBooks - Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation (German: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung), in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. Independently arriving at many of the same conclusions of Eastern philosophy, he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently, his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (e.g., asceticism). The influence of "transcendental ideality" led him to choose atheism.

At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four distinct aspects of experience in the phenomenal world. Consequently, his work has proven highly influential in the history of phenomenology, influencing the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges.

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Start: 00:00:00
🔹 Note - 00:00:19
🔹 Chapter 1 - On the Sufferings of the World - 00:02:18
🔹 Chapter 2 - The Vanity of Existence - 00:35:53
🔹 Chapter 3 - On Suicide - 00:48:38
🔹 Chapter 4 - Immortality - 1:02:34
🔹 Chapter 5 - Further Psychological Observations - 01:14:01
🔹 Chapter 6 - On Education - 2:06:33
🔹 Chapter 7 - On Women - 2:24:57
🔹 Chapter 8 - On Noise - 3:01:21
🔹 Chapter 9 - A Few Parables - 3:14:00

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[mihail]

"We generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected it, and pain very much more painful".

[banjogyro]

Anyone else find this therapeutic like nothing else?

[icareg]

I struggle with loneliness and depression. I like to seek out these kinds of writings because I feel like the only hope is really getting to the bottom of all this. Contemplating the darkest thoughts of life and existence, then gaining some poise and composure off of a solid foundation

[mechanicman]

I hope this will be a good go to sleep program.
Goodnight h internet family and God Bless

[wordswolf]

Schopenhauer was a true genius and the realest of all the great philosophers! I have studied philosophy for many years! I always return to him.

[palmtreep]

My favorite part: "This is a librovox recording. All Librovox recordings are in the public domain..." Seriously though, this is a great book to listen to when you are suffering. Good day, fellow penal colony citizens. May we atone for our sins in this lifetime.

[antwan]

Pessimism is really good for a person in pain as it gives reason, and seems to alleviate my pain as I listen here.

[gabedepaul]

Note - 00:01
Chapter 1 - On the Sufferings of the World - 02:06
Chapter 2 - The Vanity of Existence - 35:40
Chapter 3 - On Suicide - 48:26
Chapter 4 - Immortality - 1:02:34
Chapter 5 - Further Psychological Observations - 1:13:46
Chapter 6 - On Education - 2:06:20
Chapter 7 - On Women - 2:24:43
Chapter 8 - On Noise - 3:01:06
Chapter 9 - A Few Parables - 3:13:45

[mahendrakent]

Have read and heard many philosophical talks and books. This video, particularly the first four chapters, are the best summarisation of Eastern and Western thoughts. Well done. And the speaker is brilliant. Simple but effective video.

[JackVogel]

This is one of the most interesting and strangely satisfying books I've ever read/listened to.
Topics like these are so rarely discussed now a days, some stuff he brought up was like a revelation "He just described something to the t that I've internally been thinking about my all life!..." and you realize you're not the only one thinking about it, however bizzare it might be to social norms.
And it keeps going like that, right on point with so much.
Like a great satire of life and the shallow standards we've wrapped around it 🙃

Oh, and the narrator is f***king perfect for this

Have to edit and add, one of the last chapters is kind of crazy.
The way he talks about women is unhealthy, even for that time.
Perhaps he's right about his observations, but he's leaving out the equally messy sides of men, and it all comes off as some egocentric rant.
Great intellect he may have had, but bitter af about the ladies

[allanclark]

Whirlwind of torment
Off the deep end
Fear, madness, descent
Gone 'round the bend
As high as a kite
Sad as can be
Fall into the night
Face eternity

[dokkus]

i’ve listened to this multiple times and you give it a smoothness and calmness I never heard in the text when reading it for myself. thanks for this.

[SanguineUltima]

I'm really enjoying this, the reader has an excellent voice and pacing. A lot of libravox readers sound really awkward and stilted, but not this guy. Even the parts in Latin and German sound organic and natural.

[MotoKringles]

I fell asleep to another one of his videos and this came on while I was dreaming. Wow that was one hell of a dream. I woke up after 34 minutes

[TheHorse_yes]

Chapter 7 - On Women - 2:24:43 <= Smuggle that chapter into a feminist women's study class and chuckle behind the corner as the proverbial nukes go off.

[jamesmcgriff]

My favorite narrator ever. Please do every book of Nietzsche’s I feel like you sound exactly like Nietzche would if he spoke modern day English. 😂

[friedrichdostoyevsky]

With more knowledge comes more suffering -Ecclesiastes

[leonardallen]

It's the writer, imagine the present moment, listening to the reader, calm yet entertaining the mind, knowing each word has a definition providing a sentence to complete a chapter, in the end a book, when it's finished start a new book. Thank you for sharing, considering Macbeth.

[sydneymorey]

Brilliant Reader. Brilliant Rendition. Brilliant YouTube. Enough to keep my thoughts revolving for a long time.
Cheers SBM.

[megaltright]

oh my word how mesmerising is this man's voice?