Schopenhauer - Sea of Faith - BBC documentary

[Ralph6485]

Schopenhauer may be the most incisive philosopher post Plato

[MrEirikess]

part 2?

[loly1969]

great video , schopenhauer ws a enlighten human being , he hs got close to buddhas teachings

[egapnala65]

I think he has got the bit about consciousness wrong. Schopenhauer argues that the only difference between a man and a grain of wheat is that the wheat is not aware of its plight and is thus more fortunate than man. Does not imply extinction at all.

[kapariz44]

Brings to mind Gandhi's comment:

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

He was right and it's a pity. Look at recent knee-jerk reactions from the C of E re Occupy London, which, fortunately weren't implemented. But the almost instinctive inclination to side with the establishment is very unfortunate and does the C of E no favours.

"Peace, perfect peace is the gift of Christ our Lord ..."

[arcanus121]

Many thanks for posting these precious Sea of Faith excerpts.

[zytigon]

For top philosophy of religion & sceptical analysis of Bible & religion try Robert M Price, John W. Loftus, Dan Barker, Victor J. Stenger. E.A.Wallis Budge translation of, 'The Papyrus of Ani' (1500BCE comp O.T.800-300BCE ish), Donald A. Mackenzie,' Egyptian myth and legend', James G Frazer, 'The Golden Bough', Thomas Paine, Joseph Wheless, Robert Ingersoll, C.Dennis Mckinsey, Bart Ehrman, ZomGitsCriss, Christopher Hitchens, Valerie Tarico, Ken Humphreys, Israel Finkelstein , Richard Dawkins

[HimmelsscheibeNebra]

The BBC series about philosophy are great. I can learn about philosophy and can improve my English. Good English is rather difficult to achieve, so it helps...

[chubbychechu2010]

Generations of Man are born and pass away in quick succession.. individual men burdened by fear, want, and sorrow dance into the arms of death.. as they do so they never weary of asking what it is that ails them and what the whole tragic comedy is supposed to mean..

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

@chubbychechu2010 Excellent! Is this a quote from Schopenhauer or your own thoughts? If the latter, maybe you should write a book.

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

@chubbychechu2010 Ah, it is Schopehauer. I got to that part in the video.

[carlo88moe]

@chubbychechu2010 where is that exactly from? it's sensational

[TheBestInterest]

@carlo88moe It is from the end of Schopenhauer's Magnum Opus, titled "The World as Will and Representation".

Beautiful isn't it?

[shinobirastafari]

Sorry, this was all they did on Schopenhauer - they moved on at the end of this segment...

[GordonMorrice]

@shinobirastafari Don't apologise - you have did a great service here to we admirers of Schopenhauer. Have you read Safranski's biography of the man? It's a masterpiece of research and (albeit translated) bracing prose. I discovered Schopenhauer in my early twenties and he radically transformed my lightweight view of life. He is almost always referred to as a pessimist, but I see him as a great liberator of bad thinking, stupidity and poisonous piety.

Once again, thanks for the upload!

[shinobirastafari]

@GordonMorrice Thanks. Read Magee's book on Schopenhauer, which I quite enjoyed.

[GordonMorrice]

@shinobirastafari Ah, good! Hopefully, you haven't been plagued with sharp-edged questions as I have! Then again, I'd rather have those than that feeling of 'empiness' which others speak of.

[HimmelsscheibeNebra]

@GordonMorrice

I agree! Safranski has written a great biography which is a reference for Schopenhauer biographies. It brings Schopenhauer back to life, because it is a biography about his life, the development of his ideas and philosophy and the anchorage of all in the time in which Schopenhauer lived and the ideas and philosophy of this time. Moreover it is written in a fresh and great style, which makes it rather easy to follow. His Nietzsche- and Heidegger-biographies are also great!

[HimmelsscheibeNebra]

@shinobirastafari

Thanks for uploading the nice video!