THE VANITY OF EXISTENCE - Schopenhauer

THE VANITY OF EXISTENCE - Schopenhauer

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Film & Animation

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• xtranormal
• THE
• VANITY
• OF
• EXISTENCE
• Arthur
• Schopenhauer
• studies
• in
• pessimism
• hegel
• kant
• plato

[thekeyring]

You don't exist for 1,000s of years but then you never stop existing. I think that is one thing we can be shore of, as all religions and many cults believe in more than the world around us. I for one am a Christian and believe that after we die in this world we go to heaven (:

[likeaslowburn]

although a sceptic, Schopenhauer had not place in his philosophy for the fear of death. The part of us that survives death is not, according to Schopenhauer, as some sects of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have taught, the personality or self or soul of the thinking subject. It is rather the impersonal Will within, the indestructible thing-in-itself, transcending space, .time and causality, that is in no way part of the world as representation or subject to any sort of change.

[figocooldude]

Haha, this animation is funny, can't stop imagining some C.E.O. having a nervous break down and reaching ilumination, sitting in his chair and starting to talk about the vanity of existence to his co-workers: "...whether he has been happy or miserable, for his life was never anything more then a present moment, always vanishing, and now it is over. At the same time it is a wonderfull thing..." Harsh words for a bourgeoisie.

[alliant]

@likeaslowburn

I think the 'self' in eastern thought, and the 'soul' in christian mysticism is synonymous with this Will.

[DerPoltergeist13]

This translation is better than the one in my book "Essays and Aphorisms"

[figocooldude]

That's the problem of Schopenhauer, in the end, his philosophy is a narcotic, to escape the pains of the world, but it's a temporary escape, in the end we return to the "real" world.

[SouvenirGoodBand]

I'm very serious that drugs can be the solution to many a problem of existence, and should have been taken into account by S. One still exists, but could be freed from time. However, life with drugs is often a non-life. The solution could be to use them in the evenings, or once/twice a week. By drugs I also mean alcohol, of course.

[Serpent257]

Schopenhauer was a miserable cynical bastard. It amazes me that people call existentialism a philosophy instead of an obsession with death and misery.

Serpent

[billjesusgates]

excellent work.