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More Audio About Schopenhauer

January 1, 2011 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

If you're liking having Schopenhauer-related audio to listen to so you needn't actually read him, here's a clip with some introduction or other to the World as Will and Representation, which describes his place in the history of philosophy and states some high level points about his philosophy, and quite a bit more about his biography. It's nothing you couldn't get just as  Continue Reading …

Schopenhauer’s Pessimism Read Aloud

December 31, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

There are a number of read-aloud Schopenhauer selections on the web that you should be aware of, which cover very directly the pessimism he is most famous for but which we didn't cover in the episode. For instance: Listen on youtube (There's nothing really to watch). Read the text. This is over half an hour of simply the text, read slowly and pleasingly by D.E.  Continue Reading …

Schopenhauer on Euclid’s Geometry

December 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

One point on our Schopenhauer episode that we didn't take much time to get into was his attitude towards geometric demonstration, which was of course the model for all philosophy for thinkers like Descartes. Here's a short selection from section 39 of the Fourfold Root, which illustrates his idea that our knowledge of geometry is founded on our intuition of space ("knowledge  Continue Reading …

Schopenhauer’s Mom

December 21, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Apparently Johanna Schopenhauer, Arthur's mom, was an author, "the first German woman writer to publish books without making use of a pseudonym," and "the most famous author in Germany" for a while in the 1820s. She wrote fiction, travelogues, and biography, and Arthur considered her work juvenile, and told her so. Her wikipedia page gives the story of her bad relationship  Continue Reading …

Frederick Copleston and Bryan Magee on Schopenhauer

December 20, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

Here Bryan Magee gives some background on Schopie, which leads into an interview with philosophical historian (and Jesuit priest, known for debating Bertrand Russell on the radio re. the existence of God) Frederick Copleston: Watch on youtube. At the end of this first clip, Copleston points out that Kant thought of things in themselves as plural: there's the table as  Continue Reading …

Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge (Citizens Only)

December 19, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Discussing Arthur Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, published in 1847 (as an expansion of his doctoral thesis from 1813). What kinds of explanations are legitimate? S. thought that causal and logical explanations are often confused, resulting in philosophical errors. In laying out the four types of explanation -- the four versions of  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge

December 19, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 40 Comments

Arthur Schopenhauer

This is a 33-minute preview of a 2 hr, 14-minute episode.Buy Now Purchase this episode for $2.99. Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes; exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020; and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat  Continue Reading …

Topic for #30: Schopenhauer’s Twist on Kant’s Epistemology

November 8, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Schopenhauer is widely known for being influenced by Buddhism's claim that life is suffering and for in turn influencing Nietzsche, but his major influence is Kant. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, was originally written (in 1813) as S's dissertation but was later expanded and clarified for proper publication (in 1847). He considered this his core  Continue Reading …

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