Human life has no intrinsic value. Desire & striving are futile. Essay 2 of Studies in Pessimism.

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From THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: STUDIES IN PESSIMISM, Translated By T. Bailey Saunders (1890), [ Ссылка ]

0:00 Introduction
1:26 Time
4:03 Comment 1
6:13 Comment 2: Meaning of "Ideal"
7:55 Hedonism
9:08 Comment 3
9:34 Constant Motion
11:30 Comment 4
12:27 Two Drives
14:11 Comment 5
15:50 Mosaic
17:06 Comment 6
18:18 Why We Are Miserable
19:18 Comment 7
20:46 Boredom
23:40 Comment 8
26:13 Microscope
28:13 Final Comment

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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis

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