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Watch the complete series “Philosophy - A Guide to Happiness” here:
Episodes:
1. Socrates on Self-Confidence.
2. Epicurus on Happiness.
3. Seneca on Anger.
4. Montaigne on Self-Esteem.
5. Schopenhauer on Love.
6. Nietzsche on Hardship.
Kant mixing mustard, Drawing by Friedrich Hagermann, 1801
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“Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.”
Paul Ricœur
The french philosopher Paul Ricœur would be 99 years old today.
He is best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such his thought is situated within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer… (more)
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer would be 224 years old today.
He was a german philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world. Schopenhauer’s most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will. His analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fully satisfied. The corollary of this is an ultimately painful human condition. Consequently, he considered that a lifestyle of negating desires, similar to the ascetic teachings of Vedanta, Buddhism and the Church Fathers of early Christianity, was the only way to attain liberation… (more)
“You are shaking more dictating the sentence, that I am receiving it.”
Giordano Bruno
412 years ago the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned alive at Campo de’ Fiori in Rome for heresy.
He was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings. He was burned at the stake by civil authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy for his pantheism and turned him over to the state, which at that time considered heresy illegal. After his death he gained considerable fame, particularly among 19th and early 20th century commentators who, focusing on his astronomical beliefs, regarded him as a martyr for free thought and modern scientific ideas… (more)
“A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.”
Simone Weil
