2017-03-14
22 分钟Hello,
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So today is the first episode in a series on a man named Arthur Schopenhauer,
notoriously a guy that thinks this world is a pretty miserable place,
notoriously a guy that sees our everyday lives as similar to being in a sunny plane with a dark cloud looming over your head that follows you around.
You know, you see the sunlight all around you, you try to get to it, but you never will.
He's notoriously a guy that sees the pinnacle of human virtue, or a sage in his particular philosophical system,
is someone that rejects any sort of worldly human desire and spends their days living like an ascetic monk,
you know, depriving themselves of everything.
Now I'm going to go out on a limb and say
that the majority of people listening to this probably don't view their lives in the same sort of pessimistic way that Schopenhauer does,
probably a little confused right now by what he say that.
In this series we'll ask the hard-hitting questions.
Is Arthur Schopenhauer just a drama queen?
Is this the world's oldest 13-year-old kid that didn't get an iPad for Christmas?
Or is there maybe something that Schopenhauer presents as a foundation for why all these things aren't as dramatic
as they might initially seem?
Quick spoiler,