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Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Tension of a Bow

Health is when you are as an organism best attaining the platonic form of your type of organism. The word for bow in ancient Greek is a lot like the word for life, where that tension is a kind of strife. It's only one step from everything as strife to the Buddhist, everything is suffering. And so then what does the wise person do? Well, somehow overcome that. Overcome your own will, your own drives, the things that make you suffer,. That's how to die with dignity, basically.

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