
Episode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Writing, and Thinking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Real Life of Mankind
Schopenhauer: The purely intellectual life of humanity lies in its effort to increase knowledge by means of the sciences. This intellectual life, like some gift from heaven, hovers over the stir and movement of the world whore. So thinking is like a heavenly platonic form, kind of world that we can retreat to participate in. And a source of freedom, i think, yes. Freedom from our selfish from desires, from heteronomy. Rian an excuse. If you're good enough at it, if you're a genius, why you should be able to disavow your responsibilities? You've got this line fly. I feel like i should throw a flag on the play mark.
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