Art, Buddhism and Schopenhauer – Philosophy Tube
What is the purpose of art, and what does Buddhism have to do with it? Let’s dive into Schopenhauer and find out!
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The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy entry on Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer-aesthetics/#AesExp
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
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@ThomasÓShaughnessy-v5u
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
❤
'Luv it'
@Lady_Phoenix
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Sooo…does that make The Velveteen Rabbit Shopenhauer for kids?
@Samphappalapa-56912
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
"I am" is good to be destroyed
Existence is dukkha and we want nirvana as buddhists.
eventually
@Samphappalapa-56912
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Namo buddhaya 🙏
@taekfute
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
04:10 😂
@kuk_forgoraren69
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
tiny little baby girl!! this video is almost 10 years old but abbi if you ever read this comment i just want you to know that this helped me tremendously in my final assignment on schopenhauer. an overworked, swedish uni student who's happily suffering through philosophical aesthetics salutes you.
@chrisgoeswest9882
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
It's no picnic having all of your politicians elected. Trust me.
@ziziroberts8041
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
The reason for endless conflict in the Middle East is their natural resources. Also location. Thoughts on Ukraine, please. Thank you.
@rekall76
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
hypnotoad 😆
@marilynmalone1381
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
I don't think his philosophy needs evidence per say, just that it works as a metaphor.
@bassem500
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Schopenhauer's Will concept reminds me of Object-oriented Programming, where you have a template of an object from which all "living" instances are instantiated. Hmm, maybe whoever" invented" OOP read Schopenhauer. 😀
@olbluelips
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Woww… I don't know if I can get behind Schopenhauer's idea of art, but it certainly is a "tasty" idea.
The idea that an aesthetic experience is a merging into the noumenal world caused by "The Ideas"… it's far-fetched but legitimately gives me pleasure to entertain!
@DelapierceD
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
The idea of individual cats having link to Cat, or chairs to Chair, overlaps with some Animisms!
@mohabsoliman7172
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
04:40 my reaction to any eastern belief.
@MathwithMing
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
4:29 Well for Schopenhauer, 'one ceases to exist', is actually preferable to existence since to live means to will, to will means to suffer
@faierieknotting
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Hi ! My Youtube Channel is : Macrame Beauty At Strings ! The "Beauty" Is precisely the "Transcendence" ! That mystery that is achieved in, and it is really achieved in working Macrame … but it also does not endure much ! Still it can ease the degusts of life for some time !
@tristants9209
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
What a shit explanation of Schopenhauer's Philosophy. If you don't understand then don't make a video. And calm down no need to be so restless.
@OrangePony75
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
4:13 if the individual cease to exist it enters (?) the Nirvana or ultimate dissolution (?). It's not bad nor good, but the very goal of Buddhism.
I know, right?
@OmarDelawar
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
What Schopenhauer called "the Will" is what we today would call "the ego" aka "the conscious mind" aka "that part of your brain that is programmed for self-preservation and reproduction" aka "all of the hormones, neurotransmitters, brain structures etc that allow for a 'will to live'".
What Schopenhauer referred to as the "noumenal world" or "ideas" is what we today call "the subconscious mind" aka "our emotional center" aka "where we experience spirituality or transcendence"
Hope that clears some things up.
@musicstewart9744
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
On one program the point was made to insert the word "Energy" when the word "Will" is used. His ideas on aesthetics are spot on and why I have season tickets to The Philadelphia Orchestra. Likewise, why I miss them so much during coronavirus time.
@lynnmeschelle
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
a… how is this inspired from Buddhism? The suffering Buddha spoke of was not a metaphysical construct it was simply an acknowledgement that we often suffer because we expect the world or desire the world to be a certain way. It's an attempt to live with the world and nature as it is and have a stoic indifference to items of desire.
@Milhomens23
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Ok, I went too far back now.
@dichotomae
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
some pretty easy stuff with what is fate? some pretty easy stuff? some pretty easy stuff? Easy???? I've been having an existential crisis over that for the past two years
@BeastMasterNeil
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Ownership is fictional. That is to say, being "owned" is not actually a property of any object. This is evident because when an object becomes "owned" it does not change in any way that can possibly be discovered by examining the object itself. What changes is a relationship to it; a relationship entirely defined by the prevailing legal (or moral) system. No one and no thing inherently owns nature or any part of it, but some entities believe they have, or are agreed to have, an artificial legal or social (moral) relationship to parts of nature which we call "ownership". Who owns nature? Ask a lawyer.
@Elagabalus711
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Schopenhauer's ontology is based upon a problem he saw in Kant. Kant assumed that individual objects exist as individuated in the Numinal world, in away that is reflective of the way we distinguish between them in the Phenomenal world, though obviously as Numinal they are more 'pure' (insert comment on Kant's horrible racism), free from the influence of our sense. Schopenhauer asked why we would assume that the distinction between individuals in the Phenomenal world would be reflective of the Numinal, as every aspect of our reality is affected by our senses. Thus the concept of individuality might not apply there, in which case everything in the Numinal might actually be a single, all encompassing entity, the Will.
@furtherback6131
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
This was fucking terrible.
@Pfhorrest
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Next up, sixty minutes of existential philosophy readings set to classical piano on: The Chopin Hour.
@13ciaran13000
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
This is some grade A bullshit
@FinBotInsights
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
You do not understand Schopenhauer at all mate. It's a very cringy and awkward video to watch.
@xCorvus7x
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
There is a mistake in the intro:
the third line of Maxwell's equations is not ∇×B = -1/c ∂B/∂t , but ∇×E = -1/c ∂B/∂t .
@mrtambourineman6107
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Stop trying to subconsciously apply reductuonism to your arguments and I 'might' listen again, AND you might understand philosophy a little better….might…
@mrtambourineman6107
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
You call yourself a philosopher but you've never studied any eastern philosophy…? Hmmmmm
@imdeexpert5828
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
You're shallow of a man!
@godeater6382
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
this video is autistic af
@bootswithfur2106
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
He’s so cute 🙂
@hectoralvarez5785
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
Lmao you have no understanding of schopenhauer. So why try to bash him. Will = the reason you look foward to the future. The idea = that reason whether it be a hobby, a career, or another individual. Releasing yourself basically means to live the moment beside the water fall of time. Like zen to be in the now in unison with nature.
@HSFlex_lu
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
In our lessons we were told the will is manifested through pain and suffering. Our existence is dominated by the suffering by us avoiding it or inflicting it to others. Art is not created by this will, so it frees us from it momentarly, then by merely existing and surviving we are suffering again. To become really free, one needs to leave the will behind
@petrelli231
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
"This is not a place to discuss what we should do with the Queen."
4 years later
WE MUST ABOLISH THE MONARCHY
@pillmuncher67
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
It's pronounced doo-kah. A better translation than "suffering" is maybe "grinding".
@redrex6760
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
The Will = the force
@DanDuskin
March 29, 2026 at 10:31 am
I want it to be real! But I guess I’ll settle for reality.
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