In this colab-convo, Shaul Solomon and i discuss some low-key issues in life, such as Suffering, Enlightenment, the Structure of Reality, Will, Desire and Pleasure, and Beauty, from the perspectives of Schopenhauer and Buddhism.  

02:28 Intro to Schopenhauer  

05:08 Intro to Buddhism  

08:55 Intro to Idealism  16:64 The Ding an Sich  

17:30 Schopenhauer's Idealism, the Will  

23:06 Suffering and Pessimism  

41:33 Schopenhauer's Paths to Enlightenment 

1:20:37 Schopenhauer and Chasidut   

Being novice enthusiasts, we're bound to have made plenty of mistakes, please call us out in the comments, thx, much love.  

Sources consulted:  

An Open System: The Meaning of Mysticism in Schopenhauer, Alessandro Medri: https://mondodomani.org/dialegesthai/ame02.htm

Schopenhauer and Buddhism, Bhikku Ñáóájìvako: https://www.what-buddha-said.net/

Schopenhauer and Buddhism, Peter Abelsen: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1399616?seq=1 https://www.iep.utm.edu/schopenh/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/

https://www.iep.utm.edu/schopenh/

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/256

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