…experience. We attribute continuities and subjects and so forth. So Stephen is trying to penetrate this wall to come to what Schopenhauer, what Kant calls the thing on thick the thing in itself the substance problem. But he says: ineluctable modality of the…

…modality of the visible time, the ineluctable modality of the audible causality, the causal chain, these are exactly what Kant and Schopenhauer called the forms of sensibility, the a priori forms of sensibility which shut us around and shut us out from the…

…it really exist? Now these terms that Joyce uses for these, what he calls the nebeneinander and the nacheinander, are from Schopenhauer. That's Schopenhauer's Language for this mystery. So I'm going to use Schopenhauer and Joyce uses him also to speak about…

…the nebeneinander and the nacheinander, are from Schopenhauer. That's Schopenhauer's Language for this mystery. So I'm going to use Schopenhauer and Joyce uses him also to speak about this question. Are we really separated from each other? Schopenhauer asked…

…So I'm going to use Schopenhauer and Joyce uses him also to speak about this question. Are we really separated from each other? Schopenhauer asked this question. How can it be that a human being can respond to the pain of another as though it were his…

…the choppers those boys going out to rescue chaps that have been shot down, forgetting themselves altogether in that act. Schopenhauer says this is against nature. The character of nature is to defend yourself. And yet here is this compassion, this…

…here is this compassion, this experience which makes one forget oneself and one can do this spontaneously as though it were oneself. Schopenhauer asks: how is this possible? And his answer is that it's possible because, in fact, that other and you are one,…

…discoveries in the near east, so that we have one of these scholars after another simply finding: ah this is it think of Schopenhauer. The upanishads have been the delight of my life and they will be the consolation of my death and that was a pretty…

…somewhere around the 7th century BC we begin to get evidence of strong negative reactions to this. The prime word is from Schopenhauer that epitomizes this attitude, life is something that should not have been. It's a mistake, a cosmic error, and when this…

…that oneness that is to say we go out of ourselves, we go past the bounds of ourselves when we experience love. Schopenhauer, in a wonderful paper, a wonderful essay on love as the moral principle, speaks of this remarkable experience. When an individual,…

…person's danger were his own, he has actually participated in that ground substance of being which supports us all. This, says Schopenhauer, is the only moral principle there is this actual experience. This, he says, is an actual experience of the truth,…

…others as long as there is an I and you. That's not the you we're talking about. There's a wonderful paper by Schopenhauer called foundations of morality, in which he participates in and experiences the pain and danger of another, that forgetting his own…

…the imagery of the Christian Tradition. For Thomas Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche then I also ran into Spengler the decline of the west and a really great anthropologist, Leo Frobenius.…

…the whole world of his phenomenal existence disappeared and this was a one pointed giving of oneself to something else. Schopenhauer, in a wonderful paper of his called the foundations of morality, asked the question: what is it that breaks through…

…the situation. Wasn't there a myth that says you create your own luck? That's not only a myth. There's a wonderful paper by Schopenhauer called an apparent intention of the fate of the individual, and he points out that when you are at a certain age…

…produce acts of great personal heroism. His answer serves as a standard of tolerance and empathy that we can all aspire to. Schopenhauer asked: what is it that breaks through when that happens? And his answer is: this is a metaphysical realization. This is…

…is a trial, to say or the social unit. But beyond that is the common human identity. And there's this wonderful saying of Schopenhauer this question of Schopenhauer that I like to bring up: how is it that an individual, a human being can so participate…

…or the social unit. But beyond that is the common human identity. And there's this wonderful saying of Schopenhauer this question of Schopenhauer that I like to bring up: how is it that an individual, a human being can so participate in the danger and…

…the imagery of the Christian Tradition. For Tobias Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Then I also ran into Spengler, the decline of the west and a really great anthropologist, Leo…

…the situation. Wasn't there a myth that says you create your own luck? That's not only a myth there's a wonderful paper by Schopenhauer called an apparent intention of the fate of the individual, and he points out that when you are at a certain age what…

…driving and it's not good to have them there what used to be called Jonas you know. So there's a mystery here. And Schopenhauer Finally asks the question: can anything happen to you for which you're not ready? You don't know whether it can. I look back…

…to say not even to live because every move you make is a danger to some little thing, if not some big thing. Life, as Schopenhauer said is something that should not have been, and if you take that seriously out you go. It's not so easy to get out,…

…on life. And sometimes people can't take it, and so we have these religions of pulling out. You remember the words of Schopenhauer perhaps life is something that should not have been. It is based on the illusion of each person separate from the others,…

…only in the east but also in the west we have philosophers who've considered this metaphysical problem. I want to mention Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer asked this question, and with this I'm approaching my conclusion. How is it that an individual can respond to…

…in the east but also in the west we have philosophers who've considered this metaphysical problem. I want to mention Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer asked this question, and with this I'm approaching my conclusion. How is it that an individual can respond to the…

…objective. And then along comes the depth psychology, which was simply restating what had already been stated by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and before that Goethe, that there is a spirit within which moves things and the outer apparitions are causally…

…development of human societies, a moment when the consciousness will not accept it, when the word is like the word of Schopenhauer: life is something that should not have been. It is a fundamental, metaphysical, cosmic mistake. What then is the mythology…

…I call the great reversal. People of a certain sensitivity and sensibility found that this was a horror they could not affirm. Schopenhauer said: life is something that should not have been and there are people many who find it so horrible they would…

…chakras, where something impossible to think of takes place, namely all phenomenality is transcended and with that all subjectivity as well. Schopenhauer speaks of this in the world as will and idea, when he says: if we could only understand how it is…

…relationships, what Kant calls the a priori forms of sensibility. This is exactly maya and this is exactly why following Kant, Schopenhauer was able point for point to interpret the Indian Terminology in kantian terms, brahman would be the kantian ding on…

…what ails you, uncle? That's not curiosity, that's compassion. Now the power and meaning of compassion. There's a marvelous paper by Schopenhauer called the foundation of morality, and in that he asks the following question: how is it that a human being can…

…so that the child's about to be run over you rush to save the child you are killed. How can that happen? And Schopenhauer says this is the breakthrough of a metaphysical truth, the realization that you and the other are one, and that separateness is a…

…you can't even think of anything that doesn't fit in those and so you're enclosed. This is maya exactly, and it was Schopenhauer who first recognized that the Indian Concept of maya and Kant's Concept of the forms of sensibility and the categories of…

…being also, and this is the goal of yoga, to find that reality of consciousness of which is of you and of everybody else. Schopenhauer and his world is will and idea is full of this. That book is a symphony of rapture dealing with this matter, and he…

…the loss of one's own life spontaneously, there's a spontaneous act of saving that little child who's about to be hit. Schopenhauer answers and says: this is a metaphysical realization that has broken through, which is usually not there it's the realization…

…seems a rather appropriate act. And it's a beautiful idea that life is, on the surface, unendurable. It's a fierce, ferocious thing Schopenhauer said at one of his best moments: life is something that should not have been and if it is not something that…

…is of the riding the two they really are one, only they look like two, and the experience is the experience of a truth. Schopenhauer has a wonderful paper which he calls the foundations of morality. That's the one where he asks: how is it that a human…

…to the arthurian romances like parsifal and Tristan and Isolde, there is a deep thematic connection: the belief that nature what Schopenhauer called the will is an ever present force that binds us together. When parsifal sets out on his adventure he lets…

…findings of the German Romantic philosophers of the 19th century, even though Freud had never read any of these. He did not know Schopenhauer, says Mann, he did not know Nietzsche, he did not know Kierkegaard and out of his ignorance, on his own boat he…

…of that we come to the philosophers that influenced the two of them. Now the philosopher that influenced Wagner the most was Schopenhauer. As Nietzsche says at one point, brunnhilde, between acts 1 and 2, goes out and reads the world as will and idea…

…until I've read Kant. So then you have to go back another notch to Immanuel Kant, and this is not so easy. Schopenhauer says of Kant: Kant is distinguished by eine glänzende trockenheit a brilliant dryness. But what he says isn't so difficult it's simply…

…by time and space. That's Kant's first principle. However we can have an intuitive experience that disregards time and space. And Schopenhauer speaks of this in a very important paper that he wrote many years into the 19th century called the foundations of…

…that person. A child's about to be hit by a car you go out and you get hit. This goes on all the time. Schopenhauer asks: how is it that the first law of nature, the maintenance and protection of this separate entity, can suddenly be dissolved and…

…I don't know whether you knew that I would love to have talked to this point there's a wonderful paper by Schopenhauer Who's One of my three favorite philosophers called the foundation of morality. There he asks exactly the question that you've asked.…

…grabs you and you do this thing. You don't even know who it is. That policeman didn't know who that young man was. And Schopenhauer says: in small ways you can see this happening every day all the time. This is a theme that can be seen moving life…

…childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain you know, to say this is something that should not have been. Schopenhauer, in one of his marvelous chapters I think it's in the world's will and idea says life is something that should not have…

…and you can't even think of anything that doesn't fit in those so you're enclosed. This is maya, exactly, and it was Schopenhauer who first recognized that the Indian Concept of maya and Kant's Concept of the forms of sensibility and the categories of…

…true. Being also, and this is the goal of yoga: to find that reality of consciousness which is of you and of everybody else. Schopenhauer and his world's will and idea is full of this. That book is a symphony of rapture dealing with this matter, and he…

…loss of one's own life. Spontaneously, there's a spontaneous act of saving that little child who's about to be hit. Schopenhauer answers and says: this is a metaphysical realization that has broken through, which is usually not there. It's the realization…

…said: the wonderful thing about Freud was that never having read any of the great romantic philosophers Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer and the REST he had, out of his own investigations, translated their romantic philosophy into medical language. And then…

…obviously an erotic nightmare of terrifying import. The elementary ideas of Bastian, the psychology of Freud and Jung, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, these are big ideas. Many of us have a surface knowledge of these individuals, yet with Joe we can begin…