Episode #099 ... Schopenhauer Pt. 2 - Ethics - Philosophize This!  ## Metadata - Author: **Philosophize This!** - Full Title: Episode #099 ... Schopenhauer Pt. 2 - Ethics - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/251ace3f-7b32-4a31-843e-476e6dca6335 ## Highlights - Schopenhauer's Inborn Error Summary: The goal shouldn't be to completely rid yourself of any kind of suffering. You should embrace suffering. If you're somebody that's been through a lot of bad stuff in your life, feel privileged to be a person fortunate enough to have gone through that immense suffering. As his famous line goes, that which does not kill me makes me stronger. He says there is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. So long as we persist in this inborn error,. We are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of being happy. That's what schopenhauer was talking about here. Transcript: Speaker 1 Like we talked about in the nita series. Go back and listen to it if you want. The goal shouldn't be to completely rid yourself of any kind of suffering. You should embrace suffering. If you're somebody that's been through a lot of bad stuff in your life, feel privileged to be a person fortunate enough to have gone through that immense suffering. That's a resource, not everybody has, because now because of it, you're a more powerful person than somebody s thate just had it easy their whole life. One of the biggest mistakes people make in their life is constantly trying to run from things that make them uncomfortable, instead of trying to get rid of suffering altogether, try To recognize it for what it truly is. As his famous line goes, that which does not kill me makes me stronger. But anyway, whether you agree with schopenhauer's pessimistic worldyou or not, he does a great job, i think, of getting us to think about our human experience of reality, or our place Within the univers i and i guess i'll close to day with my absolute favorite schopenhauer quotever, that i think just perfectly icapsilates his work. He's talking here about the biggest assumption, the biggest error that he thinks people make when they're looking at their existence. He says, there is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. So long as we persist in this inborn error, the world will seem to us full of cona tions for at every step and great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are Certainly not arranged for the purpose of being happy. ([Time 0:21:19](https://share.snipd.com/snip/944bd121-3ded-4ef0-a50c-a55491a44a95))