Episode 115: Schopenhauer on Music with Guest Jonathan Segel
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 11 May 2015
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
The Camper Van Beethoven violinist/composer/multi-instrumentalist joins us to discuss The World as Will and Representation, book 3 selections.
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| 0:52.2 | You're listening to the PartiallyExamineLife, a philosophy podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:56.8 | set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 1:00.5 | Our question for episode 115 is something like, what is music really? |
| 1:05.6 | And we read, |
| 1:06.5 | Arthur Schopenhauer is the world as will and representation, |
| 1:09.6 | volume one portions of book three. |
| 1:12.0 | First published in 1818, we're the couple of chapters from |
| 1:14.8 | Brawling of Three, published in 1844. |
| 1:18.0 | You can join the discussion, get the text, and lots more information at PartiallyExamineLife.com. |
| 1:22.9 | This is Mark Linton-Mayer, speaking to you from Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:26.0 | This is Wes Aul and in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:28.4 | This is Dylan Casey and Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 1:31.0 | This is Jonathan Segal, I'm in Stockholm, Sweden. |
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