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| 0:06.0 | P Part 5. Further analyses and discussion. |
| 0:23.7 | Welcome to the final installment of the show. |
| 0:26.6 | We've unpacked all the Schopenhauer's ideas. |
| 0:28.9 | If you haven't been through the series already, please go back and listen to them. |
| 0:33.7 | This is when we give our own analysis some extra themes which we didn't get |
| 0:37.8 | chance to speak about because they didn't fit nicely into the other discussions. And some of them just aren't nice things at all. But we can't just not talk about them, can we? There's a big elephant in the room, Olly, and it's called misogyny. Yes. I think the first thing I'm going to say I think we've done real justice to Schopenhauer. |
| 0:35.4 | You know, at the Perthensikast, we try to present a philosopher in their best sense, right? Yes. I think the first thing I'm going to say is I think we've done real justice to Schopenhauer. |
| 0:54.5 | You know, at the Perns Psychast, we try to present a philosopher in their best sense, right? We want them at their ultimate best, the best arguments, the best metaphysics, the best epistemology. But sometimes there's things and you read them and you're like, okay, that doesn't sit too well. had a bit of a Twitter exchange with one of our esteemed patrons, Justin Scurry, who is a professor. |
| 0:55.5 | He teaches philosophy. Okay, that doesn't sit too well. Had a bit of a Twitter exchange with one of our esteemed patrons, Justin Scurry, who is a professor. |
| 1:13.9 | He teaches philosophy, and he says that he teaches Schopenhauer, and one of the books he gives his students to read is essays and aphorisms, which if you can remember all the way back in episode one, is a collection of short aphorisms and stories and some dialogues from his final book which he published |
| 1:28.4 | very late in his career that was a big popular one that got lots of attention. |
| 1:31.9 | One of his most notorious and controversial parts of that book is called On Women. |
| 1:36.1 | And we've made subtle references throughout the different episodes that Schopenhauer |
| 1:39.3 | had a complicated relationship with women, to put it lightly. |
| 1:42.6 | So I'm going to start off and try and give him the benefit of the doubt and say some of the complimentary things he says about women in this essay. So number one, he says that women become rational earlier in their development than men do. So he says that for women it's 18 and for men it's 28. Also, I think that's quite funny that your things meant don't become reasonable until they're 28, but okay, that's fair enough. Number two, women are more matter of fact. |
| 2:05.1 | Yeah, that's not a compliment when it comes down to those. They're obsessed with the mundane things, |
| 2:09.5 | not the important. Number three, women are more cheerful than men and can detect lies better. |
| 2:14.9 | Yeah, again, let's see where you're going here. And finally, the last one, women are more compassionate, showing loving kindness and symphony for the unfortunate much more than men do. So he doesn't say just horrible things about women. He says some nice things too, but I'm going to read you a quote now, which is from... But those are all horrible that we'll talk about. I'm not saying they're good things. |
| 2:34.4 | I'm just saying they're not as bad as what's going to come. |
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