Episode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Writing, and Thinking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2014
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
On Arthur Schopenhauer's essays, "On Authorship and Style," "On Thinking for Oneself," and "On Genius" (all published 1851).
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who |
| 0:11.0 | are at one point set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:14.4 | A question for episode 94 is something like, what are the best habits of reading, writing, |
| 0:18.5 | and thinking? |
| 0:19.5 | We read three related essays from Arthur Schopenhauer published in 1851 on authorship and |
| 0:25.2 | style, on thinking for oneself and on genius. |
| 0:29.1 | Enjoying the discussion, get the texts and loads more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:33.5 | This is Mark Linton-Mirror speaking to you from medicine Wisconsin. |
| 0:36.6 | This is Wes Owen in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 0:41.6 | Anybody that was expecting us to be talking about Robert Nozick, sorry, that episode for |
| 0:45.8 | the first time in history of the podcast was destroyed by an aged hard drive that ground |
| 0:50.7 | the episode to dust. |
| 0:53.8 | That will never happen again. |
| 0:55.4 | We're going to redo that one in July. |
| 0:58.0 | Sorry, libertarians. |
| 1:00.5 | You're going to have to wait a little longer, but that's the way the market works. |
| 1:05.0 | Why don't you just get it from another source? |
| 1:07.4 | Is it more like an act of God or failure of physics or something? |
| 1:12.9 | I'm just saying. |
| 1:13.9 | We're not saying peas here. |
| 1:15.3 | Or pins. |
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