Friday 28 February 2020

The world is evil, Arthur Schopenhauer, part 1

If the world is in fact a will, it must be full of pain and suffering, because the will means desire, and it always asks for more than it got, and when you satisfied a desire, dozens of desires that want to be satisfied. The desire has no end. As long as we are subject to the will, we will not reach happiness. happiness is only an illusion. If a worry is removed from our chest, it is replaced by another. The concerns already existed but they couldn't take their place because there were greater concerns, but when those concerns are removed, they are replaced by these and so on. The Greece philosopher Aristotle said " the wise man does not look for happiness, but rather for freedom from pain. Even a person is freed from pain, he will be bored. And he will begin to look for something that makes up for his feeling bored. Even if the dreams of socialists in building the utopian state are fulfilled, there will remain countless evils. And if we can eliminate all evils, boredom becomes an unbearable burden like pain, so life is like a pendulum swinging forward and backward between pain and boredom. The life is evil and when a person's knowledge increases, his pain increases. So the pain reachs its maximum value in genius. The pain itself is short, a person suffers more from the idea of death than from death itself. And lastly, life is evil because it is war, wherever you go, you find war or fighting for the land or money or dominance. The picture of life is very painful, if we had exposed all kinds of pain, misery and suffering to a person clearly, he would be filled with terror. If we brought an optimist in hospitals, nursing homes and surgical theaters,and if we brought him to prisons where people die of hunger and to the torture rooms and to the slaves sheds, this optimist would know where Dante came from with his hell, he derived it from the real life. But he collided with a problem that he didn't succeed in overcoming, which is the representation of paradise, as this life isn't suitable for being a representation of the paradise. A boy enters the cotton spindle or any other factory when he is five years old, and he remains from that time that he goes to the factory everyday performs the same automatic work to buy the breath of life at the most expensive price. This is the fate of millions of people.  Under the earth's crust, there is a latent power. If it is allowed to leave the earth's interior, it must destroy the earth's crust and all its creatures, as it happened at least three times on this earth. Is not optimism in front of all these pains, disasters and suffering a mockery of human woes. 

Thursday 27 February 2020

The will of reproduction , Arthur Schopenhauer

You can defeat death by reproduction , as every organism hurries to sacrifice himself for reproduction when it reaches puberty , like the spider that is eaten by its female as soon as he fertilized it , and the wasp that devotes his life to offspring will never see him , and human that carries heavy burden to feed his children , to wear them , to teach them and to educate them since the offspring is the ultimate purpose of every being , and the reproduction is the most powerful instinct and the only way to allow the will to defeat death . And the will to ensure defeating of death, it decided not to place the will of reproduction under the control of mind, so even philosophers reproduced and gave birth to children. The will shows itself in reproduction independent of knowledge. And it works in a blind way, so the reproductive organs are considered the center of will while the center of knowledge is brain. The reproductive organs are the foundation of life because they ensure endless life, for that Hindus and Greece worshiped it. It is the central point for all acts and behaviors. It is stronger than all the veils and masks that are thrown at it. It is the cause of war and the purpose of peace. We see her sitting on her throne in the perfection of her power ، look at us from her highness with scorn, sarcasm and laughter at restrictions that people hold to restrict, suppress and imprison her. Love is nothing but a trick prepared by nature to fulfill its purposes. So, marriage is considered a system for keeping species and all the problems of marriage are caused by thinking that marriage is a way to get pleasure. An individual is only a tool used by species for survival. Nature doesn't care about the individual as long as the species persist. The important thing for nature is survival of species, so it doesn't care about the fate of the individual. Therefore, once a person ends his job, which is reproduction, his physical and reproductive powers begin to subside and debilitate. Also, debilitation of genital force is a sign of death. That appears very clearly in the vermin and insects so, once these insects perform their sexual job they begin to hurry to death. Also abstention of insects from procreation prolongs its life. So, thus the succession of death and birth represents the heartbeat for the species. We see in the light of above a new inevitable meaning of determinism, as spinoza said " lf a stone was thrown in the air had a realization, it would think that it was moving at its will. But the free will is only an illusion in the stone and in the human. The human thinks that he possesses a free will and thinks he is able to begin a new direction in the life and become another person but the experiment leads him to admit that he isn't free and he is subject to the rule of necessity. And he can't change his behavior, despite his resolve, and he must have the same morals that he try to change it, and he have to play the role that assigned to him to the end.

Sunday 23 February 2020

The will of life , Arthur Schopenhauer

The scientists agreed all of them  that the essence of mind is the thought and realization , and they used to say that the human being is a sane animal ( but we must reject this old idea )  this is because realization is just a shallow crust of our mind , and there is  under the conscious mind a conscious or unconscious will ، and this will is very vital and urgent . It may appear that the mind is driving the will ، but it is thus only as evidence that leads its master . We don't want something because we found reasons for it , but we find  reasons for it because we want it . A person is driven by his will , not by his mind . The most stressful thing is trying to persuade people by mental evidences and logical proofs . If  you want to conceive a person , you should address him with the excitement of what he loves and desires . Look at the stupidest person how he turns into a very smart person  when the matter in question is consonant with his desire . Look at people's struggle to secure their food for their wives and children . Could it be that the work of mind ? No , no doubt . The nature produced the mind to serve the will of individual. The personality of human lies in his will , not in his mind , the popular language is true when it prefers the heart over the mind , and it knows that the good will is deeper than the pure mind and more dependent . The genius of mind evokes the administration , but it is impossible to be loved . As all religions promise reward and call for it , for good will and heart , but it does not promise reward for  genius and thought . The automated ingenuity in animals show us how willpower is greater than reason . Look at the elephant that was driven to Europe with hundreds of bridges on his way , how it refused to cross a weak bridge even though he saw many horses and people crossed it . And look at the little dog how it fears jumping off  the table . It does not fear by the mental proof , it fears jumping by instinct . And look at the monkeys as it approaches the fire to get warm , but it is impossible to try to eat this fire . From this it is clear that these actions are invasive , and not a result of logical reasoning . And this matter is repeated with human , that the human is not driven by his mind but by unconscious power pushes him to fight for survival . The ultimate goal of all living species, including human, is reproduction , retention of species and non-existinction . This is the goal of nature  . 

Roman history part 10, the second Punic war 6

In the aftermath of capturing Terentum. The city of thory sent to Hanniabl  appealing to him to librate them from the Roman rule. Hannibal s...