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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Life’s blessings can be split into three categories.
Chapter 3: Human happiness relies on physical health and the mind’s many gifts and true pleasures.
Chapter 4: Your wealth shapes what you expect in life, and might bring you freedom too, someday.
Chapter 5: Worrying about reputation is futile and blocks your road to happiness.
Chapter 6: Pride is needless, and rank is sheer sham.
Chapter 7: The idea of honor arises from a primitive human trait.
Chapter 8: Well-earned true fame endures forever, yet it’s merely born from underlying personal character alone.
Description
Schopenhauer’s The Wisdom of Life (1851) is a short philosophical essay about what constitutes human happiness. Starting with ancient Greek philosophers’ ideas on human happiness, Schopenhauer develops his own thoughts on what people need to be happy.
Who Should Listen
- Academic and armchair philosophers
- Anyone striving for happiness and wisdom
- Lovers of nineteenth-century German philosophy