[HN Gopher] Hume's Real Riches
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       Hume's Real Riches
        
       Author : apophasis
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-05-28 01:38 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jasperry wrote:
       | This is interesting, because I was just reading an essay of
       | Schopenhauer where he claims that his own pessimistic temperament
       | is the best way to preserve some happiness amidst the troubles of
       | life, because of its low expectations.
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       | Maybe the broader lesson is that, whatever natural temperament
       | type you have, whether cheerful, stoic, or pessimistic, that
       | temperament is your built-in way of adapting to life, and you
       | will be happier overall if you own and embrace it.
       | 
       | Philosophers have been accused of turning their own inclinations
       | into a theory that explains why their way is the best for
       | everyone else as well. :)
        
       | Agamus wrote:
       | Interesting article, and worth the read. Cheerfulness plays a
       | large role in Nietzsche's alternatives to 19th C German
       | pessimism. It's an uncanny, eerie cheerfulness, though. You can
       | see the seeds of post-modernity in lines from Nietzsche like
       | this:
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       | "I love the magnificent exuberance of a young beast of prey that
       | plays gracefully and, as it plays, dismembers."
       | 
       | It is as though Nietzsche is saying, "Hume was right about
       | cheerfulness, but the future will be challenging. We will need a
       | new species of cheerfulness, that may not resemble that with
       | which we have thus far been familiar."
        
         | whatshisface wrote:
         | That's the kind of interpretation that gets a case overruled.
        
       | mustardgreen wrote:
       | Hume's Wikipedia page is really funny where it describes his life
       | post breakdown. He certainly enjoyed the merry life and a good
       | port. I thought it would be a funny idea to do a "day in the
       | life" video following Hume's lifestyle and just end up stone
       | drunk on port.
       | 
       | Also, there's a statue of Hume in the center of Edinburgh where
       | he looks emaciated and serious like the ancient philosophers
       | looked, and I've always thought it was a funny statue, because it
       | completely gets his character (and stature I'm guessing) wrong.
        
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