This was a nice overview with just enough snark! ( )

Schopenhauer had a poodle named Atma, lol ( )

The more I read (or listen) about philosophy, the less I understand. At least, that was my feeling after listening to this audiobook. While it provided some entertaining tidbits about Schopenhauer's family life, such as his strained relationship with his mother, and his love life, it fails almost totally to convey anything comprehensible about his philosophy in 90 minutes--actually, it only lasts 81 minutes. I was shortchanged, as any listener will be! Right after this I listened to Arthur Schopenhauer in the Giants of Philosophy Series as an audiobook. It is about an hour longer, and it comprehensibly explains much of what Schopenhauer wrote about. ( )

This 90-minutes series is consistently enlightening, concise, and just humorous enough to amuse without it being at the expense of the material. Schopenhauer's philosophy presumes a universal Will that it is indifferent to humanity. Since it operates without regard to morality, it destroys human good. ( )