Long (45-70 mins)
Doctrine
Evangelical
Gifford Lectures 2025 Lecture 2: Odium Mundi: Schopenhauer on Suffering and the Will to Nothingness
Theologian
Miroslav Volf
Duration
63.33
Uploaded to YouTube
4 September 2025
Added to Database
24 September 2025
YouTube description
"There are plenty of reasons to hate the world and seek escape from it whether into a heavenly abode, drug-induced stupor, space colony, or some world-less nothingness. Schopenhauer, the most consistent pessimist among Western thinkers, argues that it would be better for the world not to exist. His hatred of the world, I suggest, is a disappointed love for the world, and his love for the world, like most of ours, is merely an appetite, a craving arising from an unfillable void." Miroslav Volf Thank you for joining us for the second of the 2025 Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, delivered by Professor Miroslav Volf.
