ON THE LOVE OF LIFE BY WILLIAM HAZLITT - SUMMARY

hi this is Ja in this video we shall see the summary of on the love of Life by William hasset hasset explores the causes and origins of our attachment to life all of us are attached to life because it contends that life's necessity for Action rather than its inherent happiness or misery is what makes us attached to it life is necessary for existence because it gives us action goals to strive for restless cravings and agonizing passions when things are most difficult and they are not enjoying life the most people tend to be reluctant to let go of it all of our passions and Pleasures combined make up the love of life but they are not the same thing the prospects of success and disappointment cause our passions ferocity The Power of Habit and Imagination are destroyed by the intense suffering that is life our interest in life determines how attached we are to it and since we cannot feel interest in nothing being something is preferable to nothing we are bound to live a life as if by a magic spelled by Passion imagination self-will a sense of power and a very consciousness of our existence hasset explores the philosophical justification for the the belief that life must end arguing that it would be a Melancholy remedy for those who would lose their minds and become motionless and senseless even in the vast womb of uncreated night life's significance and attachment to it are based on a principle that is largely unrelated to its happiness or mystery aset explains why few Tyrant kill themselves stating that they are never satisfied with their actions and cannot quit power after all sense of pleasure is gone they argue from the means of Happiness placed within their reach and are dazzled by the pp and Pantry of a throne persuading themselves to be happier than other men the strength of passion seldom corresponds to the pleasure we find it in its intelligence and even those who succeed in nothing and unwilling to give up the unprofitable Strife he emphasis that the strength of our attachment to human life is a fucious test of its happiness and here ends I say if you have anything more to add on to what I said please write it in the comment box like the video share it with your friends and if you not subscribed my Channel Please Subscribe and support thank you