Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to Young Poet | Sadness and Transformation | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, specifically on his discussion of sadness (Traurigkeit), what some of its sources and meanings are, and how we can approach sadness (as well as other emotions such as anxiety). In Rilke's view, sadness is a sign that something new is within us, something that can ultimately pertain to our fate.

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