/lit/ - Literature

>>4795782
But aesthetic pleasure give us temporary relief from the pressures of willing.

So I've been reading a lot of what would be considered "misogynist" literature recently (On Women, Sex and Character, Metaphysics of Sex), and I have to say, I think they're right about women. Please, someone convince me that they're not in fact right, because I don't like the idea of viewing half the population with such contempt.

/lit/

my friend is trying to figure out the title of a book he read about ten years ago and so far, nobody can help him. Here's his synopsis. Any ideas?

>The general feelign was a little hippie-ish. I beleive it took place in the west coast US. No timeframe is standing out but if I had to guess I would say 90's. The general It was about a homeless drifter girl (possible runaway or orphain). She befrends this older hippy who becomes a mentor of sorts. He teaches her to meditate (I beleive with the assitance of drugs). She gains an ability through this meditation that she used for good and evil. Eventually she ends up in a secluded ranch to hide away. General themes of opening your mind, etc.

>>4421776
>It is the struggle to make one's Will prevail.

Mmm, that's good

It all comes down to the Will

Where to start with Schopenhauer, /lit/?

i'm thinking dipping into schopenhauer and would like a recommendation on which of his works would be most appropriate to begin with and others who delve into concept synonymous with his

Traditionalism is the fusion of Eastern philosophy and /pol/ ideology.

women are as intelligent as us, if not more. But they have this overwhelming storm of feelings that clouds their ideas and behavior. Its like us and our sex drive, except men in general disciplined it and rape much less now. Women being women isn't a stigma as men being ''truly'' men. Find a woman who knows how to sail these storms, they're very few. But they'e out there.

>hegel
>german idealism
>mfw

>>3759570
As soon as he has given them his earnings on which to keep house they are strengthened in this belief. Although all this entails many disadvantages, yet it has this advantage — that a woman lives more in the present than a man, and that she enjoys it more keenly if it is at all bearable. This is the origin of that cheerfulness which is peculiar to woman and makes her fit to divert man, and in case of need, to console him when he is weighed down by cares. To consult women in matters of difficulty, as the Germans used to do in old times, is by no means a matter to be overlooked; for their way of grasping a thing is quite different from ours, chiefly because they like the shortest way to the point, and usually keep their attention fixed upon what lies nearest; while we, as a rule, see beyond it, for the simple reason that it lies under our nose; it then becomes necessary for us to be brought back to the thing in order to obtain a near and simple view. This is why women are more sober in their judgment than we, and why they see nothing more in things than is really there; while we, if our passions are roused, slightly exaggerate or add to our imagination.

The abolition of Latin as the universal language of learned men, together with the rise of that provincialism which attaches to national literatures, has been a real misfortune for the cause of knowledge in Europe. For it was chiefly through the medium of the Latin language that a learned public existed in Europe at all — a public to which every book as it came out directly appealed. The number of minds in the whole of Europe that are capable of thinking and judging is small, as it is; but when the audience is broken up and severed by differences of language, the good these minds can do is very much weakened. This is a great disadvantage; but a second and worse one will follow, namely, that the ancient languages will cease to be taught at all. The neglect of them is rapidly gaining ground both in France and Germany.

If it should really come to this, then farewell, humanity! farewell, noble taste and high thinking! The age of barbarism will return, in spite of railways, telegraphs and balloons. We shall thus in the end lose one more advantage possessed by all our ancestors. For Latin is not only a key to the knowledge of Roman antiquity; its also directly opens up to us the Middle Age in every country in Europe, and modern times as well, down to about the year 1750. Erigena, for example, in the ninth century, John of Salisbury in the twelfth, Raimond Lully in the thirteenth, with a hundred others, speak straight to us in the very language that they naturally adopted in thinking of learned matters.

They thus come quite close to us even at this distance of time: we are in direct contact with them, and really come to know them. How would it have been if every one of them spoke in the language that was peculiar to his time and country? We should not understand even the half of what they said. A real intellectual contact with them would be impossible. We should see them like shadows on the farthest horizon, or, may be, through the translator’s telescope.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Do you agree with Schopenhauer, /lit/?

Women's Studies

Isn't the whole existential crisis born out of the ego?
Without the ego, who wants to become something, gives meaning to things, these questions wouldn't arise in the first place.
If this is the case, why are we trying to answer these questions instead of seeing the cause for what it is, and accept that it is the ego which wants to know these ridiculous things?
It seems futile to answer these questions when the cause of these are meaningless to begin with.

Pic unrelated. This whiny faggot is the only picture I have.

Damn, you guys weren't lying, this guy really hated women. Now I'm no feminist, but his essay on women seems pretty indefensible, especially in comparison to his other writing, which is pretty good and insightful.

Also, lol:
>You need only observe the kind of attention women bestow upon a concert, an opera, or a play—the childish simplicity, for example, with which they keep on chattering during the finest passages in the greatest masterpieces. If it is true that the Greeks excluded women from their theatres they were quite right in what they did; at any rate you would have been able to hear what was said upon the stage.

What can /lit/ tell me about Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard? I need to get as much info about them as I can in the shortest time possible.

This glorious bastard. Understood human nature to its fullest and wasn't afraid to look at the ugly sides of it. His system of the Will is one of the best explanations why humanity is as awful as it is.

I also like Ludwig Boltzmann and Charles Darwin, but they weren't philosophers, so I guess they don't count

>>3295392

>implying the publishers read this piece of shit before commissioning a cover.

Life sucks. FML.

Hey lit,

Any recommendations for great philosophers on pain, art, solitude/relationships?

generally looking for something to read right now to make me think, doesn't have to be so specific to those few things
thanks

I'M SCHOPENHAUER
SON OF A BITCH HEGEL
HEGEL IS PIG
DO YOU WANT A PSEUDO PHILOSOPHY?
DO YOU WANT A CASTLES OF ABSTRACTION?
ACADEMIA IS PIG DISGUSTING
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL IS A MURDERER
FUCKING DIALECTICS

[11:22:25 AM] alexander milanov: I'M SCHOPENHAUER
SON OF A BITCH HEGEL
HEGEL IS PIG
DO YOU WANT A PSEUDO PHILOSOPHY?
DO YOU WANT A CASTLES OF ABSTRACTION?
ACADEMIA IS PIG DISGUSTING
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL IS A MURDERER
FUCKING DIALECTICS

Why do you have fear of death ? You don't even exist. Nothing exists. Existing doesn't make any sense. After death, you'll be just as you were before your birth : nothing. You are nothing.

Some Schopenhauer : it won't help you cheer up, but it's worth it.