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wow good post OP, thinking this is based

>>13068521
this is literally the opposite of how academic philosophy works, a stageman comes up with interesting and new ideas to captivate the normies with handwaving; Schopenhauer invented his philosophical position in his twenties and defended it his whole life.

Can the idea of the Will be defended scientifically?

if we are talking about fiction it's Borges or Kafka because I appreciate brevity/minimalism; ironically if we are talking philosophy it's something abstruse and long-winded like Kant or Hegel, go figure.

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>>12705323
>calling someone dumb or wrong is extremely pretentious
have an intellectual backbone chap

>>11691443
Schopenhauer structured his whole career around Hegel, in large part because Hegel questioned his account of evolution when he presented his thesis to U of Berlin (Hegel ended up satisfied with his response, and approved the lecturer position). Schopenhauer would only accept the position on condition that he could hold his lectures at the same time Hegel did his. The rest of the faculty thought this was ludicrous, but Hegel didn't have a problem with it. Since Hegel was the GOAT philosopher of his day, Schopenhauer got next to no attendees; it's said he was known to give full lectures to an empty room. If anyone's philosophy was My Diary Desu, it was certainly Schopenhauer. He also came up with his theory of the Will when he was 20 and never changed his mind his whole life on it, which I can't help but find sort of funny.

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>>11194742
good lord put me in the screencap

>>11142011
>Could also call you a rich person
I'm poor as fuck and paying off student loans anon; you make an awful lot of assumptions. I worked full time when I went to school too, so don't give me this bullshit about responsibility and family; I don't come from wealth and help out my ailing father wherever I can. The difference is I genuinely care about philosophy and will dedicate any effort I can muster into my practice. You have enough time to shitpost on /lit/ without any background knowledge of the topic, but no time to go on one of the philosophical encyclopedia and search "materialism". Go play armchair psychologist on reddit you fucking mutt.

>>11046776
>Heidegger is a Nietzschean. In fact, you can find almost everything in Heidegger in Nietzsche. Nietzsche is still too radical for today's *nglos. Nietzsche is in process thought, Nietzsche is in phenomenology, Nietzsche is in philosophy of body and philosophy of mind. The people who for example just compare him to Stirner are so unlucky that they have not read past the most surface level reading of Nietzsche. And that's just his thought, oh goodness his literary method is more complex than any before him yet is totally primordial. Go back 1000 years and the people of Turtle Island will tell you the exact same thing.
tfw the pasta is fresh

>>11035184
Did the philosophy degree meme so yeah I've read a lot of Kant and Nietzsche, and admittedly not enough Schopenhauer. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer are both very fun reads. They are spirited polemical authors. Kant is a lot of careful work to get through, but presents the "best" philosophy of the three. If you really want to do things right with philosophy you unironically start with the Greeks. Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume; would probably be the best route to Kant, but it's not necessary. Don't be afraid of referring to secondary lit if you get stuck, just use it like a crutch to make it through the primary.

>>11022017
read even more

I have 4-6 book on the go at any given time, plus I like to poke my nose into book and peruse them, even if it's only to put it on "the list". I mostly switch between philosophy, secondary lit philosophy, sci-fi, pomo (doing the IJ meme rn desu), and classics. I find when I only focus on one book I read a lot less, even though I finish the book faster. Instead I read it over a month or two, but end up finishing 3-4 (5-6 if you count audio books) books a month. Luckily I usually want to read good shit too so it all works out.