/lit/ - Literature

How do we save pessimism and life-denial from Nietzsche?

>>9175090
This is just how discussion threads start here newfag

>>8511502
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>ywn hang out with Schopenhauer or go fishing with him and hear him speak English fluently even if he messes up on a couple words and gets embarrassed about it while reminding you that Hegel only spoke the disgusting German tongue, only for you to mention a certain fondness for Hegel's ideas or your experiences with that girl you met last week so that Schopenhauer starts getting really mad and packing up his rod and rowing so violently to shore it starts giving him blisters and you try to tell him you were just joking or that he's right and she's just a bitch but he's already made it to the pier and he ties the boat up and tells you that he's only been hanging out with you because he felt bad for you and that you should probably just leave so he can go home and feed his poodles.

>>8481581
Holy non-sequitur! I can't decide if you're transparently hurt or just had a Dionysian fit of piety! Regardless, you forgot where we are.

t. third party

>>8468581
The will to life

>>8418005

Not literature, but reading 19th century philosophy (Schopenhauer) made me realize how much of a slut you were (and are).

All women, actually.

>On the Freedom of the Will
>"Everything is determinism."
>"The strongest motive always wins."
>"Your character is unalterable."

How does Schopie's Saint arise if everything is determined? In World as Will he speaks of the Saint as someone who conquers the world by suffering, but does that mean the Saint is always already unmotivated? Given that the motive always leans towards the most satisfying object, one would think the Saint triumphs by feeling the pull of satisfaction without acting upon it. But according to Schopie's ideas about innate character, it seems that the Saint doesn't have to undergo any struggle: he just is unmotivated and doesn't care about satisfaction. Does the Saint really not "earn" Sainthood?

>>8336902
Nah, Hegel was a problematic cuck. Agreed on the rest though, I suppose when youre Socrates-smart (INTP) (INFJ here lols) breaking down arguments comes naturally to you. I can see that.

>>8262045

>Hegel

Do I look like I give a FUCK?

He's only ever had one practically useful idea, and even then for all the wrong reasons.

>free will

>>8195410

That's a lot of reading, lad.

Both volumes are huge.

>>8186674

Metaphysically speaking, there is only the present.

What's the difference between Continental and Analytical philosophy?

I've always had the impression that the former is just feels/opinions and general grandiose statements, whereas the latter is basically 'philosophy' on mathematical steroids; formalized, obsessed with language/semantics, and on occasion wielding equations/etc.

More to the point, which is best?

>>8151574
Philosophy is the cause of both Science and Religion.

Can Schopenhauer be considered a monist?

What's your opinion of life affirmers and optimists, /lit/?

Who is the best "philosophy of life" philosopher?