/lit/ - Literature

I’m actually embarrassed for him after reading the critique. It’s not even funny how hard he got filtered by Kant, despite spending all his time studying him.

>>22454657
Trust me, if I could pick any major it would be a humanities or something like pure math/physics. Only doing CS because I already know about coding and also don’t want to be broke. Having income = free time to be a philosopher in my golden years (educated by Schopenhauer).

Life swings like a pendulum, backwards and fowards, between pain and boredom.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and foward between pain and boredom.

who's the most readable philosopher?

> Reaction as progress. Sometimes there appear rough, violent, and impetuous spirits, who are nevertheless backward; they conjure up once again a past phase of mankind. They serve as proof that the new tendencies which they are opposing are still not strong enough, that something is lacking there; otherwise, those conjurors would be opposed more effectively. For example, Luther's Reformation proves that in his century all the impulses of freedom of the spirit were still uncertain, delicate, juvenescent. Science could not yet raise her head. Indeed, the whole Renaissance appears like an early spring, which almost gets snowed away. But in our century, too, Schopenhauer's metaphysics proved that the scientific spirit is still not strong enough. Thus, in Schopenhauer's teaching the whole medieval Christian world view and feeling of man could again celebrate a resurrection, despite the defeat, long since achieved, of all Christian dogmas. His teaching is infused with much science, but what rules it is not science but rather the old, well-known "metaphysical need." Certainly one of the greatest and quite inestimable benelits we gain from Schopenhauer is that he forces our feeling for a time back to older, powerful forms of contemplating the world and
men, to which other paths could not so readily lead us. History and justice benefit greatly. I believe that without Schopenhauer's aid, no one today could so easily do iustice to Christianity and its Asian cousins; to attempt to do so based on the Christianity still existing today is impossible. Only after this great achievement of justice, only after we have corrected in such an essential point the historical way of thinking that the Enlightenment brought with it, may we once again carry onward the banner of the Enlighten-ment, the banner with the three names: Petrarch, Erasmus, Voltaire. Out of reaction, we have taken a step forward.

Where do I begin?

Life swings like a pendulum, backwards and fowards between pain and boredom.

>finds the noumena and completes Kant's system

Is it possible to be a philosopher in this day and age?

>>20755903
In order to reduce suffering, you will have to pursue something external. Ascetism and Art are the only two ways through which you can escape the suffering of life. It is hard to find something you like, but you will one day find it. It will give you strength. It can be anything, from mundane things like food to the music you listen or even doing gardening and watering your plants, going to to the gym. Something will give you hope, and with this hope you will hang on. Atleast as long as you can.

Schopenhauer is called "the artist's philosopher" for being so popular with artists. As an artist myself what philosopher should I read to influence my work and life? Other than Schopenhauer of course.

What are his essential works and the best reading order for them?

Who's the best living philosopher?

>>20695150
Essays and Aphorisms

Are there any other people that write about the importance of beauty in our life? I've done lots of research and the only person I could find was Schopenhauer and then a long list of Christianity books on beauty which I'm not interested in.

From where do I start with Schopenhauer?

>>20504533
its all about the will

>hegel
kys

What the fuck is his problem?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800314/

>Maternal intelligence quotient (IQ) predicts IQ and language in very preterm children at age 5 years

He can't be getting away with this, how is he always correct.

"...the person who reads a great deal - that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself."

"...it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost."

Well, /lit/, is he right? Does reading too much dull your brain?

Is the "will" just instinct? Or is it deeper than that?