/lit/ - Literature

It's great. When I look at people now, all I see are puppets controlled by an imbecilic will. If you look trough that lens, it all makes sense. Just a shitshow of misery and delusion

>>13500713
>perfect
Schopie has a theoretical but not a practical doctrine--the latter of which is the pearl and supreme dignity of philosophy. He was too aloof to prescribe an objective morality to his fellows; thus he leaves even his most enthusiastic students in throes, left to steep in the miserable wreckage Die Welt als Wille makes of the cosmos.

>>13500735
>misery and delusion
They are playing their role in the divine purpose, anon. Do not be so hasty to condemn or else your brain will age more like bread than wine.

>>13500713
I honestly wonder what Schopenhauer would have thought of Prophet Mani? Mani promoted animal welfare, antinatalism, and ascetism. He was a pessmist, much like Schopenhauer.

"In the Suffering of the World" Schopenhauer says the dualism of Zoroastrianism is worth considering, but it's worth noting Manichaeism is less affirming of bodily desires and procreation while still maintaining a similar cosmology. I'm not sure if Manichaeism was well-known during Schopenhauer's time.

>>13500821
There is a chapter in world as will where he trivializes clement's condemnation of the gnostics in the stromata. in general shcopenhauer seems to think that any optimism is judaic, including the optimism of early christians--clement, irenaeus, augustine, etc. he never really takes a side, to be honest. he does not go full manichaean but he also cannot reconcile the obvious contradiction between the laudable compassion and lamentation of art and the highest refinement of will with absolute condemnation of it which the principle of the denial of the will requires.

>>13500713
Read the Bible

>>13501088
This book unironically explains the Bible, not the other way around

>>13500735
I read his metaphysics of love and death and it pretty much makes sense
we are machines of cope after all, the NPC meme is true

>>13501123
So you think. Many a fool thinks himself smart enough to overcome the Bible.

>>13500713
>perfect
He's a hack. He looked like my grumpy uncle who never showers and drinks himself to sleep every night.

>>13500713
>>13500735
>tfw I arrived I arrived at the same bleak conclusion about human nature as Schopenhauer's during a mushroom trip

If you want to confirm Schopenhauer's views, take 5g of this thing and observe human nature in its purest form.

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>>13503047
Based.

>>13500713

>>13500713
>this orientalist idiot thinking buddhist and hindu philosophy is actually compatible with his edgelord "philosophy"
>""""perfect""""

bump.