/lit/ - Literature

>>18488217
me, but I'll never write it

>>18488217
Yes, Weininger with SEX AND CHARACTER, published when he was twenty-three.

>>18488221
you won't be if you wait.
>>18488222
he also died early enough and is now largely forgotten; his influence was mostly on Wittgenstein, and a few others.
I only posted Wittgenstein because he's the youngest/most significant I could think of

>>18488217

Descartes created his method at 23

>>18488217
Schopenhauer published the first edition of the World as Will and Representation when he was 30, I think that's the youngest for the big-name philosophers.

>>18488244
>I only posted Wittgenstein because he's the youngest/most significant I could think of
Kevin Solway said that he reckons that Weininger achieved ten times as much as Wittgenstein.

Hume was 28 when he completed his A Treatise on Human Nature

>>18488217
Carlo Michelstaedter

>>18488217
Schelling completed his first philosophical system by the time he was 25. He had completed his systematic philosophy of nature by the time he was 21.
As it was the case for Hume (who suffered a nervous breakdown because of it), being a prodigy had actually been a great hindrance for him. As it happens to literally every philosopher ever, he ended up changing his mind on what he thought in his early 20s. To bad that, unlike your average philosopher, Schelling had published all his premature reflections, which added A LOT of academic pressure on his shoulders. He ended up leaving Germany altogether, and published only one text in his remaining 40 years of life (even though he had actually written a lot of brilliant works in the meanwhile).

A more recent example is Vittorio Hösle, who had written some seriously brilliant works on Plato, and who became the youngest philosophy professor ever. The pressure was too much for him too, which led him to not publish anything for decades.

Otto weininger’s thoughts are akin in quality/complexity or impact as to Schopenhauer

There’s a similar flavour to their writing, beyond pure intelligence

Étienne de la Boétie was 18 when he wrote Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

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>>18488217
Michelstaedter
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>>18488217
Schopenhauer published On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason when he was 21 and started writing WWR when he was 27ish. Nietzsche published The Birth of Tragedy at 28.

>>18488217
if you consider pure mathematics a form of philosophy then yes.
Evariste galois revolutionised mathematics and died at 20
Gauss wrote his magnum opus at 23

>>18488217
One the Height of Despair, one of the greatest artwork of philosophical pessimism was written when Cioran was 22.