/lit/ - Literature

Schopenhauer is so far from being a real pessimist that at the most he represents 'the interesting': in a certain sense he makes asceticism interesting--the most dangerous thing possible for a pleasure-seeking age which will be harmed more than ever by distilling pleasure even out of asceticism… is by studying asceticism in a completely impersonal way, by assigning it a place in the system.
— Soren Kierkegaard

After reading through Schopenhauer's Ethic one learns - naturally he is to that extent honest - that he himself is not an ascetic. And consequently he himself has not reached contemplation through asceticism, but only a contemplation which contemplates asceticism. This is extremely suspicious, and may even conceal the most terrible and corrupting voluptuous melancholy: a profound misanthropy. In this too it is suspicious, for it is always suspicious to propound an ethic which does not exert so much power over the teacher that he himself expresses. Schopenhauer makes ethics into genius, but that is of course an unethical conception of ethics. He makes ethics into genius and although he prides himself quite enough on being a genius, it has not pleased him, or nature has not allowed him, to become a genius where asceticism and mortification are concerned.
— Soren Kierkegaard

>>4814033
I don't call shopy a pessimist.

>>4814033
I always thought Kierkegaard was just some dumb Christian and so I avoided him. Looks like I may have to give him a chance after all.

>>4814042
He is though.

>>4814033
>Implying you have to go full ascetism
>Implying Schopy didn't heed his own advice when it comes to society, friends, music, living a quiet live etc.
Jesus, Captn Kirk, I thought you were smarter than that.

>>4814042
>I always thought Kierkegaard was just some dumb Christian
>Kierkegaard
>dumb
*tips fedora*

>>4814041
schoppy does.

>>4814609
>Christian
>can't restrain from shitposting

>>4814022
What do you base this conclusion on OP?

>>4814795
>atheist
>can't restrain from extreme arrogance

>>4814819
>atheist
>can't restrain from extreme arrogance
Maybe not, but:

-Atheist
-CAN restrain from the beleif that some cosmic jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as you master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

>>4814833

Showed 'ems

>>4814033
>implying they both weren't just as pathetic as each other

>>4814833
#rekt

>>4814833

Just passing by here.

Go fuck yourself, you uncultured imbecile.

Athiests need a pejorative to use against theists which is as effective as 'fedoras'. Its just too good

And /lit/ worsens.
>>4814838
Both are saints compared to the dregs here, including myself.
>>4815059
No they do not. That's the last thing the site needs.

>>4814833
muh fedora

>>4815059
They already made one up like 800 years ago, it's "bigots"

>>4816433
Doubt "bigot" is going to work on 4chan.

I thought Schopenhauer would be supportive of asceticism. He was into all that crap

>>4816442
True. Most 4channers, like Evolakid, take pride in their bigotry.

>>4816458
he was ascetic in the way Henry David Thoreau was. He heeded it when it was convenient but still had some opulence, indulgence and debauchery

>>4814042
You're in for a treat.

The irony about ascetics is that they spend more time thinking about food and clothing than anyone else on the planet.