/lit/ - Literature

Because it bothers you how one man could be so right about everything

>>5238666
>everything sucks and I'm too much of a faggot to kill myself
This is essentially all Schopenhauer had to say.
I wouldn't class that as "right about everything"

>>5238674
>I haven't read Schopenhauer but I feel qualified to make reddit-tier generalizations about his entire life's work

Okay

>>5238666
He is a mediocre philosopher, m8.

what, this chap?

"The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste, or race, is fairer in colour than the rest, and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmins, the Inca, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands. All this is due to the fact that necessity is the mother of invention, because those tribes that emigrated early to the north, and there gradually became white, had to develop all their intellectual powers, and invent and perfect all the arts in their struggle with need, want, and misery, which, in their many forms, were brought about by the climate. This they had to do in order to make up for the parsimony of nature, and out of it all came their high civilization."

~ Artur Schopenhauer

>>5238707
>medicore

Kant
Descartes
Schopenhauer

3 most important philosophers of the last 4 centuries

>>5238720
>Schopenhauer
>most important
topkek
You obviously don't study philosophy.

>>5238724
who would you pick

>>5238713
Hmm, perhaps I should give Arthur a second chance

>>5238713
Since you're quoting from wikipedia I might as well do it :
>Despite this, he was adamantly against differing treatment of races, was fervently anti-slavery, and supported the abolitionist movement in the United States. He describes the treatment of "[our] innocent black brothers whom force and injustice have delivered into [the slave-master's] devilish clutches" as "belonging to the blackest pages of mankind's criminal record"

>>5238738
zizek
wittgenstein
alan watts

>>5238776
>zizek
disqualified

not even joking man. Seriously. Who picks zizek.
God dammit
zizek
just
god dammit man

>>5238776
>alan watts
>zizek

>>5238755

Yeah, remember that racism isn't oficially defined as hate towards one race though. The oficial definition is "belief in superiority of one race to another".

I'm actually surprised that so many philosophers were so racist by this definition. Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Schopie, Hegel etc

>>5238783
>>5238784
lurk more, newfags

>>5238720
>no Hegel
>no Nietzsche
>no Heidegger
>no Deleuze
>no Saussure even

>>5238838
i said 3, not 8

>>5238840
I'm giving you better alternatives for Schoppy.

>>5238840
and I said urine idiot, good day sir

>>5238707

but a great writer

>>5238796
Everyone but some loonies pre-WWII were racists with that definition.

>Implying it changed since.

>>5238838
/lit/core

He looks quite hugable, like a grumpy koala bear.

>>5238664
Because he's an old white man with correct opinions, and the opinions ruin your fun.

>>5238724
>philosophers can only influence other philosophers

>>5238776
Alan Watts is basically a pop culture Schopenhauer who sells the same ideas, but acted like they were fun and nice and worth smiling about.

Then he drank himself to death because that hippie shit can't outlast reality.

>>5239146
>Schop influencing anyone other than Nietzsche
topkek
stay mad, schoolboy. Read more.

>>5239154
Sure, m8.

>>5239154
>who is wittgenstein
>who is freud

>>5238796
That's too specific. The dictionary definition of racism is incredibly broad and you'd have to be an idiot not to be a racist according to it.

>>5238713
>mfw schoppy's educated guesses are later all proven by science

>>5239202
>proven by science

>>5239209
Fine, validated. Happy?

>>5238664
because he looks like the incarnation of the patriarchy?

Daily reminder that it was Schopenhauer and not Nietzsche who inspired Hitler.

>>5239848
Daily reminder that it was Wagner, a fan of Schopenhauer and an (ex-)friend of Nietzsche

Daily reminder that Hitler kept The World as Will and Representation with him at all times during the first world war.

Daily reminder that Wagner spread the rumour that Nietzsche's health problems were the result of excessive masturbation.

>>5239153
You seem to know about him. I have listened to some of his stuff, but it came off very la la land ish, the way he said we're just the universe playing with itself.

Reality seems very grim, and the way he put it just seems to be a story to cover it up.

>>5239872
[citation needed]

I want something this funny to be true.

>>5239872
>Daily reminder that Wagner spread the rumour that Nietzsche's health problems were the result of excessive masturbation.

WHAT

I'm even closer to ubermensch than I thought

>>5238838

>Hegel

Yes. Even if analytics go hurr logically unjustified durr.

>Nietzsche

Arguably, yes.

inb4 self-help books pls go

>Heidegger

Yes. Second most important 20th century philosopher.

>Deleuze

No.

>Saussure

Perhaps, but structuralism and post-structuralism are cancer.

>>5240828
http://philosophypress.co.uk/?p=900
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/ber-clench_of_the_bermensch_Nietzsche_and_Masturbation