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9778587 No.9778587 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you spend so much time excited to start reading Schopenhauer then realized you don't have nearly the literary background you need to understand his work in any meaningful capacity

>> No.9778607

Now you get to read Kant. Which means you get to read Descartes and Hume. Have fun anon.

>> No.9778615

>understand three poets in total
>realize I've wasted a year on getting this specific knowledge
>the books I could've read

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>>9778607
Thank you anon

>> No.9778624

>>9778618
Don't forget about all the philosophers/writers you will need to read before Descartes and Hume...

>> No.9778629

>>9778615
Which three are those?

>> No.9778631

>spend a lot of time wanting to read Schopenhauer
>realize I have no literary or philosophical background
>decide to read The Holy Bible, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, and Kant over the next several years
>realize Schopenhauer is actually shit and that the journey to be able to read any works in the last 200 years is far better than the destination

>> No.9778632

>>9778629
Rimbaud, Pound (still not good enough) and Miljkovic Branko

>> No.9778633

It´s absolutely worth it. Few people can write so complex and beautiful things in such a articulate manner as Schopenhauer.

>> No.9778636

>>9778624
Fuck you man, I was starting to feel a bit of optimism

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>>9778633
I started reading it anyway and had a full page of notes by the first chapter, which is essentially two pages long, took me a while but I'm loving it

>> No.9778694

>>9778629
Greeks

>> No.9778699

>>9778587
If you cant understand schopenhauer you're a brainlet

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>>9778587

Reading Schopenhauer is like having a library speak to you - the man offers citation after citation, quote after quote, from a lifetime of having enough inherited wealth to read and write with maximal leisure. He understood five languages.

>> No.9780368

>>9778587
All you really need is Kant and Aristotle.

>> No.9780575

>>9778587
Literally just read "The Philosophy of Schopenhauer - Bryan Magee"

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>>9780368

> Kant and Plato.

Fix'd.

Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita would also add greatly to pre-study.