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Is arthur schopenhauer the most based philosopher I should read on? I see him being posted here often or who is it?

>> No.10916403

No
No

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>>10916195

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He's very good. Beautiful writing, complex metaphysics, very well educated (he understood five languages), exaggerated the misery of existence and sometimes provoked for the sake of provoking (and probably out of a felling of inadequacy) but you can learn much from him, especially about the history of philosophy and about eastern thought.

>> No.10917725

>>10917715
>exaggerated the misery of existence

literally the last thing you can exaggerate.

OP, Schopenhauer was the first philosopher proper I read and almost 3 years later I still consider him invaluable. The guy didn't pull any punches. He told it like it is.

>> No.10917748

>>10917725
>exaggerated the misery of existence
I second this anon in you can't exaggerate that. he said it in a way that didn't sound like a depressed emo kid.

>> No.10917996

>>10917725
>>10917748

What have you each read of his?

>> No.10918978

>>10916195
Yes, you should read him.

WWR 1 & 2 are essential. Arthur would like you to read the Principle of Sufficient Reason first but I say dive right in. Reading them twice is probably necessary to fully understand what he is saying. You can then enjoy Parerga and Paralipomena 1 & 2 - which are less systematic but continue his thought and are very accessible. He wrote two fairly short essays that are also great (Free Will and The Ground of Morality).

I've read the Payne translations and fully recommend them - especially as he translated both volumes of WWR and P&P so you can enjoy some consistency.

His writing is clear and powerful. A pleasure to read. He frequently rips into his contemporaries too, especially Hegel, and it is legitimately hilarious!

>> No.10918993

He is extremely lucid and very thought provoking, he really added to my understanding of Christianity and our fallen state of total depravity. On the downside his entire philosophy rests on his inadequate proofs that there is no God and the universe is infinitely old and stretches back in an infinite chain of cause and effect