/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11119076]

Where should I start with Schopenhauer, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.11119083]

The World as Will and Representation

[Anonymous No.11119091]

I was asking myself the same question and started with "aphorisms on the wisdom of life". I've read 50 pages yet and it's stupid as fuck, doesn't even seem remotely "philosophical" to me. Anyway I'd say, start with something else.

[Anonymous No.11119220]

>>11119091
>aphorisms on the wisdom of life
do you think that Schoppy started the whole self-help thing? otherwise agreed, >>11119076 don't start with this book

[Anonymous No.11119252]

>>11119220
Aphristic writing have been with us since forever

Check out my diary and my diary(the Chinese edition)

[Anonymous No.11119485]

>>11119076
Depends on what you are looking for. The World as Will if you want to read a work of genius or Aphorism on the Wisdom of Life if you are looking for well dissembled truisms and laughter.

>It is said that the most sociable of all people are the negroes; and they are at the bottom of the scale in intellect. I remember reading once in a French paper that the blacks in North America, whether free or enslaved, are fond of shutting themselves up in large numbers in the smallest space, because they cannot have too much of one another's snub-nosed company.

[Anonymous No.11119529]

>>11119083
in the introduction he wrote you should read his dissertation "über die vierfache wurzel des satzes vom zureichenden grunde" first so maybe start there

[Anonymous No.11119530]

Edgar Saltus' biography chapters of Schopenhauer in "The Philosophy of Disenchantment." (II. III. & IV.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40079/40079-h/40079-h.htm#Page_36

You should also read Kant.

[Anonymous No.11119534]

schopenhauer was a kike faggot