Yeah, I know. Breaking news. r/SneerClub informs me that this was par for the course back then and Schopenhauer was better than some. But still holy fuck. This is 1st preface to World. Dude wrote it when he was only 30 years old

  • pjst [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    To be clear: I am a Schopenhauer enjoyer in spite of his many bad opinions. Somehow Marx and Schopenhauer were both right but I'm too uneducated to synthesise the two

    • notceps [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Considering the last guy to try and do it was Mainländer, I'd say don't do it.

      • pjst [he/him]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        I still haven't read Mainländer. I got probably a decade's reading backlog. Shit's fucked