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]
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    2 years ago

    Just Saiyan. No particular point as such, but I think he (Schopenhauer) is something of a cautionary tale

    • Vampire [any]
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      2 years ago

      The title is 'Goddamn Schopenhauer was a dick' and the screenshot is him saying that Kant is good and translated Sanskrit stuff is good. It feels like you're expressing a incomplete thought.

      r/SneerClub informs me that this was par for the course back then

      What's the "this? Building your thought on Kant?

      • pjst [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I called it "arrogance" but someone better versed in philosophy corrected me and said it is rather hubris. I just think it's unpleasant whatever it is

      • pjst [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It was the hubris of saying the Upanishads could be derived as corollary from his work. The hubris was par for the course

        • Vampire [any]
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          2 years ago

          Well you'd've had to be a mindreader to figure that from your post.

          • pjst [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah well sorry I had an annotated version of the screenshot and my phone deleted it. Don't have to be a mind-reader: he tagged it as potentially sounding arrogant himself, which I might add is saying a hell of a lot