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

    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]
        hexagon
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        edit-2
        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