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

      Dude had mommy issues bigtime lol. On Women couldn't have been written by a guy with a healthy relationship with his mother

    • pjst [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Fuck that's brutal. His mum was 100x cooler than him and that's not up for debate

      • Red_Left_Hand [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        It's a shame that all her novels are about people being very unhappily married in the late 18 century, I'm not going to read that

    • 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

          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

        • 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

    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]
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        2 years ago

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

  • pjst [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Might do an effortpost about what I think he was right/wrong on at some point

    • pjst [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, well he did leave it from 1818 until his death. He wrote it at 30 and never rescinded it. Chad move tbh. Like not deleting tweets when you get ratioed