/lit/ - Literature

>Schelling.. but Buddhist

>>20440539
>Did Jesus reference the Upanishads and so on. ?
Yes.

>>19894303
Compassion is good and there's nothing you can say that will change my mind.

Can someone explain to me what Schopenhauer means by ideal and natural?

>>19256483
>Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle Héloïse and Wilhelm Meister.

Since Schopenhauer died a lot has changed in the novel world, so what are the four best novels now?

>Any serious explanation of the nature of music is impossible except when it leads to an explanation of the world itself.
Is he right?

All life writhe in pain, but not all life rejoice in glee.

>ruins philosophy with his misunderstandings

>My plan? To do absolutely nothing. I call this "asceticism".

At least Schopenhauer isn't lying to himself.

>>17376842
>the noumenon
>objective
No.

>>16808904
Wagner btfo'd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPdrLlshRA

>>16486835
Schopenhauer pill when?

Specifically the idea of a calming of the will, or a negation of the individual will, and a consolation thereby, in the viewing of art.

>>16109536
>Plato literally was a sophist. He invented philosophy so that he could legitimize his words over others.
Please tell me you don't believe this.

>If a review of all the races makes it impossible to deny the [277] oneness of the human species; and if that common factor may be defined, in its noblest sense, as the capacity for conscious suffering,—we shall have to seek for what distinguishes the white race, if we are actually to rank it high above the others.
>However passionate may be the signs of Suffering in these lower natures, its conscious record in the downtrod intellect will be comparatively feeble; on the contrary it is just the strength of consciousness of Suffering, that can raise the intellect of higher natures to knowledge of the meaning of the world. Those natures in which the completion of this lofty process is evidenced by a corresponding deed, we call Heroic.—

This kills the Lacanian. They're unable to answer the common sense.

>>15834673
You're forgetting about the Buddhist influence.

>>15247425
Evidence cannot be formulated in the sense of the scientific method precisely because the psyche is both the root and the crown. It must be accepted to some degree tautologically, at "their point of indifference", the I(Schopenhauer). Schopenhauer really is an interesting one in preceding Jung.

>>15024583
As Schopenhauer says, you shouldn't wish for great experiences: "experiences which the great men have", for it is not any actual difference in situation but in the perception of the world. For those men with such grand creativity, genius, intelligence of such a kind which sees the value implicitly out of all experiences. The smallest thing can cherish the noblest of ideas to this man, for he is a beacon of overflowing knowledge and does not depend on what is not there, it is unnecessary for him to do so; and further more he may even impress his will on reality, but that is the incidental effect of this prior perception and understanding of the world.

>>15009654
This based man saw himself as the only legitimate successor of Hume and Kant and yet he discovered what the metaphysical thing-in-itself actually is (and it's quite close to what Plato and the Buddha thought).

>But this I know. If the threatened calamity should ever come, and the ancient languages cease to be taught, a new literature will arise, of such barbarous, shallow and worthless stuff as never was seen before.

>If it should really come to this, then farewell, humanity! farewell, noble taste and high thinking! The age of barbarism will return, in spite of railways, telegraphs and balloons.

How could he foresee the future so accurately, bros?

>>14940423
>Elaborate
Some say he is too depressing to read, others say he charts the course for redemption "of the misguided will"- as Wagner would say.

Every desire and willing for something which will only ever be temporary. Irrational desire from physiological determinism, though he still believed in free will and would have to be considered by some, the strongest base for any ethical system in the history of Western philosophy, developing and critiquing Kant.

Just read the description of this and then the book itself: https://www.amazon.com.au/Essays-Aphorisms-Arthur-Schopenhauer/dp/0140442278

But before reading that book read this, which is a popular masses-centred dilution of his work, in being of the art of "Eudaemonology" and rejecting his main (far more pessimistic) philosophy: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10741/10741-h/10741-h.htm#link2HCH0002

Is calling the world suffering a cop-out?

>>14871843
Schopenhauer wasn't an anti-natalist. He had a daughter who died because of an illness.