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Are there any philosophers/writers who talk about the philosophy of life and the role art, music, and aesthetic contemplation play in it? I've read a lot of philosophy but he is the only one who went in-depth into the topic.

Is it possible to read and understand Schopenhauer without having read Kant first?

If you can tolerate noise, you're a brainlet.

Are there any modern versions of Schopenhauer's concept of the will?

What are some Schopenhauerian novels

Has an analytical philosopher wrote about the philosophy of life in a way that has soul?

Other than Schopenhauer who are some philosophers or just any nonfiction writers who talk about the role of the artist, aesthetic contemplation, role of art in life, leisure time etc etc.

Do I really need to read On the Fourfold Root before World as Will and Representation?

"“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”

"“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”

"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

“Life is a constant process of dying.”

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”

“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

>>14684021
Pictured: The only person who understood kant

>>14494232
Based. Guenon was retroactively Proved by Arthur Schopenhauer

>>14457984
Did Guenon ever read Schopenhauer? I reckon Guenon would have liked Schoppy

And that's a bad thing

Which authors/works have caused you to divide the chronology of your life into two parts - before encountering them and after?