How do I into Schopenhauer? Start with The World as Will and Representation? If so, which translation?inb4 start with the Greeks.
>>8031611
Start with Kant's Prolegomena.
start with the Greeks
This translation is good but you have to buy each volume separate (two total).
Kant, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
Schopenhauer's essays are lovely.
All you need to know:
Schopenhauer was a monarchist, hated the Jewish religion, thought women as inferior to women, viewed love as high importance, had a concern for the welfare of animals, called the Upanishads "the production of the highest human wisdom"--was influenced by the Upanishads, Immanuel Kant, and Plato--was a Buddhist, critiqued Kant and Hegel, believed personality and intellect were inherited, he considered his views incompatible with theism, believed in determinism, thought capital punishment as "absolutely necessary," believed that people are incapable of improving in regard to their morals, believed only compassion can drive moral acts, believed that humans were motivated by only their own basic desires, "Man can indeed do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants," believed human desire and craving caused suffering and a temporary way to relieve that pain is through aesthetic contemplation.
>>8031611
no women. either ascetic or a life led in a 'DISINTERESTED PURSUIT OF BEAUTY' aka art and only art.
>>8031750
This seems to be a novel interpretation of the idea of Schopenhauer for Idiots whereby it's a how to of how to remain an idiot while trying to educate about Schopenhauer.
7.3/10, you gained points at
>women as inferior to women
but lost some for not saying everything is electricity anyway
>>8031611
Plato and Kant? Read some intro books if you don't want to do the real prerequisite stuff. Magee has one that is probably good.
Ignore the buddhist meme stuff. Totally irrelevant, he didn't read the upanishads until well well after WWR.
