Read 'Essays and Aphorisms' first, or 'On the Fourtold Root'?
I realize that Fourtold is his first, and that he fortells the reader to read this before his main work (The World as Woll and Representation), and that 'Essays' is based on his last work, but I'm in a dive-in just-read-aphorisms mood.
Will jumping straight into 'Essays' be bad without any understanding to his previous work?
>>8223178
No. Go read Aphorisms, my fellow /lit/erati
If Schopenhauer had been Irish he would have written "On The Fourfold Toot"
Ye, Aphorisma has some good Kantian introduction that I skipped for the most part because of knowing Nietzsche and Heidegger. LETS DO THIS
>>8223178
If you're committed to understanding Schopenhauer, then as long as you read Fourfold Root eventually, go ahead and satisfy your urge for aphorisms. (Usually, Schopenhauer's original books are aphoristic enough, but I don't remember Fourfold Root being quite so rich with them.)
You'll also be in a good position to recognize just how much Schopenhauer's first work is required for an understanding of his last works, depending on how much your interpretation of the latter changes based on the former.
