>Schopenhauer wrote The World As Will and Representation when he was 26 and people assume he wrote it while looking old and grumpyIt kinda baffles me how he wrote that masterpiece while looking like this and not that old
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>>24822349Pessimism is the philosophy of the youthful, compassionate man.
tome II is 2/3 of WaWaR's weight and it came out decades later. parerga and "basis of morality" was also only completed in 1840s and 1850s.
He just ripped off Kabbalah and sprinkled it with some Hindu stuff. Will = Shiva, Representation = Shakti
Before he started fucking dogs.It all makes sense now.
>>24822349>when he was 26Sometimes I imagine how much better off I'd be if my parents had me learning latin and greek and reading the classics from an early age. It's so over for public school-cels.
He was working on that while Hegel was impregnating every female around him
>>24824254not so fast>The mind is naturally free, not a slave; only what it does willingly, of its own accord, succeeds. On the other hand, the compulsory exertion of a mind in studies for which it is not qualified, or when it has become tired, or in general too continuously and invita Minerva, dulls the brain, just as reading by moonlight dulls the eyes. This is especially the case with the straining of the immature brain in the earlier years of childhood. I believe that the learning of Latin and Greek grammar from the sixth to the twelfth year lays the foundation of the subsequent stupidity of most scholars. At any rate the mind requires the nourishment of materials from without. All that we eat is not at once incorporated in the organism, but only so much of it as is digested; so that only a small part of it is assimilated, and the remainder passes away; and thus to eat more than we can assimilate is useless and injurious. It is precisely the same with what we read. Only so far as it gives food for thought does it increase our insight and true knowledge. Therefore Heracleitus says: “πολυμαθια νουν ου διδασκει” (multiscitia non dat intellectum). It seems, however, to me that learning may be compared to a heavy suit of armour, which certainly makes the strong man quite invincible, but to the weak man is a burden under which he sinks altogether.t. Schopenhauer
