His essays

>>25129087
is that a young aristotle?

>>25129098
No, but isn’t the man in the pic quite handsome? I think so too, he must have had girls chasing him left and right

>Kant
>Essays, Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
>Philosophy of Unconsciousness, von Hartmann
>Tristan & Isolde, Wagner
>Magee Biography
>Billy Budd (Melville was reading Schopenhauer intensively at the time)

>>25129121
Okay now where to start with Kant?

>>25129184
Prologue to Metaphysics

Kant's Prolegomena
But Kant is just a systematization of Leibniz's rationalism (or Kant = Leibniz without monads and with Free Will — though noumena are sort of monads)
A Posteriori = Principle of sufficient reason
A Priori = Principle of Noncontradiction

>>25129087
You can read Fourfold Root, but honestly, if you already have some basic knowledge of Western philosophy, you can go straight into the World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer himself said you only need knowledge of Plato and Kant to understand WaWaR. And even then, he explains Kant's philosophy better than Kant himself does in Critique of the Kantian Philosophy, and throughout WaWaR itself.

>>25129354
>he explains Kant's philosophy better than Kant himself does in Critique of the Kantian Philosophy, and throughout WaWaR itself.
trueeeee. fichte anon would go crazy if he saw this tho

His biggest failing was never understanding the true meaning of eastern thought

The essay collection is called retractions and ommissions and it's a huge treasure trove, from it start with pop philosophy (extremely well written):

Aphorisms on the Wisdom on Life
On Reading and Books
On Physiognomy
On Women

If you like him go for his Fourfold Root and his color theory.

Make sure you understand Aristotel's metaphysics and the essence accidents distinction.

For being a pessimist the guy seemed to write amazingly well as well as having good humor.

>>25129404
He is right thoug, Schopenhauer was STEMcel so he makes Kant more rigorous and well-presented than Kant himself.
The only problem is that the if I was him I would call the noumenal thing in itself God or leave it blank instead of going the Will path.

>>25129087
The most important books you want to read are:
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant, first edition, especially the first book of this book)
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Schopenhauer)
The World as Will and Representation (Schopenhauer)
The order in which you read them is irrelevant as long as you end up reading all of them. They're all different means to the same end, and they all underpin each other. People recommending a strict reading order are pedants.

I never expected volume II of his magnum opus to be as approachable as it is. You can read it like Parerga and Paralipomena.

>>25129577
Schopenhauer explicitly recommends and gives a specific reading order.

>>25129599
Recommendations are not the same as strict reading orders, which would be necessary in natural sciences. He's warning the reader as to what he's getting into.

>>25129643
No he literally insists that you know the material well or else shelve the book, he is an autistic stemcel at heart.

>>25129914
He's 100% right. This is one area where Schopenhauer's skill in writing can harm the reader. He makes his philosophy appear simpler than it is because it's easy to read. If you haven't read Kant there are countless paragraphs in Schopenhauer you will be misunderstanding and skimming, and telling yourself you get the gist of it and the "vibes" so it doesn't matter.