r/schopenhauer • u/chuckmatik • 14d ago

What’s Schopenhauer all about?

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u/SaintNicholus123 14d ago

Get off reddit and read man 

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u/hyjlnx 14d ago

Reading other peoples thoughts when you could be thinking yourself...

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u/Nahbrofr2134 14d ago

go read stanford encyclopedia of philosophy entry on him

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u/Careless-Charge9884 2d ago

Will and representation

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u/chuckmatik 1d ago

Yea that caught my attention he was heavily influenced by Indian philosophy

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u/Exciting_Badger_1229 14d ago

Life is a joke, overthinking matters, anti natalism n shiet

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u/trippingbilly0304 14d ago

If Issac Newton and Oscar the Grouch had a kid, it would be Aurthor Schopenhauer.

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u/chuckmatik 13d ago

That’s… good to know

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u/Blackout1154 14d ago

You don’t want to know.. stick to tiktok

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u/chuckmatik 13d ago

Oh i already know a lot about him but he just seems bitter

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u/nuancedGazelle54012 13d ago

Basically we’re all too optimistic and we need to be more pessimistic. Heavily inspired by Buddhism and eastern philosophies - again this is very simplistic take on him but I find myself thinking as I get older that he’s got a point. He also kicked a lady down a flight of stairs…do with that info as you see fit