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Odradek

Odradek

More to come.

Aliroz

Ah, so it's the bathtub.

Odradek

Poor Schopenhauer: The analytics think he's continental and the continentals don't care about him.

Klinotaxis

bath sounds better overall, tbh

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Odradek said:

Poor Schopenhauer: The analytics think he's continental and the continentals don't care about him.

though his philosophy did get an appearance in neon genesis evangelion so there's that

Klinotaxis

i hear eva 4.0 ends with zizek talking sodomy

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kaworu already died though

Imipolex G

Borges liked Schopenhauer, it doesn't get much better than that

Sredni Vashtar

Schopenhauer was a very interesting jackass, much like Heidegger.

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was Schopenhauer a Nazi though, that's the main thing I know about Heidegger

Klinotaxis

no but he pushed an old lady down stairs

Obā-san

Schopenhauer was dead for almost a solid century before the nazis showed up IIRC (*though i do vaguely recall something about him being anti-semitic and apparently Wagner and Nietzsche were both big fans so...*)

he was, however, an antinatalist

in fact, his ugly mug is the first thing you see on the wikipedia page for Antinatalism

Obā-san

Schopenhauer, who hated noise (and wrote an amusing essay [1851; translated, 1890] on the topic), had been enraged by her loud chattering on the landing outside his room; in the ensuing altercation he pushed her, and she fell down a flight of stairs. He lost the case and was obliged to pay her a monthly allowance until her death. (When she finally died, twenty years later, he commented, "Obit anus, abit onus" [The old woman dies, the burden is lifted]). The experience served only to make him more misanthropic and misogynous--his diatribe "Über die Weiber" (1851; translated as "On Women," 1890) is notorious.

what a charming man.

Klinotaxis

oy, nietzsche weren't no anti-semite, kind of wacked but he hated anti-semitism

Tachyon

Didn't he start out anti-semitic and move away from it later in life?

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his sister was anti-semitic and edited some collection of his books to make him seem so

Tachyon

The Will to Power, right?

but iirc he was initially an admirer of Wagner but went off him, and one reason for that was that he no longer found Wagner's antisemitism tolerable

Klinotaxis

sounds right to me. i don't know nietzsche over time, i've just read a few of his awesomely angry letters about it

Odradek

http://www.euppublishing.com/series/specr Oh hey, Johnston, Bryant, and Garcia's books are all coming out in English on the same day.

Bryant is a little silly, and kind of a weirdo, but Johnston is very interesting if jargony and I'm interested in seeing what the deal with Garcia's treatise on metaphysics is.

Odradek

One way to locate a philosopher’s deepest commitments is to identify where the “table-pounding” moments occur. Look for the passages where a philosopher simply makes emotional assertions in the guise of rigorous argument, and you often have the key to their deepest unargued commitments. In Husserl’s case, the arguments against a realistic conception of the thing-in-itself are among his most assertoric passages, and also among the least compelling. In Logical Investigations VI (or maybe it’s V, I’m too tired to be sure) there’s a whole section talking about how “absurd” it is and what a dangerous trap it is to speak of an in-itself in the old sense. But scratch the surface of his warnings, and the arguments just aren’t very convincing. They mainly amount to this: “If the intentional objects were doubled up with real ones, then absolute knowledge would be impossible.” But who says absolute knowledge is possible?