There is Hegel's reason and dialectical movement and Schopenhauer's will. Hegel said we are and our history moves through dialectical movement and we heading towards ultimate reality and one day we'll achieve that, similarly Karl Marx is on Hegel side. But on the other hand, there is Schopenhauer's will and also Nietzsche's will to power later on that our will drives us. So which one is more powerfully true?
Schopenhauer translated a number of books into english and spanish, he even considered taking a long break from writing to translate all of Hume' s works into German.
Do any of these exist? For instance he supposibly helped translate the Critique of Pure Reason into it's best edition because he combined the first and second edition. He had preferred the first edition.
“A king who has conquered the entire earth as far as the borders of the sea is not satisfied with the nearby shore: he also desires the distant one. Countless kings and common men die with that desire still burning within them. Insatiable, they leave this body without ever having had their fill of the world’s pleasures.”
- Thag 16.4 Raṭṭhapāla
Been thinking about this lately—given his whole take on the Will, suffering, and endless desire, how do you think he’d react to stuff like social media, consumerism, and the way we live now? Curious what this sub thinks.
I'm not aware of his philosophy and his take on pessimism. Can someone please explain what it is about and how it's different from Schopenhauer's or Mainlander's philosophy?
The emergent nature of consciousness allows humans to engage in sexual behaviors while acting against their immediate biological programming that seeks procreation through them.
When Christians say things like "birth control is a sin" or "sex is for reproduction" they are ironically using this emergent nature to try to squash its application to specific behaviors.
Regardless, I am curious about Schopenhauer's view on sexuality, both with and without the desire for reproduction.