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PHILOSOPHY - Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhau was a German 19th
century philosopher who deserves to be
remembered today for the insights
contained in his great work the world as
will and representation.
Chopenhau was the first serious western
philosopher to get interested in
Buddhism and his thought can best be
read as a western reinterpretation and
response to the enlightened pessimism
found in Buddhist thought. In my 17th
year, he wrote in an autobiographical
text, I was gripped by the misery of
life as the Buddha had been in his youth
when he saw sickness, old age, pain, and
death everywhere. The truth was that
this world could not have been the work
of an all-loving being, but rather that
of a devil who'd brought creatures into
existence in order to delight in their
sufferings. And like the Buddha, it was
Schopenhau's goal to dissect and then
come up with a solution to this
suffering. It's simply the fault of
universities that Schopenhau has always
been taught in such a dry academic way
that it has stopped him from being
widely known, read, and followed. And
yet, in truth, this is a man who, no
less than a Buddha, deserves disciples,
schools, artworks, and monasteries to
put his ideas into practice. It's not
too late. Schopenhau's philosophy starts
by giving a name to a primary force
within us, which he says is more
powerful than anything else, our reason,
logic, or moral sense. And which
Schopenhau terms the will to life in
German, the villa tsum liben. The will
to life is a constant force which makes
us thrust ourselves forward, cling to
existence, and look always to our own
advantage. It's blind, dumb, and very
insistent. What the will to life makes
us focus on most of all is sex. From
adolescence onwards, this will thrums
within us, turns our heads constantly to
erotic scenarios, and makes us do very
weird things. The most weird of which is
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