I need a definitive Schopenhauer thread. He was the definitely /ourguy/!

"The world is my representation:"—this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness.

Those eyes

>>24465711 (OP)
>He was the definitely /ourguy/!
Why does the literature board have such a high percentage of blatant ESLs? I see them in so many threads now. What would Schopenhauer say about that, huh?

>>24465749
Schopenhauer was literally an ESL too retard.

>>24465755
Kek.

>>24465755
That doesn't answer the question of what he'd say about the current state of affairs on /lit/.

>>24466153
I don't think it was supposed to answer that question anon, just to prove you're retarded.

>>24465749
>>24466153
>>24466186
I'm sure Schopenhauer would have been very concerned about /lit/'s current state.

Scoppy thread?

>>24466439
I hope so.

>>24468154
Not this time I guess.

>>24469391
:(

>>24465711 (OP)
was he? all i do is go around posting stuff schopenhauer said and the chuds here fucking hate it

>>24465755
He was an Anglo at heart

>>24465749
He learned English as a teenager, in London, so he certainly had close to a C1 proficiency. He kept a long time grudge against his Anglican professors, from whom his distrust of theism might have stemmed from.

>>24466439
This is cringe no matter who says it. We're humans, so we should embrace humanity and the beauty and gift of life.

>>24469985
>We're humans, so we should embrace humanity
I don't see the logical connection here. funnily, Jesus taught the exact opposite too;

>Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

>the beauty
pessimists don't deny the existence of beauty, they just say vast majority of life is oppressively ugly.

>gift of life
life is not a gift. if you were asked to have it before you were born and had seen the world and your life beforehand you wouldn't have traded it with the serenity of inexistence, which is where you will inevitably return to anyway. this is not how you treat an actual gift.

life is more like a punishment, a debt, a bad deal that you were forced into without prior knowledge. which is what Christians think of it as, according to them we are all sinners. we are guilty of being born and we pay the price by living (suffering). which seems to hold up with every evidence being alive provides.

>>24469772
>so he certainly had close to a C1 proficiency
I'm almost completely sure, most men of letters did during that century. As when one studied a foreign language one was forced to engage with a library, in other words, in-depth material. Schopenhauer also used original fragments of English authors in quotation for some of his books.
Today, ESLs you encounter online and elsewhere acquired their knowledge in the language through entertainment, short-form videos, piracy, and social media. Of course they made no effort to learn. It's a general degradation in multilingualism.

>>24469985
>This is cringe no matter who says it
No, this is only "cringe" to someone so wrapped up in their own bubble of temporary comfort that they can't look beyond it.
>we should embrace humanity and the beauty and gift of life
Life isn't just *your* life. It's not even just human life. Every moment of joy you have is underwritten by a million unseen cruelties (factory farms, ecological collapse, unnoticed animal agony, systemic inequality). What you really mean is "my little curated corner is tolerable for now".

>>24466439
kek

>>24465711 (OP)
>Everything depends on facing the truth, even if it is unpleasant. What about myself in relation to Schopenhauer’s philosophy—when I was completely Greek, an optimist? But I made the difficult admission, and from this act of resignation emerged ten times stronger.

>>24469985
Tautological fallacy.

>>24465711 (OP)
>once you're over the hill you pick up speed