>You must live an ascetic life and stop striving!
>*fucks hookers and eats expensive food and spends decades striving to intellectually defeat his rival*

>>24475753 (OP)
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>>24475753 (OP)
You're confusing eating well with spending money in fancy restaurants. Schopenhauer never said that you should starve yourself to deny the source of life. Asceticism is just one of the ways that Schopenhauer proposes to deny the will to life, and he himself recognized that very few people would be able to do it, so he proposed other ways of denying the Will, namely art and philosophy.

>>24476610
>Actual non /lit/tard that has actually read schopenhaeur and isnt just a retard that needs to mask their ignorance with ironic le hecking relatable accessible memes!
good job. my only problem with schoo is his writings on women, its not even that i dont want to agree, its that he gives little justification and basis.

>>24476622
It’s important to note that these essays Schopenhauer wrote do not represent his ethical and metaphysical system, which are presented in The World as Will and Representation and other philosophical works. Schopenhauer often says that his magnum opus refutes things written there. Regarding Parerga and Paralipomena, the source of these essays, Schopenhauer refers to them as “secondary writings” and “leftover matters,” or even “scattered thoughts, though systematically arranged, on various topics.” So don’t take too seriously what Schopenhauer says in these essays it’s merely his opinion. Of course, they were written by a genius, but they don’t have the same treatment and rigor found in his other works.

>>24475753 (OP)
What matters is you've found a reason to exempt yourself from his ascetic ideal.

>>24475753 (OP)
He didn’t say that. He said very few capable people are capable of doing so and most people can only negate the Will for very brief moment of aesthetic appreciation. He considered genius (in the precise sense he uses in his essay On Genius) to be the second best quality to have after this ascetic “nothing ever happens” chuddha mode.

>>24476622
I think he has a good point on those.

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>>24475753 (OP)
Based Schopenhauer.