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As a child I used to love reading the works of schopenhauer. I remember being fascinated by his views of the world and the way he had the ability to see things the way they really are. I still read a bit of his work sometimes, but not as much anymore.
I’m guessing this may be an area of schopenhauer’s that Schopenhauerians might be interested in, as it is one of the most popular of his works. But as with many of Schopenhauer’s ideas, the truth is that in order to truly understand what he meant, one needs to read the book in question first. The book that Schopenhauer loved the most is his book On the Basis of Morality.
To give you an example of one of Schopenhauer’s central ideas, he argues that a sense of morality is an illusion. The human mind is not capable of producing a moral code and so it is all based on the false premise that a person has a duty to follow it. This idea is at the heart of Schopenhauer’s theory of ethics, but I find it hard to find a more compelling example of the absurdity of morals.
For me, Schopenhauer’s book is one of the most compelling examples of the absurdity of morals because it takes a position that is so clearly absurd, it’s almost comical. Of course, we can’t all agree with Schopenhauer’s position, but I find it difficult not to draw parallels to the absurdist philosophy that we see in much of the world today.
In Schopenhauer’s view, the moral purpose of life is to give meaning to our lives. It’s a little like a game where you have to give up something to be able to play a game. In Schopenhauers view, giving up your life is the only way to get meaning out of it.
This is all a little over the top, but in Schopenhauers view, we give up the ability to choose our own fate. The only way to get meaning out of life is to give up our own. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose it. And the only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy.
In Schopenhauer’s view, there is no happiness, only suffering. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose it. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy. And the only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy.
This is the same message Schopenhauer gives about suffering. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose it. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy. And the only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy.
This is the same message Schopenhauer gives about suffering. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose it. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy. The only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy. And the only way to be happy is to give up the ability to choose the things that make you unhappy.
I would imagine this is something most people already know, but it bears repeating. It’s the one thing you can say in response to Schopenhauer’s point about happiness being impossible to control (his quote above). It’s called the Sisyphian dilemma. I feel like it’s really helpful to think about it here because I see it in a lot of my own life right now. It’s an important lesson in what it means to be human.
