AnAppariti0n t1_jckklc9 wrote on March 17, 2023 at 2:43 PM

Reply to comment by Ok-Reporter8066 in Schopenhauer and Hegel’s feud was metaphysical: a pessimist who recognised the unchangeable essence of the world and an optimist who saw human history as perpetual growth could never get along. by IAI_Admin

Reading Schopenhauer isn’t negative or a downer to me, it just feels more grounded than Hegel. If it brought me down, I wouldn’t read it. There’s something deeply therapeutic about Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy that I don’t get from Hegel.

I hate how people just go with “Why would I want to read Schopenhauer when he’s a pessimist…yadayada”…it’s because the way he’s talked about not the way his philosophy actually is.

PralineWorried4830 t1_jckpgmq wrote on March 17, 2023 at 3:16 PM

I actually find him delightful and humorous to read. Reading Hegel is like having to drink cough syrup while having a migraine and insomnia in comparison, at least The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Domovnik_ t1_jcljvq2 wrote on March 17, 2023 at 6:30 PM

It's not as hard if you can make yourself forget everything you possess of logic, common sense and critical thinking. That's all hindrance. And get one of the two modern Cambridge translations. Pinkard or Inwood, or both.