Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - ★★★★

essays of Schopenhauer. It took me a long time to complete this book. We were really jamming together in the beginning. I noted that he was the person who said action comes before motivation, making him forever my instant friend. In the beginning he was talking about psychological observations and we were really jiving together. In the middle. He wrote a really long essay about to kind of created personas almost angels, arguing over the value of religion. He came out in favor, but he also analyzed it in great detail. Towards the end, he wrote a really long piece about love, where at first he seemed to be extolling the virtues of romantic love, but by the end he had kind of come to a decision that all love is really the power and the desire of the species, tricking the individual. Many times he would use Shakespearean quotes to suggest this belief. Other notes it was interesting how he frequently uses Greek, French, German, and even Spanish passages, only sub times providing a translation. I believe he expects you to speak all these languages to read the ball, and as well as to read Latin, which I gave a go at, but I'm not sure I grasped as much as he would have desired. Overall, again, another ancient philosopher, I hadn't read another challenge you would think, but again in the opening essays, very conversational, friendly, humorous understandable. chip off the old block kapow. So I definitely put them in the you know group of friendly, friendly surprisingly friendly philosophers and put them up there with somebody like Dostoyevsky. Who I thought would be a real challenge to read. But his notes of undergrad was so dull from undergrad was so delightful that he too became an instant friend like Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle, all the others. Even though philosophy is harder to read than other books, I do think that it's worth making the effort. It's like talking to a really smart friend about some really old ideas and trying to break them down and grasp a new understanding from our discussions. Good stuff, free eBook on Amazon, sat on my Kindle for a long time. Finally pushed through the last 20 or so percent today. essays of Schopenhauer

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