From: Destination Quality (planetquality@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 09:48:56 GMT
Hi Platt,
>Schopenhauer is indeed one of my favorites, mostly because he saw
>beauty as the ultimate good and ultimate joy as cherishing the beautiful.
>His "Will" reminds of Pirsig's DQ, the free force of life. I'm not aware of
>his "postmodern stuff" wherein it's fundamental and universally true that
>no judgments are fundamental and universally true. But I'm no
>Schopenhauer scholar. Perhaps you can point to some of his
>postmodernist-like beliefs.
>
>Platt
I am not a scholar eithere but why I think Schopenhauer fits the postmodern
tradition is because of the "tone" of his work. His concept of the will may
share simmilarities with DQ but more in the direction of the Kantian "Ding
an sich" which is, so I hope, entirely different from DQ.
Schopenhauer is irony through and through, life is a misplaced joke he once
said. That is one of the reasons he imo fits the tradition. Though he was a
foundationalist he did not spin an entire web around this, in his typical
aphoristic style he uncoherently made statements that would back up his
claim. Though in daily life he was probably the biggest prick philosophy has
ever known, he knew his place in the universe. Constantly in existential
fear he could do nothing else then teach what he was feeling, nothingness.
He understood the world so well but did not understand himself, he never got
over the existential fear and kept propheting that nobody mattered(except
Arthur Schopenhauer ofcourse). I unfortunately cannot give you too much
quotations since I have no books of him but a few ones I found on the
net(translated):
Nobody can look beyond himself, that is everybody sees in another what he is
himself.
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident
Maybe not too convincing these quotes, I will see if I can get my hands on
a copy of the Parergo and give you some more quotations.
Davor
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