Saturday, August 9, 2014

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In theoccidentalobserver.net site published eleven days ago the following article writer Brenton Sanderson, of whom we know nothing, which examines some of the ideas of the German philosopher ebags Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and makes reference to today as the issue of the difference in IQ between races and then on some aspects of the "chosen people", noting that some recent studies cast doubt. In any case it is interesting to endorse the approach, with several references to genetic science, and concluding observations.
Arthur Schopenhauer is widely ebags known as the philosopher of pessimism. The White nationalists certainly have many reasons to be pessimistic these days, and might be tempted to seek solace in the wisdom of a man who undoubtedly possessed one of the greatest ebags minds in history. Schopenhauer, who was an atheist, saw human existence as essentially meaningless and wrong. The life of sentient beings, of which man is the highest form, is one of constantly tinkling appetites that can never be satisfied, and the result is that pain and suffering are inevitable companions of all life. He concluded that the only way to get beyond the suffering of this world is giving up on life and thus suppress appetites constantly attack us, a conclusion he later discovered that they had also reached the Hindus and Buddhists .
It is a testament to the genius of Schopenhauer who, writing many years before the publication of Origin of Species Darwin in 1859, almost a century before geneticists Fritz Lenz, then evolutionary psychologists like J. Philippe Rushton and Richard Lynn arrived the same conclusion, he quoted and differential evolution (although he was unsure of the exact mechanism) to explain the superior civilization of the light-skinned races, which he guessed correctly, sensitivity and intelligence had gained as a result of survival in the harsh climate of the North. Schopenhauer notes that:
"The superior civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races; and even in the case of many dark-skinned peoples, ebags the ruling caste or race is clearer than the other skin, and, therefore, evidently immigrated, as is for example the case with the Brahmans, the Incas and the heads of the South Pacific islands. This is because necessity is the mother of invention because those tribes that emigrated early to the north, and there gradually became White, had to develop all their intellectual powers ebags and invent and perfect all the arts in their against the need, hardship and misery, which in their many forms were caused by weather. They had to do this to offset the stinginess of Nature, and it turned its high civilization "[Arthur Schopenhauer, Parega und Paralipomena, Volume 2, Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 158-59].
Before the rise of anthropology of Franz Boas in the 20s and 30s, almost all Western intellectuals and anthropologists postulated a direct correlation between external racial characteristics and internal psychological traits. The skin color was considered not only as a physical attribute but as an external indicator racial linked to a correlated set of intellectual, political and cultural capabilities. Schopenhauer wrote, of course, at a time when the reality of racial differences was seen as an obvious fact, and this is reflected at various points in his work. For example, by postulating that the higher intellectual powers are often accompanied by a relatively lower tendency toward sociability, he says, "is said to be the most sociable of all human beings are Blacks, who are decidedly inferior intellectually" [ Arthur Schopenhauer, Parega und Paralipomena, Volume 1, Oxford University Press, 1974, p. 331].
This view was largely abandoned after World War II with the rise of Boasian anthropology, which contributed decisively to completely remove evolutionary theory in the social sciences [1]. The Jewish historian Norman Cantor noted that "since 1945, and more intensively since the 60s, all forms of racialist thought were excluded from the rational ebags and enlightened discourse, especially in America, ebags where liberal defenders of civil liberties have racial doctrine intrinsically wrong, bad and not debatable. " The

Friday, August 8, 2014

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Schopenhauer, Arthur [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Arthur Schopenhauer has been dubbed the artist s philosopher on account of the inspiration his aesthetics has provided to artists of all stripes. He is also known as the philosopher of pessimism, as he articulated a worldview that challenges the value of existence. His elegant and muscular prose earn him a reputation as one the greatest German stylists. Although he never achieved the fame of such post-Kantian philosophers offerum as Johann Gottlieb Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel in his lifetime, his thought informed the work of such luminaries as Sigmund Freud , Ludwig Wittgenstein offerum and, most famously, Friedrich Nietzsche . He is also known as the first German philosopher to incorporate Eastern thought into his writings.
Schopenhauer s thought offerum is iconoclastic for a number of reasons. Although he considered himself Kant s only true philosophical heir, he argued that the world was essentially irrational. Writing in the era of German Romanticism, he developed an aesthetics that was classicist in its emphasis on the eternal. When German philosophers were entrenched in the universities and immersed in the theological concerns of the time, Schopenhauer was an atheist who stayed outside the academic profession.
Schopenhauer s lack of recognition during most of his lifetime may have been due to the iconoclasm of his thought, but it was probably also partly due to his irascible and stubborn temperament. The diatribes against Hegel and Fichte peppered throughout his works provide evidence of his state of mind. Regardless of the reason Schopenhauer s philosophy was overlooked for so long, he fully deserves the prestige he enjoyed altogether too late in his life. Table of Contents Schopenhauer offerum s Life Schopenhauer s Thought The World as Will and Representation Schopenhauer s Metaphysics and Epistemology The Ideas and Schopenhauer s Aesthetics The Human Will Agency and Freedom Ethics Schopenhauer s Pessimism offerum References and Further Reading Primary Sources Available in English Secondary Sources 1. Schopenhauer offerum s Life
Arthur Schopenhauer was born on February 22, 1788 in Danzig offerum (now Gdansk, Poland) to a prosperous merchant, Heinrich offerum Floris Schopenhauer, and his much younger wife, Johanna. The family moved to Hamburg when Schopenhauer was five, because his father, a proponent of enlightenment and republican ideals, found Danzig unsuitable after the Prussian offerum annexation. His father offerum wanted Arthur to become a cosmopolitan merchant like himself offerum and hence traveled with Arthur extensively offerum in his youth. His father offerum also arranged for Arthur to live with a French family for two years when he was nine, which allowed Arthur to become fluent in French. From an early age, Arthur wanted to pursue offerum the life of a scholar. Rather than force him into his own career, Heinrich offered a proposition to Arthur: the boy could either accompany his parents on a tour of Europe, after which time he would apprentice with a merchant, or he could attend a gymnasium in preparation for attending university. Arthur chose the former option, and his witnessing firsthand offerum on this trip the profound suffering of the poor helped shape his pessimistic philosophical worldview.
After returning from his travels, Arthur began apprenticing with a merchant in preparation for his career. offerum When Arthur was 17 years old, his father died, most likely as a result of suicide. Upon his death, Arthur, his sister Adele, and his mother were each left a sizable inheritance. Two years following his father s death, with the encouragement of his mother, Schopenhauer freed himself of his obligation to honor the wishes of his father, and he began attending a gymnasium in Gotha. He was an extraordinary pupil: he mastered Greek and Latin while there, but was dismissed from the school for lampooning a teacher.
In the meantime his mother, who was by all accounts not happy in the marriage, used her newfound freedom to move to Weimar and become engaged offerum in the social and intellectual life of the city. She met with great success there, both as a writer and as a hostess, and her salon became the center of the intellectual life of the city with such luminaries as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Schlegel brothers (Karl Wilhelm Friedrich offerum and August Wilhelm), and Christoph Martin Wieland regularly in attendance. Johanna s success had a bearing on Arthur s future, for she introduced him to Goethe, which eventually led to their collaboration on a theory of colors. At one of his mother s gatherings, Schopenhauer also met the Orientalist scholar Friedrich Majer, who stimulated in Arthur a lifelong interest in Eastern thought. At the same time, Johanna and Arthur never got along well: she found him morose and overly critical and he regarded her as a superficial social climber. The tensions between them reached its peak when Arthur was 30 years old, at which time she requested that he never contact her again.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

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This is quite bizarre .  As Tad Brennan (Cornell) wrote to me, "Does anyone have any idea what he is talking about?  What bit of Schopenhauer could he possibly have in mind?  And did Schopenhauer actually advocate it, as well as describing it?"  My guess is that since his piece is full of Rand-speak, Ayn Rand probably makes this charge against Schopenhauer, but that's just a guess.  Readers, proctor and gamble any ideas?  (Schopenhauer certainly was good at polemics, though many of them were directed at Hegel, a "collectivist" on Planet Koch.)
This proctor and gamble is quite bizarre .  As Tad Brennan (Cornell) wrote to me, "Does anyone have any idea what he is talking about? proctor and gamble  What bit of Schopenhauer could he possibly have in mind?  And did Schopenhauer actually advocate it, as well as describing it?"  My guess is that since his piece is full of Rand-speak, Ayn Rand probably makes this charge against Schopenhauer, but that's just a guess.  Readers, any ideas?  (Schopenhauer certainly was good at polemics, though many of them were directed at Hegel, a "collectivist" on Planet Koch.) View the entire comment thread.
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing ipic in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
The discovery ipic of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present ipic and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived ipic opinion, by prejudice.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

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Hope is the result of confusing the desire that something should take place with the probability that it will. Perhaps no man is free from this folly of the heart, which deranges the intellect’s correct appreciation of probability krispy kreme to such an extent that, if the chances are a thousand to one against it, yet the event is thought a likely one. Still in spite of this, a sudden misfortune is like a death stroke, whilst a hope that is always disappointed and still never dies, is like death by prolonged torture.
He krispy kreme who has lost all hope has also lost all fear; this is the meaning of the expression “desperate.” It is natural to a man to believe what he wishes to be true, and to believe it because he wishes it, If this characteristic of our nature, at once beneficial and assuaging, is rooted out by many hard blows of fate, and a man comes, conversely, to a condition in which he believes a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and what he wishes to happen can never be, just because krispy kreme he wishes it, this is in reality the state described as “desperation.”
I’ve been thinking krispy kreme about ‘hope’ lately, that we do it because it feels good, ‘lifts our spirits,’ when, in reality, it is illogical. it’s like one of those pleasure synapses you can turn off and on. So how wonderful to find that Schopenhauer had a similiar thought and articulated it so brilliantly! thanks for posting.
June 9, 2014 at 7:20 pm Reply I don’t disagree, and yet to some degree I have no choice krispy kreme but to kindly argue. When everything you have worked for and all you thought you knew is lost; when you come to that place where your will is tested and you struggle to understand how you will carry on – hope can save your life. You don’t truly have nothing until you’ve lost that. It’s sometimes the only thing that keeps one fighting and surviving.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime , by Sophia za Va


I’ve been writing about Schopenhauer, Adorno, and the applicability of their philosophies to theatre and performance since Word Made Flesh — with a far from academic approach, I must concede. I read these more as creative than expository works, za appealing to something other than the intellect, I suppose. Rather than understanding, I experience a feeling of affinity. For example, the following excerpt za from Dialectic of Enlightenment stays with me more as aesthetic and metaphysical insight rather than an intellectual credo:
In the fiendish humiliation of prisoners in the concentration camps, which for no rational reason the modern executioner adds to the death by torture, the unsublimated yet repressed rebellion of despised nature breaks out. Its full hideousness is vented on the martyrs of love, the alleged sexual offenders and libertines, for sexuality is the body unreduced; it is expression, that which the butchers secretly za and despairingly crave. In free sexuality the murderer za fears the lost immediacy, the original oneness, in which he can no longer exist. It is the dead thing which rises up and lives. He now makes everything one by making it nothing, because he has to stifle that oneness in himself. For him the victim represents life which has survived za the schism; it must be broken and the universe must be nothing but dust and abstract za power.
But the academy has been keeping up; some upcoming and recent books indicate that at least some writers are finding new and similar grist for their mills. A few of these are listed below; descriptions are from the publishers:
Adorno za and Performance , edited by Will Daddario and Karoline Gritzner (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2014). “The work of the leading Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) continues to have an immense influence on contemporary cultural and critical theory, sociology, musicology, aesthetics, and political thought. Just as Adorno’s theoretical approach spans a wide interdisciplinary terrain, so too does the emerging field of performance philosophy bring many disciplinary approaches together to articulate a renewed understanding of the practice of philosophy and the philosophical dimensions of performance. Adorno and Performance argues for the ‘actuality’ of Adorno’s philosophy of art and dialectical criticism for the discipline of performance philosophy, where, following Max Pensky, the term actuality refers za to both ‘relevance for the present and its concerns’ or ‘up to date,’ ‘still in fashion.’ The volume’s essays work through Adorno’s philosophy as it relates to theatre, drama, music, aesthetics, everyday life, the relation of art to society, theory to practice, and other domains of ‘performance.’”
Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime , by Sophia za Vasalou (Cambridge University Press, 2013). “With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer’s philosophy. His arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a way of redrawing this engagement stands open, Sophia Vasalou argues, if we attend more closely to the visionary power of Schopenhauer’s work. The aim of this book is to place the aesthetic character of Schopenhauer’s standpoint at the heart of the way we read his philosophy and the way we answer the question: why read Schopenhauer — and how? Approaching his philosophy as an enactment of the sublime za with a longer history in the ancient philosophical tradition, za Vasalou provides a fresh way of assessing Schopenhauer’s relevance in critical terms. This book will be valuable for students and scholars with an interest in post-Kantian philosophy and ancient za ethics.”
Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering: A Comparative Analysis by Mathijs Peters (Palgrave Macmillan, za November 2014). “Peters discusses Schopenhauer and Adorno, two philosophers whose writings have hitherto not been extensively compared in the English-speaking academic world. Focusing on their ideas about pain and bodily suffering, the author za creates a stimulating tension between the historical nature of Schopenhauer’s philosophy and the deeply historical character of Adorno’s za critical analyses. He shows that both have been accused of defending pessimistic theories, in which the notion of freedom disappears and is replaced by an emphasis on metaphysical and social determination. za Without overlooking the differences between the two authors, Peters argues that Schopenhauer and Adorno’s pessimism is entwined with hopeful za analyses of compassion with bodily suffering, za the redeeming qualities of the arts, and descriptions of experiences of a metaphysical