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Schopenhauer & Nietzsche
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PREVIEW-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge
Interesting podcast, I wouldn’t have thought it possible to get a group of guys together, who all see reasonably interested in this subject, and prepared. Giving something of Schopehauer’s attitude to contemporaries like Hegel, and his influence on Nietzsche, is very useful. I like the story that Schopenhauer tells, of having obtained a letter of introduction from Goethe, should he get the chance to present it to Byron. And, he gets the chance, in Italy, when Bryon arrives in town looking the splendid celebrity, rides in on a horse, w/girls swooning. Schopenhaeur is with his girlfriend, this story relating events from his twenties, or so. Maybe thirty. And, he considers, whether he wants so badly to meed Bryon, that it is worth introducing his girlfriend to Byron. And, he skips the opportunity, to his lasting regret. The notion of Schopenhauer as a young man amuses me, when we’re so familiar with the usual picture of him as an old Scrooge-looking type (which matches the ‘pessimist’ label). The notion of such a small European world, where Schopenhauer knew Goethe, and crossed paths w/Byron, also amuses the heck out of me.
Such a golden age.
I’ve been quite fascinated by Schop
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About the life of Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was born on February 22nd of 1788 in Danzig, Germany, he was the son of Henri Floris Schopenhauer aged 38 and Johanna Henriette Trosiener who was then 19 years old. His father was a wealthy merchant and banker who had already planned for his son to become a business man before his birth, and hoped Arthur would follow in his steps. Henri Schopenhauer was also an independent minded man who moved his family from the city of Danzig when it was taken over by Prussia in 1793. The new family home was in Hamburg. Arthur Schopenhauer left to visit England and other countries, on the understanding that when he completed his tour, he would begin work in a business. The latter, then 16 years old, kept his promise but being much more intellectually oriented, he did not have a mercantile mind and had no interest for business and so when his father died, he got consent from his mother to continue his studies.
In 1809, he entered the University of Göttingen to study medicine, but he changed to philosophy in his second year, as he put it“life is a problem and he decided to spend his life contemplating it”. He also studied at Weimar where he lived with his mother until he became estranged