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He made a willful and conscious effort to break from dogmatic, Hegelian philosophy, as well as pioneered the aphoristic writing style that Nietzsche habitually used himself.



Schopenhauer was...

This pretty much sums it up; pronouns are pretty much a fiction, and I have never seen a worthwhile definition for them.

Exactly. Evolution is not a factor that influences future development, but instead a biological model of the origin of species.



Obviously. Are you being serious?

This is simply incorrect, every sentence. No offense, but Schopenhauer is a philosophical giant, influencing many 20th century philosophers as well as changing the course of western thought from...

Without reading other posts, I suggest reading Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason for a very detailed and exact explanation as to why all ontological arguments...

Read the first 75 pages and decide whether it sucks or not.

Quoted for truth. Asking whether a question has a reasonable answer in the first place is obviously the right course of action, especially when the answer is not immediate. Reading up on the...

Evolution is a theory regarding past progress, not future. Hence, it is not leading us anywhere. Species require several million years to exhibit noticeable change in their DNA structure, and such...

Won't last forever, don't worry about it.

A silly word, more exactly an attachment to the apparent and uninvestigated

World as Will and Representation
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Maybe. Things like AI and Turing machines are still pretty popular. There aren't many philosophers that write and think in the same vein as those from 100+ years ago. Most would-be philosophers...

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

I don't think I can think of anything else that has deluded mankind so...

I doubt it. Give humanity another 100 years and most people will probably not be religious at all.

Here I think I have to agree with Hume. Math is very useful and crucial for any physical model, but it does not necessarily result in attainable knowledge. Mathematics is more or less a language,...

We are easily and somewhat usefully described as such, but recall that science is more or less a study of models. Ideas and concepts such as atomic theory, mass/energy, forces and even calculus are...

Demian's posts on Hume and the importance of skepticism are legit. Nice thread.

Skepticism is definitely an attitude, or a method of thinking, and is limitless, so to speak. It's hard to...

All is fair

I meant the word essence, and I admit I wasn't very clear.



It ceased to be a baby to you because you're thoughts are apparently constrained by language. To have said that the baby was ever...

People haven't outgrown mythology quite yet, give it another generation or two and the only churches left will be in the boonies.

An argument not established by reason cannot be removed by it -...

Metaphysics is closely related to physics, it is scientific to a degree and includes cosmology and epistemology. I know Aristotle invented the word but there is no such thing.



You aren't...

I'm sure the scientific community would be very interested in this separate substance. Please, tell me more about it...



Aristotle is hardly solid grounding these days. Of course, one can...

Very good. That substance/brahman/energy exists in itself is its essence.

Perhaps you're taking "existence before essence" in a different manner than existentialists do. I do not recall any existentialist who claims that there exists something without essence. The...

Existentialism was desperately needed by this thread, it is good that you mentioned it. I am inclined to agree that existence precedes essence, at least in the loose sense with which the words are...