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For all you pessimistic gloomy gusses:
Think life is a shit sandwich?
Then you will love Schopenhauer!
"Most of Schopenhauer can be understood by everyone. He uses examples and ideas that are not unfamiliar. Schopenhauer was once very popular, especially in Germany. It was said that German soldiers in 1914 marched with Schopenhauer books. They learned things are actually worse than Schopenhauer wrote in his books."
Lawrence Bloom's answer: Schopenhauer has a very bad reputation. He did the regular philosophy, PHD, Professor and all. He is regarded as one of the great philosophers. There is some criticism that he is not difficult or academic enough in his writing. Most of Schopenhauer can be understood by ev...
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You're right, the Anglophone approach does tend to be very logic-centered; so-called Analytic #Philosophy
The #frenchphilosophy approach tends to be more interpretive and concerned with social and cultural phenomena
And then there's #Germanphilosophy which tries to do both and get the best of both worlds, and which usually ends up with the worst of both worlds (imho!)
And of course this is very generalizing and there are many exceptions and caveats
I'm rereading #Kant for a referee report, and am once again dismayed and annoyed to find all sorts of plausible and interesting comments around the edges of the third Critique's discussion of art.