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Kaspar Hauser
Holden:
I looked it up...you use this name because you like to stay far way from the maddening crowd?
Nation of One:
In the preface of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature, he writes, "But I perceive that the news of Caspar Hauser's escape has already spread among our professors of philosophy; for I see that some of them have already given vent to their feelings in bitter and venomous abuse of me in various periodicals, making up by falsehoods for their deficiency of wit. Nevertheless I do not complain of all this, because I am rejoiced at the cause and amused by the effect of it, as illustrative of Goethe's verse:
"Es will der Spitz aus unserm Stall
Uns immerfort begleiten;
Doch seines Bellens lauter Schall
Beweist nur, dass wir reiten."
' The spitz from our stable wants it
Us constantly accompany;
However, of his barking loud sound
Proves only that we ride
I think this is like how dogs will bark at the elephant, but the elephant keeps walking, paying them no mind.
I was reminded of this while reading Cartwright's biography on Schopenhauer where he mentions, "Dorguth would write several tracts promoting and defending his "master's" philosophy, and he would compare the treatment of Schopenhauer's thought by professors of philosophy to that suffered by Caspar Hauser, a German foundling youth who claimed that he had been forced to spend most of his life in solitary confinement. The philosopher would give Dorguth credit when he used this comparison in the preface to the second edition of On the Will in Nature informing professors of philosophy that "their Caspar Hauser, I say, has escaped." "
I notice the suggested spelling is with a K. I wonder if this is similar to many people spelling Carl with a K.
Carl is how my grandfather spelled his and my own father's name.
from wikipedia:
Carl is a North Germanic male name meaning "strong man" or "free man". The name originates in Scandinavia. The name equates royal status, it is the first name of many Kings of Sweden including Carl XVI Gustaf.
Casper (with the same sounding Kasper) is a family and personal name derived from Chaldean that means "Treasurer". The origins of the name have been traced as far back as the Old Testament and variations of the name have been adopted by a variety of cultures and languages.
There are numerous modern variations such as Gaspar (Spanish and Portuguese), Gaspare (Italian), Gaspard (French), Kaspar (German,Dutch), Kašpar (Czech), Casper (English), Kacper (Polish), Kasperi (Finnish), Kasper (Danish), Gáspár (Hungarian), Kaspersky and Kasparov (Russian) and Kaspars (Latvian).
I guess the translator of On the Will in Nature is English, and I'm fairly certain Cartwright himself is English.
Do you think that maybe my great grandfather named his son Carl Hentrich instead of Karl Heinrich to Englisize and Americanize the "German sounding name"?
If my father was born a few years before Hitler "suicided", then I suppose my grandfather would have been born just prior to the world war one, which means there would have been a great deal of anti-Germanic propaganda to Englisize the Krauts in the USA ... I guess there was always pressure to kind of Englisize Scandanavian volk who migrated to the New World, which was/is a battleground between Spanish, English, French, and Dutch monarchies, eh? I always wondered what made the New World new and the Old World old. Is it because the true natives are said to have migrated here from the Far East 70,000 years ago? So, compared to the Eastern Hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere is "new" to ape and man. Only monkeys with tails originated here on "Turtle Island".
And I figure that the English were at one time a Germanic tribe ... Isn't English a Germanic language anyway? Eh, I guess I ought to be ashamed that I only write and speak English well ... and know more Spanish than German. I figure nothing really matters. I want to go extinct anyway. :D
From what I learned from Schopenhauer's "Metaphysics of Sexual Love," the only place on earth where the bleached human is indigenous is Scandinavia ... and that the original human beings have dark pigment. And then there is Nell Irvin Painter's theory that since Chimpanzees have dark hair covering their white skin ... when our common chimpanzee-like ancestors shed their fur in climates exposing them to the ultraviolet rays of the sun, their skin became pigmented.
With the depletion of the ozone layer, darker skin will be what Nature strives for in humans. This confirms Schopenhauer's theories about sexual attraction, how those without pigment will be sexually attracted to darker prototypes. Is that why Schopenhauer wanted to travel to Italy to sow his wild oats? He was hot for the Italian women, eh? ;D
The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser - Wild Child of Europe
Do you think I should use the more Germanic K instead of the English C?
kaspar
wild child
Holden:
Why not? I think K is more authentic.I have been rereading WWR.
Is that why Schopenhauer wanted to travel to Italy to sow his wild oats? He was hot for the Italian women, eh?
I think even if Schopenhauer's daughter would have survived,his philosophy would have remained untainted.Crawford,who wrote Confessions of an Antinatalist has got two daughters I think,but I admire him for his philosophy.
I confess the feel the tug of the flesh as well,but I am hopeful that I won't ever reproduce.My introversion is deeper than the sea.
Only,what they like to call introversion is actually,Will turning against itself.
I wish to go on writing on WWR.
Holden:
When Schopenhauer says music -does he mean music without lyrics??
Nation of One:
I would think that's the kind of music he means.
I wonder what he would have to say about today's "love songs" ... I read somewhere that romantic love is a hoax, that the entire idea of "falling in love" was invented 800 years ago by the French Troubadours.
I don't want to sidetrack your question, but it made me think a little. Maybe I am a little grouchy and irritable.
I know that Schopenhauer was one of the more "poetical" of the philosophers.
I believe you will surpass me in being a Schopenhauer scholar, so I would urge you to come to your own conclusions.
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