WARNING: SauerKraut needs a cup of strong black coffee (man-child King-Baby syndrome)
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Like I said, I trust your judgement. Since I just finished reading
Rejectionist Philosophy late last night (in the middle of the night, of course), I will go ahead and load Sabry's work into the reading contraption (which is easy on the eyes after a long day of arithmetic and theorems).
The least we can do is give a little support to anyone who goes through the trouble of trying to shed light into this abyss.
Thanks for keeping me posted. In retrospect, this will all appear rather exciting, especially when I reflect upon how significant my initial "discovery" of Schopenhauer was. Like Nietzsche, happening upon Schopenhauer was purely accidental for me. Unlike organized religion or public education, which was forced upon me, it was pure chance (contingency?) which led me to my true educator.
The only reason I hesitate to invest any hope of learning something from Sabry is that, from what I have read in the "Look Inside" preview on Amazon, he is quite the pantheist.
[At its most general, pantheism may be understood positively as the view that God is identical with the cosmos, the view that there exists nothing which is outside of God, or else negatively as the rejection of any view that considers God as distinct from the universe.]
Almost on principal, I am reluctant to subject myself to having someone just blatantly replace the word "will" with terms such as "soul", and replace the term "world" with the word "God".
I don't think Schopenhauer would appreciate this at all.
No, I am very reluctant to read Sabry's book. He uses the word God far too frequently. It makes me a little angry and upset, to be honest.
I will give it a chance, but I will not hesitate to criticize Sabry's use of meaningless words such as God and soul. I don't understand how someone so loyal to the spirit of Schopenhauer would miss this important aspect of what made Schopenhauer so "great". He was repulsed by the way philosophers would use this word, "God," and then act as though they had explained something profound, when, in actuality, they say nothing of the sort. The same can be said of the word, "Unconscious" - as though by naming it the unconscious we have somehow defined and comprehended its mysterious contents!
I will read Sabry with you, but I have to say the grouchy sour Kraut in me was roused upon reading just the first few pages. I will have to use restraint and cut Sabry a great deal of slack, if only out of sympathy in that he pays Schopenhauer such great respect. He would show more respect for Schopenhauer if he were to remove the words God and soul from his vocabulary.