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The Enemy to the Race
« on: March 01, 2017, 02:32:13 am »
One who believes that the pain in the world outweighs the joy, and expresses that unhappy conviction, only adds to the pain. Schopenhauer is an enemy to the race. Even if he earnestly believed that this is the most wretched of possible worlds, he should not promulgate a doctrine which robs men of the incentive to fight with circumstance. If Life gave him ashes for bread, it was his fault. Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.
Helen Keller, in Optimism (1903)


It made me laugh! Here is a man who gave a run for their money to Plato & Kant himself & here is this plagiarist*,who claims to have a "philosophy" which would be able to withstand the onslaught of Schopenhauer's ! What a laugh!

*Helen had sent a story she said she'd written, ''The Frost King,'' to one of her many boosters, Michael Anagnos of the Perkins Institution in Boston. The institution's alumni magazine published the little tale, idiotically calling it ''without parallel in the history of literature.'' ''The Frost King'' turned out to bear a strong resemblance to ''The Frost Fairies,'' by Margaret T. Canby, which had probably been read to Keller (using finger spelling) by Annie Sullivan. When word of the plagiarism got out, the newspapers had a "fair" field day.
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Re: The Enemy to the Race
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2017, 11:55:45 pm »
Thank you very much for that.  I may start reading those tonight. 

For you, I tracked down a textbook on Library Genesis specifically because the full instructor's solution manual is also available there.   Please download these and store on some kind of flash drive so that you will have them for later should you become curious.

a full calculus text:  http://libgen.me/view.php?id=865107

the instructor's solution manual for all solutions:  http://libgen.me/view.php?id=1201818 

Solution manual is ... (2543 pages!)

Thanks again for the essays by Michel Houellebecq!

UPDATE:  I was able to read it in one sitting before sleeping.  To have someone like Houellebecq say that The World as Will and Representation is the most important book in the world gives me confirmation that I have been on the right path all along.   Also, now when I look back at my resistance to Nietzsche's "whistling in the dark", it all makes so much sense.

I wonder why Nietzsche's books were so accessible while I had to discover Schopenhauer on my own.   The first time I read the name Schopenhauer was in some kind of encyclopedia in a jail "library" while researching "German philosophy".   

Anyway, the Instruction manual above goes with the text except does not have a chapter on Exponential Functions (chapter 7), so from there on, there is a correspondence ch 8 of text ---->  Chapter 9 of solution manual  .... n:n+1... but there exercises appear to be exactly the same match.

These would be very heavy books to lug around, so this is ideal .... you can take your sweet time, and when you need clarification, there is also a great book (with solutions) by Axler:  http://libgen.me/view.php?id=858632

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As for Keller's comment about Schopenhauer being the enemy of the race, first of all, I think Schopenhauer would prefer to be called the enemy of the SPECIES since the word "race" represents more of a sociological construct, whereas species includes all of us who share common primate ancestors.

Species-Traitor?

This is a tough call.   Suppose we are a rather unique accident, where we develop a consciousness which enables us to conclude that it is better never to have been born in the first place, which leads directly to ending the comedy of reproduction.

I guess some of us outsmart Mother Nature.  Mother Nature depends on gorts and suckers, what Schopenhauer calls "dupes."

There is no winning in the game of Life.  All are born to lose.

Keller is living with the common delusion that life is some kind of fight where one can triumph.

The species will not last forever anyway.  In the end, this planet belongs to the insects and rodents.

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Re: The Enemy to the Race
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2020, 10:26:19 pm »
I have been thinking about Keller's attack against Schopenhauer, refering to him as an Enemy of the Race, or, to correct her, a Species Traitor.    Surely Schopenhauer sided with animal life when he stated that human beings are devils in human form tormenting the spirits of animal being.    Each of us, paradoxically, then, must be simultaneously both human devil and tormented beast in the same body.

Schopenhauer was more "against Life in general."  Recall the image of two animals, one in the process of eating anothert alive.   The hunger driving the Eater-of-Meat to Grind the Living Flesh into its jaws, processing it into its system and out its bowels ... this is the Joy of Living, no?   

IWhen someone says that they have a strong mind, so therefore do not allow themselves to be concerned with such things, I understand that they are turning their programmed insensitivity into something they are proud of.  In other words, they will imply that one has a weak mind if the nasty little details about this creepy thing called Life cause one distress or dis-ease.
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Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

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Re: The Enemy to the Race
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2021, 02:16:54 am »
"How can you know if you are in the truth? The criterion is simple enough: if others make a vacuum around you, there is not a doubt in the world that you are closer to the essential than they are."
 
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La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
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