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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« on: July 17, 2016, 10:08:26 pm »
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All relatives look at me as a freak.They think I care about what they think about me. 

They are greatly mistaken.

I'm sure my relatives see me as some kind of freak as well, but, then again, wasn't Schopenhauer a freak?   I am the oldest male cousin.  My maternal grandparents had 8 children, 6 of which were daughters, all now grandmothers themselves.   So, I am apparently one of the few of the many cousins who has not reproduced, and those couple others who haven't are still young and most likely striving to do so.  It no longer concerns me.  The children of my cousins will soon be throwing more puppies into this, sure enough.  It is not my place to discourage them.  They wouldn't listen to me anyway.  I must be a bit of a joke, eh?

To each his own.  I have no ill will.

I try not to judge anyone, but I certainly envy no one.

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Your other question was whether we should focus on whats happening in the world or not-wars,killings etc.

I think we should ignore them completely.We can do nothing about it whatsoever. The roots of evil are far deeper than these politicians are willing to accept.I could just read Schopenhauer for the rest of my life while the world around me continues to burn.

True.  We can do nothing about it.  No people on earth have a monopoly on evil.  As you have noted many times, it is a matter of chance that anyone has the temperament they have.  I do not believe holding signs in the air will change the order of things.  I heard "Be the change you want to see in the world."   

I want to nurture intelligence.  I do not want to see intelligence at the mercy of brutality. 

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At present I am reading the Essay on Spirit Seeing.I think Schopenhauer was a genius greater than a zillion Einsteins put together.

Me too.  I try to remember this when I get discouraged about not being an Einstein when it comes to physics.  You know, I love the algebraic calculations and formulas, all that.  I'm just not a very fast thinker.  Sometimes, though, I think this might be the ideal pace for such things.  One can't read formulas as literature.  Still, I respect Schopenhauer's grade of intelligence.  It may sound like an oxymoron, but it seems as though Schopenhauer had a high degree of intelligence in his heart, what modern psychologists might even call "emotional intelligence."

I would go so far as to say that it would require emotional intelligence to discern that splitting "the atom" might not be such a bright idea.  That's why I don't worship science or "scientists" even as I myself am very fascinated with science, especially Queen Mathematics.  I jokingly referred to my grandfathers as "servile scientists".  They did as they were told, and were proud of their golden handcuffs.  I can still hear my paternal grandfather teasing me (when I was a confused and rebellious teenager), "What are you going to do, live in a tent?"

He would say things like, "The world doesn't owe you a living."

The maternal grandfather, also a scientist (an engineer) would encourage me to think with my head and not with my heart.  Often, throughout my life, I have thought with my heart.

Someone who is thinking with their heart is not likely to help create weapons of mass destruction for the State calling it his "duty".   

"It's either that, or they will send me to the front lines!"

"Umm, one could be a conscientious objector."

Excuse me, I went off on tangent.   

I was just considering that just as there are different grades of will,  there may be different kinds of intelligence.  Who is to say why certain employees are promoted to certain positions of authority.  It may have little to do with intelligence or aptitude and more to do with attitude and servility.

Soldiers do not get praised for thinking.

One thing is certain, marching soldiers are not thinking. 

Hence, in order to promote patriotism or nationalism or corporatism, a certain kind of thinking must be viewed as subversive, criminal, or at least "diseased".
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