Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' Archived Message
Posted by brooks on March 26, 2021, 4:33 pm, in reply to "Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' "
Well it's still a bit oversimplified, and can't be summed up with labels or formulas, or a sentence taken from his voluminous works, just as your own philosophy probably couldn't be summed up by saying jounlilburne is the ultimate optimist. The basis of his ethics was rooted in his metaphysics, partly inherited from Kant, and the idea that all individuation and its forms - time space and causality - were manifest only at the level of phenomenon, or idea/representation/appearance. Underlying all of that was the noumenon, Kant's ding an sich which was not subject to these forms. Can't get into all the arguments Schopenhauer used to adduce this and that Kan't noumenal x was will, but because this could not be subject to the principles of individuation, it was one and undivided. While one can arrive at at this analytically, it can be grasped intuitively when one feels compassion for another's suffering: the spontaneous feeling that at a deeper level what separates us is an illusion, rooted in the deceptive and illusory appearances of the phenomenal world. Schopenhauer considered this identification of all living beings as expressions of the same underlying force to be the natural basis of all morality and ethics. The obligations that flow from that recognition necessitate engagement with the world, and should lead one to a radical political analysis, but Schopenhauer couldn't quite take that step, and perhaps focussed to much on redemption and freeing oneself from suffering, instead of engagement...but still labelling it pessimism, given its contemporary connotations, isn't really helpful imo even though he himself used the word. To me he is an endlessly fascinating, brilliant and profound thinker and a beautiful writer to boot, and really does represent a meeting of western and eastern philosophy, for which he had the highest respect. His comment on the available Upanishads translations: It is the most satisfying and elevating reading (with the exception of the original text) which is possible in the world; it has been the solace of my life and will be the solace of my death.”
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- Perhaps there are similar patterns as amongst the modern hikikomori?. - Ken Waldron March 25, 2021, 11:34 pm
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