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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
section 13 group 2 10/10
In class we discussed Arthur Schopenhauer, the man who pushed the old woman down the stairs. That is definitely the first thing that came to my mind and the rest of the groups minds when we started discussing. The odd thing we found about it, it that it seems that Schopenhauer is a hypocrite. He says that we are all part of the same energy force, that if we hurt someone else, then it is just like self-harm. It will destroy a part of the life force that brings us all together. We also talked about his love for the arts and music, and how he was one of the first philosophers to write about it.
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I definitely think Scopenhauer was a hypocrite, and I find it hard to take his work seriously knowing that he pretty much killed an innocent old lady. Kierkegaard's philosophy is a bit more appealing to me.
ReplyDeleteDo you think faith in God is more important than ethics?
Kierkegaard wrote many of his books using false names. true