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Philosophical Dictionary

  • Meme of two marble statues in a barbershop. The barber asks what the customer wants, the customer asks what it means to want, and the barber starts cutting.

    Schopenhauer: Man can do what he wants, but man can't want what he wants.

    By Markus Uehleke

    It sounds like a riddle: you can do what you want, but you can’t want what you want. Schopenhauer meant the idea literally, and Einstein found it consoling. We trace the line to the 1839 essay behind it, unpack his theory of will, motive and character, and ask: if you never chose your wants, who is to blame?
  • Schopenhauer and Hinduism: on the fast track to 'Moksha'

    Schopenhauer and Hinduism: The Upanishads, Moksha and the Denial of the Will

    By Markus Uehleke

    Schopenhauer called the Upanishads the solace of his life and put them next to Kant and Plato. He read them in Latin, via Persian, and built an ethics of renunciation that sounds a lot like moksha. Did he borrow his philosophy from India, and why does the meme about sex and the will to live get him right?