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"The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races" - Schopenhauer, Parerga and Par
by threads2 4y ago
"The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races" - Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, "On Philosophy and Natural Science," §92, trans. Payne (p. 158-159).
"[Judaism] is, therefore, the crudest and poorest of all religions and consists merely in an absurd and revolting theism." - Schopenhauer, "Fragments for the History of Philosophy", Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume I, trans. Payne (p. 126).
- Pompidou 4y agoThank you very much, I will take a look. Do you know of such ideas in The World as Will and Representation ?
- vt85 4y ago
- rohfle 4y agoThe first quote: https://archive.org/details/23341891SchopenhauerParergaAndParalipomenaV2/23341891-Schopenhauer-Parerga-and-Paralipomena-V-2/page/n165/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/23341891SchopenhauerParergaAndPa... The second quote: https://archive.org/details/23341891SchopenhauerParergaAndParalipomenaV2/23341915-Schopenhauer-Parerga-and-Paralipomena-V-1/page/n139/mode/2up?view=theater&q=crudest https://archive.org/details/23341891SchopenhauerParergaAndPa...
- jmeister 4y agoAre we still doing this? Antisemitism was the norm among intellectuals before WW2. Check out what Marx had to say.