
Episode 94: Schopenhauer on Reading, Writing, and Thinking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Isn't That a Fine Stage in Intellectual Development?
There are certain authors that some students will become enamoured with solely and deeply. And neches one of them is nitha manita. I think this is what the critic harold bloom means by the anxiety of infuence, although i'm not sure which is idea that you need influence, right? Whereas schopenhauer has seemingly very black and white, yoh, you should just beor reading off nature. The work should come into being with your thinking mind impregnated from without, right, from nature itself, not from things you're you're reading.
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