13. (CONT.) THE IRRATIONALITY OF VOLITIONS AND THE MISERY OF EXISTENCE
CAMUS, É VOCÊ? PRIMEIRA SENTENÇA DO LIVRO: “The object of this chapter is to inquire whether the being or the non-being of this present world deserves the preference.”
“One must indeed make an ill reckoning of the worth of the journey of life if one can still wish that it should last longer than it actually does” Kant
“as soon as they withdraw into themselves and ask ‘Am I now happy?’ the reply comes distinctly from the depth of their soul, ‘Oh, no; thou art still just as empty and destitute as before!’” Fichte
“and they will in the future life, and in the infinite series of all future lives, just as vainly seek blessedness as they have sought it in the present life”
“Who will trouble himself about the common and ordinary mischances of a transitory life that has apprehended the pain of universal existence and the great fate of the whole?” Schelling
“that melancholy sadness which is the inheritance of almost all genius, because they do not feel at home in the world of their inferiors”
“a man who is neither exhausted and rendered blasé by immoderate pleasure” “I question whether the man would prefer the repetition of the past performance to non-existence, if his mind be free from fear, and calm, and if he has not altogether lived so thoughtlessly, without all self-reflection (…) How much more, however, now must this man prefer non-being to a re-entrance into life, which offers him not the favourable conditions his past life offered” “In the situation of this man, however, the Unconscious would find itself at every moment of a new birth, if it really possessed an option.” “the only error of this intelligence is that it regards itself as competent to condemn also what is below it”
“There remains, then, in fact, nothing for it but to judge every phenomenal stage of the Unconscious by its own standard, and then to draw from all these special judgments the algebraic sum, which then at the same time represents a real unconscious unity”
“these illusions afford the louse an excess of real felicity, which causes it to prefer its life to non-existence (…) the louse would be right and I wrong.”
Not a louse is depressive!
“and humanity will in time attain, on the average, a pitch of intelligence and cosmic intuition which at present only a cultured few have reached.”
“for it is true that with the progressive intelligence of the world the illusions of existence also must be more and more undermined, until finally all is recognized as ‘vanity of vanities’, the condition of the world would become ever more unhappy the more it approaches the goal of its evolution, whence we should conclude that it would have been more rational to prevent the development of the world the earlier the better”
FIRST STAGE OF THE ILLUSION. Happiness is considered as having been actually attained at the present stage of the world’s development, accordingly attainable by the individual of today in his earthly life.
“The attempted proof that this would is the worst of all possible ones is a manifest sophism; everywhere else Sch. himself tries to maintain and prove nothing further than that the existence of this world is worse than its non-existence, and this assertion I hold to be correct. The word Pessimism is thus an inappropriate imitation of the word Optimism.”
“Pain is the more painful, pleasure the more indifferent and cloying, the longer it lasts.”
Também não entendeu nenhum escrito estético desde Kant: “Let any one think of the enjoyments of agreeable taste and of those of art and Science, which later, since they did not fit into his theory of the negative character of pleasure, Sch. prudently rejected and treated as painless delight of the intellect liberated from the will, as if the intellect liberated from the will could still enjoy, or as if there could be a pleasurable sensation without a will in whose satisfaction it consists!”
Von Hartmann é só um positivista disfarçado de pós-romântico alemão. Autor fraquíssimo. Detenho ainda no começo do livro para evitar tamanho desprazer imediato.
Seclusão Anagógica 