Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a post-Kantian, pessimistic German philosopher (born in 1788 in the city of Danzig, Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, modern day Gdansk, Poland) and NEET. Though largely unappreciated in his own era, his writings had later become immensely influential. Of greatest relevance to this wiki, he is also known for his 'misogynist' essay entitled "On Women", which argued for female subordination, authored in 1851 in his books Parerga and Paralipomena.
Schopenhauer was not an incel. He had various love affairs throughout his life, not rarely with women much younger than him. He never married because he perceived monogamy as too limiting, so he was more of a Chad style misogynist than an incel misogynist; he was, however, mercilessly rejected by a 17 year old girl when he was 43. His work has been cited as a precursor to the blackpill philosophy,https://multiversityproject.co/blog/did-incels-get-their-philosophy-from-schopenhauer/ though different from contemporary incel blackpillers, he did not even advocate against courtship, saying the lack thereof would drive people into boredom and suicide.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romance_(love)&oldid=1035315905#Arthur_Schopenhauer
== On Women ==
Schopenhauer's essay On Womenhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Studies_in_Pessimism/On_Women concerns his disdain with what he perceived as the undue moral elevation of woman in the European society of his own time. Like Nietzsche (who was clearly influenced in his own view of women by Schopenhauer's writings), he perceived the treatment of women in the East, such as China and the Islamic world, as more just and in accordance with reason than the contemporary Western view of the role of women in society, which he viewed as originating in soppy French medieval chivalric texts. He claimed the veneration of women he saw in his own time was the "highest product of Christian–Teutonic stupidity".
He (like Aristotle before him) viewed women as chiefly representing stunted and imperfect males. In Schopenhauer's view, they are only destined for breeding and housekeeping, though he did later say that women who had the force of will and talent to "transcend" the limitations of their own sex could be viewed as worthy.
Schopenhauer continually portrays women as petty, childish, quarrelsome, frivolous, immoral, deceitful, and as being (altogether) the moral, intellectual and physical inferiors of man. He does, however, see women as being more pragmatic and realistic than men, but he attributes this mainly to what he sees as their greater materialism and lack of idealism. He states that women's fundamental flaw is their lack of justice, which he attributed to their deficiency of reasoning and also them being adapted by nature to rely on guile (namely their manipulation of men), rather than strength and intellect, to achieve their ends.
He concludes the essay by criticizing the institution of monogamy (which he, in any case, views as a falsity, arguing that polygyny is the natural state of man), saying this institution causes a surplus of unmarried women (who would rather live polygynously than entering a monogamous marriage), who then either become useless unhappy maids or overworked prostitutes, depending on their economic standing. He thus calls for the widespread legalization and implementation of polygamy in Europe, praising the Mormon's (at the time) practice of polygamy. He also calls for women to lose many of their legal rights, such as inheritance of property of their partners or fathers, or indeed legal guardianship over their children, with Schopenhauer arguing that women are mere children themselves who will always squander their late husbands wealth on mere vanities. He argues that women should not be guardians of children, as they themselves are dependents that require a guardian.
== Quotes ==
Schopenhauer was redpilled on the wall:
== References ==
== External links ==
* Schopenhauer on women
== See also ==
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Otto Weininger