# Neoplatonic Schopenhauer

When it comes to Schopenhauer, people usually think of Buddhism or
Kantism first. But he was also heavily influenced by Plato. So
reading him with the Neoplatonic lense would be good.


## Schopenhauer vs Neoplatonism

* Will to live - Monad but totally irrational and evil
* Forms - Nous
* Principle of sufficient reason - Anima Mundi
* Spacetime - Cosmos

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* Denial of the Will - Gnosis
* Art - Temporal Gnosis


What he did was changing monad to the source of sufferings. But he
left nous as a good thing.

Denial of the will is gnosis in the literal sense. Because you
obtain it by experiencing great sufferings. As monad.


His mixing of Neoplatonism and Kantism shows that the essence-energies
distinction of the Orthodox theology is totally compatible with
Kantism. And the panentheism of Hermeticism too.