- TIL that Schopenhauer, author of "On Compassion", threw an old lady down the stairs because she talked too much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/arthur_schopenhauer 3 comments philosophy
- Schopenhauer even went so far as to protest against the use of the pronoun "it" in reference to animals because it led to the treatment of them as though they were inanimate things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/arthur_schopenhauer?referrer=nihil.org 6 comments philosophy
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- Culture Is Not About Esthetics · Gwern.net http://www.gwern.net/Culture%20is%20not%20about%20Esthetics 55 comments
- "Is Everything Meaningless?" : On Nihilism, Agency, and an Absurd Existence | Existential Basics 3 https://themodernexistentialist.substack.com/p/nihilism-agency-and-an-absurd-existence?s=w 14 comments
- We’re not as selfish as we think we are. Here’s the proof | George Monbiot | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/14/selfish-proof-ego-humans-inherently-good 9 comments
- The Horror of Suffering http://reducing-suffering.org/the-horror-of-suffering/ 5 comments
- Arthur Schopenhauer on "Natural" Versus "Artificial" Education http://www.refinethemind.com/schopenhauer-on-education/ 3 comments
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- Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net https://gwern.net/review/cat 0 comments
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