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zakcattack t1_jclhnd1 wrote

They definitely feuded. Hegel was a superstar in his day and for a ehile both him and Schopenhauer taught at the same university. Arthur was so jealous of Hegel that he would schedule his classes at the same time as Hegel's. Of course almost everybody preferred Hegel which left Schopenhauer even more bitter. Germans who thought they'd figured it all out. Not the first, not the last.

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Domovnik_ t1_jcm8qr5 wrote

Believe it or not, the reality is even spicier than that. When Schopenhauer was applying for a lecturer position at the university, one of requirements was to deliver an oral presentation (if I'm not wrong the subject was his PhD thesis) which would be evaluated in front of a committee. Hegel was one of the three members of the committee and in fact Hegel's vote ended up being decisive for Schopenhauer to be approved. Hegel was pretty much totally indifferent towards Schopenhauer during his tenure as a lecturer, even though Schop quarrelled with a lot of people there.

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Mordac1989 t1_jclq1fa wrote

That's interesting because Schopenhauer is by far the easier read.

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KiraAnnaZoe t1_jcmm26o wrote

>Germans who thought they'd figured it all out. Not the first, not the last.

What does that mean? Do you mean like Nietzsche?

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red-cloud t1_jcnw2kr wrote

Probably: Marx, likely: Hitler, unlikely: Kissinger. Makes you wonder who’s next.

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grandoz039 t1_jcomzu7 wrote

That's literally what the article starts with.

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OrsonWellesghost t1_jcu5g0l wrote

It should be noted that nationalism in the wake of the Napoleonic wars were still seen as a positive and liberating idea, especially for German speaking peoples who had never had their own singular state up to that point

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