{"id":8827,"date":"2013-04-27T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/schopenhauer-on-islam-the-saddest-and-poorest-form-of-theism\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:04:43","slug":"schopenhauer-on-islam-the-saddest-and-poorest-form-of-theism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/schopenhauer-on-islam-the-saddest-and-poorest-form-of-theism\/","title":{"rendered":"Schopenhauer on Islam, &#8220;The Saddest and Poorest Form of Theism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Arthur Schopenhauer, <em>The World as Will and Representation<\/em>, tr. E. F. J. Payne, vol. II (Dover, 1966), p. 162. This is from Chapter XVII, &quot;On Man&#39;s Need for Metaphysics&quot; (emphases added and a paragraph break):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Temples and churches, pagodas and mosques, in all countries and ages, in their splendour and spaciousness, testify to man&#39;s need for metaphysics, a need strong and ineradicable, which follows close on the physical. The man of a satirical frame of mind could of course add that this need for metaphysics is a modest fellow content with meagre fare. Sometimes it lets itself be satisfied with clumsy fables and absurd fairy-tales. If only they are imprinted early enough, they are for man adequate explanations of his existence and supports for his morality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need for countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of <strong>a remarkable contempt for death<\/strong>, and also to inspire them to <strong>bloody wars and the most extensive conquests.<\/strong> In this book we find <strong>the saddest and poorest form of theism.<\/strong> Much may be lost in translation, but <strong>I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value<\/strong>. Such things show that the capacity for metaphysics does not go hand in hand with the need for it . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, tr. E. F. J. Payne, vol. II (Dover, 1966), p. 162. This is from Chapter XVII, &quot;On Man&#39;s Need for Metaphysics&quot; (emphases added and a paragraph break): Temples and churches, pagodas and mosques, in all countries and ages, in their splendour and spaciousness, testify to man&#39;s need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/schopenhauer-on-islam-the-saddest-and-poorest-form-of-theism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Schopenhauer on Islam, &#8220;The Saddest and Poorest Form of Theism&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,139,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-religion","category-schopenhauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}