Schopenhauer had a very weird philosophical outlook quite unique in Western philosophy. It was an amalgam of east and west that makes little sense to modern people. Something like a Ptolemaic universe run by a demi-urge with reincarnation and women being inferior and penalized for wickedness in prior lives. Maybe that’s why he went ahead and threw his landlady down a flight of stairs.
The demi-urge, if I recall, didn’t like humanity either so Schopenhauer was a pessimist. He did write one good book named The Fourfold Roots of Reason. Well at least the first half is good. It is a kind of try at recapitulating Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. That books is a sketch of the Critique of Pure Reason.
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