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How should Schopenhauer’s Philosophy be reconciled with his essays? His essays teach one how to live the good life materially, his philosophy says life is simply suffering, and preaches music or asceticism as the way to overcome the will to life.
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Schopenhauer prefaces his essays on living a good life by saying the essays cannot be reconciled with his main philosophy. The essays are a compromise where he ditches core ideas to give people something a little more practical. The first paragraph of one of his essays on attempting to live a happy life essentially says that living a happy life is impossible per his primary philosophy however if one were to attempt living a happy life, this is how one should go about it.