GOETZ: Opus 543 Schopenhauer

cacheman

K-543 ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, 1938, Cast AE, 105mm, R, Choice UNC.

To commemorate the 150th year anniversary of his birth, 1788-1938. German philosopher.

FC57Coins

Kewl - why's that naked guy getting ready to spank his Sphynx?

bosox

Cacheman,

These are wonderful and very interesting medals. Keep posting 'em. Just out of curiosity, how many do you have?

Rob

oldshep

I would like to know the story of the reverse - interesting combination!!
Shep

cosmicdebris

<<spank his Sphynx?>>

cacheman

Arthur Schopenhauer

Askari

Now this is a rare one indeed. I've wondered whether this was just a commissioned piece or whether he was himself drawn to Schopenhauer's philosophy. In college, I found Schopenhauer to be the one philosopher who came closest to my own perspective. In fact, he comes the closest of any philosopher I have been familiar with to developing a philosophy capable of forming a morality, something which normally lies in the realm of religion. However, he comes up short in a few areas, which results in his inability to proffer a truly universal and practical one for anybody not able to deeply immerse himself in philosophy, metaphysics and asceticism and without the need to attend to the day-to-day. His corpus is a magisterial work at atheistically imitating Christianity and Hinduism, though.

I know I found a personal "antidote" to his pessimistic worldview, but after 30 years, I don remember enough of his writings to even recall what my further construction plainly was (other than that it returned God to the picture). I think a key problem to many of these metaphysical philosophies' is their tendency to resort to Platonism (or Neo-Platonism). This paganist philosophy has an inherent tendency to drive the "answer" to asceticism (and indeed had just such an effect on early Christianity in the Greco-Roman world). Moreover, that leads also to a sort of dualism in many cases, a problem that keeps cropping up to haunt and taunt true Christianity in nearly every generation. Still, exposure to Schopenhauer and to the existentialist philosophers is a great means for shaking out what you really believe and for developing a more consistent framework for your worldview than the mishmash of received pieces of "wisdom" we tend to "accumulate" uncritically in our youth.

cacheman

"Cacheman,

These are wonderful and very interesting medals. Keep posting 'em. Just out of curiosity, how many do you have?

Rob"

To date I believe I have, with patterns, about 190 Goetz pieces. I've been collecting Goetz for 17 months now and as I acquire them I image them and post them here....

1jester

Good synopsis, Askari!

Another nice medal, Cacheman. I didn't realize you had so many. Keep up the outstanding work.

Steve27

" why's that naked guy getting ready to spank his Sphynx?"

ROFL, but another nice one!