Why did he hate philosophy? I'm sure he had the IQ to understand it but what about philosophy did Shakespeare dislike about? Keep in mind Shakespeare lived before some philosophers.
Shakespeare on philosophy
Christian Young
Tyler Rivera
Wow he obvs didn't read Kant what a brainlet
Mason Rodriguez
Considering Plato's opinion of theater and poetry it's not very surprising.
Ethan Kelly
Literature is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man. Philosophy is widdly words and diddly dums
Landon Davis
Hazlitt said that Shakespeare was as good a philosopher as he was a poet.
His great gift was as a dramatist, but within that form he certainly wrestled with philosophical issues, of free will in Macbeth for example.
This is a pretty good book, a little tryhard or maybe forced at times but with some real insights and worth a look-see:
Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays by Colin McGinn
Parker White
Gotta remember how dismal philosophy was back then (basically why Kant wrote 700+ pages trying to btfo it). Moreover, you gotta account for how much godawful theological mystic masturbation was circulating masquerading as "philosophy." Obviously a good ole hedonist like Bill would loathe that tripe.
Nicholas Richardson
What is it with anglos' obsession with IQ?
Analytical clowns, drop the retard juice ------rationalism taken to the niggerest extreme-----
Jayden Allen
What do you mean, "Why did he hate philosophy?" How extensively have you read Shakespeare? How do you define philosophy? Shakespeare was obviously influenced by Chaucer and both of them were very familiar with Seneca, and it shows. Lump Montaigne in there (who influenced Shakespeare in some points and is honestly him in pure essay form) and you have a handful of brilliant fucks. You don't have to be Kant or Plato or Aristotle or follow there schools to be a philosopher. Even Schopenhauer in his essays and often in his main work discusses stoicism and limiting desires and how fleeting happiness is.
Hamlet is a philosopher. Jaques is a philosopher. Examples of embodiments of Shakespeare's true philosophy are Corin and Prospero who would rather, instead of philosophizing and books, just work or live, accordingly. Hell as early as Taming of the Shrew you have Tranio advising Lucentio: "Let us be no stoics nor stocks!" He puts Ovid above Aristotle but that does not make him not a philosopher. That just shows his philosophy. Schopenhauer quotes Aristotle: "Poetry is superior to history, and more philosophical." Anyone () claiming Shakespeare is a "hedonist" should remember these lines from Henry IV:
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Elijah Jenkins
>quotes most hedonistic line imaginable
i see ur point
Evan Mitchell
my man