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== On Women == | == On Women == | ||
Schopenhauer's essay ''On Women'' concerns his disdain with what he perceived as the undue moral elevation of woman in the European society of his own time. Like [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] (who was clearly influenced in his own view of women by Schopenhauer's writings), he perceived the treatment of women in the East, such as China and the Islamic world, as more just and in accordance with reason than the contemporary Western view of the role of women in society, which he viewed as originating in soppy [[History of female sex-favoritism|French medieval chivalric]] texts. He claimed the veneration of women he saw in his own time was the "highest product of Christian–Teutonic stupidity". | Schopenhauer's essay ''On Women''<ref>http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/onwomen.html</ref> concerns his disdain with what he perceived as the undue moral elevation of woman in the European society of his own time. Like [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] (who was clearly influenced in his own view of women by Schopenhauer's writings), he perceived the treatment of women in the East, such as China and the Islamic world, as more just and in accordance with reason than the contemporary Western view of the role of women in society, which he viewed as originating in soppy [[History of female sex-favoritism|French medieval chivalric]] texts. He claimed the veneration of women he saw in his own time was the "highest product of Christian–Teutonic stupidity". | ||
He (like Aristotle before him) viewed women as chiefly representing stunted and imperfect males. In Schopenhauer's view, they are only destined for breeding and housekeeping, though he did later say that women who had the force of will and talent to "transcend" the limitations of their own sex could be viewed as worthy. | He (like Aristotle before him) viewed women as chiefly representing stunted and imperfect males. In Schopenhauer's view, they are only destined for breeding and housekeeping, though he did later say that women who had the force of will and talent to "transcend" the limitations of their own sex could be viewed as worthy. | ||