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Originally Posted by de gierer
Which of the Greeks are you referring to? Plato influenced Herr Arthur Schopenhauer, but so did Herr Immanuel Kant, who is worlds apart from many of his views. Aren't the auncient Vedics closer to Herr Arthur Schopenhauer's Filosofia?
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Nietzsche wrote the ideas of pre-Socratic philosophers in Ancient Greece in regards to their kind of proto-pessimism. He specifically pointed to Anaximander (who predates Plato quite a bit iirc) as a "true pessimist", though like I said before I'm not well-read enough in Greek philosophy to know the subtle nuances between their brand and present-day pessimist thought.
As for the Vedics, I'm not very familiar with Vedic-era literature other than some cursory knowledge of the Rigveda and Kautilya's Arthashastra (which I believe is Vedic era but I could be wrong), so I honestly don't know how much influence they had on Schopenhauer. If you'd like to enlighten me on that though I'd very much like the knowledge.