Amazing how geniuses come to the same conclusions

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In Schopenhauer's 1851 collection Parerga and Paralipomena, specifically within his thoughts on geography and anthropology, he claimed that colder northern climates forced people to develop higher intellect ("inner life") to survive, while people in warm climates remained superficial and overly social. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

• The Burden of Climate: He argued that in tropical and warm climates, nature provides food and warmth effortlessly. Because survival is easy, people have no natural pressure to develop a deep, complex intellect or reflective inner life. [1]
• Sociability as "Dullness": Schopenhauer famously hated socializing, viewing a high need for company as a sign of an empty mind. He asserted that people in warm climates are highly social and outward-facing precisely because their individual minds lack internal substance. [1, 2, 3]
• The "Northern" Intellect: Conversely, he argued that harsher European winters forced humans to plan, build, and contemplate. He claimed this necessity sparked a more developed, isolated, and introspective consciousness (what he called "the higher degree of existence")

 

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So southern people are inferior ?

 

[IStalkMyself]

In Schopenhauer's 1851 collection Parerga and Paralipomena, specifically within his thoughts on geography and anthropology, he claimed that colder northern climates forced people to develop higher intellect ("inner life") to survive, while people in warm climates remained superficial and overly social. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

• The Burden of Climate: He argued that in tropical and warm climates, nature provides food and warmth effortlessly. Because survival is easy, people have no natural pressure to develop a deep, complex intellect or reflective inner life. [1]
• Sociability as "Dullness": Schopenhauer famously hated socializing, viewing a high need for company as a sign of an empty mind. He asserted that people in warm climates are highly social and outward-facing precisely because their individual minds lack internal substance. [1, 2, 3]
• The "Northern" Intellect: Conversely, he argued that harsher European winters forced humans to plan, build, and contemplate. He claimed this necessity sparked a more developed, isolated, and introspective consciousness (what he called "the higher degree of existence")

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