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Besides my guess that "excessive overblown" is a redundancy I think that Schopenhauer makes it very clear that he understands politeness quite for what it is : a cultivated construction to make social traffic easier. And where you see it as linked to island cultures I think the more or less strict use of polite formulas is sooner linked to social classes and training.(not class restricted)



Wrongo, BranShea, my use of "excessive overblown" was intended as a intensifier. But yes, I should have set "overblown" apart with commas.

And no! Schopenhauser could not have possibly understand "politeness" for what it is, because Schopenhauser didn't understand the nature of language.

Like BelligerentMan said about the comments of that phoney, third rate, English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, who accused Shopenhauser of being "optimistic" :

(in effect) before you can philosophically assign a value to human behavior you must first determine a raison d'etre for humans.

Last edited by themilum; 11/23/2006 1:25 PM.