What should I read before getting into Schopenhauer's works?

Kant, everyone Kant responded to, and everyone who interpreted him (especially in relation to the thing-in-itself or aesthetics) in between. And the Upanishads.

You probably don't want to understand his ideas fully at all.

>>9366812
I cant understand threads like this. Either you have been reading your whole life and go into a work with the totality of both your life and reading experience, or youve never read, and are jumping into the deep end without an ability to swim.

>>9366849
That's how I learned to swim to be honest.

>>9366843
This, but don't actually read him, since you'll need to read even more complex books to even begin to understand what he was saying.
In this case the studying the SEP articles for Kant and his major works will be enough.

You should do the same for Hegel (again, don't even try to read him, you won't understand anything) and, at the very least, read the major post-socratic thinkers, since both him and Nietzsche (who you'll be able to read after having understood Schopenhauer) reference them a lot (in teh case of Nietzsche you should read certain presocratic philosophers too, but that's easy when compared to what you would have to read in order to understand even teh first 3 pages of any Critique by Kant).

If you do it right you may be able to start reading Schopenhauer in a few days. Reading him will be easy, he is one of the best, most accessible writers in the history of philosophy, and so is Nietzsche. They're probably the only philosophers in the Western canon who could teach you a thing or two about creative writing and the usage of rethorical figures and imagery.

>>9366849
Since philosophy is more often than not designed as a dialogue between various philosophers across the centuries it makes sense to ask these questions.
Reading the greek will make most philosophers accessible, reading the German idealists and Marxists thinker will unlock the rest of it (unless you want to delve into Scholastic philosophy and Theology).

>>9366812
>Studies in Pessimism: A Series of Essays
is an easy solid start to be desu

>>9366889
Thanks a lot!

If you have a decent grasp of Plato, Hume and Kant start with the Fourfold Root.