How are you promoting real culture?

> Here I have arrived at an answer to the question whether it is poss­ible to pursue the great ideal of the Schopenhauerean man by means of a practical activity. One thing above all is certain: these new duties are not the duties of a solitary; on the contrary, they set one in the midst of a mighty community held together, not by external forms and regulations, but by a fundamental idea. It is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets for each one of us but one task: to promote the production of the philosopher, the artist and the saint within us and without us and thereby to work at the perfecting of nature. For, as nature needs the philosopher, so does it need the artist, for the achievement of a metaphysical goal, that of its own self-enlightenment, so that it may at last behold as a clear and finished picture that which it could see only obscurely in the agitation of its evolution - for the end, that is to say, of self-knowledge.

From "Schopenhauer as educator"

I am interested in how others see themselves fulfilling this fundamental idea of culture, as I don't think I can name how I am promoting the production of these types of men myself.

>>2825
what a great quote. I've been very struck by the idea of the philosopher, not always under that name, for a long time. The philosopher is the being that strives to comprehend his own nature, the law of nature, and his role in the cosmic story, and achieves a higher form of life thereby. It's interesting Nietzsche (I assume) is placing this as one of the crowning achievements of culture and of nature. There's something to that.

As for how we promote this ideal, of course we should all strive to be such men to start with, and to study the canon of philosophy together. I've also done various projects over the years that feed into this (in my humble opinion) but it feels gauche to talk about. It doesn't feel like a "what did you get done this week" sort of question, as if the masses could do much of anything for the sake of philosophy from day to day. It's rather something you take into consideration when laying the foundations of your ambitions. "How will this help us achieve the legendary super-philosopher" is definitely a question I ask when I do things, but it's hard to name the details like you say OP (at least without sounding insane).

Still, last night a friend and I met to discuss our philosophical ambitions and the complementary approaches between our projects, which are both unambiguously projects in service of philosophy.