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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer
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 Dinesh
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Arthur Schopenhauer was an even greater pessimist than Kierkegaard because he did not believe that pain is ennobling in any way; and yet he was also an ironist and an epigrammatist for whom the continuity of life and history was more absurd than tragic. “Life is a business whose returns are far from covering the cost,” he wrote. “Let us merely look at it; this world is constantly needy creature who continue for a time merely by devouring one another, pass their existence in anxiety and want, and often endure terrible affliction, until they fall at last into the arms of death.” The depressive, in Schopenhauer’s view, lives simply because 9ie has a basic instinct to do so “which is first and unconditioned, the premise of all praises.” He answered Aristotle age-old suggestion that men of genius are melancholy by saying that man who has any real intelligence will recognize “the wretchedness of his condition.” Swift and Voltaire, Schopenhauer believed in work -- not because work breeds cheer so much as because it distracts men from their essential depression. “If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease,” he wrote, “men would either die of boredom or kill themselves.” Even the bodily pleasure that should remove one from despair is only a necessary distraction introduced by nature to keep the race alive.” “If children were brought into the world by the act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist.? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare in the burden of existence.” ~ Page 317

Excerpt "The Noonday Demon" Author: Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon
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“. . . So long as we are given up to the throng of Desires with its constant hopes and fears. . . we never obtain lasting happiness or peace ~ Schopenhauer

“Man is a wolf to a man” ~ Schopenhauer

. . . His (Schopenhauer’s) doctorate thesis, which had the off-putting title “On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason’ (1813) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50966 has become a minor classic. While still in his twenties he wrote his master piece ‘The World as Will and Representation,’ which was published in 1818. www.gutenberg.org/files/38427/38427-pdf.pdf He believed that this book solved the enigma of the universe, and he was greatly taken aback when no-one took much notice of it. It left him not knowing what to do. After a long silence he produced a little book “On the Will in Nature” (1836) archive.org/details/twoessaysschopen00schouoft designed to show that the ongoing progress of science was supporting the arguments of his main work. . . Page 138

THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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