Studies in Pessimism
Schopenhauer argues pain is the real business of life and happiness is only its temporary absence, then follows that logic straight through suicide, women, and a huddle of porcupines.
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Schopenhauer argues pain is the real business of life and happiness is only its temporary absence, then follows that logic straight through suicide, women, and a huddle of porcupines.
Schopenhauer argues the entire visible world is just your idea, driven underneath by one blind, insatiable will, and the only escapes are losing yourself in art or renouncing desire altogether.
Hegel walks his Berlin students through the entire history of thought as a single mind slowly discovering itself, from Chinese sages to a dog-like Cynic dying on the streets of Athens.
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