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Schopenhauer on Denial of the Will

Denial of the will, Schopenhauer says, must be the objective of every philosophizing and all thinking. Salvation occurs...

According to Schopenhauer, suffering permeates life and shapes human existence; it cannot be escaped or eliminated, for it...

On The Vanity and Suffering of Life is an essay that appears in the second volume of Schopenhauer’s...

Schopenhauer’s pessimism resides in two related claims: that “all life is suffering”, and accordingly that the world and...

According to Schopenhauer, “all life is suffering”. Hence, suicide might arise as a possibility, as the only response...

Schopenhauer links together suffering and the “will-to-live”, thinks them form out of their togetherness, and says that suffering...

Perhaps it is only in the poetry of Anna Akhmatova that suffering, for the first time, opens itself...