Open AccessSchopenhauer's pessimism
Author(s) -
Volker Spierling
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
enrahonar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2014-881X
pISSN - 0211-402X
DOI - 10.5565/rev/enrahonar.733
Subject(s) - pessimism , psychology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , epistemology
Schopenhauer has acquired, not unreasonably, the fame of being a pessimist thinker. To him, in opposition to Lebniz, this world is the worst of all the possible worlds. “Were it worse -he says-it could not keep existing”. This article exposes, through an analysis of his work together with a fictitious talk with the German thinker, the foundations of that pessimism and its philosophical implication