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On Schopenhauer: Is Life Suffering?

On Schopenhauer: Is Life Suffering?

Update: 2025-05-11
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The first in a mini-series on what Nietzsche called "Life-Denying Philosophies," in this episode we consider the thoroughly pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Is his thoroughgoing pessimism and life-denying perspective... wisdom or sickness (or something else)?


Works Referenced in this Episode:


Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation


Ācārāṅga Sūtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi, Jaina Sutras, 1884


Herman Hesse, Siddhartha


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On Schopenhauer: Is Life Suffering?

On Schopenhauer: Is Life Suffering?

Cameron Smith