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On Schopenhauer’s curative philosophy
Two years ago, while reading a philosophy textbook, I’ve learned that for German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, our world is “the best of all possible worlds.” This is because God, who is good and omnipotent, chose to create our world of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arthur schopenhauer, book review, denial of the will, desire, egoism, essay, irvin yalom, life, literature, love, madness, pessimism, psychology, schopenhauer, solitude, subjectivity, suffering, the schopenhauer cure, the world as will and representation, will
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Mistake
Perhaps I was wrong with everything. With every decision I had made, with every opinion I held about politics, philosophy, and art, with the way I saw life—perhaps they had all been a mistake. Perhaps I never had been right … Continue reading
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Tagged college life, egoism, essay, friends, growing up, high school life, ignorance, irrationality, lao tzu, life, madness, maturity, men, objectivity, prudence, subjectivism, subjectivity, suffering, tao te ching, taoism, women
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Assimilating genius and madness
Arthur Schopenhauer discussed a very interesting topic on the 36th chapter of his chief work The World as Will and Representation, because on that chapter he discussed the concept of genius and madness, and how those two are related to … Continue reading
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