Title: Schopenhauer on Death, Salvation and Consolation☆
Abstract:Abstract For Schopenhauer, life is pain, and we are in need of a release from it. Death offers this release and should therefore be considered as a good thing, something desirable, a friend. He is wel...Abstract For Schopenhauer, life is pain, and we are in need of a release from it. Death offers this release and should therefore be considered as a good thing, something desirable, a friend. He is well aware, however, that it is far from easy to reconcile ourselves with the idea of death. The purpose of this paper is to navigate the path towards the possibility of consolation in Schopenhauer’s philosophy. Quite remarkably, Schopenhauer is not only successful in consoling us for death; he also offers an equally important consolation for life.Read More
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-29
Language: en
Type: article
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