Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
The empiricist, atheist German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) is best known for his 1818 work, The World as Will and Representation. In it, he responds to the problem of evil by inverting the Augustinian definition of evil as the privation of good. Happiness, Schopenhauer argued, is but the temporary cessation of suffering, which is the default condition […]
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