Tag: "Schopenhauer"

Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosophy’s Dr Feelgood

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), the author of The World as Will and Representation, was a profound metaphysician who also advocated basing ethics upon compassion. He was a great philosopher, but notoriously pessimistic, as the following quotations might suggest.
[Issue 171: December 2025 / January 2026: Happiness]

Existential Comics

A strip by Corey Mohler about Schopenhauer.
[Issue 171: December 2025 / January 2026: Cartoon]

Weltschmerz and the World

Ian James Kidd takes a realistic and global view of the history of pessimism.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025: Articles]

The Philosophy of Work

Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.
[Issue 160: February/March 2024: Articles]

Sour

by Emma Freudig
[Issue 149: April/May 2022: Poetry]

Tenet

Ștefan Bolea considers the motives of the kind of villain who wants to destroy the world (CONTAINS SPOILERS).
[Issue 148: February/March 2022: Films]

Brilliance and Gloom

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 134: October/November 2019: Editorial]

Poodle as Representation, Rottweiler as Will

Christopher Ryan takes a dogged look at Schopenhauer’s view of the world.
[Issue 134: October/November 2019: Schopenhauer]

Schopenhauer the Optimist

Duncan Richter explains why Schopenhauer thinks art, especially music, can provide a kind of salvation.
[Issue 134: October/November 2019: Schopenhauer]

The Ethics of a Pessimist

Dennis Vanden Auweele looks at Schopenhauer’s response to suffering.
[Issue 134: October/November 2019: Schopenhauer]