[lit-ideas] Re: Mike and Schopenhauer
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 17:30:31 -0700
> And here, he's just getting warmed up.
ck: All right, I can swallow that. Does Schope recommend an existential
response to all the misery that is life? It's been too long since I read my
10 paragraphs.
Carol
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From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:49 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Mike and Schopenhauer
>> Mike will now have to share with us what he thinks constitutes
>> Schopenhauer's pessimism. I think that in certain respects dear ol'
>> Schopey can be quite an optimist (else he wouldn't think it possible to
>> abolish one's will, now would he?)
>
> 'Unless _suffering_ is the direct and immediate object of life, our
> existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the
> enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and
> originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as
> serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Each separate
> misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional; but
> misfortune in general is the rule.'
>
>
> Robert Paul
>
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