Tradition
Philosophical pessimism
Overview
view that the bad in life and existence outweighs the good
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Philosophers who discussed Philosophical pessimism
- John Gray (philosopher)
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Heraclitus
- Emil Cioran
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Eduard von Hartmann
- Philipp Mainländer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Albert Camus
- Baltasar Gracián
- Eugene Thacker
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
- Julius Bahnsen
- Drew Dalton
- Al-Ma'arri
- The Last Messiah
- Carlo Michelstaedter
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gnosticism
- Princeton University Press
- The World as Will and Representation
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Hedonism
- History of India
- Antinatalism
- Human condition
- Pleasure
- David Benatar
- Saṃsāra
- Will to life
- Metaphysics
- Monism
- Anattā
- Nirvana
- Aesthetics
- Nihilism
- Noble Eightfold Path
- Ontology
- Best of all possible worlds
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Antinatalism
- Bryan Magee
- David Pearce (philosopher)
- Emil Cioran
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Indiana University
- University of Cape Town
- Eugene Thacker
- Thomas Metzinger
- Aeon (magazine)
- Frans Hals
- Inner peace
- The Denial of Death
- Amor fati
- True Detective
- Thomas Ligotti
- Appeal to nature
- Eradication of suffering
- Rust Cohle
- The Last Messiah
- James Sully
- Julio Cabrera (philosopher)
- Olga Plümacher
- Weltschmerz