Philosopher
Philipp Mainländer
Overview
Philipp Mainländer (German: [ˈmaɪ̯nlɛndɐ]; 5 October 1841 – 1 April 1876) was a German philosopher and poet. Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main.
In his central work, Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption or The Philosophy of Salvation) — according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" — Mainländer proclaims that life is of negative value, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality."
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Philosophers who discussed Philipp Mainländer
Ideas Philipp Mainländer discusses
- Epicurus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Frederick C. Beiser
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The World as Will and Representation
- Philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Italy
- Immanuel Kant
- Slavoj Žižek
- Suicide
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Cesare Lombroso
- Social democracy
- Will to life
- Monism
- Russian Empire
- Absolute (philosophy)
- The Gay Science
- Philosophical pluralism
- Emil Cioran
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.