Why Schopenhauer Hated Life
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Published8 months ago
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Why did Schopenhauer hate life?
These are five reasons:
1) For him, suffering is life. Illness, pain, aging. It's unavoidable and... it only gets worse until you die.
2) Behind it all lies the Will: an irrational force that drives our endless desires. It keeps us stuck in a cycle of misery.
3) And those desires he talks about? They never stop. The moment one is satisfied, another pops up.
4) Only pain is real. Pleasure is just the brief absence of pain. So, in the end, pain is all we have.
5) Life is eating or being eaten. Just look at nature. Animals and people are feeding on each other.
So, that's why Schopenhauer hated life.