Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses: Anthropocentrism in Schopenhauer and Freud

Altman, Matthew C.; Coe, Cynthia D.

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The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62947-6_21

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Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses: Anthropocentrism in Schopenhauer and Freud

Matthew C. Altman

Cynthia D. Coe

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“…As well as a host of disadvantages, such as the pain of anxiety and of comprehending world-pessimism. Animals, in only having the cognitive capacity to focus on the particular and the present, do not experience these forms of suffering (see P2, §153).19 For focused attention on the limits of Schopenhauer's critique of anthropocentrism, and his affinities with Freud in this respect, seeAltman and Coe (2017).…”

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Individual vs. World in Schopenhauer's Pessimism

Hassan¹

2021

The Southern J of Philosophy

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This article aims to elucidate and explore the significance of a distinction in Schopenhauer's pessimism which has not yet received detailed attention in the secondary literature. Schopenhauer is well known to have argued for the thesis that the fundamental feature of sentient life is pervasive suffering, and on these grounds held that individual lives are not worth living. However, he similarly claims with frequency that the nonexistence of the world “as a whole” is preferable to its existence. This is a distinct thesis, and it is unclear how Schopenhauer thinks it relates to the first. This investigation seeks to rectify this, arguing that the ambiguous concept of the world “as a whole” has at least two interpretations in Schopenhauer's texts. Moreover, that this “world‐pessimism”—once properly understood—may avoid certain objections that pessimism at the level of the individual is vulnerable to.

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The Southern J of Philosophy

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