![]() There’s a whole lot to recommend this book. ![]() ![]() I’ve read Volume I and II of ‘Will and Representation’, but it’s not really necessary to have read them in order to understand this book. This book does that almost as well as Schopenhauer did, maybe even better since the writer puts the philosophy under consideration into the context of when Schopenhauer was writing and through the lens of 1980s including a presumption of the validity of Freudian psychoanalysis. Schopenhauer is well worth understanding. ![]() The author will quote Schopenhauer to the effect that life is vile and it would have been better to have never been born, but since we are already here suicide is not the only philosophical question that haunts us since he will argue our quest for insight is enough to keep us occupied until the inevitable return to our nothingness, and the author will show that Nietzsche will tweak that by putting a slightly more optimistic spin on it by saying our instinctual nature will allow for an ecstatic existence sense of being as we keep becoming and should behave as if we have an eternal recurrence. ![]()
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