The first in a mini-series on what Nietzsche called "Life-Denying Philosophies," in this episode we consider the thoroughly pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Is his thoroughgoing pessimism and life-denying perspective... wisdom or sickness (or something else)?

Works Referenced in this Episode:

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

Ācārāṅga Sūtra, translated by Hermann Jacobi, Jaina Sutras, 1884

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

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