Schopenhauer’s pessimism is essentially everything he left us, and his quote here is representative of that. We can’t change our birthplace, but does anyone want to do that anyway? We can change anything else about us that we choose, and …
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It’s True that Philosophy Never Gets Outdated, But . . .
The problem facing traditional Western philosophy is that science has usurped so much of its turf over the past 100-or-so years, and this can only accelerate from here. Why is the universe here? How did it begin? What are its …
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