PHIL 1100 Chapter Notes -Pessimism, Arthur Schopenhauer, Positive Element
13 Dec 2013
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Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world . as serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end. We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey. So it is that in our good days we are all unconscious of the evil fate may have presently in store for us. Even though things have gone with you tolerably well, the longer you live the more clearly you will feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment.
