Arthur Schopenhauer

The Negative Ontology of Happiness: a Schopenhauerian Argument

by Manolito Gallegos

In this essay I will examine Schopenhauer’s contention that there is, in fact, no happiness, and that instead it is... more In this essay I will examine Schopenhauer’s contention that there is, in fact, no happiness, and that instead it is merely a lack of suffering that we label as such. To do this, I will first explore the claim itself, as well as some additional hypotheses and arguments that Schopenhauer presents for this position. I will then make a number of objections and provide refutations for each of them, with the resulting conclusion being favourable for Schopenhauer’s position; however, I will also comment on some areas of philosophy that could possibly yield problems for the position, as well as discussing briefly what sorts of further conclusions might be drawn from the nonexistence of happiness, and which areas are clearly not affected by it without further argumentation.

Il ‘velo di Maya’, un’invenzione dell’Occidente

by Alessandro Grossato

Space, Time and Things Made ‘Strange’: Andrei Belyi, Pavel Filonov, and Theory of Forms

by Derek C. Maus

Studies in Slavic Culture (Spring 2000), 75-103.

Törless and Nihilism

by Austen Haynes

The overcoming of nihilism in the novel 'The Confusions of Young Törless' by Robert Musil. November 2011.

Hegel on Buddhism

by Tim Morton

Published in Romantic Circles Praxis (2007).

Hegel's misinterpretation of emptiness as nothingness survives in the thinking of Zizek and others. Hegel's misinterpretation of emptiness as nothingness survives in the thinking of Zizek and others.

Borges y la metafísica

by Nicolas Zavadivker

Schopenhauer’s account of the nature of Aesthetic Contemplation.

by Lawrence Lazarus

Determinism vs Pantheism in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Emile Zola's Germinal

by Luke Goaman-Dodson

Verheggen, Th. (1996). Durkheim's Représentations considered as Vorstellungen. Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 16, pp. 189-219.

by Theo Verheggen

Unthinking Nature: Transcendental Realism, Neo-Vitalism and the Metaphysical Unconscious in Outline

by Michael Austin

Published in Thinking Nature Vol. 1.

This essay is an attempt at making the metaphysics of the unconscious relevant for contemporary realism, outlining a... more This essay is an attempt at making the metaphysics of the unconscious relevant for contemporary realism, outlining a position that is neither naive dogmatism, nor a form of correlationism. By outlining the metaphysical import of the unconscious for both post-Kantian transcendental realism and neo-vitalism, the author shows that contemporary thinkers should take seriously the works of Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Fechner, among others.

Bildung and Young Nietzsche's Critique of Scholarly Education

by Vincent Duhamel

Zizek and the Ontological Emergence of Technology

by Daniel Hourigan

Published in 'Cosmos & History', 5 (2) 2009

This discussion utilises the thought of Slavoj Žižek as a departure point to consider the ontological emergence of... more This discussion utilises the thought of Slavoj Žižek as a departure point to consider the ontological emergence of technology as techne in the conceptual encounter of the Abyss in Being.