19: Arthur Schopenhauer, part 2: The Great Pessimist
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Death of the Individual
Schopenhauer begins book four by addressing mortality. He points out how our concern with mortality has driven mankind and every civilization to adopt complex, sometimes costly, rituals and representations associated with death. But i'll just say it's a very tellig that the western, am secular buddhists that we have here in america when they convert, don't typically want to accept the idea of rebirth. And recharacterizing existence itself, is this truly inescapable suffering? I think would be too demoralizing.
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