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German Philosophy: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Red Menace

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The Uncertainty of Life

In this quote, Tolstoy writes about the phantasmagoria of life and death. He argues that we should think with equal horror of the time when as yet we did not exist. The assumption that animals are without rights is a positively outrageous example of Western cruelty and barbarism,. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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