couldntthinkofaname
Mage
- Aug 31, 2018
- 565
In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption or The Philosophy of Salvation)[9] – according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature".[Note 1] Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality."[Note 2]
the backstory is quite interesting aswell
when the first copy of his book arrived he used it as a platform to hang himself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Mainländer