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  2. List of philosophical pessimists - Wikipedia

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    Image Name Date of birth Date of death Nationality Julius Bahnsen [1] [2]: 30 March 1830: 7 December 1881: German Ernest Becker [3]: 27 September 1924: 6 March 1974

  3. Dialogue of Pessimism - Wikipedia

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    Rather than a set of abstract or universal principles to be applied to every situation, the slave employs concrete images and instances. [10] The dialogue also references Mesopotamian literature of other sorts. Line 76 quotes a line at the beginning and the end of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Lines 86–87 quote an ancient Sumerian saying. [11]

  4. Philosophical pessimism - Wikipedia

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    Pessimistic sentiments can be found throughout religions and in the works of various philosophers. The major developments in the tradition started with the works of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who was the first to provide an explanation for why there is so much misery in the world and construct a complete philosophical system in ...

  5. History of philosophical pessimism - Wikipedia

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    The pessimistic outlook of the German philosopher Julius Bahnsen is often described as the most extreme form of philosophical pessimism, perhaps even more so than Mainländer's since it excludes any possibility of redemption or salvation, with Bahnsen being skeptical that art, asceticism or even culture can remove us from this world of ...

  6. Pessimism - Wikipedia

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    The term pessimism derives from the Latin word pessimus, meaning 'the worst'.It was first used by Jesuit critics of Voltaire's 1759 novel Candide, ou l'Optimisme.Voltaire was satirizing the philosophy of Leibniz who maintained that this was the 'best (optimum) of all possible worlds'.

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    Favorite quotes: Write about quotes that inspire you and how they resonate with your life experiences. 81. Short stories : Challenge yourself to write a fictional short story.

  8. Category:Philosophers of pessimism - Wikipedia

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  9. The City of Dreadful Night - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of 19th-century London slums by Gustave Doré. The City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "B.V." Thomson, written between 1870 and 1873, and published in the National Reformer in 1874, [1] then, in 1880, in a book entitled The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. [2]