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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 ...
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
In a 1945 article, Albert Camus wrote: "The idea that a pessimistic philosophy is necessarily one of discouragement is a puerile idea." [94] Camus helped popularize the idea of "the absurd", a key term in his famous essay The Myth of Sisyphus. Like previous philosophical pessimists, Camus saw human consciousness and reason as that which "sets ...
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"So all those things align together and paint us a picture that neurotic people are the pessimistic people." Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor in New York City on Tuesday, April 18 ...
Pessimists, however, are often able to provide arguments that suggest that their understanding of reality is justified; as in Depressive realism or (pessimistic realism). [1] Deflection is a common method used by those who are depressed. They let people assume they are revealing everything which proves to be an effective way of hiding. [3]
Hoffman: I hold very deeply the conviction that people should have a curious and mostly optimistic view about what happens in the creation of technology, versus a fearful, pessimistic view.
Nobody had wanted to dance. We had the reception at a restaurant called the Cock ‘n Bull — an immensely awkward name to have to tell friends and people who weren’t friends that I was inviting anyway. I invited people that I didn’t know because I felt like I couldn’t have an empty reception. I needed to have people there.