IS IT POSSIBLE TO DEFEAT PHILOSOPHICAL PESSIMISM? Cover Image

AR ĮVEIKIAMAS FILOSOFINIS PESIMIZMAS?
IS IT POSSIBLE TO DEFEAT PHILOSOPHICAL PESSIMISM?

Author(s): Tomas Kačerauskas
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: pessimism; individual; phenomenology; existentialism; poetics.

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the philosophical pessimism. According to Schopenhauer, the individual as a final creature feels himself as nothing in the infinity of space and time. The author supposes that the source of this approach is Plato’s theory of ideas. Schopenhauer points out a way how to get over the pessimism. This one is the poetical way. This idea is developed in the article with the help of phenomenology and existentialism. In phenomenology the intentionality directed to the open life world is very important. In existentialism being to the death opens as well the living horizon. This way presupposes of thinking a dynamic life world that is created of the human.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 67
  • Page Range: 24-32
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Lithuanian
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