by Arthur Schopenhauer · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141018942
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«On the Suffering of the World» is the philosophical essay by Arthur Schopenhauer, published by Penguin in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Arthur Schopenhauer argues that suffering is inherent to human life and that happiness, understood as lasting pleasure, is an illusion. He reflects on pain, boredom and unsatisfied desire, and proposes an attitude of resignation before an existence marked by lack.
It belongs to the Penguin Great Ideas collection, which brings together texts by great thinkers. The English edition was published in 2004.
For philosophy readers interested in pessimism and the work of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.
