Nihilism: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Now

Nihilism and the Postmodern in Vattimo’s Nietzsche

A connection is often made between postmodernism and nihilism, but the full meaning of such a connection is rarely explored. The contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo is one of the few philosophers to have devoted much work to explaining this connection. Vattimo extrapolates the relevance of Nietzsche’s theory of nihilism for the postmodern condition, arguing that the concept of the p...

The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism

can decipher, I think, what the argument is supposed to be. First, it is clear that Pritchard thinks that the original perceptual evidence for any everyday proposition does not constitute evidence against the skeptical hypothesis. The reason for such a conclusion is presumably the underdetermination principle, according to which one has good evidence for p only if one’s evidence for p is eviden...

A genealogy of the will : a comparison of the works of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche

A Genealogy of the 14i 11 : A Comparison of the ~lo rks of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche Author: Jane Elizabeth Edwards Thesis Director: Dr. Hugh West Degree: Master of Arts in History University of Richmond, 1986 This study investigates the development of the notion of man's will upon which Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche based their theories. Although this topic had been virtually negle...

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Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva

Although it is well known that Schopenhauer claimed that Buddhism closely reflected his own philosophy, this claim was largely ignored until the mid-late Twentieth century. Most commentators on Schopenhauer (with some recent exceptions) since then have mentioned his Buddhist affinities but have been quite broad and general in their treatment. I feel that any general comparison of Schopenhauer’s...