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African Mirages

African Mirages


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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) was a German philosopher. His most important work is The World as Will and Representation, in which he characterizes world phenomena as coming from a blind and insatiable inner drive of ours. The somewhat abstract philosophy of Schopenhauer soon became coined as philosophical pessimism and presented so to the 20th-century Western world. In some textbooks, though, he is also noted to be among the first thinkers to share and affirm essential tenets of Eastern philosophy. In "The World as Will and Representation," Schopenhauer presents the "Will" as a blind power that controls not only the actions of every individual but ultimately all observable phenomena of the world. He also sees human desire, "willing," and craving as the cause of our sufferings and pains. The person who can grasp that will stop perceiving the world's phenomenon as a mere presentation but can instead become one with these perceptions to "no longer separate the perceiver from the perception." After this merging with the world, she no longer views herself as an individual who suffers in the world, but instead, she becomes a "subject of cognition" to a view that is "pure, will-less, and timeless," and shows the world's essence. I would say that Schopenhauer understood the old texts derived from the Upanishads, Vedas, and the Buddha and that it was their message he wanted us to hear and grasp. Our scholars found many arguments against that view, and in lack of further avowals, they proclaimed his work as "philosophical pessimism." However, those who defined Schopenhauer as a pessimist only show their ignorance of the Indians and the Buddha's message that; freedom from clinging and grasping takes away our suffering. Schopenhauer was a man of many words. In this book, I have focused on the message from "The World as Will and Representation," and have condensed those words to a minuscule of what they once were. To illustrate them, I have used old pictures from a trip I once made through West Africa and Sahara. Events confronting me during the journey so many times forced me to accept the world around me as it was, with no chance to "perceive its phenomenon as a mere manifestation." It compelled me to become one with my perception of them.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781976236433
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 70
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 190 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1976236436
  • Publisher Date: 08 Sep 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Shortcut to Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Width: 189 mm


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