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Schopenhauer, will to life
Although we think that we are the agents behind our quest for love, we are really only the instruments of a higher power that controls us and uses us for its purposes.
This higher power is the will to life, and its purpose is nothing more than existence itself, the mere continuation of life. There is no purpose to sex other than procreation; and there is no purpose to procreation other than the survival of the species. The will to life could not care less for the happiness of the individuals who serve it. Each individual procreates for the sake of the species; and once it performs its reproductive task, it is discarded and left to die.
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Schopenhauer
Even if thousands lived in happiness, that would never compensate for the anguish and agony of a single individual.
Rather than comparing life to a gift, Schopenhauer thinks that we should liken it more to a debt. Paying off the interest takes our entire life; and we pay off the principle only with death.
Schopenhauers pessimism is best understood as his answer to Hamlet’s famous question: “To be or not to be?” Schopenhauer explicitly refers to Hamlet’s monologue; and his answer to it could not be more simple and blunt.
“The essential meaning of the world famous monologue in Hamlet”, he writes, “is this: That our life is so miserable that complete non-existence would be preferable to it.” . No one at the end of his life, if he were honest and reflective, Schopenhauer wagers, would want to live it over again or would prefer it over nothingness.
Existence is a mistake, we are told, and our sole aim should be to grasp that it is a mistake, which means knowing “that it would be better not to exist”
Bahnsen, ethics
The central contention of his real dialectic is that moral obligations conflict and that, for any given situation, there is no right or wrong answer about what we should do.