List of philosophical pessimists
List of philosophers who have notably expressed philosophically pessimistic views in their works and contributed to its history.
List
Image | Name | Date of birth | Date of death | Nationality |
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Julius Bahnsen[1][2] | 30 March 1830 | 7 December 1881 | German | |
Ernest Becker[3] | 27 September 1924 | 6 March 1974 | American | |
— | David Benatar[4][5][6] | 8 December 1966 | — | South African |
Gautama Buddha[7][8]: 130 | c. 563 BC | c. 483 BC | Indian | |
Julio Cabrera[9] | 1944 | — | Argentinian | |
Albert Camus[10][11][12] | 7 November 1913 | 4 January 1960 | French | |
Albert Caraco[13] | 8 July 1919 | 7 September 1971 | French-Uruguayan | |
Emil Cioran[11][12] | 8 April 1911 | 20 June 1995 | Romanian | |
— | David E. Cooper | 1 October 1942 | — | British |
— | Hegesias[14][12] | c. 290 BC | c. 290 BC | Greek |
— | Drew Dalton[15] | ? | — | American |
Baltasar Gracián[12] | 8 January 1601 | 6 December 1658 | Spanish | |
John Gray | 17 April 1948 | — | English | |
Eduard von Hartmann[1][5][6][2] | 23 February 1842 | 5 June 1906 | German | |
— | Ulrich Horstmann[16] | 31 May 1949 | — | German |
Omar Khayyam[17] | 18 May 1048 | 4 December 1131 | Persian | |
Giacomo Leopardi[1][11] | 29 June 1798 | 14 June 1837 | Italian | |
— | Thomas Ligotti[8][12] | 9 July 1953 | — | American |
Al- Ma'arri[17] | December 973 | May 1057 | Arab | |
Philipp Mainländer[1][2] | 5 October 1841 | 1 April 1876 | German | |
Carlo Michelstaedter[18] | 3 June 1887 | 17 October 1910 | Italian | |
Friedrich Nietzsche[11][6][12] | 15 October 1844 | 25 August 1900 | German | |
Olga Plümacher[1][2] | 27 May 1839 | c. 15 June 1895 | German | |
Blaise Pascal[11][12] | 19 June 1623 | 19 August 1662 | French | |
Arthur Schopenhauer[19][20][5][6] | 22 February 1788 | 21 September 1860 | German | |
— | Agnes Taubert[1][2] | 7 January 1844 | 8 May 1877 | German |
— | Eugene Thacker[21] | ? | — | American |
— | Herman Tønnessen[22] | 24 July 1918 | 2001 | Norwegian-Canadian |
Miguel de Unamuno[23][11] | 29 September 1864 | 31 December 1936 | Spanish | |
Peter Wessel Zapffe[24][25][5] | 18 December 1899 | 12 October 1990 | Norwegian | |
Ray Brassier | 22 December 1965 | — | British |
References
- ^ a b c d e f Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-876871-5. OCLC 929590292.
- ^ a b c d e Sully, James (1877). Pessimism: A History and a Criticism. London: Henry S. King & Co.
- ^ Becker, Ernest (2007). The Denial of Death. Free Press. ISBN 978-1-4165-9034-7.
- ^ Benatar, David (2006). Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199296422.
- ^ a b c d Coates, Ken (2016). Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar. First Edition Design Publishing. ISBN 978-1506-902-40-1.
- ^ a b c d Prescott, Paul (2012). "What Pessimism Is" (PDF). Journal of Philosophical Research. 37: 337–356. doi:10.5840/jpr20123716.
- ^ Sully, James (1877). Pessimism: A History and a Criticism. London: Henry S. King & Co. p. 38.
- ^ a b Ligotti, Thomas (2011). The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. New York: Hippocampus Press. ISBN 978-0-9844802-7-2. OCLC 805656473.
- ^ Cabrera, Julio (2019). Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-1803-2. OCLC 1078636651.
- ^ Camus, Albert (2018). The Myth of Sisyphus. Translated by O'Brien, Justin. New York: Vintage International. ISBN 978-0-525-56700-4. OCLC 1076457902.
- ^ a b c d e f Dienstag, Joshua Foa (2009). Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14112-1.
- ^ a b c d e f g van der Lugt, Mara (2021). Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20662-2.
- ^ Caraco, Albert (1982). Le bréviaire du chaos (in French).
- ^ Laërtius, Diogenes (2018). The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. Translated by Yonge, Charles Duke. Project Gutenberg.
- ^ Dalton, Drew M. (October 15, 2023). The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0810146402.
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Horstmann, Ulrich (1985). Das Untier: Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht (in German). Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3518376720.
- ^ a b Rozveh, Nasser Ghasemi (2013). "The Comparative Survey of Pessimism in Abul Ala Al-Maarri and Hakim Omar Khayyam Poems" (PDF). Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research. 3 (3): 405–413. ISSN 2090-4304.
- ^ Michelstaedter, Carlo (2004). Persuasion and Rhetoric. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300104349.
- ^ Schopenhauer, Arthur (2010) [1818]. Welchman, Alistair; Janaway, Christopher; Norman, Judith (eds.). The World as Will and Representation. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511780943. ISBN 978-0-521-87184-6.
- ^ Schopenhauer, Arthur (2018) [1844]. Welchman, Alistair; Janaway, Christopher; Norman, Judith (eds.). The World as Will and Representation. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9780511843112. ISBN 978-0-521-87034-4.
- ^ Thacker, Eugene (July 17, 2018). Infinite Resignation. Repeater. ISBN 978-1912248193.
- ^ Herman Tønnessen - Happiness is for the Pigs: Philosophy versus Psychotherapy (1966)
- ^ Unamuno, Miguel de. The Tragic Sense of Life. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2004) [1933]. "The Last Messiah". Philosophy Now. No. 45. Translated by Tangenes, Gisle R. pp. 35–39. ISSN 0961-5970.
- ^ Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2024). On the Tragic. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-1-636-67488-9.