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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION. sophic pessimism. Systems of philosophy do not spring from pure isolated intellect, but are the products of concrete minds made up in part of certain emotional and moral peculiarities which mould and colour in numberless particulars their intellectual workmanship. It is at least a priori supposable that the philosophic pessimists partake somewhat of those habits of feeling and thought which underlie the more popular type of pessimism. But more, it is certain that these philosophers do not rely exclusively on their speculative basis, however stable they conceive it to be, but include in their doctrine an enumeration of the facts of life. As we shall see later on, both Schopenhauer and Hartmann hold that their view of existence as an unalterable condition of evil rests on an ample empirical ground of induction. And here the pessimism of the philosopher and of the plain man appear to touch and to be no longer wholly distinguishable. For does not the latter insist with more or less distinctness on the preponderance of evil over good, of misery over enjoyment in this and that region of human life ? In point of fact we shall find that the two classes, when dealing with the tangible everyday realities of our common lot, resort to much the same method of argument, and even fall into much the same style of language. It seems clear, then, that if we wish fully to understand the new and speculative pessimism, we must study it in connection with the much older and unsystematu-cd creed. Nor can we stop here. The meaning and origin of what I have called the instinctive form of pessimism cannot be understood apart from the antithetic mode of belief, namely, the optimism which emphasises and singles out as representative of reality only what is pleasing and cheering. Intrut...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217270892 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217270891 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $23.19 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 314 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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