The Study Of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism Thinking

As German idealism philosopher of19centry, Schopenhauer is a great pessimistic philosopher.The pessimistic philosophy system that he created is based on the theory of will and presentation. He used the theory to analyze human being and got the idea of that the nature of human is pain and bore meaningless. In the begining of20century, Chinese academic circle has put Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy to an important place, and has got some outstanding achievements.The core concept or the mainline of this paper is tragic consciousness of life. This paper takes Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy as research target and studies its developing course through analyzing its historic background, social environment, Schopenhauer’s personal experiences and its theoretical bases.Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy was developed from criticizing Kant’s philosophy and Indian Buddhism and inheriting part of their points of view. The paper digs out the deep meaning of Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy from analyzing the original book. Schopenhauer considered will as the origin of world and pain as the entire meaning of human life. So his viewpoint on human life carried on strong pessimism.The paper analyzes Schopenhauer’s philosophy system from three aspects:relation of will for living and life, relation of pain and life, ways of dealing with pain in human life. In Schopenhauer’s philosophy, will is noumenon of tragedy and human will is the highest level of object. The will of living engenders the exist of desire, and desire makes people painful. However, the states of getting desire satisfied and unsatisfied both set people in pain. Schopenhauer came up with two methods to deal with pain and fastidium:temporary art saving and permanent theory saving.After narrating the meaning of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, the paper combines reality to analyze his philosophy’s rationality and limitation. Through finding his value orientation, we can rethink the absence of the conscious of modern tragedy and use this thinking to guide modern way of living.Schopenhaure founded pessimism philosophy and promoted caring human life, value and dignity. His founding helped western value orientation transfers to modern orientation. His philosophy took an important role in European modern philosophy’s system. We use his philosophy to analyze the extreme actions appearing in modern society, which can direct the youth who carry pessimistic emotion to recover from their tragic attitude towards life.