SCHOPENHAUER: Le Monde comme Volonté et comme...

RÉSUMÉ Un écrit polémique (Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift) est un essai philosophique de Friedrich Nietzsche publié en 1887. Il suit, complète et éclaire Par-delà le bien et le mal. Nietzsche se donne pour objectif de montrer d'où proviennent les valeurs morales con ...  Show more

RÉSUMÉ DE LA PUISSANCE DU SERPENT D'ARTHUR AVALON: Le tantrisme expliqué aux Occidentaux L'image que les Occidentaux se font du tantrisme découle généralement de certaines manifestations spectaculaires ou dégénérées qu'ils ont eu l'occasion de voir, ou bien plus souvent encore, q ...  Show more

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is known today as the ultimate pessimist among philosophers. Among Nietzsche's influences, perhaps none can be said to be more significant than Schopenhauer. Given that Nietzsche promoted a life philosophy that was ultimately "yes-saying" and full ...  Show more

Introduction

I am Ixion, strapped to the burning wheel of fire in the underworld that is my life. A bleak assessment to be sure, but I put it to you that it is the truth. For what is life if not an ever-swinging pendulum of pain and bo ...

Introduction

I am Ixion, strapped to the burning wheel of fire in the underworld that is my life. A bleak assessment to be sure, but I put it to you that it is the truth. For what is life if not an ever-swinging pendulum of pain and bo ...

Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneer for the second-wave feminist movement and one of the most famous philosophers to have lived. Strikingly, Beauvoir did not label herself as a philosopher, since she never attempted to provide an original treatise which aimed to fully encapsulate ...