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Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1540-1556, December 2025.
Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
wiley   +1 more source

Der Sieg der „Unform“. Das „Schnee“-Kapitel des "Zauberbergs"

Convivium, 2011
Thomas Manns Roman Der Zauberberg wird in den letzten zwanzig Jahren von zwei polaren Deutungen bestimmt: von der Deutung als Bildungsroman und von der als philosophischem Roman, der der pessimistischen Lebensstimmung Schopenhauers unterworfen sei.
Aneta Jachimowicz
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Means or end? On the Valuation of Logic Diagrams [PDF]

, 2016
From the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century, there were not less than ten philosophers who focused extensively on Venn’s ostensible analytical diagrams, as noted by modern historians of logic (Venn, Gardner, Baron, Coumet et al.)
Lemanski, Jens
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A Pragmatic Look at Schopenhauer’s Pessimism [PDF]

, 2019
Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy is a depressing read. He writes many pages about how suffering is the norm, and any happiness we feel is merely a temporary alleviation of suffering. Even so, his account of suffering rings true
Parker, Allison
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Preparing for the worst: The irrationality of emotionally recalcitrant reasoning

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 501-516, December 2025.
Abstract The question of what exactly is irrational about recalcitrant emotions—those that occur in tension or conflict with our beliefs—has been widely debated. Sabine Döring claims that such irrationality only emerges if we act on our recalcitrant emotion or engage in emotion‐relevant reasoning in light of it.
Ed Armitage
wiley   +1 more source

What can psychoanalysis learn from Sufism?

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 744-757, November 2025.
Abstract This paper critically examines psychoanalysis—particularly ego psychology—by contrasting it with Sufism's approach to the psyche. Drawing on the insights of the Sufi teacher and psychiatrist Javād Nurbakhsh, alongside classical Sufi literature, it argues that the Sufi perspective on the psyche provides insights that challenge the paradigms of ...
Ali Yansori
wiley   +1 more source

Valuable indulgence: a response to Schopenhauer and social pessimism [PDF]

, 2019
Submitted to Ian D. Dunkle for CAS PH 110 A1 Great Philosophers on Friendship and Solitude at Boston University, Spring 2019. Selected by classmates and the professor for publication in this special collection for the course in ...
Al Kudsi, Abdullah
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.
Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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AMORE E ILLUSIONE DELLA NATURA SECONDO GIACOMO LEOPARDI E ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Romanice, 2020
Questo articolo riguarda Giacomo Leopardi, autore poco studiato in Algeria, dove è noto come poeta, ma dal quale non è stato indagato il pensiero. È mia intenzione studiare le fonti leopardiane nel pensiero filosofico, per poi giungere ad affrontare ...
Sabrina CHEBINI
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A Contrastive-Analytical Approach to the Concept of Boredom and Escaping it in Sanai and Schopenhauer’s [PDF]

ادبیات عرفانی, 2012
Boredom is one of the main philosophical themes of Schopenhauer who offers two ways of aesthetic contemplation and denial of the will to live (through piety and devotedness) for overcoming boredom.
Mostafa Khorsandi Shirghan, Mohammad Behnamfar   +1 more
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