RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
May 26, 2018 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2018 at 8:46 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 26, 2018 at 8:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: This all sounds very nihilistic.
It's pessimistic. The idea is that the meaning of life is negative rather than completely absent. With nihilism it would be to say that life is completely meaningless but with pessimism it's to say that life is bad.
“optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1