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The Schopenhauer CureThe human condition is presented in all its bleakest aspects: death, isolation, the meaninglessness of life, and the suffering inherent in existence. Many scholars believe that, with the single exception of Plato, there are more good ideas in Schopenhauer`s work than in that of any other philosopher. Schopenhauer frequently expressed the wish, and the expectation, that he would always be remembered for this grand opus. Late in life he published his other significant work, a twoБЂ“volume set of philosophical essays and aphorisms, whose book title,Parerga and Paralipomena, means (in translation from the Greek) б«leftover and complementary works.б» Psychotherapy had not yet been born during Arthur`s lifetime, yet there is much in his writing that is germane to therapy. His major work began with a critique and extension of Kant, who revolutionized philosophy through his insight that we constitute rather than perceive reality. Kant realized that all of our sense data are filtered through our neural apparatus and reassembled therein to provide us with a picture that we call reality but which in fact is only a chimera, a fiction that emerges from our conceptualizing and categorizing mind ...» |
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