悲观论集卷(Studies in Pessimism)_亚瑟·叔本华_中英双语在线阅读

叔本华怆然的人生与悲观主义哲学的合集。

But all this contributes to increase the measures of suffering in human life out of all proportion to its pleasures; and the pains of life are made much worse for man by the fact that death is something very real to him. The brute flies from death instinctively without really knowing what it is, and therefore without ever contemplating it in the way natural to a man, who has this prospect always before his eyes. So that even if only a few brutes die a natural death, and most of them live only just long enough to transmit their species, and then, if not earlier, become the prey of some other animal.

本书内容分：悲观论集；伦理学的两个基本问题；论充足根据律的四重根；叔本华生平及大事年表四部分。

But all this contributes to increase the measures of suffering in human life out of all proportion to its pleasures; and the pains of life are made much worse for man by the fact that death is something very real to him. The brute flies from death instinctively without really knowing what it is, and therefore without ever contemplating it in the way natural to a man, who has this prospect always before his eyes. So that even if only a few brutes die a natural death, and most of them live only just long enough to transmit their species, and then, if not earlier, become the prey of some other animal.

亚瑟•叔本华（Arthur Schopenhauer，1788-1860），德国著名哲学家。意志主义的创始人和主要代表之一。在人生观上，受印度教和佛教思想影响，持悲观主义的观点，主张禁欲忘我。叔本华出生于德国但泽 (今属波兰，更名为格但斯克)的一个银行家家庭，自幼性情孤僻。父亲海因里希•弗洛里斯•叔本华（Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer）是非常成功的商人，后因溺水去世。母亲约翰娜•叔本华（Johanna Schopenhauer）是当时颇有名气的作家，与歌德等文豪有交往。他和母亲的关系一直不好，隔阂非常深，最后关系破裂。叔本华继承了父亲的财产，使他一生过着富裕的生活。叔本华因肺炎恶化死后，将所有财产捐献给了慈善事业。在很多书上都能看见他的身影。

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by responding to and expanding upon Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.