tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3658503443492769476.post3610677569931672680..comments2017-09-11T22:49:16.077-04:00Comments on Becka On Tour: Challenge for FunTraveling Ciguapahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04885675948240317742noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3658503443492769476.post-63992092470095351682009-04-21T15:25:00.000-04:002009-04-21T15:25:00.000-04:00So, Schopenhauer (who's German, but wevs) says tha...So, Schopenhauer (who's German, but wevs) says that pleasure is actually a negative affect. That is, given a threshold of pain that is life, what we experience as pleasure is just the momentary dulling or lessening of the pain of living. It is not something added-to experience, but a subtraction-from the condition of existence. <br /><br />Of course, he also was an absolute idealist and thought that everything was a manifestation of will willing itself. The only way out is the negation of the will. Royce will take the exact same line but finds existence ameliorated by love and loyalty to community. Schopenhauer finds no consolation, except the possibility of non-being. That is why no one likes him.<br /><br />So, what I wonder is why aren't more Russians Buddhist?Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11282218564864725358noreply@blogger.com