Schopenhauerism

[ shoh-puhn-hou-uh-riz-uhm ]

noun

1. the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Schopenhauerism¹

First recorded in 1880–85; Schopenhauer + -ism

Example Sentences

The Irishman was rather proud of his Schopenhauerism.

From Project Gutenberg

His metaphysics were green with age, his theories as to the syntheses of the arts silly and impracticable, while his Schopenhauerism, pessimism, and the rest sheer dead weights that were slowly but none the less surely strangling his music.

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But Schopenhauerism might easily have ruined Tristan—did not ruin it only because Wagner himself, when writing it, was consumed with a fervour of passion that is the negation of Schopenhauerism.

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Fancy what it might have been, this long exposition of sheer Schopenhauerism in three dramas and a fore-play! imagine what Parry or Stanford or Mackenzie would have made of it!

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