The Quest for Pleasure and the Death of Life
In this paper, I present a parallel between Schopenhauer, who argues that a purely rational being would see life as meaningless suffering and therefore refuse to inflict existence on a new generation of humans, and economist Lester Thurow, who argues that it is irrational to care about what happens...
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| Language: | English |
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Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op.
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/250/387 |