Pessimism - Pessimism

Japanese: 《厭世論》 - えんせいろん
Pessimism - Pessimism

...His philosophy is not merely a philosophy of life, but inherits the voluntarism of Leibniz and Kant, who see the will as the fundamental existence, and occupies a firm place in the tradition of German metaphysics as a preparation for Nietzsche's philosophy of the "will to power." Schopenhauer's philosophy was first introduced to the general public in Japan in 1892 by Chogyu Takayama's "Pessimism," and since the translation of his main work, "The World as Will and Consciousness," was published by Masaharu Anesaki in 1910-12, it has been eagerly read by students and ordinary readers as a book on the philosophy of life, along with Nietzsche, from the Taisho to the Showa eras. [Gen Kida]...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "pessimism" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…彼の哲学は単なる人生論哲学にとどまるものではなく,意志を根源的存在と見るライプニッツ,カントの主意主義を受けつぎ,ニーチェの〈力への意志〉の哲学を準備するものとして,ドイツ形而上学の伝統に確固たる位置を占めるものである。なお,ショーペンハウアーの哲学は日本でも1892年に高山樗牛の《厭世論》によってはじめて一般に紹介され,1910‐12年姉崎正治による主著の翻訳《意志と現識としての世界》が出されて以来,大正から昭和にかけて,むしろ学生や一般の読書人によって,ニーチェとともに人生論哲学の書として熱心に読みつがれてきた。【木田 元】。…

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