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Please provide provide detailed reasons for your answer. And, please informed answers only. Thanks everyone.

2007-05-27 10:50:42 · 8 answers · asked by James R 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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Arthur Schopenhauer...
is most likely the answer you seek. Please see the excerpts below I culled from the web for you. Sorry I didn't have time to type it up in my own words, but since you asked for more details....please see below....

Keep in mind...MISANTHROPIC is the single word to describe a dark depressing view of humanity.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bY-NC6vW1aIJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthropy+Arthur+Schopenhauer+misanthropic&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us



The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, on the other hand, was almost certainly as famously misanthropic as his reputation. He wrote, "Human existence must be a kind of error." Schopenhauer concluded, in fact, that ethical treatment of others was the best attitude, for we are all fellow sufferers and all part of the same will-to-live. He also discussed suicide with a sympathetic understanding which was rare in his own time, when it was largely a taboo subject. However, his metaphysics ultimately led him to conclude that suicide was no escape from the suffering of the world. He claimed that the world was one side representation--how we perceived it, and one side will--the underlying indivisible metaphysical matter that was the basis of existence. Because suicide does not allow one to escape from the will (from which all suffering proceeds), it is pointless to kill oneself. Schopenhauer instead suggests aesthetic enjoyment as the only escape from the suffering of the world. This would be along the lines of the cathartic release points of Mozart's Requiem, or the charmingly mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa. He also offers an escape from suffering through compassion; however, he believed that very few are capable of reaching this state, and those who do reach it have rejected their humanity (further demonstrating his misanthropy).

Be well....

2007-05-27 11:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by M O R P H E U S 7 · 7 1

We only touched on Bertrand Russell's views in school so I cannot claim this to be a thoroughly informed answer. He had a bleak view of humanity and it's lack of potential. The most depressing thing about his views were that most rang true.
It was too many years ago to dredge up quotes but I've searched some out. He may lose the title because he at least conceded that you should not adhere to any belief system.
"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."
Bertrand Russell

2007-05-31 08:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by K H 4 · 0 0

Philosophers who successfully completed suicide:

Blossious of Cumae
Guy Debord
Gilles Deleuze
Empedocles
Arthur Koestler
Sarah Kofman
Otto Weininger
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

I consider them the most depressing.

2007-05-27 10:59:26 · answer #3 · answered by guru 7 · 0 1

Plato. What is darker, after all, than the notion that a self-appointed philosophical elite should tell the rest of us noble lies about the inferior metal of which we're made, in order to perpetuate its own rule?

2007-05-28 08:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by Christopher F 6 · 0 0

Plato's Euthyphro is a desirable communique. of direction, because of the fact the characters in it belong interior a polytheistic lifestyle, they might talk with regards to the character of "the gods" interior the plural. yet this may be an elementary adequate psychological adjustment to make whilst reading it. what's trickier is figuring out the top question at stake : Is something ethical because of the undeniable fact that's what the gods command? or do they command it because of the undeniable fact that's ethical? If burying the ineffective in a suitable ceremony is ethical in basic terms because of the fact the gods command it, then are they (is He) a thoroughly arbitrary Being, who might desire to easily as actually command one variety of act as yet another? Who might desire to easily as actually let us know "thou shalt kill" as "thou shalt not kill"? I might desire to think of you may desire to bite on that for a minimum of three pages, and your essay may be one-5th written! Then pass directly to Plato's Republic, financial ruin 2. The appropriate passages come close to the tip of that financial ruin, the place Plato has Socrates explaining how the destiny guardians of the state might desire to be knowledgeable. a suitable preparation shouldn't contain coaching little ones with regards to the gods as Homer depicts them. (Later interior the e book, Plato shows exiling poets from the Republic altogether). The Homeric gods are helpful yet degenerate human beings. coaching them to little ones plant life in youngster's minds the concept that that's solid to flee with in spite of you could in pursuit of your very own pleasures. there is a few obtrusive synergy between those 2 Platonic texts and what they say with regards to the character of the gods Plato and his contemporaries had heard of. That'll get you began. The variety of pages seems notably small given all you could need to think approximately!

2016-10-08 23:05:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Moses of the bible. He created a religion based on a horrible sick twisted unloving god who is only appeased by killing animals in that special way that makes him happy. He teaches that all humans are inherintly bad and horrible just like their horrible god. He teaches that his god is going to tourture you for eternity in other words his god is more evil than the most evil men who have ever existed(the most evil man to ever exist has never tortured even 1 person for eternity). He teaches that gods power is measured by his ability to kill people. Even the lowest of the low can kill people and be violent.

2007-05-27 12:23:35 · answer #6 · answered by daviddepape 2 · 2 2

Frederick Neitche (this is a guess). Or maybe the current Republican Party.

2007-05-30 22:18:20 · answer #7 · answered by rob g become now free 2 · 0 0

Schopenhauer or Cioran.

2007-05-27 12:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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