Hedgehog’s dilemma (an idea of Schopenhauer). The great German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) also explored the philosophical possibilities of the parable. One of his best known, and also the most debated, is the so-called Hedgehog’s Dilemma, written in 1851 for…
William Shakespeare No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you…
The real source of laughter. The human being is the only known creature that is aware of itself, that wonders about the universe, about its identity; who knows, beyond any doubt, that one day he will die. The human…
The existance of the second death. There is a second death, more silent and unnoticed, that occurs as suddenly as the first but without leaving relatives, or burials, or funerals, or pleasant conversations about the retrospective goodness of the deceased….
People are so caught up in their happiness that they don’t realize I’m not a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery . I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with…
Between us and death there is hardly an instant. For some, that moment lasts for a lifetime, for others, that of a sigh. The end is there and it is inexorable. Schopenhauer, and perhaps also Nietzsche, reasoned that man’s suffering…
