On the Suffering of the World
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In English, Arthur Schopenhauer's book or essay collection known in Portuguese as As Dores do Mundo is published and translated as On the Suffering of the World.Key Ideas in the BookPain is Positive: Schopenhauer argued that pain and suffering are real, active, and directly felt (positive), whereas pleasure and happiness are merely the absence of pain or desire (negative).The Will to Live: Life is driven by a blind, insatiable cosmic "Will." Because wanting means lacking, and lacking means suffering, existence itself equals pain.Boredom vs. Suffering: Humanity swings like a pendulum between the two extremes of sufferin
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