On the Suffering of the World
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I recently reread Schopenhauer's always timely and always devastating essay. I consider the great RJ Hollingdale's translation to be the best and heartily recommend it. You can find it in either the Penguin Classics' edition of "Essays and Aphorisms" or in the smaller collection of essays from Parerga und Paralipomena published in Penguin's Great Ideas series. The latter is a thing of great beauty, from the debossed pattern of the cover to the typescript and the paper quality.
The other essays included in the Great Ideas edition are brilliant as well, my personal favourite being "On the Indestructibility of our Essential Being by Death", Schopenhauer's notion of an impersonal immortality based on Kant's distinction between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself.
I would also like to urge you all to consider the sheer awesomeness involved in entitling a collection of your essays, Parerga and Paralipomena, which can literaly be translated as "Secondary Works and Left-asides".
The other essays included in the Great Ideas edition are brilliant as well, my personal favourite being "On the Indestructibility of our Essential Being by Death", Schopenhauer's notion of an impersonal immortality based on Kant's distinction between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself.
I would also like to urge you all to consider the sheer awesomeness involved in entitling a collection of your essays, Parerga and Paralipomena, which can literaly be translated as "Secondary Works and Left-asides".