Sublime

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer; his essays “Wisdom of Life” and “Counsels and Maxims,” although not explicitly Stoical, have a distinctly Stoical tone.

This is really the form that the dilemma takes. It is not solely a question of keeping the body alive; it is rather how not to be killed. Not to be killed becomes the great end, and morality takes its meaning from that center. Until that center is shifted, nothing real can be accomplished. It is the uncanny and perhaps unwitting recognition of this

Mais, en substance, il explique que celui qui cherche la vérité doit se soumettre à une analyse psychologique personnelle, qu’il appelle “dissection morale”. Il va jusqu’à dire que les erreurs des philosophes, y compris des plus grands, sont dues au fait qu’ils ignorent leurs propres ressorts. Puis il déclare que celui qui veut découvrir la vérité