Kingston Philosophy Café

At 19:00 Barrie Selwyn will give a talk on the philosophy of Schopenhauer.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 1860) was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work "The World as Will and Representation" (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism. (Wikipedia)

He was also a bit of a pessimist. Actually, a lot of a pessimist.  So come along and find out the relevance of Schopenhauer today, when we seem to have rather a lot to be pessimistic about.