Saturday, September 20, 2008
Arthur Schopenhauer and Meursault
Consider A. Schopenhauer splendid essay called "On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual." AS always, define abstract terms, assigning to connotation to the figurative world and denotations to the literal; poetry and prose and never between the two shall meet.
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Schopenhauer was a German philosopher who wrote an essay called “On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual” which proposes images about the entire universe. In this essay, Schopenhauer talks about how an old person looks back to his past and sees that his life has been a consistent path. Schopenhauer believes that some events that at the moment that they occur seem accidental, but they had to occur in order for the plot of our lives to be made. He also says that this path is made by us, our “conscience is unaware, so, too, your whole life is composed by the will within you.” This is through the people we meet, the actions we take, and the actions that we believe to be accidental. This is seen in Meursault, because he has gotten into the idea that life occurs for a reason. Meursault just wants to get his life over with, a life that he has created himself.
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