Schopenhauer and Pessimism

[heiss93]

Lukacs considered Schopenhauer one of the first irrationalist bourgeoisie philosophers, representing the first seeds of capitalist decline, and their pessimism over the rising working class. Secular irrationalism was a tool of the capitalists to preserve the gains of modern science, while rejecting a scientfic view of sociology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pwItrhEZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF5luzpfp_g

[black magick hustla]

Actually, enlightened rational secularism is the defacto bourgeois philosophy. it was the philosophy that impulsed the democratic revolutions in the 19th century against the idealism of the clergy and feudal lords.