Join George and John as they discuss and debate different philosophical ideas, today they will be looking into Pessimism.

Pessimism is the negative outlook to human life, that human existence is one of pain and suffering and it would be better off if we all never had to experience life at all. Pessimism as an outlook is underpinned by a number of philosophies. In this video these philosophies will be explained and discussed to see if a pessimistic outlook to life is reasonable to adopt.

0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Nihilism
3:12 - Absurdism
4:37 - Arthur Schopenhauer's Pessimism
09:32 - The Problems with Nihilism
12:05 - The Problem with Pessimism (is life so bad?)

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