Philipp Mainländer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German poet and philosopher
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Place of Birth: Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany
About Philipp Mainländer
- Philipp Mainländer (October 5, 1841 – April 1, 1876) was a German poet and philosopher.
- Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main. In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption or The Philosophy of Salvation) — according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" — Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality."
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