Ebook: The Philosophy of Redemption (Die Philosophie der Erlösung)

“The Philosophy of Redemption is the main work of Philipp Mainländer (1841-1876) and a culmination of nihilistic philosophy and worldview. For Mainländer, the world that emerged from the death of God is a single suicide project. Salvation lies in the eternal rest, not of heaven, but of nothingness. Mainländer saw himself as the successor of Kant and Schopenhauer and developed their philosophy further. After Mainländer held the first copies of the Philosophy of Redemption in his hands, he committed suicide at the age of 34. The text of this new edition has been carefully revised and adapted to modern spelling. All quotes have been provided with translations, and many foreign words have been explained in notes. Quotes from the book: Christ, on the other hand, taught love of neighbor and love of enemies and demanded that people turn away from life unconditionally: hatred of their own life. We realized that this simple unity, God, was fragmenting into a world, completely disappearing and perishing. God Wanted Nonexistence; His essence was the obstacle to immediate entry into non-being; The being had to break down into a world of multiplicity, whose individual beings all strive for non-existence; In this pursuit they hinder each other, they fight with each other and in this way weaken their strength; The whole being of God passed into the world in a changed form, as a certain sum of power; The entire world, the universe, has one goal, non-existence, and achieves it through the continuous weakening of its sum of strength; Each individual, through the weakening of his strength, is brought in his developmental process to the point where his desire for destruction can be fulfilled.”