The insignificance of life. Three main instincts

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) is the most famous thinker in the spirit of irrationalism and misanthropy. He called the existing world of "worst of the possible worlds", for which he received the nickname "philosopher of pessimism." Schopenhauer"s views on human motivation and desires, the nature of man was influenced by many famous thinkers, including Nietzsche and Freud, and his ideas were somehow used in their works by Leo Tolstoy, Kafka and Borges.
This book presents the most significant works of Schopenhauer, characteristic of the philosophy of pessimism - a bitter truth about man and the world of people, because, according to the author, they are driven by three instincts: hunger, fear of death and sexual instinct