Philsophical pessimism
Parent: philosophy - pessimism - worldview
Philosophical pessimism describes a tendency to believe that life has a negative value, or that this world is as bad as it could possibly be. In particular, it most famously describes the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimism [Sept 2006]
Contrast: optimism
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