Bite-Sized Philosophy

Amor Fati: Schopenhauer On The Idea Of Fate

How The Passage Of Time Encourages A Belief In Fate

Photo credit: Criterion Babe. Cinema Paradiso 1988, Giuseppe Tornatore.

In Schopenhauer’s essay Transcendent speculation on the apparent deliberateness in the fate of the individual (I KNOW, that’s a title and a half), he explores the idea that our sense of free will changes as we age. His basic premise is that we…