ABSTRACT
The culmination of Schopenhauer's philosophy happens in the intuitive apprehension of the metaphysical insight into the wretchedness of natural existence. The bulk of Schopenhauer's philosophical-emancipatory project revolves basically around achieving one objective, namely to attain a state of being in which there is no suffering. Suffering is the a priori identity of life, which means that any individual's life is necessarily and excessively filled with suffering, torment and boredom. Modern philosophy initially entertained the notion that reason would be the light that guided the revolution; one of the most dramatic forms of this was the French Revolution's Cult of Reason. The highpoint of Schopenhauer's philosophy is the ascetic self-denial of the saint, namely the slow but radical transition into pure freedom through overcoming the affirmation of the will to life. Schopenhauer believes that the most informed and ultimately successful mode of living involves the denial of the will to life.
