Nietzsche's Subjectivism about Life's Meaning

I.I "On the Human Need for Metaphysics"Arthur Schopenhauer is one of the best-known pessimists (or, as they are also known, nihilists) in the history of philosophy.He believed that life is not worth living; that life lacks meaning.Throughout his works, he offers several different arguments for this view, but there is little point in discussing these arguments without first contextualizing his pessimism.In order to understand his pessimism, we need to understand the roots of his pessimism.Frederick C. Beiser discusses these roots in his book, Weltschmerz: Pessimism in