Philipp Mainländer

Philipp Mainländer
Philipp Mainländer
	Mainländer c. 1867
Born	Philipp Batz; 5 October 1841; Offenbach am Main, Grand Duchy of Hesse
Died	1 April 1876 (aged 34); Offenbach am Main, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Education	Commercial school, Dresden
Notable work	Die Philosophie der Erlösung
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy; Post-Kantian philosophy; Metaphysical voluntarism; Post-Schopenhauerian pessimism; Pluralism;
Main interests	Aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; theodicy; ethics;
Notable ideas	Critique of the Schopenhauerian philosophy; The movement of the universe is towards nothingness; God is dead; The will to death (Wille zum Tode); Finitude of the universe;

Philipp Mainländer (5 October 1841 – 1 April 1876) was a German philosopher and poet. Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main.

In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption or The Philosophy of Salvation) — according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" — Mainländer proclaims that life is worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality."

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