Abstract
ABSTRACT The apparent consensus among Nietzsche interpreters is that Nietzsche accepts Schopenhauer’s ‘description of the ubiquity of suffering’ (Gemes, K. 2008. ‘Nietzsche and the Affirmation of Life: A Review of and Dialogue with Bernard Reginster.’ European Journal of Philosophy 16: 459–466). In this paper, I argue against this consensus. Specifically, Nietzsche holds that life is not as painful as Schopenhauer makes it out to be, for Nietzsche recognizes two kinds of pleasures that Schopenhauer fails to acknowledge. The only kind of pleasure that Schopenhauer acknowledges is the experience of the cessation of pain that occurs upon the satisfaction of a desire. Nietzsche explicitly rejects Schopenhauer’s view of pleasure; instead, he recognizes pleasurable feelings of power that one can experience when one is trying to satisfy desires, and pleasurable feelings of value that one can experience when one satisfies a desire for something one takes to be valuable.
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