Anti-Natalism by Ken Coates

Author:Ken Coates [Coates, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781622875702
Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Endnote – Chapter 3

1. On existentialism see Introduction.

2. See e.g. Sartre (1948), Camus (1975). On Heidegger see Watts (2001). On Unamuno, Camus and Cioran see Dienstag (2006). See also Ligotti (2010, 47-50).

3. On the difficulty of getting a grasp on Cioran’s thought see Kluback and Finkenthal (1997, 1-2, 11).

4. Although Schopenhauer is often described as an ‘anti-natalist’ we should note that what he espoused as the path to liberation was not refraining from procreation but willlessness, i.e. the abnegation of the will-to-live, and his concept of willlessness resembles the Buddhist notion of nirvana. Although Schopenhauer is explicit in his condemnation of procreation, which he sees as the strongest affirmation of the will-to-live, he does not advocate anti-natalism as the way out of existence. On this point see also Ligotti (2010, 30).

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