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Peter Wessel Zapffe (18 December 1899 – 12 October 1990) was a Norwegian philosopher, author, artist, lawyer and mountaineer.

The Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe is little-known to most Anglophone readers.

Peter Wessel Zapffe, the most pessimistic philosopher to walk this earth, argued that humans are a biological paradox and that suicide is a natural response to.

He was a Norwegian pessimistic philosopher who wrote the essay The Last Messiah ().

Biography of Peter Wessel Zapffe.

Peter Wessel Zapffe was a Norwegian philosopher and writer who lived from to He is best known for his work in the field of.

He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence. His system of philosophy was inspired by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as his firm advocacy of antinatalism.

His thoughts regarding the error of human life are presented in the essay "The Last Messiah" ("Den sidste Messias", 1933). This essay is a shorter version of his best-known work, the philosophical treatise On the Tragic (Om det tragiske, 1941).

Philosophical work

Zapffe's view is that humans are born with an overdeveloped skill (understanding, self-knowledge) which does not fit into nature's design.

The human craving for justification on matters such as life and death cannot be satisfied, hence humanity has a need that nature cannot satisfy. The tragedy, following this theory, is that humans spe