The article discusses the concept of time as understood by Schopenhauer’s (1778–1860) metaphysically developed ethics, rejecting historicism, and Janez Mencinger (1883–1912) in his novel Abadon of 1893. There is a certain similarity between them, but they are by no means identical. At the time of Schopenhauer, the orientation of Slovene thought was entirely European and cosmopolitan, therefore it independently reacted to the developments in ideology and culture in general. The Slovene confrontation with Schopenhauer must thus be on the level of “Schopenhauer and the Slovene thought,” and not of “Schopenhauer’s influence on Slovenes.” Pantheism and
cosmodicea preserve an anthropocentric orientation and do not include nihilistic synonymicity, “metaphysical nihilism.”
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