Céu — uma perspectiva antinatalista
English version Part 1 – The impulse to contentment and the basis of wanting Sentient beings always seem to aim for one thing: to be content. But what does it actually mean to be content? Contentment is not reduced to fleeting pleasures or momentary satisfactions; it implies a form of completeness, an absence of lack that approaches what classical philosophers would call the supreme good . Here, I will seek to explore how human beings attempt to reach this state and what is the nature of the desire that constantly impels us to seek it. Furthermore, I will reflect on the ethical and metaphysical question of whether it is justifiable to create a sentient being, even considering the possibility of eternal bliss after death. Schopenhauer, in works such as The Vanity of Existence, already indicated that the basis of the will is deficiency, and therefore, pain. To desire is to lack; to lack is to suffer. The very structure of human will seems marked by dissatisfaction: there is ...