O niilismo schopenhaueriano: uma introdução

In this text one search to show how one can analyze the problem of nihilism in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy without resorting to Nietzsche’s Interpretation – having in mind the weight and the importance given by this interpretation to this concept in the philosophy and take into consideration mostly that the term does not appear on no moment of the work of Schopenhauer – having as background the reception of Kant’s transcendental idealism in Germany in the end of the XVIII century and beginning of the XIX.