Talk:Homo homini lupus

"Used ironically in Voltaire's Candide to argue against the philosophy of optimism."
which is it - "used ironically" or "to argue against optimism"? surely by itself and with no irony required it is simply an aphorism against optimism. TheNuszAbides (talk) 01:57, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Schopenhauer
Also famously used the term to talk about the role of humans in the fight of nature. 80.71.142.166 (talk) 21:18, 6 May 2022 (UTC)