This is a great name to work with. "Philipp Mainlander" (full name: Philipp Mainländer) was a real 19th-century German philosopher, often called "the pessimist's pessimist." He was influenced by Schopenhauer but went further, believing that the Will to Live is a cosmic error, and that the goal of the universe is to achieve "nothingness" through the death of God.
Mainländer's philosophy had a significant impact on various intellectual and artistic movements, including: philipp mainlander
The story revolves around a fictional philosophical device that Mainländer hinted at but never built: (from Nous - mind, and Scope - to look). This is a great name to work with
The Death of God Is Not a Metaphor
(viewed through a philosophical lens) is the moment of divine suicide. The Death of God Is Not a Metaphor
Mainländer’s commitment to his philosophy was absolute. On , the day after his masterwork was published, he ended his own life at the age of 34.