Humanities & Social Sciences 6 (2015 8) 1290-1299 ~ ~ ~ УДК 141.201 On a Positive Sense of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Pessimism Applied to Strategic Management Alexey I. Trotsak* The Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 14 Nevskogo, Kaliningrad, 236041, Russia Received 24.01.2015, received in revised form 14.02.2015, accepted 20.05.2015 Some philosophers understand the pessimistic model of Schopenhauer like fi nished product. <...> Pessimistic ideas, issued from the Plato and Buddhism, have been transformed by Schopenhauer in the full-fl edged vision of World and human moral. <...> However, this phenomenon or paradigm ought to be not only negative sense, but new positive concerning of pessimism in the strategic management in nowadays economy. <...> That is why this article deals with the attempt of practical adaptation of the system pessimism by A. Schopenhauer as positive model: cautious strategy of behavior. <...> It is used an analogy and the principle of ”Maximin”, which is spread on strategic management. <...> On a Positive Sense of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Pessimism Applied to Strategic Management From a linguistic point of view the words “pessimism” and “optimism” are the superlatives of their corresponding adjectives. “Bonus” (good, positive, well-tempered) is becoming “optimus” in the superlative, “malus” becoming “pessimus”. <...> On a Positive Sense of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Pessimism Applied to Strategic Management 2. <...> The positive role of Pessimism It needs to be underlined, that in his major works Schopenhauer perceives the role of human beings in this world as a quite tragic one. <...> It is necessary to carry out a synthesis of economical conceptions and the philosophy of Schopenhauer to be able to treat the positive role of pessimism in a constructive way. <...> For this purpose we want to make use of the term, strategic management to open up the possibility to generate a “pessimistic scenario”. 3. <...> Strategic management and a Maximin principle First, we want to take on some of the basic characteristics of strategic management. <...> The pessimistic criteria (or maximin) for usage in economical analysis have been applied by the mathematician Abraham Wald. <...> He is making use of it in his work “sequential analysis”: “Any sampling plan which does not provide for complete inspection of the lot may lead to a wrong decision. <...> Since complete inspection is frequently not <...>