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Arthur Schopenhauer ( / ˈʃoʊpənhaʊər / SHOH-pən-how-ər, [9] German: [ˈaʁtuːɐ̯ ˈʃoːpn̩haʊɐ] ⓘ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will.
May 12, 2003 · Arthur Schopenhauer was among the first 19 th century philosophers to contend that at its core, the universe is not a rational place.
Jun 24, 2024 · Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher, often called the “philosopher of pessimism,” who was primarily important as the exponent of a metaphysical doctrine of the will in immediate reaction against Hegelian idealism. His writings influenced later existential philosophy and Freudian.
Arthur Schopenhauer has been dubbed the artist’s philosopher on account of the inspiration his aesthetics has provided to artists of all stripes. He is also known as the philosopher of pessimism, as he articulated a worldview that challenges the value of existence.
Oct 28, 2014 · Arthur Schopenhauer (b. 1788–d. 1860) was a private scholar and philosopher. Although Schopenhauer was largely ignored by the professional academic philosophical community during his lifetime, he exerted increasing influence on German and international philosophy, literature, and the arts later in life and more profoundly after his ...
Arthur Schopenhauer, (born Feb. 22, 1788, Danzig, Prussia—died Sept. 21, 1860, Frankfurt am Main), German philosopher. His father was a banker and his mother a novelist. He studied in several fields before earning his doctorate in philosophy.
May 17, 2018 · The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine origin and no historical end.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a renowned German philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of the self, ethics and aesthetics. His ideology, though not widely recognized during his lifetime, has had a profound and lasting impact on subsequent generations of thinkers and scholars.
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher of pessimism who gave the will a leading place in his metaphysics. He was born in Danzig. His father, a successful businessman of partly Dutch ancestry, was an admirer of Voltaire and was imbued with a keen dislike of absolutist governments.
1453 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer: 'Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.', 'Compassion is the basis of morality.', and 'A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.'
