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12 hours ago · It is from Welles’s film that Kehlmann’s novel draws its title—just as the title of Arthur’s novel self-reflexively draws on works of the past. While Welles’s film, however, uses an unambiguous explanation for the letter “F” ( F for Fake ), Kehlmann does not give a single explanation for his “F”, but rather offers multiple possibilities.
3 days ago · Therein, he describes reading the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and recognising, with great relief, that he had finally found a philosopher who, in contrast to the educators of his own time, might serve as a mentor and relieve him of “the dreadful and wearisome duty of educating myself.”
3 days ago · Arthur Schopenhauer ( SHOH-pən-how-ər, German: [ˈaɐtʊɐ ˈʃoːpm̩haʊɐ] (listen); 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will.
4 days ago · Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the first 19th-century philosophers to argue that the universe, at its core, is not a rational place. While Plato and Kant envisioned the world as a realm where reason could save us from the chaos of existence, Schopenhauer took a different route, suggesting that the universe is driven by irrational forces and endless suffering.
3 days ago · Troy Southgate's new work explores Nishitani's observations on nihilism as they relate to the ideas of G.W.F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Stirner, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Martin Heidegger.
3 days ago · Immanuel Kant (Könisberg, 1724-Könisberg, 1804), Georg W. F. Hegel (Stuttgart, 1770-Berlin, 1831) , and Arthur Schopenhauer (Danzig, 1788-Frankfurt am Main, 1860), regardless of the differences among their thought, shared almost the same view regarding humor as a sudden recognition of incongruity between an object and its representation, which may be absurd and unexpected, therefore ending ...
4 days ago · A Rationale for the Moral Patiency of Non-Sentient Beings and a Framework for Agency Utilitarianism. Authored by @Pumo, introduced and edited by @Chase Carter. Notes for EA Forum AI Welfare Debate Week : The following is a draft of a document that Pumo and I have been working on. It focuses on the point where (we claim) Animal Welfare, AI ...
