Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism. He was among the first thinkers in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance. His work has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism.
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Date of Birth
February 22nd, 1788
Age
236
Birth Place
Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Date of Death
September 21st, 1860
Died Aged
72
Star Sign
Pisces
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