Essays and Aphorisms Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Description. Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher working in the first half of the 19th century, whose book The World as Will and Representation (1818 and 1844) proposed that Will (desire) drives Nature forwards and affects human behaviour more than nature, often bringing discontent to individuals. We know that Thomas Hardy read this book by Schopenhauer, as it was included in the.
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Arthur Schopenhauer was born on February 22, 1788, in Danzig, Poland. He was born into an affluent German family, his father, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer was a successful merchant, while his mother, Johanna Troisner was a writer. His parents had moved to Hamburg in 1793, upon Prussia’s annexation of Danzig. In 1805, Arthur’s father ended his life by committing suicide. From then on, his.
Schopenhauer takes a significant step beyond all these philosophers by maintaining that the ultimate, metaphysical explanation, while mentalistic, is not a final cause, not a “that for the sake of which.” The great Will, the ultimate reality, does not act for the sake of anything. It does not act for any reason. It is pre-rational. It is a great Freudian Id, the original psychic force out.
Schopenhauer is certainly Kantian, as Spinoza is Cartesian, but the contribution of Schopenhauer, including morality (his theory of Pity), is enormous. Freud, Nietzsche or Dostoevsky all recognized a certain legacy from Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer philosophy shows itself as a pessmistic thinking, who shows how tragic and pathetic the life is. Sensitive and beautiful pen thinker (unlike that of.